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by josu 11y ago
I didn't event realize it was a slideshow until I read your comment.
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by josu 11y ago
This is not a new concept, David Ricardo developed the theory of Comparative Advantage [1] in 1817 to refer to that phenomenon. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
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by josu 11y ago
That would be great if my cell provider didn't charge me 10 bucks per GB.
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by josu 11y ago
Qualcomm Becomes First Company to Enable Wireless Charging for Mobile Devices with Metal Cases https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2015/07/28/qualcomm-b...
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by josu 11y ago
The pattern isn't described until the second to last paragraph. I'll just c&p: > Thus one productive line of inquiry quickly yielded evidence: the differences in the way agency officers undercover as diplomats were treated
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by josu 11y ago
This is great, but I was expecting notebook gaming to go the streaming way. What's stopping game streaming from becoming mainstream? Latency?
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by josu 11y ago
Is it reasonable to accept causality here?
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by josu 11y ago
Capitalists hiding behind patent laws enforced by the states, which isn't really the purest form of capitalism. And usually, there is no such thing as a well intentioned company, once they reach a certain size they become profit maximi
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by josu 11y ago
It was actually a clever "Slide to Jailbreak" rather than a click. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe
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by josu 11y ago
>The lifetime earnings for a college degree holder[1] is probably a lot more than for those without a degree. The problem with these kind of studies is that they take the average, and income only has a lower bound. From my personal obser
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by josu 11y ago
tl;dr: His mistake: longer sentences didn’t reduce crime as much as expected because criminals aren’t good at thinking about the future; criminal types have problems forecasting and they have difficulty regulating their emotions and control
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by josu 11y ago
I'm guessing he is referring to sales tax or VAT, which currencies are exempt from.
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by josu 11y ago
Sorry, you are totally right, I was meaning to write a longer comment mentioning the exceptions outside of the financial world.
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by josu 11y ago
KYC/AML law only apply to financial institutions.
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by josu 11y ago
Not really. Popcorntime doesn't provide copyrighted material, it just helps access and consume it, same as your laptop, TV, Chromecast or cellphone. Besides, the technology behind Popcorn could be used to access open content, therefore
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by josu 11y ago
The site is international and there are many countries where what they are doing is not illegal.
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by josu 11y ago
Yeah, it will be interesting to see what comes out of Europe. Personally I think that regulators don't stand a chance. For example, they passed a Google (News) tax in Spain, and Google closed the Spanish Google News page. Now Spanish n
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by josu 11y ago
>Second, Google's entire point of existence is to give an opinion on search results. Nope, their point of existence is to sell ads. Showing good results is how they create value, and you are just stretching the meaning of "opin
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by josu 11y ago
I found prions to be the most fascinating thing in my biology classes. And the fact that we still don't know that much about them bemuses me. The debate section from the Wikipedia is worth reading [0] due to the fact that we still don&
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by josu 11y ago
I registered my phone but the link to the download page doesn't seem to be working: https://www.drumroll.io/drumroll.io/app How do you handle security. By allowing anybody to push arbitrary links/text to your
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by josu 11y ago
It is free and some of its code is open source: https://github.com/Pocket
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by josu 11y ago
I currently use Pushbullet, are there any reasons why I should switch to drumroll.io?
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by josu 11y ago
>If you're buying stock for short term profit you deserve to be screwed by volatility and I have no sympathy for you These people increase market liquidity, they too serve a purpose. If only long term investors were in the market, t
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by josu 11y ago
Probably YKK zippers.
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by josu 11y ago
Maybe using the Uber analogy was a mistake. I used the analogy because I wasn't exactly thinking exactly about rentacoder kind of place, I was referring to something more curated, where work is somewhat commoditized. But I was also thi
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by josu 11y ago
We need Uber for software developers. The gaming industry is looking more and more like the movie industry. Long term contracts no longer make sense. The industry needs to adapt.
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by josu 11y ago
What about Uber free states then? Islands of liberty. Your vision necessarily needs coercive governments to make sense.
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by josu 11y ago
Also Mexico
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by josu 11y ago
I disagree. Making a security flaw known forces manufacturers to fix it. As the article states, they went "to the manufacturer of the affected chip in February 2012 and then to Volkswagen in May 2013". Two years later the problem
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by josu 11y ago
That's the problem, that the judges making the decisions usually don't have skin in the game.

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