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by mtts 15y ago
A classic among businessmen all over Europe (I'm Dutch). And it's wrong(1). When you spend 3000 Euros to hire someone who nets 1500 Euros, the difference is not "stolen" by the government, it's what you pay to have access to a pool of highl
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by mtts 15y ago
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Could it be Blackberry is popular because of the free "ping" service? At least that is what seems to drive the mass adoption of them (and the peer pressure) among teenagers here in the Netherlands: the free
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by mtts 15y ago
> Most of the third world doesn't even have a reliable cell phone service Wrong. Most of the third world has excellent cell phone service and they're using cell phones for far more stuff than we do. In Kenya, for instance, you can make
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by mtts 15y ago
Ah, but if I'm a poor(ish) African villager, what's important to me is not updating my phone to the latest and greatest Android version, but the fact that I could buy a cheap smartphone to begin with.
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by mtts 15y ago
> This, however, has been going on for half a decade and has absolutely nothing to do with smartphone and smartphone OSes. No, but more and more smartphones (hopefully with better battery life than the top of the line stuff we get in th
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by mtts 15y ago
Never heard of that before. But yeah, after looking it up on Wikipedia, you're right. So let me correct it - it's not the exception that proves the rule, it's yet another example of crowd sourcing contributing little of true significance.
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by mtts 15y ago
Since the aliens are only brought in for comedic effect, yes, I find it a plausible article about the effects of entertainment on progress.
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by mtts 15y ago
Care to explain what's terrible about it?
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by mtts 15y ago
That's the exception that proves the rule. Also, the crowd sourcing aspect of the whole protein folding thing merely involved doing the grunt work, of which there was so much the scientists that set up the parameters for it couldn't possibl
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by mtts 15y ago
Not anymore: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/lego-loses-t... It used to be no one could manufacture bricks that were compatible with real legos, but now, apparently, you can. So if Lego insists on creating only crap mercha
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by mtts 15y ago
Oh no ... we are NOT turning this into another Vi vs Emacs flamefest ;-)
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by mtts 15y ago
He panicked. What's there not to understand?
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by mtts 15y ago
There is a famous incident with an A330 test flight where the auto pilot system happily flew into the ground precisely because, unlike Bonin, it did not panic and give in to the instinct to pull the nose back up. I'm guessing this incident
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by mtts 15y ago
At night, over an ocean, in a storm, with no visibility, in possibly significant turbulance and responsible for the lives of 300 people. I doubt knowledge acquired from an episode of "Air Crash Investigation" is very useful in such a case.
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by mtts 15y ago
In this case, that would probably have made it worse. I doubt a panicked Frenchman would unfreeze just because he has to speak English to another Frenchman.
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by mtts 15y ago
Given the speed at which the readings in my android phone update while driving a car, I'd say yes.
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by mtts 15y ago
Yup. They have fairly good, fairly popular phones, like the Desire or Desire HD but these get replaced with newer models so quickly they never gain enough traction to become Jesus phones (both Apple and Samsung have only one Jesus phone a y
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by mtts 15y ago
Do github and bitbucket look kindly upon storing gigabytes worth of data on their services? The overviews of their plans don't mention anything about size, but it seems to me you're stretching their terms and conditions quite a bit when you
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by mtts 15y ago
While I'm a big fan of open source in general and of using standard components yadda yadda yadda For me the biggest draw of Dropbox is that it's not self hosted but that it's run by an entity that's 1) large enough to not go away any time s
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by mtts 15y ago
You can, but SVN more or less forces you to.
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by mtts 15y ago
Doodle is awesome. So is the book these are from. The baby cannon. Hehehehe ...
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by mtts 15y ago
It's not centralized.
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by mtts 15y ago
Could it be, possibly, that the roads are broken not because Indian government is lousy but because India as a whole is dirt poor?
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by mtts 15y ago
China economically successful? Ok, I can see that. Elevating 300 million people out of poverty into the middle class is nothing to sneeze at, even if it still leaves 800 million (or so) in desperation. But Russia? Sure, its GDP is impressiv
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by mtts 15y ago
Hello Martin, my name is mtts. I'm pretty sure that having a work ethic and abilities to succeed is strongly correlated to what family you're born into. I'm not sure what exactly the consequences of that knowledge should be, but I'm pretty
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by mtts 15y ago
Julius Caesar gave way to Augustus (who in turn gave way to Tiberius, Nero, Claudius and Caligula). I wouldn't get your hopes up.
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by mtts 15y ago
Or it only works in societies that are egalitarian enough to prevent an oligarch like Berlusconi or Thaksin Shinawatra ( ) from using his wealth to incite the poor to become his foot soldiers. ( ) or Julius Caesar
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by mtts 15y ago
The issue with free markets is that they tend not to stay free for very long. Efficiencies of scale cause monopolies and before you know it self-organizing cooperatives, open source software and anything else you can think of that doesn't d
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by mtts 15y ago
Me too. Except that in Joel's piece Bill G seemed to ask an entirely relevant question and in Steve Yegge's piece Bezos seemed to ask about something quite secondary. Like Bezos has an arsenal of nasty questions up his sleeve and BillG actu
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by mtts 15y ago
Nonsense. I'm a big fan of long-form literature, short stories, essays and plays, but if all you want to do is get a point across, you'd better use something else. ;-)

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