mercurio

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by mercurio 19y ago
Not to rain on your parade, but your statement is a lie and not a paradox.
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by mercurio 19y ago
Russell's paradox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_paradox
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by mercurio 19y ago
Diagonalization. Undecidability. Arrow's Theorem.
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by mercurio 19y ago
You need to talk to an immigration lawyer. Equity and employment are two separate issues. There should be no problem in giving him equity, since US law imposes almost no nationality based restrictions on ownership in a company. Getting him
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Come for brunch. Bring billions.(latimes.com)
7 points by mercurio 19y ago|5 comments
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Google and the Undersea Cable(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by mercurio 19y ago|0 comments
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by mercurio 19y ago
I meant native apps on the iphone. A lot of people are looking forward to the SDK.
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by mercurio 19y ago
The iphone might yet change this.
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by mercurio 19y ago
I think you misunderstood the significance of this research. Nobody is claiming that the circuit is alive or intelligent. The method used is a fairly standard genetic algorithm. The fascinating part is that the evolved circuit is unlike any
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Even plants can't resist the twitter phenomenon(botanicalls.com)
1 points by mercurio 19y ago|0 comments
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Creatures from primordial silicon: A lean, mean circuit that nobody understands(newscientist.com)
18 points by mercurio 19y ago|9 comments
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by mercurio 19y ago
Thanks. This had been bugging me too. On a related note, is there a reason only the most recent comments can be viewed for a user? Is there a way to access all your own comments?
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by mercurio 19y ago
My comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek. To answer your question though, the law and legal procedures are there to protect investors. Otherwise, whats to prevent you from running away with their money?
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by mercurio 19y ago
There already is one. Its called NASDAQ.
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by mercurio 19y ago
I don't understand your point. Are you talking about some sort of digital bartering system? And what exactly is the "overhead" of using money (I hope you aren't referring to the fact that it has to be earned)?
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by mercurio 19y ago
So how would you spend this hypothetical wealth? The abstract concept of money is what allows the development of a highly specialized economy. Greater specialization leads to greater productivity, and hence increased wealth.
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by mercurio 19y ago
I suspect the solution lies in the phrase "in fact empty". The empty relation is trivially well founded. So look at why set membership for y should be the empty relation. I'll take a shot (with the caveat that I'm no logician, and I'm not e
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by mercurio 19y ago
Have the laws of economics really changed? Almost everything free on the internet is cross-subsidized by advertising. Since television has being doing this for about 50 years, I don't see how this is the "future of business". More like an e
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by mercurio 19y ago
I wouldn't call "dating Julia Roberts" an idea. By that measure, becoming king of the world, solving P vs NP, winning Wimbledon, would all be ideas. All these are goals, not ideas.
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Country tries to censor YouTube, inadvertently launches a massive DDOS on itself.(blogs.zdnet.com)
41 points by mercurio 19y ago|20 comments
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by mercurio 19y ago
This was posted just two days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121673 Maybe the mods should merge the two?
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by mercurio 19y ago
Gladwell's writing is very seductive but frequently wrong. I like to think of it as speculative non-fiction. It has the same mind-expanding qualities as good SF, and its connection to reality can be just as tenuous. It is very easy to make
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by mercurio 19y ago
No.
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by mercurio 19y ago
Actually thats exactly what I meant by a small startup. Just a couple guys coding something up in a couple of months. By the way, most YC companies start out that way too.
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Profession: a thought provoking Asimov short story on education(abelard.org)
10 points by mercurio 19y ago|2 comments
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by mercurio 19y ago
Anybody waiting to get there hands on this? What are you using in the meantime? This should be a very attractive market to target for a small startup. Apple will probably sell apps through itunes for 4.99 (or less), so you don't have to wor
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by mercurio 19y ago
Well the US isn't as bad as the Europeans think :-) By the way, if this lawsuit upset you, then I really shouldn't tell you that Yahoo was already being sued for refusing to do a deal with Microsoft last year!
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Forensic tracking codes in Xerox printers(w2.eff.org)
4 points by mercurio 19y ago|0 comments
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by mercurio 19y ago
All I'm saying is that you can't take away the right to sue for perceived harm. Its all very well to declare that the US legal system is broken, but its not right to say that the shareholders should not be allowed to sue the board in such
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by mercurio 19y ago
If a board takes a decision on other grounds and neglects its fiduciary duty to the shareholders, they can sue. This is probably what the people suing feel has happened. Of course proving it in court is a different matter. You typically sue

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