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by nirvana 14y ago
The so-called "nobel" prize in economics does not come from the estate of Alfred Nobel. It comes from the central bank. Thus it is not surprising to see it given to people that central banks would favor (often people whose theories try to
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by nirvana 14y ago
I didn't mean to imply you wasted any time- you exhibit the one trait that I find exceedingly valuable: the ability to think for yourself. This is way too rare. And so I wanted to help you with some things that you might find useful. (I'
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by nirvana 14y ago
I'm in Chile as a cofounder on a team with multiple nationalities. This article, unlike most, focuses on the visa aspect and the fact that the USA is hostile to foreigners who want to start companies there. This is a huge point. Chile has
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by nirvana 14y ago
Startup Chile doesn't really care too much where you're located after the program. If you move to the states and raise a couple million bucks they will be pleased as punch and it looks good for them-- they consider it a success for themsel
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Basho open sources distributed counters using CRDTs(github.com)
1 points by nirvana 14y ago|0 comments
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by nirvana 14y ago
You reached the correct conclusions empirically, but you could have saved a lot of time and effort by having the philosophy that would lead you to them. Or more specifically, an understanding of economics. I don't mean this to sound smug,
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by nirvana 14y ago
Talk from the developer happening right now at Ricon, trac #2. You can watch here: http://basho.com/community/ricon2012_live/#
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Yokozuna: Distributed Search using Solr and Riak(github.com)
7 points by nirvana 14y ago|1 comments
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by nirvana 14y ago
Kudos to Basho for live-streaming this. I wasn't able to be in San Francisco for the conference, but would have paid for videos after the fact. (Still will if that's the plan.)
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by nirvana 14y ago
That is a derogatory characterization and it is false. The best outcome for society is for government to adhere to the principles laid out in Atlas Shrugged. Collectivism has given us poverty, illiteracy, the 2008 financial crisis, etc. Wor
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by nirvana 14y ago
Fiction is the delivery mechanism for a philosophy. The book argues that philosophy logically. The fact that it is delivered as a fictional account is merely a method that makes it less dry and more comprehensible than a straight up non-f
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by nirvana 14y ago
In fact, John Galt, and the others, bore significant personal risk and harm, in a variety of ways- for the goal of ultimately benefiting society. Galt was an altruist, by the modern use of the word. The error the author makes is confusing v
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by nirvana 14y ago
Ayn Rand never objected to groups of people working together, after all, that is what a corporation is. Rand and Objectivism never oppose charity or altruism at all. The "altruism" she opposed is when a group of powerful people (usually gov
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by nirvana 14y ago
Would you mind describing that attack in a bit more detail?
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by nirvana 14y ago
> " They never tried to win with windows, for example, by not making office for mac." Wow! Ok, I'm guessing you're of an age where you were probably very young at the time, but exactly this happened. Microsoft, for years, threatened t
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by nirvana 14y ago
Woz hasn't worked for Apple since the early 1980s. He got in a minor plane crash, got freaked out because he could have died and was "wasting his life in business" or something like that. Stopped working for Apple and started putting on t
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by nirvana 14y ago
Do realize, that even if it is harder, this is only initially. Once you have 3-4 years of experience in the field, the CS degree (or lack thereof) is irrelevant. I've had, on more than one occasion, bosses be surprised that I didn't hav
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by nirvana 14y ago
I don't really care to debate it with you, because despite making a compelling argument-- that people always bash apple products when they first come out, including several notalbe examples (iPod, iPad, iPhone) where people said they were t
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by nirvana 14y ago
The patent system doesn't apply to things that are "plain", though this word is a bit broad, so it isn't clear if you mean it the way I take you to mean it. Further, I didn't say that this was the justification for it, I said that this was
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by nirvana 14y ago
Your response is exactly what I'm talking about. You believe, but you don't know. You can't make an argument, you point to someone else, and advocate faith. Imagine if a religious person had used that kind of "argument" to you, and refere
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by nirvana 14y ago
The difference between me and you is, I make arguments to defend my positions, yet all you did is characterize me in a derogatory way. You are free to ignore me anytime, you don't need a new feature for that. Or you can reply to me with ar
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by nirvana 14y ago
I've not seen Apple launch a half baked product in quite a long time, not like the crap that, for instance, google still ships and calls "android". iOS Maps with its first iteration is far better than google maps, after 8 years. The compa
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by nirvana 14y ago
Well, its better than the "Apple sucks!" And "This new product from Apple [which is actually really great] is terrible and Apple's going to fail!" I remember that when people were whining that the iPod sucked compared to archos media playe
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by nirvana 14y ago
Or that, once shipping a piece of software, the team was ready to re-staff for the next major release, coming in a year. You don't add engineers on at the end but at the beginning. There was no mass firing for "Antennagate" in fact there wa
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by nirvana 14y ago
The housing crisis did, in fact, come from over the top government regulation. Further, the reason health care is so expensive is government regulation. In the 1990s the democrats decided that the banks were not lending to blacks out of r
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by nirvana 14y ago
You're right and it is typical of HN that you're getting downvoted for making an argument.... but the ironic thing is, I am pro-IP and I agree with you-- government will never give you freedom. (get rid of government- I'm an anarchist- and
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by nirvana 14y ago
Technological advancement (eg: music software, cheap HD cameras, etc.) and significantly better distribution platforms (eg: the internet) can account for an increase in production... they need to account for that, otherwise its kinda nonsen
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by nirvana 14y ago
The US Patent law, and the "entire patent system" are not broken. A lot of very vocal HNers like to go on ideological rants along these lines, but when pressed for specifics they generally cannot back them up (eg: they haven't even read th
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by nirvana 14y ago
My opinion is that Mark Cuban works hard, but he's opinionated most in the areas where he knows the least. He is not an authority on anything, except maybe sports team management. He got lucky selling a shell of company to Yahoo (a fool of
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by nirvana 14y ago
Exactly. And we should just stop calling them "Value" investors. This is true for growth investors, any kind of investors, in fact all investors. Investing is about knowing the difference between value and the price. When you can do that-

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