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by kds 14y ago
The 1,5 million dollar missiles (and more expensive ones) will be used for destroying the command centres controlling the pilot-less planes. Most of them as current locations are known even now. A flock of such air-crafts in a fleet formati
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by kds 14y ago
But you've seen the GCC - the thing that compiles the Linux kernel, right? The default C - and some more languages - compiler on almost any Linux or BSD system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection
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by kds 14y ago
It's the GCC and the related tools, my friend, that made possible the GNU Linux OS and its kernel, and a multitude of other open source (free!) software. And also the GPL license, of course. People shouldn't be so fixed just on Emacs as the
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by kds 15y ago
I'd have appreciated such a step and public online announcement of its motivations if done before Christmas. Not after the bonus payment.
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by kds 15y ago
On philosophical theoretic grounds: I believe that such "decay" processes are inevitable in the long run, following organizational growth as time goes by. Maybe in the advanced management theory someone has yet to formulate the laws/princip
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by kds 15y ago
... more of a Lambda Knight writing his own lisp ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Lambda_Calculus
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by kds 15y ago
https://github.com/dmajkic/redis/downloads
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by kds 15y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you on this matter. Things are truly just like you stated them. But the truth (as sometimes the case is) has this property of being at least a bit inconvenient to some.
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by kds 15y ago
...he's just not successful at it. Could you specify the metrics by which Stallman is not successful (esp. compared to Jobs)? If you imply some kind of comparison involving Apple's revenues/market cap/corporate success - that's not quite
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by kds 15y ago
To add a second million to the first 1M is hard exhausting labor (lower rich achievers according to the article, in some real business sector), but to gain another 5-10M on any 100M already available is inevitable for the Top 0.01 on Wal
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by kds 15y ago
The retail bank in no way makes Joe Average far richer than he already is by his own efforts. And I don't think those Russian billionaires invested in Facebook just because they were yawning at the thought of depositing the money in a bank
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by kds 15y ago
But in a way this rings true - after an exit event if the former CEO/founder gets mostly stocks/paper his financial well-being is deeply connected with the general well-being of Wall Street, as a system. The more bullish is the market - the
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by kds 15y ago
"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws." -- Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744 - 1812), a popularly-alleged quote
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by kds 15y ago
"No humans. Are you starting to see the picture? I know you want to be hired full time by me. And I want to be doing my part. But please understand: I’m running a business. I want to make profits. And these tools are letting me make
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by kds 15y ago
Mr Warren Buffett knows how to do it. He says anyone can learn the essence of what he practiced for decades as investing style from a book written by his university teacher Benjamin Graham. The book is called "The Intelligent Investor". Mr
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by kds 15y ago
In my humble opinion the Global Situation roughly is: -> 80 % Survival mode, Struggling to meet ends (The so-called 3rd World, mostly) -> 15 % Semi-Ok, Hired hands in private and governmental institutions of various size (in-debte
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by kds 15y ago
"Answering the question “What’s wrong with this patient given these set of symptoms and this family history?” turns out to be a natural fit for the computer." Well, wake me up when the natural-fit question becomes "What’s wrong with this
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by kds 15y ago
On your Lenin-vs-Ataturk remark (in the after-edit): It's really an interesting line of thought to compare both leaders and draw some analogies - same historic time, post-imperial after-war revival and consolidation of the states, including
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by kds 15y ago
I'll give you a simple and real example that happened in Bulgaria that is not bound to any ideology or theory. In 2004 the national state-owned telecommunication incumbent company was privatized for a sum which nearly exactly matched the ne
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by kds 15y ago
How nicely said - I was literally struggling exactly with this, both as space limitation (something beyond me) and best possible achievable clarity as thoughts<->words choices (something depending only on me).
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by kds 15y ago
I might slightly agree with you to a certain extent, but with the strong exception that it is not meaningful to draw opinions on multi-million nations based on individual immigrants or expats. I'm from Bulgaria and, for example, one o
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by kds 15y ago
One Possible Elaboration, Part II (and final): (without claims for the absolute truth attached to it) (... continuation from above or below in this thread ...) Why is Gorbachev today so rudely harsh towards modern China - the possible fut
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by kds 15y ago
One Possible Elaboration, Part I: (without claims for the absolute truth attached to it) The biggest nightmare in the minds of the ruling class in the anlgo-saxon world (chief US and UK political and business powers) is that Russia might
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by kds 16y ago
From the comments below the article: "I am an American and I do smile a lot. I am happy, content, and armed. I do not fear strangers, and I smile because I am happy to share my joy with you." He-he... A perfect example of neurotic behavior.
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by kds 16y ago
Brilliantly written, despite the seemingly over-discussed topic - esp. here on HN. "Private victory precedes public victory" - this resonated most with me.
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by kds 16y ago
The lesson for me here is that even if Barack Obama or Bill Gates approaches you - you should act calmly and politely (and alertly as inner state) but as if you know or presume nothing of the opposite side's intentions, power, possible usef
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by kds 16y ago
Assange is a hacker and WikiLeaks is a start-up though not in the usual money-making PG-esque business sense. The site had - and I guess it still has - some non-trivial (at least at such scale of pressure and exposure) operational issue
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by kds 16y ago
Not just less or more inflation-adjusted revenues and their spending as absolute sums - the per-capita values impacted by the population growth would be even more informative.
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by kds 16y ago
I don't know what you missed but it seems you assume too much while interpreting freely other people's posts (here) or writings (the link you provided above). I never said I liked, disliked, complained, or argued about anything, neither I f
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by kds 16y ago
Briefly stated Krugman says that cheap-labour manufacturing is better than rural poverty for the Third World. He is right on a historic scale (development taking decades and presuming that transfer of know-how and tech sooner or later is to

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