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by josu 12y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
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by josu 12y ago
Thanks for your comment, I think that it opens a good debate. Two thoughts on my part: The first is a problem with the lack of transparency. The NSA, the Congress or the POTUS never told American citizens: hey, we are going to be reading y
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by josu 12y ago
>Because anyone trying to keep anything private or secure must be hiding something bad... No, that's not the reasoning. People that do bad things try to hide them. Therefore, a good first filter to catch bad people is to target thos
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by josu 12y ago
I understand the point you are making, and I could agree that more details wouldn't hurt. However, the problem is probably something like she wrote her birthday as DD/MM/YYYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY, or any other lit
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by josu 12y ago
Take a step back and look at all the arbitrary requirements that some people make up in order to keep other people from being able to work within some arbitrary bounds. The article is not supposed to be a guide for foreigners on how to be a
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by josu 12y ago
From a customer's perspective a false sense of security. From Coinbase's point of view, it decreases their need for liquidity and their chances of a run.
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by josu 12y ago
That's right. But they do not offer a better product, the flagship phones are all pretty much the same. And there is no reason why a higher margin should turn into a higher market share.
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by josu 12y ago
I agree that establishing causality is very difficult and especially when it comes to the advertising business. Nevertheless, my point is that when it comes to high end Android phones it is starting to look like a commodity market. So in my
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by josu 12y ago
From a consumer's perspective all I see is a bunch of high end cell phones with very similar features and priced the same. Nevertheless, many people decide to buy the Samsung flagship phone over the Sony, LG or HTC. Better economies of
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by josu 12y ago
I understand the point he is making, and I agree that the importance of advertising is declining. However, I wouldn't be able to explain Samsung's success without looking at advertising.
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by josu 12y ago
I don't think that quantum computers are made of subatomic components, nor are atoms split in the process.
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by josu 12y ago
I don't think that there is a way to go smaller than an atom. Most likely, there will be a sifht in technique. My guess is quantum computing, but who knows.
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by josu 12y ago
If you don't live in the same country in whihch your company is based they still need a way to wire you the money. The average international transfer fee is around 8% [1]. So the 4% or so fee from Bitstamp doesn't seem that bad. Y
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by josu 12y ago
Are ASICs gaining popularity or are they already broadly used?
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by josu 12y ago
I would agree with you when the analysis is correct. However, no analysis is better than a wrong analysis, especially in cases where politicians may use the studies to pass laws that may hurt citizens. Remeber the whole Reinhart And Rogoff
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by josu 12y ago
I'm ok with that. But I guess that "data collection" documents don't count towards academia points.
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by josu 12y ago
Then this document should not be called a "scientific paper" or/and should never be published.
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by josu 12y ago
Don't drones raise many ethical issues? I'm not asking if you agree or disagree with the use of drones in wars, I'm actually asking if there is a debate going on about the use of unmanned vehicles in wars.
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by josu 12y ago
I can't agree with you more. This would have been a nice study if it didn't reach any conclusions; just laid the data, pointed out all the possible reasons why their analysis could be wrong and paved the way for a better study. On
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by josu 12y ago
>It's in Bitcoin community's, and GHash's, economic interest that no miner exceeds 50%. Are Bitcoin community's interests and individual miners' interests aligned? I understand why the bitcoin community wouldn&#x
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by josu 12y ago
Sorry, I thought that Linkedin didn't serve ads, I should have checked before.
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by josu 12y ago
>page views Why does Linkedin care about pageviews?
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by josu 12y ago
>By this logic, withdrawing money from the ATM increases money supply It does. Although it has been critized, the quantitative theory of money [1] could perfectly explain the drop. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qua
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by josu 12y ago
>against the unfair regulation Not all unfair regulation, since one could argue that the regulation that protects the taxi drivers from incumbents it's pretty unfair. They are protesting just against unfair regulation that hurts the
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by josu 12y ago
>Price has always been about demand versus supply True, but it needs one of the two following conditions: 1. In the long run 2. In a fairly competitive market
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by josu 12y ago
AFAIK -and please do correct me if I am wrong - twins have the same mitochondrial DNA, therefore even if she is a chimera all her cells should share the same mitochondrial DNA. And isn't testing for mitochondrial DNA fairly simple&#x2F
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by josu 12y ago
>On July 1, 2011, Go Daddy confirmed that KKR, Silver Lake Partners, and Technology Crossover Ventures had closed the deal. Although the purchase price was not officially announced it was reported to be $2.25 billion, for 65% of the comp
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by josu 12y ago
>The state was still so suspicious of Fairchild that when she gave birth to another child, a court officer stood in the delivery room to witness an immediate DNA test. If you go as far as that, why wouldn't you test mitochondrial DN
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by josu 12y ago
Every phone call I place or receive on my phone gets recorded. It's been really useful quite a few times. I wouldn't mind having every single real world conversation recorded, as long as nobody steals them.
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by josu 12y ago
He probably meant losing money on the stock market, not necessarily a crash The key word is "naked"

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