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by nirvana 15y ago
That sure looks like a straight forward question, but it actually isn't. Business is an abstraction. We do the work we need to do wherever we are, but the business lives elsewhere, while our primary market is global, such that one of the
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by nirvana 15y ago
The netherlands and america have a treaty called the Ducth American Friendship Treaty. Under it, you can get residency in the Netherlands by putting something like 10-12k Euros into a bank (or starting a business with that much value, you'
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by nirvana 15y ago
In several of the comments, people have asked why entrepreneurs might want to leave the USA, given the common perception that the USA is a great place to do a business. I'm making this comment in response to those questions as an example o
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by nirvana 15y ago
Where are you getting your tweet feed? My initial interest in data sift was because they let you get a feed from the firehose. Twitter doesn't seem to let you do this. All I want is tweets relevant to a particular subject, and in the earl
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by nirvana 15y ago
The tragedy, of course, is that spread spectrum technology could allow these carriers to share bands, and actually operate over a wider band. IF the 700MHz-1GHz range was allocated to cellular and mobile voice and data services, and any pl
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by nirvana 15y ago
I think a lot of people miss the point of this statement. He's saying, good artists are inspired by the idea and want to copy it, while great artists understand the underlying concept and produce something genuinely original by stealing th
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by nirvana 15y ago
[It was a mistake to make an economics argument on hacker news. I'm outnumbered and know I won't get a fair hearing.]
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by nirvana 15y ago
I find this extremely alarming. I don't engage in piracy or serve files or anything like that. But I consider domain names to be a form of property, and to see the US government taking property without giving he owners recourse is extrem
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by nirvana 15y ago
This article is a good example of how myths are created and engineering ignorance is perpetuated. CouchDB doesn't "scale"? If you're trying to "scale" with it, you don't know what you're doing in the first place. CouchDB federates. That's
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by nirvana 15y ago
Wow, that's a very valuable insight! Do you need a %0.2 CTR in order to switch to CPM (e.g.: is it disabled before that?) or is it that your bids will not be as good if you don't have at least that high a CTR? Every time I experiment with
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by nirvana 15y ago
This HN title is inaccurate. There's no evidence that Microsoft or Apple actually supported SOPA. Merely an industry association of which they are members, supported it. This association removed its support. A more appropriate title woul
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by nirvana 15y ago
One of my apps in the appstore is a reminders type app called Next Thing. Its designed for a slightly different purpose-- its meant to be left open next to your computer and keep you focused on one task at a time. You can see it here: htt
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by nirvana 15y ago
I'm a member of a forum for graduates of one of the schools I went to. In 2007 it was a vibrant and active forum, growing steadily, and straining its hosting account, which constantly had to be expanded. At some point, around 2009, most of
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by nirvana 15y ago
Eternal Vigilance is the price of scalability. Twitter caught up with the curve for awhile, and maybe this is a short term issue, or maybe the curve got a bit more steep, I don't know.
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by nirvana 15y ago
Unfortunately, the details are being kept confidential, so I'm not sure what is being counted as "hedge funds". There's "hedge funds" that engage in very risky investments, ones that engage in investments that wouldn't normally be risky ex
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by nirvana 15y ago
I found this one on bit coins: http://longbets.org/611/ Nobody has taken the other side of it. I'm skeptical (but intrigued) by bit coins, but I wouldn't take the other side of this bet, simply because bit coins have just started out and
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by nirvana 15y ago
You make a good point. The difference is, when you have a disruptive technology to offer. Apple had it with the iPhone (microsoft is able to ride on Apple's coattails due to cross licensing). Thus, going to the platform that was dominate
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by nirvana 15y ago
Length does not mean lack of focus. Frankly, I think the increasingly common practice of criticizing the person, rather than their point, is to the detriment of Hacker News.
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by nirvana 15y ago
The irony, of course, is that the person in this thread whose defending the iPhone is best on all sides by ignorant fanboys engaging in down votes... they've even managed to bury unrelated threads that I commented on, simply because I comme
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by nirvana 15y ago
There were no multi-touch devices before the iPhone was introduced. Nobody has provided a single piece of evidence of someone else showing the same technology. I never said there were no touch devices, and there were, in fact, "multi-touc
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by nirvana 15y ago
Different technology, different operating mechanism, doesn't do the same thing as apple's multi-touch (which I've explained a number of times already.) This detects a fingers location in gross space, not the pixel the finger is intending t
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by nirvana 15y ago
Neither of those papers describe capacitive multitouch interfaces, nor do they describe the technology Apple invented for multi-touch. The first describes a multi-point interface that does not do what Apple does, and the second doesn't ev
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by nirvana 15y ago
"Best" is pretty subjective, and thus the metric at work here is my personal opinion. I found Windows 7 to have several problematic UI choices that imply that it could use some more polish. (another difference between Apple and microsoft, a
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by nirvana 15y ago
Imagine if patents had been eliminated. They would have died once a big company like 3M got a sample back to their lab. This company exists because they were able to patent their invention. People say that patents are bad because everythin
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by nirvana 15y ago
For future reference, the example.com domain is maintained for the purpose of documentation, etc. Thus foo@example.com might be a better address to use, especially in examples.
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by nirvana 15y ago
On your second point, how could Facebook make this happen? Every device maker would like for their device to have low cost data plans... the problem is the networks realize that is the road to being a dumb pipe, something they're desperate
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by nirvana 15y ago
I think it really is a mistake for Facebook, and in fact, Google, and allegedly Amazon, to be making mobile phones. Apple and Microsoft are different in a lot of ways, but their core business is making operating systems for personal compute
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by nirvana 15y ago
I went to a gateway store. It was a pretty bad experience. The machines were locked down and you couldn't use them. The sales people were the same kind you'd find at CompUSA (unknowledgable and myth spreading). Sony is a little better, as
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by nirvana 15y ago
You're absolutely right about the pawn-the-customer-off-on-the-vendor aspect of retail. Further, not only is the Apple store the final stop in the responsibility train, Apple does a fantastic job of handling this. I've recently had to deal
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by nirvana 15y ago
You shifted the goalposts. The trademark is listed on the USPTO.gov site, as being live and owned by Apple. They don't provide the ability to link to it directly, which is why I quoted it with enough info for you to do your own search. I'

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