josu

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by josu 11y ago
People are usually bad understanding counter intuitive notions such as the fact that making security flaws public actually makes consumers more secure, not less.
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by josu 11y ago
I understood that Netflix won't be able to stream any episodes at all, old or new.
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by josu 11y ago
The news is not that they will have the exclusive rights for 9 months. After all, kids can watch the same episode over and over and not get tire of it. The important thing is this: >The “Sesame Street” episodes now available on Amazon an
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by josu 11y ago
And he just posted why: >In Russia, there is a law which allow Roskomnadzor, Russian censorship agency, to block any website without court rulling. Two years ago I tested how RKN react to abuse on popular websites/crazy abuses. On o
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by josu 11y ago
So https://xkcd.com/927/ ?
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by josu 11y ago
>Hardware people The PC way to refer to robots.
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by josu 11y ago
>While the Supreme Court hasn't explicitly accepted that as the upper limit of property ownership, it's a useful guideline in trespass cases. Therefore, unless you own some very tall buildings, your private airspace probably en
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by josu 11y ago
We'll have to wear helmets while walking on the street.
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by josu 11y ago
You have to download them beforehand, and offline translating is limited to just a few languages.
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by josu 11y ago
WordLens/Google Translate is the most futuristic thing that my phone is able to do. It's specially useful in countries that don't use the latin alphabet.
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by josu 11y ago
They didn't share it voluntarily, they got hacked and 400GB of data from their servers turned up in a data dump. http://leaksource.info/2015/07/07/hacking-team-hacked-400gb-...
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by josu 11y ago
This was the same argument that salespeople would use whenever you stepped into a bank between 2005 and 2008 in Spain: "Real estate prices never go down". Then they did, and the most of the banking system in Spain went bankrupt. I
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by josu 11y ago
I don't understand your point. You are arguing that working for 21F is the best option, yet you oppose companies opening up sweatshops in developing countries?
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by josu 11y ago
It's voluntary because they can chose the second best option: Farming, fishing... And the second best option would have nothing to do with F21 or any other company that uses sweatshops. If you look at it from that vantage point, F21 is
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by josu 11y ago
While I understand the point you are making, I would argue that the textile industry is a necessary evil for many countries. It's pretty well explained in this article: >According to the comprehensive “Ashgate Companion to the Histo
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by josu 11y ago
>Now, the normal way to make up for this would be to cut costs by devaluing your currency, except that Finland doesn't have a currency to devalue anymore. Keep in mind that this is a zero sum game, in order to devalue your currency
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by josu 11y ago
>Firefox Hello is a collaboration, developed by Mozilla with help from Telefonica. Its videoconferencing without accounts. You don't need to create any account and it doesn't track you, how that is not good is beyond me. Telefó
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by josu 11y ago
>Imagine all the savings in infrastructure for energy transportation and reinvestment in other sectors. The decentralization of production usually leads to a greater cost per unit due to economies of scale. This may not be true for solar
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by josu 11y ago
How about the security of Luxe drivers? These people are skating at night trying to get to the car as fast as possible. Somebody is going to get hurt eventually.
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by josu 11y ago
They usually give away free DLCs when you preorder.
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by josu 11y ago
I do, and if there were to be a price/fee war between the different crowdfunding platforms I expect that price to go even lower. Indiegogo just lowered their 9% fee for campaigns not fully funded to 5%.
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by josu 11y ago
Thanks, you put it much better than I did. And yes, that was exactly my point.
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by josu 11y ago
Thank you for your thorough explanation, but I was just trying to use simple maths. Because if things don't add up with a very basic model, they won't either when you add complexity to it. I actually found the numbers and Gofundme
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by josu 11y ago
Just to add a bit more perspective check out Google Trends: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=kickstarter%2C%20gof... Kickstarter's search volume is 2x-3x.
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by josu 11y ago
If they take 5% of every campaign,it means that in order for the investors to make back their money, Gofundme will have to raise $12.000 million in its lifetime, assuming that their costs are 0. I couldn't find stats for GoFundme, but
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by josu 11y ago
On a related note, how safe is it to do a Google search of your password?
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by josu 11y ago
Not even close, there is a huge difference between shaving with a $0.5 razor to a $4 one. I'm talking from experience. Apparently making good razors isn't as simple as it seems.
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by josu 11y ago
I'm a native speaker and it sounds pretty bad to me. Besides, I think that most people in Spanish speaking countries don't even know what "What's up?" means.
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So was Apple in 97.
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by josu 11y ago
That's not an option for startups. Their choice is whether to sell equity to public or to private investors. The ones that are borrowing the money are private investors.

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