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by josu 12y ago
Talking about thresholds like: >The 2012 paper suggests that when private sector debt passes 100% of GDP, that point is reached. Another way of looking at the same topic is the proportion of workers employed by the finance sector. Once t
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by josu 12y ago
I don't really think this damaged their reputation, even in the slightest way. I had never heard of the problem, and it seems that even the people that suffered it went ahead and bought another mac: https://news.ycombinator.
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by josu 12y ago
Argentina, Venzuela, Russia, Ukraine, Sudan, Belarus... I haven't done the math, but we are probably talking about a couple of hundred million. If they all adopted bitcoin, it would probably become the 5th or 6th currency by people usi
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by josu 12y ago
In many developing countries the bar is pretty low, and while bitcoin is not that stable yet, it may well become a suitable option in a few years. Look at the Argentinian Peso, it has lost almost 90% of its value against the USD since 2001.
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by josu 12y ago
Bitcoin might not be the current answer for Argentinians, but I believe that it has the potential to be. Just take a look at this chart: http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=ARS&view=10Y If I were to w
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by josu 12y ago
Mass adoption of bitcoin would certainly lower volatility, however bitcoin won't be massively accepted until volatility gets lower. It's a catch 22 game. So you are right, bitcoin doesn't seem such a good option for now, I wa
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by josu 12y ago
It may not be that appealing for a dollar/euro economies, but for emerging markets where their currency is not that stable and average inflation is around 3-5% it could have great potential.
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by josu 12y ago
This article is talking about 100MM users back in August when it was valued at 10B. http://mashable.com/2014/08/26/snapchat-10-billion-valuation...
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by josu 12y ago
While the article gives some background, here is a bit more from the wikipedia article about Sergey Aleynikov [1]: >Sergey Aleynikov is a former Goldman Sachs computer programmer. In December 2010 he was wrongfully convicted of two count
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by josu 12y ago
What are VCs shooting for here? Even a 10x exit at 6B valuation seems outrageous for a service that doesn't seem that easy to scale.
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Introducing Amazon Giveaway – The First Self-Service Giveaway Tool(phx.corporate-ir.net)
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by josu 12y ago
Thanks, that's what I had assumed, however seeing the hardware behind Watson on Jeopardy threw me off [1]. I'm guessing that that was just the first stage. [1] http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/IBM-Watson.jpg
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by josu 12y ago
Is the Watson platform dependent on the hardware, or do you keep updating the hardware that it runs on?
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by josu 12y ago
>Ulbricht’s computer may have been infiltrated—perhaps via the BitTorrent client that was downloading the previous day’s Colbert Report when he was arrested. Is he saying that he was downloading torrent files to the same computer that he
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by josu 12y ago
>What is to stop someone stealing drones? Or plain vandalism of them? Cameras on drones and laws. Stealing a motorbike is relativelly simple, and it doesn't happen that often. Eventually the cops will start using drones, and the res
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by josu 12y ago
The mistake: >Although “comprise” is used primarily to mean “to include,” it is also often stretched to mean “is made up of”—a meaning that some critics object to. The most cautious route is to avoid using “of” after any form of “compris
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by josu 12y ago
>Turns out that cutting in a depressed economy makes the depression worse Sure, if you are insolvent but you can still get a hold on some borrowed money your situation is obviously going to get better in the short run. But you are just k
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by josu 12y ago
Relevant XKCD What if: When - if ever - will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx? https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
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by josu 12y ago
From the nostromo's comment: >The biggest selling point was not only the short commute, but that you went through security at the helipad very quickly, rather than waiting at the airport.
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by josu 12y ago
Facebook and Skype have both a big userbase too and the option for group chats, how come they haven't killed Slack yet?
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by josu 12y ago
Or Pepsi replacing Coca-Cola ads with their own.
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by josu 12y ago
While I agree with all your points it's still the shittiest implementation that I have seen. I have been using Telegram Web, and it works delightfully without having to connect my phone to the web. Line has it's own desktop progra
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by josu 12y ago
"Unfortunately for now, we will not be able to provide web client to our iOS users due to Apple platform limitations." And even if they could, I'd doubt that they'd make Facebook wait 5 days for their app to be aproved.
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by josu 12y ago
How were they able to keep the water inside the mall?
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by josu 12y ago
A slightly different take on the news from The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7553591/silk-road-trial-ro...
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by josu 12y ago
He means the author of the Ars article whose name is Xaq Rzetelny.
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by josu 12y ago
"Most users" think that KitKat is just a brand of candy. "Most users" will do whatever their phone tells them to do, or not even that. "Most users" are afraid to tinker with their phones.
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by josu 12y ago
So were Yahoo and AOL. If specialized apps start to show up, people may start ditching FB altogether.
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by josu 12y ago
I think that the downvotes have nothing to do with the joke you mention. Your comment doesn't add any value to the discussion, we are aware of the things you highlight.
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by josu 12y ago
I see it as the TVfication of the internet. The average Joe doesn't consume political debates on the situation of Western Sahara when he watches TV, why would he want to visit hacker news or TED.com when he comes online?

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