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by notjackma 12y ago
Don't they say the same thing about China and it's rule of law, or lack of? Yet Western businesses flock there. If I were an investor and an entrepreneur gave me all these reasons for not entering the Russian or Chinese market, a
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by notjackma 12y ago
China has none of the above and is now the world's largest economy. Doesn't seem to be an impediment to doing business, does it? http://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-official-america-is-now...
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by notjackma 12y ago
The founder of Huawei was in the PLA, and this is often used to bash the company. Why is it ok to serve country A, B, C and then go into business... but if you serve country X,Y,Z you're suddenly untrustworthy? What next? Make business
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by notjackma 12y ago
Zurich = Central location in Europe, natives speak multiple languages, science and R&D already there (pharmaceutical).
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by notjackma 12y ago
Wow, you must know something the rest of the world doesn't. If you have evidence that Russian troops shot down flight MH-17 then you should present it to the Dutch parliament and the United Nations. Otherwise, like the rest of us, you
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by notjackma 12y ago
Why discriminate against a Russian company over something that may or may not happen? Russia has elections and they have laws which affect businesses based there - pretty much like every other country out there. As the article states, Googl
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Kasparov: Take the Offensive Against Baghdad--and Damascus, Tehran and Riyadh(web.archive.org)
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Uber Surge Prices Highest Ever During Big #BayAreaStorm; Fares 3.8X Normal Rate(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
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Bay Area Storm: Live Radar from Doppler 7 HD(abc7news.com)
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by notjackma 12y ago
Try reading what I wrote again. Google employs lots of people who work on things which do not directly generate revenue themselves, but which do contribute to the company's overall profit and loss. Such as HR. However, based on Google
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by notjackma 12y ago
Yet they're already spending money on Google News: programmers, servers, electricity. So obviously they're getting something out of it, right? There is a purpose to Google News, whether it's tracking cookies or something el
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by notjackma 12y ago
"As Google News itself makes no money (we do not show any advertising on the site) this new approach is simply not sustainable. " Rubbish! Google's Human Resources department doesn't make any money either, yet it exist
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by notjackma 12y ago
Would any start-up founder refuse investment from Ron Conway because of his personal beliefs? Ultimately, do you care about the source of funds? For those who are more discerning, can you recommend any investors? How many Michael Dearings
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Ed Lee scolds Ron Conway for supporting CIA torture(sfist.com)
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California prosecutors sue Uber; Lyft settles(sfgate.com)
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by notjackma 12y ago
It's simple. Cabel is being diplomatic and doesn't want to burn any bridges. It's a reflection of how much power Apple has that developers are fearful of upsetting the mothership. I know a few former indie Mac and iOS devel
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World's most powerful weapon: Mobile launched nuclear missile, top speed Mach 21(en.m.wikipedia.org)
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by notjackma 12y ago
An underlying issue like the Bhopal Disaster? http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/06/photos-bhopal...
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IMF: China's economy is now the world's largest, US in 2nd place(finance.yahoo.com)
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by notjackma 12y ago
I would donate but only if 100% of the money goes toward the projects and not social causes such as teaching x/y/z to code or an outreach program for demographic a/b/c (looking at Gnome Foundation and Mozilla here).
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by notjackma 12y ago
Exactly. In the case of Apple: The Irish company licenses intellectual property from an Apple registered company in the Cayman Islands, and of course the Royalties are so high that the Irish company makes no profit. So all this money accum
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Circumcision guidelines target teenagers(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Ask HN: Why are Americans promoting bad science that circumcision prevents HIV?
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by notjackma 12y ago
Tabloid news... but reminds me of Leo the homeless coder. Does anybody know what happened to him and Patrick McConlogue?
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Boxer who lost fight to actor Mickey Rourke is a homeless man from California(dailymail.co.uk)
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by notjackma 12y ago
1.8 already? Wow. Yet enums are only now being added (the proposal was from 2013) This puts me off Dart - for now - for two reasons. Firstly, the language appears to have been rushed. Yes, great tooling, but was the language rushed out t
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by notjackma 12y ago
I expected more, nothing really interesting on that list. Just the usual suspects, the same old Mac software that's (1) always on sale or (2) bundled up every few months.
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ZDNet reporter lobbying Senators and members of Congress to deem Bitcoin illegal(reddit.com)
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OpenBSD developers reject GUI installer(daemonforums.org)
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New York-born London mayor Boris Johnson refuses to pay US tax bill(theguardian.com)
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