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by kokey 14y ago
The last time I had a quick look at the numbers, global inequality is down due to global trade. It's really that the bottom bit of developed nations lost a bit to those in developing nations.
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by kokey 14y ago
If your customer is not going to come visit your retail premises to experience your product, you'd better be good at all those things on the list.
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by kokey 14y ago
I'm keen on what I loosely refer to John Kay's theory of rent seeking. I like it because it puts the issues with market and state influence into perspective, especially the issues people tend to blame the economic theory they don't favour
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by kokey 14y ago
I suspect, just like spectrum allocation, the issues regarding peering/routing agreements between telcos/ISPs are also not new and it's probably been proven from a number of angles that everyone is better off if they find a way to cooperate
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by kokey 14y ago
I have more than a folder full of paper work for visa applications that I have done over the years, mostly just to let me into countries for a visit, let alone work. Apart from that the paperwork I had to do to actually allow me to work in
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by kokey 14y ago
I tend to have a little look every few years to what open source ERP alternatives to SAP are brewing out there. I come away from the exercise disappointed each time. I know it will happen one day and the time should be soon, not necessari
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by kokey 14y ago
The main thing that changed in the industry is that now these adult video streaming sites basically serve you the content for free, and like television that's paid for by the advertisers, it's paid for through affiliate fees. These are mai
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by kokey 14y ago
> What kind of event would cause a major "correction" that would drive the gold price down. The value of gold has fallen a few times before. Mostly because people moved onto something else as an investment. When investing in industry
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by kokey 14y ago
I find it ironic reading this article on a site that collects my visitor data using piwik stats without explicitly asking me first.
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by kokey 14y ago
Parking assist is fairly useful in Europe, where there are many areas where parking spots are both rare and rather small.
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by kokey 14y ago
I liked your writing style, it actually kept me engaged until the end. I guess it also helped that I had an interest since I'll be supporting php applications for the first time in 5 years.
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by kokey 14y ago
Reading this article is surreal, it sounds like it's part of an Ayn Rand tribute novel.
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by kokey 14y ago
I worked at an airline once. Before I joined, a member of staff at a small airport received an email telling them that Bill Gates will give them $5 to forward some email. They believed it, and decided to forward it to all the staff. That
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by kokey 14y ago
I found at least one bash specific thing: $(which dscacheutil)
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by kokey 14y ago
It's less frowned upon in wealthy societies in general. Here in London the average age for first time mothers is deep into their 30s. It is about time when you've had your long travels around the world, and years of parties. I don't thin
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by kokey 14y ago
I remember when I was 14 and cried myself to sleep since I was in a panic about what to do in life, I realised I had so many options from going into mathematics, medicine, engineering or music but probably never being able to be great in mo
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by kokey 14y ago
I always thought my goal should be to become a millionaire by the time I am 30. Failing that, put money away in a pension plan in a serious way. Then 30 happened and I was a millionaire, in the currency I grew up with and that wasn't worth
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by kokey 14y ago
I have kind of cut down on reading fiction for that reason. The problem is that I seem to engage with factual material in shorter and more ad-hoc forms (e.g. while researching something) than reading entire books. A good balance for me wo
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by kokey 14y ago
It might go a long way to explaining why I don't come across many Italian Unix sysadmins, and the few I have come across coded their system scripts in php.
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by kokey 14y ago
It does feel a bit like it can become a platform independent alternative to something like Cygwin. Along the lines of ActiveState perl, but a whole GNU environment instead.
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by kokey 14y ago
This. Between this and delivery drones, is our nearby future of transportation.
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by kokey 14y ago
I think your second idea is closer to what I think matches the things known about Hyperloop. I am convinced that electric (or hybrid) cars that self drive along beacons is the obvious next step in human urban transportation. These follow
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by kokey 14y ago
The comment about the social network for pet owners made me think of this, which actually turns out to be quite a good idea I think: http://abovethecrowd.com/2012/11/13/our-most-recent-marketpl... "DogVacay is an online marketplace that l
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by kokey 14y ago
'No one cuts Internet on our watch'. I can't tell whether they're being ironic or hypocritical.
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by kokey 14y ago
I am one. The regexp performs better than the parser, and works in my existing perl code, and has a lot of visibility now, so it's a no brainer for me to use it.
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by kokey 14y ago
Yup, Lovefilm was also forced to switch to Silverlight. The content providers haven't learned anything from the mistakes of the music industry. This is going to end badly for them.
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by kokey 14y ago
I also think this may be an example of increases in production and distribution efficiency being roughly on par with inflation. I think a similar thing happened with coin operated video games.
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by kokey 14y ago
I am anxiously awaiting an update to the Podcast app which fixes the issues that I am having, but perhaps I'm too optimistic. I listen to some podcasts from the BBC and the app doesn't recognise that a new daily show with the same name is
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by kokey 14y ago
Soon we will see an article about how they turn blocks of file data into algebra to save disk space.
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by kokey 14y ago
Having open drivers is further enhanced by the limited hardware models, it means more time to focus on getting the most out of the hardware instead of getting the stack to be compatible with different hardware all the time.

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