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by josu 11y ago
One cold morning, with a very clear sky, no clouds in sight, I overheard two old ladies discussing how when they were young the sky was bluer, they both agreed. This was in Salamanca, Spain, not Beijing, so no smog to account for.
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by josu 11y ago
Apple sells iphones. Who makes the iphones? Not Apple.
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by josu 11y ago
>The reason is: if this reflects on "making more money" they will do it and fight to make it look right until they are challenge on court, as a result probably the fines will be lower than the earnings related to how they did i
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by josu 11y ago
Turns out it was black hat guy (from xkcd) deleting 2M lines of comments.
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by josu 11y ago
Then, shouldn't the up and down stream be symmetric?
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by josu 11y ago
I have the same problem with Android Wear. My phone's setting overrides my language choice when I set up the watch.
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by josu 11y ago
Plus a relatively easy concept to understand even if you encounter them for the first time. I'd say that it's even more intuitive than +=.
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by josu 11y ago
Nope, I'm sorry, he just told me that I should get into Python. He did recommend this edX course, but it's an introduction to Python, nothing to do with economics. [1] https://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx
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by josu 11y ago
This is an anecdote about a big Matlab proponent who switched sides. I learned Matlab from my Econ 101 professor 8 years ago. He was a big Matlab proponent, and he knew all the econ tools inside out. We kept in touch, since he has been one
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by josu 11y ago
Content creation vs content distribution. While both companies operate in a thin margin environment, content creation is not easily scalable but content distribution is. Also, shrinking market vs growing market. Besides, value to society an
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by josu 11y ago
What effect will this have on Wordrpess?
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by josu 11y ago
Examples: https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/247504
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by josu 11y ago
You can already do this with pocket using this third party: https://p2k.co/
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by josu 11y ago
IIRC from their newsletter, they said that they are working on a new UI.
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by josu 11y ago
The Economist had a good article about the reasons for Russia to support Assad [1]. I know that it doesn't directly answer your question, but I hope it helps. [1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains&#
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by josu 11y ago
> It's my sincerest hope that French troops will be deployed to Syria in the near future, and that such an action will prove useful in protecting him, his family, his neighbors and his culture. Well, the problem is that according to
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by josu 11y ago
I don't think they are considered "employees".
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by josu 11y ago
I went to university both in Spain and Canada, and the approach to cheating is very different. In Spain cheating is pretty much acceptable as long as you don't get caught. And even if you do get caught, usually all that happens is that
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by josu 11y ago
>At Chongjin’s Sunam Market, 1kg of cabbage now goes for 3,000 North Korean won ($0.35) Anybody knows where that exchange rate came from?
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by josu 11y ago
Oh, thanks, I totally missed the link to your blog post. EDIT: Great post! Thanks for sharing.
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by josu 11y ago
I'm learning to code myself too. What courses did you take on Udacity?
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by josu 11y ago
About Stars Starring a repository allows you to keep track of projects that you find interesting, even if you aren't associated with the project. When you star a repository, you're actually performing two distinct actions: -Creati
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by josu 11y ago
In 3 days the BTC price has surged around 40% without anything actually happening. We are not talking about a regular market.
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by josu 11y ago
On top of that, remember that bitcoin has many prices, the most important ones being US dollar, Euro and Chinese Yuan. Right now bitcoin is around 500USD, but it's sitting on 450EUR. People buying in euros will be confident that the pr
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by josu 11y ago
More than a like, I understand it as a "I acknowledge your response, but I have nothing to add. Have a good day!"
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by josu 11y ago
The article makes it sound as if this is a modern phenomenon and as if it is exclusive to China. This pressure for women to get married has always existed everywhere. The burden has somewhat alleviated recently in Europe (maybe in other dev
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by josu 11y ago
I'm not sure if they gave him the wrong form. As long as they didn't get sued for paying their directors too much, there was nothing wrong with signing as a director. I guess that they just didn't considered the option of get
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by josu 11y ago
Syncing everything to the cloud may be great if you have an unlimited plan, but as long as each GB costs around $10USD these kind of initiatives will have a very limited impact.
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by josu 11y ago
>Google’s automatic inclusion of prior search terms is a similar violation of a user’s privacy expectations, and they should fix it. How? That's information you are voluntarily sharing. Besides you can easily see what you are sharin
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by josu 11y ago
>I did this with Apple when my logic board failed just under two years after buying a Macbook Pro 2009 model. If it was under two years, then it was covered by the warranty. [1] [1] http://europa.eu/youreurope/citize

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