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by maurycy 15y ago
The Dropbox case is an excellent learning opportunity. They have created a long needed seamless service, approaching quickly a huge number of people praising them nearly religiously, as well as exceptionally good press. Then, surprisingly,
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by maurycy 15y ago
Even if it does, so what? There is a potentially infinite number of actions one has to do right, in order to succeed with the next big thing. Facebook have had, and still have, some competitors. It might be that it is actually harder to cre
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by maurycy 15y ago
A pun I cannot resist: the backdoor is in the FTP protocol itself, which is, no matter how secure the deamon serving it is, completely insecure.
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by maurycy 15y ago
A very good and comprehensive writing. One thing that I cannot find mentioned neither in the article nor in comments, is the confusion related to the idea of state. While REST is, by definition, stateless, it merely describes the session, n
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by maurycy 15y ago
It looks like a good idea. On a side note, I fully agree with Conrad Wolphram that basic calculus is conceptually rather easy to grasp and use on daily basis, but the focus on calculations by hand makes the subject completely inaccessible.
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by maurycy 15y ago
For a much more detailed perspective about time, and still rather accessible, check Poul-Henning Kamp's work: http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/timecounter.pdf http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/
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by maurycy 15y ago
Either way, there is no privacy. It is always possible to take a screenshot, and share the screenshot publicly. The only solution against it, which I'm able to come up with quickly, is Google Plus adding subtle watermarks identifying unique
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by maurycy 15y ago
Given that money is created by debt[0], one could say that U.S. states already have their own currencies, i.e. IOUs. Such currencies are not more real than bits in MasterCard's databases. A much harder question, though, to ask is what, afte
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by maurycy 15y ago
The results you refer to are probably Curry-Howard correspondence, and Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence.
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by maurycy 15y ago
Personally, I would be more interested in understanding the code inside Tornado, a column of air. :-)
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by maurycy 15y ago
What is interesting, the method overcomes storytelling. The same set of facts can be worded very differently, and, usually, it is heavily influenced by the presenter's feelings.
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by maurycy 15y ago
Yes. You are missing the question why it is so influential, then. HBR is, every month, read by some of the most powerful people in the world. Why?
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by maurycy 16y ago
Given geotargeted ads, such as Google AdWords, it takes flooding a city, or a district, with ads for an hour to create an impression of high saturation.
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by maurycy 16y ago
No . http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2350147
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by maurycy 16y ago
They do not think so[1]. It is easier to fail than with the old-fashioned money, given that all the transactions are publicly logged. http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=anonymity
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by maurycy 16y ago
Read about money creation[1]. It is not a conspiracy that it relies, simplifying, on debt. One wants to bind somehow an amount of money with the output. Right now, BitCoins ignore the output. Even if there is no limit, it links the amount o
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by maurycy 16y ago
Decreasing supply of a good with a constant or increasing demand, ensures its increasing value. The govt is able to control the supply of money.
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by maurycy 16y ago
As far as I know, the media is not able to take any money away. For some time, it was not possible to turn money into sales more effectively. EDIT: style
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by maurycy 16y ago
The whole bias towards ads blows my mind. Simply put, ads are about turning money into sales. The history of the modern Internet is the history of more efficient ways to turn money into sales, to name a few like affiliate marketing, AdWords
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by maurycy 16y ago
Offended != offensive.
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by maurycy 16y ago
The market for cheap food is definitely bigger than the browser's market. :-) EDIT: And if their goal is to deliver the best browser, it would be more efficient to buy GOOG shares with the money extracted from cakes. ;->
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by maurycy 16y ago
It requires cheap trackability to tax. Of course, BitCoins are easily trackable, thus doomed. It was possible, though, to design them without this property, ensuring that costs of tracking offset the potential tax gains. EDIT: It would be
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by maurycy 16y ago
In other news, one data point is enough.
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by maurycy 16y ago
A clever MSFT plan. It motivates the Firefox team to increase the number of releases, so they eventually stop the actual development and realize that the infinite supply of free cakes is easily convertable to cash.
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by maurycy 16y ago
Money is a mean of exchange that happens to be a store of value. A thing that punishes the exchange is not an effective money. In an economy with a finite amount of money, even potentially, the exchange is not rational given that the money'
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by maurycy 16y ago
It is impossible to have monopoly on money. Simply put, money is whatever market participants agree on.
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by maurycy 16y ago
The whole thing is mind-blowing. Shortly, Twitter should be more profitable than Google. How Google makes money? More or less, they sell queries. They do not know the right price, so they let the market to figure it out. It works extremely
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by maurycy 16y ago
You assume there is a known, before the fact, relationship between idea size and idea outcome.
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Is Nuclear Power Worth the Risk?(nakedcapitalism.com)
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by maurycy 16y ago
The reality rewards action.

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