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by meric 10y ago
It sounds like Yahoo has wasted one opportunity after another. Yahoo clearly did not know why the oil industry is using Yahoo Messenger. Instead of doubling down and building a product for that market, they build a replacement product that&
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by meric 10y ago
The recorded conversations are gone when you switch devices. They are saved locally and not on the server.
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That's not what I meant - what I meant was sometimes people, me included, and me in particular, in conversations get into a factual mood and lose the opportunity to connect with how the other person feels. More to do with a preference
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by meric 10y ago
Religion consists of a set of superstitious beliefs and a set of philosophical beliefs. When setting aside the superstitious part be careful not to lose sight of the philosophical part that makes sense. I think the reason a church provides
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by meric 10y ago
>> particularly the breakdown of the traditional multigenerational Japanese family According to the article. It's because grandparents no longer stay with family, and divorces.
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That is the consequence of focusing on solving problems for the world, instead of connecting with the people next to us.
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I am an observer of financial markets, and am not attached to success or failure of bitcoins.
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by meric 10y ago
I don't they're speculating. They use it to smuggle money out of the country. Spend CNY to buy bitcoin. Go overseas, spend bitcoin to buy USD. This process may take weeks so during that they're holding hundreds of thousands o
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I have a plan like yours, replace tennis with cycling and furniture with selling mobile phone plans.
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by meric 10y ago
I had a long read on the Bismarck. At each engagement it was outnumbered. By the time it sank it took 400 hits. And it sunk not because of those torpedoes but because it's crew scuttled it. What a ship. I feel sorrow for the loss of it
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by meric 10y ago
>> poll of multicore Intended pun involving threads?
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by meric 10y ago
Search do pictures of goats on New Zealand farms. Looks like a good life to me. Checkout the grass.
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by meric 10y ago
I raed.it. Good looking website.
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I think a lot of students' mindset is to pass with minimal effort as opposed to throughly understand the subject matter. When studying they focus on what's require to pass exams instead of what will contribute most to society. Exa
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It appears this may be one of nature's "shock absorber" effects in response to reduction of fish population. The increase in cephalopods increase the food accessible by fish.
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by meric 10y ago
Yes, influence of extremely wealthy should ideally be limited to financial, and in consumption, instead of in information and politics.
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by meric 10y ago
You can't stop comments in NPR, and China can't stop people accessing information in a foreign country, bringing it back to China and providing it in person in a secret room either. They are massively different in scale, but that
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by meric 10y ago
The diameter of star R136a1 goes so much farther than a typical Red Dwarf. They might be different categories of stars, but they're both stars nonetheless.[1] I'd say a personal website eliminating disagreeable views from comments
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by meric 10y ago
"The primary work they do is removing profanities and indecent images at the behest of the state." I'm sure that's the primary function of the Chinese government's Central Propaganda Department . Censorship is when
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by meric 10y ago
Thanks, I see this kind of (il)logic on HN a lot and it's infuriating. "I think X is bad, this is not bad, therefore not X" or "I think Y is good, since this is not good, this is not Y".
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by meric 10y ago
Does Xi have full control of China? Does he have the power to do things like, give cities away to foreign nations? Is his term unlimited? Is it inherited? In the U.S., you've had Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and strong chance of Clinton
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by meric 10y ago
In practice, and in name, China is a republic. The leadership of the CCP are elected by it's 80+ million members. [1] Power resides in elected individuals representing the party members. Party membership is not easy, but not too diffic
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by meric 10y ago
In non-totalitarian regimes, you only get your career threatened[1], in totalitarian regimes, you could be imprisoned. [1] http://gawker.com/this-is-how-hillary-clinton-gets-the-cover...
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by meric 10y ago
I agree with everything, and I do think it has turned out to be oppressive. Inflation is forced onto people to erode their wealth, to ensure they all work, and prevent their ability to accrue savings. The low interest rate ceiling is an ass
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by meric 10y ago
When politicians say we must do X or Y to get everyone jobs to "boost the economy", they lose sight of the point of jobs, enact policies which destroy well paying middle class jobs to produce a large quantity of jobs no one really
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by meric 10y ago
That's why we have taxes so people who do not receive enough compensation for working have enough to live too. I think it's important to keep in mind money isn't the end goal when we go to work. We work to live. And if we can
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Do we live to serve the economy, or does the economy work to serve human beings?
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Unless it's a steel company startup in a country with a newly discovered iron and/or coal resource, or a taxi startup in a country with no previous taxis.
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>> your more likely to get hit by lightning than die from peanut butter. In a school of 1000 students, there are students who could die by eating a shared peanut butter sandwich[1]. It's not many, but more than would be killed by
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Be careful when handing off code to a Chinese team to internationalise - I heard a friend's friend got the work done, was able to serve the Chinese market, but those guys re-branded his app launched as a second alternative - so two of

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