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by josu 10y ago
>This is a good way to kickstart a social network It certainly seems like it, but are there any examples where a social network has been built this way?
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by josu 10y ago
Why wouldn't you take into account the VAT which taxes all consumption?
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by josu 10y ago
>The system is so underfunded The system is not underfunded, its main problem is the aging population. Or maybe even the system, in Spain, as in most countries in Europe, pensions are paid by the current generation, so the moment that th
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by josu 10y ago
My favorite: >Wing Commander was originally titled Squadron and later renamed Wingleader. As development for Wing Commander came to a close, the EMM386 memory manager the game used would give an exception when the user exited the game. I
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by josu 10y ago
I recommend this article from NN Taleb: "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority" http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf
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by josu 10y ago
The article is all over the place. I don't even think that we can discuss the article as a whole. Furthermore the premises and the conclusions get mixed up, and there is a lot of circular reasoning going on.
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by josu 10y ago
>His IP address from opening the image I sent him (also confirmed his location)
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by josu 10y ago
>But instead they're moving to Lightning. Are they? Because none of their computer nor laptops have a lightning connector.
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by josu 10y ago
Why is their logo so degraded [1]? [1] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/boost/la...
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by josu 10y ago
>which really is the only beneficent You may be forgetting the banking sector.
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by josu 10y ago
Block the cookies from WSJ, it should work.
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by josu 10y ago
>A better metric Metric of what? As far as I can tell "bookstores per capita" is a pretty good metric to measure bookstores per capita. If this is a good proxy for something else, that I don't know, but it's certainly
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Android 7.0 will come with strictly enforced verified boot(android-developers.blogspot.com)
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And even if it did happen, the data would probably still be encrypted.
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"Our research finds that carefully targeted policy measures to boost productivity, GDP growth, and employment can make a significant difference." I don't buy. What their research found is that one country has fared better tha
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by josu 10y ago
This is the gist of it: "But in 1998, the company started using alphanumeric branch codes as it expanded its business. Among them were the codes 10B, 10C and so on, which the system treated as being within the excluded range, and so th
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by josu 10y ago
If I understand correctly he is talking about one's employees. Wages are usually the number one cost in a startup, if on top of having to pay competitive wages, which are pretty high in Austria, you also have to pay lots of taxes, then
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by josu 10y ago
Not in tech, but in finance, and your words resonate with my experience too. After working in a project for a bank, I got headhunted by one of the Big 4, I turned down what I considered a laughable job offer (22K) and moved to Mexico. I cou
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by josu 10y ago
Just to give some context, a few years ago the Spanish Police arrested the leaders of Anonymous [1]. As a Spaniard, my opinion is that this is just an intimidatory and political move. [1] http://www.cnet.com/news/spain-
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by josu 10y ago
Or a malicious one. The move has to be voluntary.
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by josu 10y ago
Yet, if you had invested in bitcoin 5 years ago you would have outperformed Berkshire Hathaway's lifetime performance. In my opinion if you are young, it makes sense to make these kind of bets, and it doesn't necessarily mean that
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by josu 10y ago
You are indeed correct. a is Spanish Spanish por is Mexican Spanish
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by josu 10y ago
I personally didn't like the humor of the show and stopped watching it after 3 or 4 episodes. On a related note, a few days ago [1] Marc Andreessen recommended another show based on startup culture: Halt and Catch Fire [2] I haven&#x27
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by josu 10y ago
>Don't you care about workers rights? As far as I can tell the only worker right you are talking about here is the right to not lose your job, and that's not a right that the law usually protects. You can be deeply concerned ab
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by josu 10y ago
A touch of humor, a clip from Harmony Korine's brilliant Mister Lonely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4q1yWk2U
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by josu 10y ago
Raising 150M is no small feat. Anything that happens to that money will be interesting. Everything about the DAO is interesting given that it has never happen before. So if you can't find it interesting right now, you won't probab
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by josu 10y ago
Yes, and kind of. You'd probably avoid a Madoff-like kind of scheme, but scammer will always exist and they'll find new ways.
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Imgur was able to pivot from a simple image hosting service to a standalone community. Many people browse imgur every day without ever having visited reddit. That's no small feat, and definitely much easier to monetize than dumb image
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Like when he exposed governments worldwide using the services of Hacking Team to unconstitutionally spy on their constituents? >The pseudonymous hacker behind the catastrophic breach of notorious police surveillance tool seller Hacking T
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by josu 10y ago
I've never heard of a law committing a fallacy, AFAIK that's what the laws tend to do, create categories, you either commit a crime or you don't, you are either drunk driving or you are not...

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