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by josu 12y ago
>versus floating in interstellar space Versus being inside that an elevator that is being accelerated in interstellar space This seems like a pretty good explanation: http://www.astronomynotes.com/relativity/s3.htm
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by josu 12y ago
The story sound like fiction to me, and it was posted just a couple of days before Halloween. I don't know, causing a miscarriage at that stage of the pregnancy too is not that simple. EDIT: The story was first published October 6 on t
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by josu 12y ago
In most countries you don't go to jail for an small amount, and the likelihood of the police breaking into your house is pretty low. I don't know about the US though.
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by josu 12y ago
>The music industry in Japan came up with a brilliant business model that enabled them to sell the same CD multiple times to the same consumer, basically by bundling a ticket to each CD. Sometimes a single ticket grants you one vote, som
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by josu 12y ago
That's easy to fix, limit the number of places on sale to x% of the total.
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by josu 12y ago
Could somebody please provide some context?
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by josu 12y ago
Japan could just be an outlier.
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by josu 12y ago
That makes a lot of sense, thanks.
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by josu 12y ago
>30 min to 80% charge That's impressive. But why does it take 60 minutes to charge the last 20%?
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by josu 12y ago
My problem is that if it's also a sleep tracker. When are you supposed to charge these things?
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Musk:“(The Antares) rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke”(2012)(wired.com)
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by josu 12y ago
Yeah, but: https://twitter.com/ufukaltinok/status/516602396353384448
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by josu 12y ago
This is the guy who claims to be the developer: https://twitter.com/ufukaltinok
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by josu 12y ago
If the people on Earth heard it, he must have heard it at some point. Even if he was travelling faster than the sound wave, as he started decelerating the wave must have caught him up at some point.
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by josu 12y ago
I'm currently living in Mexico City. I'm surprised to see these many startups in Gudalajara, and yours are not certainly the first ones that I read about. Is Guadalajara becoming the Silicon Valley/SF of Mexico? What are the
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by josu 12y ago
My suggestion would be for him to learn FORTRAN or COBOL, if he doesn't already know. At least banks still need programmers for these languages, and I can assure you that not many youngsters learn those languages anymore. The work migh
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by josu 12y ago
Spain is not unique in that sense. All the countries in the world have an informal sector that is not accounted for in statistics. According to a paper from the World Bank [1] the size of the shadow economy in Spain in 2007 was 22.2% of the
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by josu 12y ago
You are completely right, sorry about that.
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by josu 12y ago
In the academic world Krugman-the-journalist has never had that much reputation. It was Krugman-the-academic the one who won the Nobel Memorial Prize. You can check out some of Krugman-the-journalist's most notorious contradictions her
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by josu 12y ago
One thing is setting your logic to follow a certain way of thinking, and a completely different thing is the language you are using to think. Furthermore, programming languages are written in English. A real language cannot be written in an
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by josu 12y ago
I don't think it applies. Being bilingual means thinking in two different languages. I'm talking about your inner voice. As far as I know, people don't think in Python or C. I would say that a programming language is like mat
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by josu 12y ago
Something like these? http://www.mymoney.gov http://www.pfeg.org/ http://www.financialliteracy.gov.au/ http://www.condusef.gob.mx/Revista/index.php/usuario-intelig...
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by josu 12y ago
>The "secret hotels" are not following residential fire codes, in numerous instances. Which is a danger to themselves and others. If this is true, this problem transcends Airbnb. If the building doesn't comply with those d
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by josu 12y ago
>The problem is they are secret from the regulators too and aren't following the regulations. Which regulations? >Harmful externalities are something the market blindly ignores because capital can just ignore the damage. What har
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by josu 12y ago
If there is demand for staying at "secret hotels" why should the regulator ban that? The only problem that I see is that this income might not be currently being taxed. Just get Airbnb to share their data with the IRS and problem
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by josu 12y ago
The tweet they quote is priceless: >“Reminder: today is an even-numbered day, so my work email is broken.” @kevincarey1 Link to the actual tweet: https://twitter.com/kevincarey1/status/520654339703336962
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by josu 12y ago
Most of the people with 16GB models don't even use 50% of the available space. All they use the storage for is photos and videos.
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by josu 12y ago
If they had a 32G entry option less people would buy the 64G one.
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by josu 12y ago
What do you mean?
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by josu 12y ago
There is not enough data to draw any conclusions.

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