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by nir 16y ago
On the pro side, GAE gives you a pretty big free quota - http://therealurl.appspot.com handles >1m requests/day for about $4 a week.
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by nir 16y ago
The main event that started the Tunisian revolt was a shopkeeper, squeezed by a corrupt policeman and refused help by the corrupt local government, protested by setting himself on fire. The fact we're even considering Twitter a factor here
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by nir 16y ago
I don't think it's in dispute that Iran has nuclear aspirations, or that it's an enemy of Sunnis and Jews in the Middle East. Whether they would actually manage to build a bomb and whether they'd actually use it are different questions - bu
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by nir 16y ago
It's not charitable, it's realistic. I think sometimes they succeed and sometimes they fail, like any organization. I don't assume they're completely incompetent when they fail, nor that they are perfect when they succeed. A project like Ir
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by nir 16y ago
The people making these predictions have great interest in making them false. It's quite possible the ETA keeps getting pushed back exactly because of things like Stuxnet.
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by nir 16y ago
That statement is extremely location-dependent.
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by nir 16y ago
Quite a few of the people quoted in the article are identified, seem to be in position to know what they're talking about and definitely exist. By "weasel words" you mean OP (and NYT) don't state as facts things which are, while very likely
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by nir 16y ago
The story could definitely use some Nicholas Cage.
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by nir 16y ago
>I find that very unlikely, especially since the attacking nation would definitely be destroyed as well. You're talking about a region where suicide bombing is perhaps the most common attack method now. I think its clear that our defini
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by nir 16y ago
Isn't their site in current form basically an "About Us" page? I'd love a great banking UI as much as anyone and hope BankSimple will deliver, but so far all the hype around them is just that.
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by nir 16y ago
iPhone apps in Objective C are hard. Many people teach themselves to program, but usually it's done incrementally, in much simpler environments. Building a working, native iPhone app as the first program you ever wrote is indeed pretty amaz
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by nir 16y ago
>Given the fact that it's sitting on top of the front page with 87 points, the community seems to disagree Since we can't downmod, it just means 87 people in the community were really moved and upvoted. I don't think HN should be strict
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Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes - Bloomberg(bloomberg.com)
18 points by nir 16y ago|23 comments
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by nir 16y ago
Being stuck at home in snow days seems to inspire a certain kind of creativity ;) Here's some macbook camera timelapse stuff I hacked together during a blizzard last winter: http://niryariv.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/time-lapse-photogra...
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Facebook is at or near peak hype(nextbigfuture.com)
3 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010(techcrunch.com)
1 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
It says a lot about where our industry is in right now that Ferris is celebrity for us. There's a lot in common between the 4 hour body and the 50 billion dollar Facebook.
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by nir 16y ago
This was very much seen as a fiasco in Israel, by the general public and reportedly by Mossad itself. Mossad director Meir Dagan had to step down recently, almost certainly as result of the Dubai debacle. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplom
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by nir 16y ago
GS has sustained its business over 140 years, consistently making a lot of money. (Also we recently found they are now, in effect, insured by the US government in a way FB can only dream of)
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Meet the AK-47 of the Cell-Phone World(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
Seems to me the number of people using RSS readers isn't even that important - RSS is infrastructure, most of its users aren't even aware of it (eg, various "latest stories at.." widgets). The annual "RSS Is Dead" posts would be meaningful
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by nir 16y ago
That's right. If they can hype Facebook enough, Goldman will cover their investment easily. It's less about what Facebook turns out to be actually worth in the long term than what GS can help make people believe it's worth in the near term.
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by nir 16y ago
MIT's Poverty Action Lab did a study of micro finance, and found it much overhyped: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/... My personal impression is that microfinance have gone through the same hype curve of many
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by nir 16y ago
That's correct. We disagree on the internet, therefore I must be an admirer of one of the biggest murderers of the 20th century.
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by nir 16y ago
All of these dictators were supported by Intellectuals taking a stance diametrically opposed to own their government's.
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by nir 16y ago
Some of the most murderous dictators in recent century were celebrated by Western intellectuals - Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao. There's nothing about being an "intellectual", whatever this means, that makes you a better judge of reality.
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by nir 16y ago
What do you suppose Greenwald's "indignation level" would be if Wired have called him a "journalistic disgrace"?
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by nir 16y ago
Nice! I wasn't aware of this book, will add it to my list.
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by nir 16y ago
Good thinking. Like anything in NYC, startups tend to get overhyped and there's a lot of dumb money from rich kids or people who had a good run at finance etc. I wouldn't work for below market wage in this kind of economy. When the bubble p
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by nir 16y ago
http://nextny.jobthread.com/ Also, if you attend meetups in your field (eg NY Python/PHP/Android/etc meetup) they often allocate a few minutes for job offers/seekers. The article's right, there's a strong demand now. Make sure to save som

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