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"Official" IPhone tethering from AT&T at $55/month(appmodo.com)
11 points by osipov 17y ago|23 comments
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by osipov 17y ago
Agreed. PragmaticTheory team deserves a special commendation since last month they developed an enhancement that was included into the winner's submission and pushed it into the #1 position. Read about PT on Wired: http://www.wired.com/epi
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by osipov 17y ago
Сайт слишком похож на брошюру и глаза разбегаются по фоткам. Стиль минимализм (как у Apple) более практичен. Translation: the site looks like brochureware and eyes wander about without finding a place to focus. Changing to a more minimalist
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by osipov 17y ago
Here's an example of the approach used by Microsoft: "Ireland Subsidiary Typically, he said, a company like Microsoft develops a product like Windows in the United States and deducts those costs against U.S. income. It then transfers the te
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by osipov 17y ago
"Balzac was on to something 200 years ago, but to be fair to modern day multi-millionaires, the only real way to accumulate wealth prior to the 18th century was to steal it, or tax it," Will we ever go back to the economy where the only way
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Ask HN: Behind every great fortune lies a great crime?(pimco.com)
2 points by osipov 17y ago|2 comments
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by osipov 18y ago
Owning VirtualBox virtualization software is a great reason for IBM to buy Sun. IBM is trying to be a major player in the cloud computing space, but it relies on Xen and VMWare for x86 virtualization technology. IBM doesn't have much influe
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by osipov 18y ago
How old are your friends who are thriving as independents? The "freedom and opportunity" are a great deal less glamorous for those in their late 40s who are just trying to raise kids and provide for the family...
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by osipov 18y ago
If all of your questions can be answered by replying to your email you must have a very easy job. You know the kind that computers will be doing soon.
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by osipov 18y ago
>You don't get any more benefit from listening to a slower speaker at a faster playback speed over a faster speaker at an equivalently less fast playback speed That assumes that you are comparing the same course being taught by a faster
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by osipov 18y ago
I'm in grad school and watch all my lectures using the approach described in the blog post. After following this accelerated viewing approach for almost 2 years I can tell you that in reality the content doesn't get consumed "much more quic
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by osipov 18y ago
>we have no choice but to let them take all this information I thought you guys in UK were a fellow democracy, can't you vote your rulers out of power?
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by osipov 18y ago
>richest country in the world To be more precise, a country with the most rich people in the world. Furthermore, it is a country that is quickly growing rich less relative to other countries. >one of the best educated Not even close
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by osipov 18y ago
Lets say you could go to UK. What are the objective terms in which UK is worse than US?
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by osipov 18y ago
it is not clear to me why this self-admitted anti-Russian vitriol should have any place on ycnews
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by osipov 18y ago
Just goes to show you how important it is to have an international strategy from (almost) day 1. Assume that if your startup is successful, someone will try to clone your site and attempt to grab a foreign audience. When there are more inte
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by osipov 18y ago
>Aside from my ability or non-ability to speak Russian No one was questioning your ability to speak Russian. The issue in question was your awareness of the reality as it exists outside of the lens of the corporate media. >I stand b
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by osipov 18y ago
according to the article, building a data center in russia seems to make sense when optimizing for 1) flops per dollar of watt-hour 2) high absolute value of flops. for example, google may be interested in shifting their compute/flops inten
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by osipov 18y ago
>just decided to nationalize all of its oil industry that's false. do you by any chance get your news from the Anglophone media?
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by osipov 18y ago
wow...that's not even wrong
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by osipov 18y ago
>"All programs are pretty obvious. Algorithms, not so much." How do you expect anyone to respond to something like that? Are you suggesting programs are not algorithms? Can you point to an authoritative reference explaining the differen
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by osipov 18y ago
I think your statement lacks nuance and insight I came to expect from ycnews.
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by osipov 18y ago
Again, the patent isn't for "ability to generate summaries of privacy settings". The patent is for systems/methods to do so. Consider a patent for systems/methods of flying. Such a patent doesn't infringe on attempts of flying, just on syst
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by osipov 18y ago
I'm not a shilling for Zuckerberg but you are being too hard on him. First, the patent isn't for "summary of privacy settings", it is for a systems/methods to generate the said summary. Second, a patent isn't supposed to be original or clev
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by osipov 18y ago
The core problem of your argument is that you don't even bother to define what is a "huge problem". It seems to be 1) anything that isn't funded by VCs 2) huge in the sense of taking a long time to solve. Or both. Once you do commit to a co
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by osipov 18y ago
Why not Novosibirsk? With the Siberian climate the message is clearly "you should stay indoors and work" http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/...
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by osipov 18y ago
To rephrase Freakonomics, "what do drug dealers, high school football players, and young New Yorkers have in common?" http://freakonomicsbook.com/thebook/ch3.html
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by osipov 18y ago
Nothing folksy about left/right brain distinction. Check out this tour de force TED video with a Harvard neuroscientist talking about the differences in brain halves http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
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by osipov 18y ago
This is a fascinating discussion, particularly in light of the human brain architecture. Back in school, my prof used to reference the distinctions between the left and right brains in context of alternative computing approaches used by eac
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Minority Report-style iris scans are obsolete: 3D body scans for identification(youtube.com)
5 points by osipov 18y ago|3 comments

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