ivanca

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541.
by ivanca 13y ago
>Over the course of history, far more bad has been wrought by assuming differences were innate than assuming they were the result of bias. An obvious counterexample would be sexual orientation: believing that being gay is a choice is use
542.
by ivanca 13y ago
They have to prove the owner of the recipient wallet, which is already pretty hard, especially if you are using something like Tor.
543.
by ivanca 13y ago
"64-bit UEFI understands long mode, which allows applications in the pre-boot execution environment to have direct access to all of the memory using 64-bit addressing." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni
544.
by ivanca 13y ago
Seriously? "I provided for you and our 8 kids for 15 years but it's pretty much OK if you just want to go to live in Germany to sleep with another dude and leave me here to die alone by hunger just because now I'm hitting roc
545.
by ivanca 13y ago
He lost the house; meaning a lot of money went to the trashcan because he couldn't afford keeping a house for 10 people (the common ones with 4 rooms are already very expensive)
546.
by ivanca 13y ago
Even Timothy Cook cringes at the idea of using Apple Maps; and overall the design of iOS 7 is also counter intuitive and far from being a seamless experience, especially for new users.
547.
by ivanca 13y ago
Yeah, sure, but many don't even try, and as the root comment suggests individuality and lack of enforced common rules and paradigms help to raise insecure software and devices.
548.
by ivanca 13y ago
We are truly the generation where the mediocrity and corruption of the human race becomes digital.
549.
by ivanca 13y ago
They are way ahead of any other Asian country. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/... http://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2012/dec&#x
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Google not filtering phishing ads (fake walgreens)(imgur.com)
4 points by ivanca 13y ago|1 comments
551.
by ivanca 13y ago
This is a failure; is a net negative for their users, those were numerically more than the engineers. But the HN is crowed with the later plus short-term big profits are pompously celebrated by the vapid american culture (and media).
552.
by ivanca 13y ago
I think there is a space for an disruptive _accelerator_ that completely prohibits this kind of behavior (a.k.a. acquihires), like a make-it-a-big-or-sink-with-it kind of thing, so users (and potential users) would trust more their start-up
553.
by ivanca 13y ago
What are your main issues with working on Windows 7?
554.
by ivanca 13y ago
We all agree is a problem, but we don't agree in that Internet is going to fix that just by existing. So in that order of ideas _by itself_ internet is far from being a priority over malaria and other set of issues.
555.
by ivanca 13y ago
You are painting a fairy tale outcome, poorly based on reality. Even in Colombia, were there is high-speed internet connections the coordination, willingness and education to make a fruitful use of this resource is scarce. So it's not
556.
by ivanca 13y ago
It's an egg-and-chicken problem then; you cannot manage the "available health resources" if those are nonexistent, so having those is a priority and that is more similar to what the BMGF is already doing.
557.
by ivanca 13y ago
His exact words were a bit different than the article and you are assuming: "Google started out saying they were going to do a broad set of things. They hired Larry Brilliant, and they got fantastic publicity. And then they shut it all
558.
by ivanca 13y ago
He actually said "priorities" and "to a certain extent" so he is not all that contrarian nor intellectually dishonest; plus you are the one using offensive wording in your comment.
559.
by ivanca 13y ago
Are just going to pretend that driver don't get distracted already with GPSs? with conversations with other passengers? with phone conversations? What if is way more safe to use your voice than your hands to communicate? (and some peop
560.
by ivanca 13y ago
That's a ridiculous oversimplification: How do you know Glass will not allow people to be better drivers? like hearing: "You may want to reduce your speed, you are going over the 70 mph limit" or "You are going the wrong
561.
by ivanca 13y ago
Count the number of posts in Google+, then count the amount of tweets; hint: Is not even the 0.2% of the amount.
562.
by ivanca 13y ago
But are you sure all the revenue coming from "helping companies acquire and structure data" is not correlated with the price guide access? That people that are long and short-term users of the price guide are the ones bringing the
563.
by ivanca 13y ago
Screw you and your rationalization to mislead the users; thousands of studies show that the button people clicks is the big one: Like 95%; and in this case is "continue checkout" so you can save all your crap for the jury.
564.
by ivanca 13y ago
Definitely "unreasonable", when you're a crazy paranoid government full of weapons nothing seems unreasonable.
565.
by ivanca 13y ago
For performance any platform is a step backwards, the leveling for easier/broader access is never free.
566.
by ivanca 13y ago
:( This is no longer on the front page... anyway, here is a simple viewer of this gallery: http://jsfiddle.net/qgbE2/5/embedded/result/
567.
by ivanca 13y ago
Yeah! And then you just go and interrogate the theft that stole the cellphone... in Haiti.
568.
by ivanca 13y ago
yeah there is no panning or scanning there, that's for sure.
569.
by ivanca 13y ago
It doesn't, check again in other browser or something.
570.
by ivanca 13y ago
Plus just tell the theft that it's something helps you breath, if he continues stealing it you can raise charges against him for attempted murder!

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