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by joseflavio 13y ago
IMO, there is some kind of correlation between efficiency in the economy and the inequality in the society. I believe that it is part of the government job to reduce the inequality... but the devil is on the details on how to do it.
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by joseflavio 13y ago
In my opinion there are 2 main issues with Biometrics: - The first is that it may identify you with precision but it can not tell your will, so basically, you can force someone to use the sensor. - The second issue is that it does not allow
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Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)
174 points by joseflavio 13y ago|154 comments
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Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by joseflavio 13y ago|0 comments
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The Dark Side of the Expat Life(rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by joseflavio 13y ago|0 comments
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by joseflavio 13y ago
The problem is that as the data came from "parallel" investigations, it is way easier for the prosecutor justify that he did not have access to information that could innocent you, no?
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by joseflavio 13y ago
There are at least 3 scary factors in this. 1 - What will be next crime that is big enough that justify using this? File sharing? Drinking in public? Jaywalking? Driving above the speed limit? 2 - The data is collected forever! Our current
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by joseflavio 13y ago
Impressive, it really works! Why do they allow this? They want to be indexed by google? What is the logic behind, because if you go by their website you have a terrible experience, if you go by google (with googles ads) you have a better on
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by joseflavio 13y ago
Does anyone know if there is any technical difficult in producing them in a large scale? (besides the fact that maybe the market is not so big)
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Zeiss f/0.7: You Can Now Rent Two of the Largest Aperture Lenses Ever Made(petapixel.com)
75 points by joseflavio 13y ago|38 comments
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by joseflavio 13y ago
Wow... impressive and scary, 20 days is nothing, and the worse is that sometimes the debts can show up way later...
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by joseflavio 13y ago
I am no lawyer... but I think it doesn't work exactly this way. You just inherit the debts if you decide to accept the inheritance (you have the option to just repudiate it). http://insolvenciapessoal.com/dividas-para-o
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by joseflavio 13y ago
I believe we are really heading for a de facto Wage slavery (mainly now that you can't declare bankruptcy from students debts) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
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by joseflavio 13y ago
In my country too, Brazil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition "Own nationals: Some countries, such as Brazil,[6] the Czech Republic,[7] France,[8][9] Germany,[10] Japan,[11] the People's Republic of Chi
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by joseflavio 13y ago
The article was updated. "The Suffolk County Police Department released a statement this evening that answers the great mystery of the day. After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the su
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ASCAP challenges Pandora acquisition of radio station KXMZ with FCC block(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by joseflavio 13y ago|0 comments
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by joseflavio 13y ago
I believe that the high medical costs are exactly the result of Free market in the long run. Entities will always unite to get stronger, control the market and to do so they will support little by little laws that allow this. Just my 2c, bu
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by joseflavio 13y ago
Even so, it is used in the majority of European countries and usually it is more important than the Birthday! Quite surprising as it could be an optional feature.
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Ask HN: Why Facebook and other social sites don't support for Name days?
1 points by joseflavio 13y ago|3 comments
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by joseflavio 13y ago
Exactly the product I had in mind. I think you can get customers by selling the box and also by providing a subscription model to backup/replicate the user data. Ideally this box should use a well documented and open API and code so yo
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by joseflavio 13y ago
I agree with you that today there is absolutely no way, but in the last 5 years the internet changed a lot. Several Europeans countries are subsidizing the optical fiber infrastructure, so the bandwidth will not be problem. To solve the com
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by joseflavio 13y ago
"the word “cloud” in “cloud computing” is just a euphemism for “some dark bunker in Idaho or Utah.”" I always said that and I believe that the "cloud" is just some intermediary paradigm, in some time and hopefully soon,
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by joseflavio 13y ago
Unhappily I believe you suffered racial profiling. I think that today lots of law enforcement officers act in the limit of the law... they act inside the law, but they clearly enforce it in very specifics ways and for very specifics people.
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by joseflavio 13y ago
Unbelievable the downvote, it doesn't change the fact that Blog post has absolutely no references or names.
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by joseflavio 13y ago
Sorry, but I call bs on this blog: "Feel Free To Kill Protesters", who said this? The author doesn't point any reference to confirm this quote, and I could not find it nowhere else.
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Start-Up Chile is opening its 8th application process(startupchile.org)
1 points by joseflavio 13y ago|0 comments
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by joseflavio 13y ago
To fix the problem you will need to clear the cookies on firefox for the domain ycombinator.com, hope it helps you.
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Will this be the new formspring?(youreply.net)
1 points by joseflavio 14y ago|0 comments
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Was It Appropriate?(forbes.com)
2 points by joseflavio 14y ago|2 comments
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by joseflavio 14y ago
Honestly I don't know if it was good news. But I think it is somehow disgusting to celebrate someones death... I think that Hitler believed it was a better world with less of the kind of people he didnt like. I think that if you don't like/

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