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by jcfrei 8y ago
These are all solvable problems without requiring the expropriation of foreign investors. A sensible legislature which allows workers to unionize and a tax collecting agency which actually does its job - in short working institutions - can
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Death of a Biohacker(nytimes.com)
26 points by jcfrei 8y ago|8 comments
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Do you happen to know if Apple phones are any better with regards to privacy?
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by jcfrei 8y ago
If you really do HFT trading I'd be more curious to know whether your algorithms can scale up and remain profitable with more exposure. If that were the case acquiring more capital shouldn't really be an issue for you.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
That's true as far as I know as well. I started removing permissions from the play service applications in Android. I've run into two issues afterwards: Some apps complain (but continue to work) and you can't install new apps
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by jcfrei 8y ago
As the parent noted China has a very high debt to GDP ratio. But more importantly it's really hard to tell in China where the state ends and real capital markets begin (well, they probably don't exist outside of Hong Kong). The Co
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by jcfrei 8y ago
maybe uberconference.com?
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by jcfrei 8y ago
If you don't like it then don't run a public company.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
I wonder how many Facebook engineers still use their own messenger for private conversations. I would guess most of them are using iMessage or Telegram or something similar.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
The fact that central banks still hold gold reserves in developed economies is mostly due to historical reasons and not to back their currencies.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
No, the difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks (so about every 14 days). So when miners stop and blocks take longer to mine then the supply of new bitcoins is only reduced for a short amount of time.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Linux has a fantastic kernel but when it comes to the stuff running in user space it's really hit and miss. For a lot of domain specific applications there are no equivalents on Linux: Image and video editing, music sequencing, spreads
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Please no. SpaceX is too important to be pulled into the financial mess of Tesla and Solarcity.
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Facebook updated the terms for Custom Audiences(facebook.com)
2 points by jcfrei 9y ago|1 comments
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Your best friend in 2050 most likely won't be human at all.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
It's not the fact that the SIP is there which bothers me. It's that Apple introduces these kinds of things with little notice and without caring if they break compatibility. This has always been Apple's approach and it's
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Changing /etc/ssh/sshd_config was my first attempt as well. But since this is OSX things are a little different, see here: https://serverfault.com/a/67616/
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Apple frequently introduces changes to its OS that caters to the average user without any hindsight for developers. A good example I had to deal with; I wanted to change the port the SSH daemon listens on. With El Capitan and future version
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Which distro should you use for KDE?
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by jcfrei 9y ago
I doubt the reasons for these periods of protectionism were economical. Most of these countries had (and still have) companies which are very closely intertwined with the government. Protectionism ensured that these companies would keep th
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by jcfrei 9y ago
cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bxG_r4W...
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by jcfrei 9y ago
I would expect most autonomous systems to extrapolate the movements of anything in the vicinity and check whether it's going to cross paths with the vehicle. I would speculate that LIDAR (or whatever systems they use for object detecti
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Linus started development at the University of Helsinki...
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Most oil and gas companies have rebranded themselves as "energy companies" and are fortunately starting to invest in alternative technologies. Norwegian Statoil is another great example: They are invested in offshore floating win
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Seems like I've been a bit too quick to judge. Apple has made some changes to reduce fingerprinting of devices: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6993440/321749
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by jcfrei 9y ago
You also give up most of your privacy if you buy a smartphone with an OS made by Apple or Google.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Link to previous HN discussions regarding Magic Leap's tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16088516 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13653537
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Not intangibles in general but websites in particular make it very difficult. I think there's just not detailed enough reporting available to associate revenue and costs. And if you would create much more extensive reporting frameworks
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by jcfrei 9y ago
If you are dealing with physical goods then establishing where a taxable profit was made is relatively straightforward. For tech companies which only distribute their services over the internet it's much more difficult to determine (fr
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by jcfrei 9y ago
I don't know all the economic reasons for a 2% inflation rate. But one of them is to disincentivize the hoarding of currencies and making investments in assets like bonds, treasuries or equities more appealing. So you probably want som

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