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by josu 12y ago
Jeff Berwick, one of the founders of the project withdrew from it back in May 2013. https://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/5/2/my-official-wi...
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by josu 12y ago
And the execution. It's much easier to impersonate somebody through a text message or an email than a voice call.
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by josu 12y ago
Yeah, it seems that they are marketing to different groups of people.
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by josu 12y ago
The article he is referring to is this one: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tiny-box-can-anonymize-everythi... The kickstarter page makes no mention to other similar products, which to me seems pretty dishonest. Nobo
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by josu 12y ago
This has already been done: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/521676/online-anonymity... You can buy the product here [1] for $49. As far as I can tell, the only difference is that one is opensource while the o
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by josu 12y ago
A thing that I find really useful in Google search that Bing does not offer (at least by default), is that it shows you the PDF's creation date. Eg.: >Aug 10, 2010 - 2. 1. This paper examines the implications of the Fund accepting m
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by josu 12y ago
>You can look at tons of formally successful businesses that took in too many MBA types and lost their edge (e.g. IBM, Microsoft, HP, Cisco, et al). Google is also starting to go in that direction. Amazon has actually been fairly success
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by josu 12y ago
There is also a Fourth Citizen in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar": http://www.jstor.org/stable/802843 I don't see the connection, though.
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by josu 12y ago
According to the Marriott page, the exchange rate that they apply is 1USD=50VEF [1]. This is 7 times the official exchange rate, on par with what I was saying. But I haven't been to Venezuela, so I might be missing something. [1] http
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by josu 12y ago
The problem here is that nobody wants Bolívars (the Venezuelan currency), since it's almost imposible to convert them back to USD or any other currency. A sales manager for Marriot was telling me that in Caracas they charge 40$ a nigh
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by josu 12y ago
Yeah, it seems like the median should be much lower.
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by josu 12y ago
So the scenario is: If you don't defect -He defects first: You may or may not go to prison -He doesn't defect: You may or may not go to prison And if you defect first -He defects second: You don't go to prison -He doesn'
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by josu 12y ago
Or they just found a way to implement ApplePay on their card.
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by josu 12y ago
According to the article, the government gave the money back to the casino: >Meadows still has his winnings
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by josu 12y ago
It's nice to see a real life example of the prisoner's dilemma going against the Nash Equilibrium: >Prosecutors had a weak hand, and they knew it. As a December 3, 2013, trial date approached, the Feds made Kane and Nestor sepa
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by josu 12y ago
>This is a perfect example of why a monopoly is infinitely better than having competition: http://online.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-fo... . Or you could let the free market allocate resources quasi-p
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by josu 12y ago
>so can be said as a fact that lower tuition fees increase the number of students from poorer families. Correlation does not imply causation. In Spain, jobs that did not require a university degree were paying really well before the cris
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by josu 12y ago
While I totally agree with you... >I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion You just described mainstream television and its appeal
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by josu 12y ago
Yeap
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by josu 12y ago
But the article says: "This limit happens to be about 194 decibels for a sound in Earth’s atmosphere." Therefore, wouldn't 220db be like -280°C? EDIT: Somewhat of an answer: 194.09(P) = 1 (ONE) AIR ATMOSPHERE = 14.6962 POUND
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by josu 12y ago
Your third flight is a complete different journey. Imagine this: 1x: London - LA 12/09/2014(You leave September 12 for your vacation) 2x: LA - London 22/09/2014 (You come back on September 22, from your vacation) 3x: Pac
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by josu 12y ago
Yep, 45KB vs 143KB.
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by josu 12y ago
Actually, if my math is correct the ratio of storage to size of a 128GB Micro SD is still greater. In two dimensions, for simplicity's sake, since a micro SD is obviously slimmer than a regular SD: 512GB SD = 768mm^2 128GB Micro SD = 1
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by josu 12y ago
Sorry, you are right. I only skimmed trough the article. It probably took me longer to write the comment that what it would have taken me to read the whole article.
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by josu 12y ago
The main role of the cerebellum is the motor function. According to the wikipedia it's still unclear if it plays a part in some cognitive functions such as attention and language, and in regulating fear and pleasure response
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by josu 12y ago
Is the picture of the CT scan real or just an illustration? Because I would assume that even if the woman doesn't have a cerebellum the brain should expand to occupy that space.
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by josu 12y ago
If Motorola were able to release iteration 2 of the Moto 360 by the time the Apple Watch comes out, and make it iOS compatible, they could single-handedly kill the Apple Watch.
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by josu 12y ago
It took Apple several years to enter the MP3 market, the smartphone market or the tablet market. However, they are releasing their product just two years after the first real smartwatch came out(the Pebble), and the same year that the first
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by josu 12y ago
Sequels? Movie rights? Merchandising? More platforms? But yeah, $2B sounds disproportionate.
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by josu 12y ago
Yes, you are right, not many economists share this view.

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