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by patkai 9y ago
Yes, the e-residency is extremely cool and forward looking. And you don't even have to travel there, only to one of their embassies.
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by patkai 9y ago
I graduated from a Telecommunications technical school in Budapest in 1992. We took the exam from relay-based switching centres (also 7A2 and ARF102) and had to repair an old style rotary dial phone to pass and get a diploma. Our teacher to
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by patkai 9y ago
> competitive pressure is what drives progress Up to a point. E.g. in non-equilibrium thermodynamics systems can change from negative feedback and stability to positive feedback - finally they explode and reorganise themselves. Like soci
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by patkai 9y ago
I don't know the US constitution, this is why I asked. My assumption is that running for president is not compatible with certain things, e.g. owning and/or editing media. E.g. could somebody in theory buy most of the newspapers,
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by patkai 9y ago
Is it even legal for him to run for president, given that he founded / owns the most powerful manipulation tool in the world?
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by patkai 9y ago
I use Duckduckgo because I don't like monocultures.
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by patkai 9y ago
The distinction between suits and nerds/geeks is blurrier than ever. Think about Zuck, you can probably take a photo of him in a t-shirt, a hoody and a suit on the same day. However, I think there is a pretty big difference between peo
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by patkai 9y ago
You are onto something. I think "the way things are developing", big tech and gov might fall into each others arms - what a beautiful couple. Imagine what a business _that_ would be! Also, I'm surprised this scenario is rarel
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by patkai 9y ago
I appreciate the post, and it would do good for most of us to understand how compounding works in so many things in our lives, also in relationships etc. But it isn't one thing vs. everything, there is also a balanced middle ground. A
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by patkai 9y ago
Given most of the comments in this thread "IoT = universe of suffering" is not a bad name, actually.
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by patkai 9y ago
As much as Skype did.
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by patkai 9y ago
Btw, how much traffic does HN's "hug of death" mean approximately?
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by patkai 9y ago
I've been looking for something like Pandoc for a while, great tip!
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by patkai 9y ago
"unhelpfully pathologise the feeling that EVERYONE has" You may just have stumbled upon a new definition of extrovert, i.e. a person who finds this distinction meaningless. I'm half joking, but most people I know have a prett
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by patkai 9y ago
Amazon is too big, they can't afford to act otherwise. We should all build medium size, privately owned companies and at least try to have a spine. The background of the problem is nicely highlighted in DHH's blog post "Enoug
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by patkai 9y ago
Good point, but still, consider how simple it would be for them to get Russian speaking help, and how small an effort it is in comparison to the gain in publicity - if they got something, of course.
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by patkai 9y ago
Le Pen and Putin probably don't write emails and Trump is tweeting :) But I agree, it is hard to follow the ethics of this, to say the least. Also, if I were sent leaked documents, it would be incredibly hard to understand and consider
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by patkai 9y ago
True, I remember reading something complicated about this, but I just looked up the Finnish records: https://www.finder.fi/Televiestint%C3%A4laitteita+ja+palvelu... Funny thing is that Nokia was established in 1896!
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by patkai 9y ago
I only bought the WiThings thermometer so far, but it's a beautiful product, and funnily Apple seems to be the most natural acquirer for it. Also, AFAIK Nokia is a brand nowadays, not a company, so it would be more exact to talk about
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by patkai 9y ago
I know very little about this topic, but let me shoot: isn't this method for improving competitiveness misguided and shortsighted? How about working on emotional intelligence, better education and talent management, better food in scho
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by patkai 9y ago
I don't like to admit but I still don't get it, could I use Redis as a main webapp backend?
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by patkai 9y ago
I am amazed and wish them luck, but it's almost impossible to imagine the economics of this. Whatever equation you write up there are at least two impossible factors: indoor land vs. outdoor "land" price is like 4000-10000 ti
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by patkai 9y ago
If they changed to a service model they would have an incentive. If they leased a dishwasher 5€/month suddenly it wouldn't break for 15 years. Ten years ago I talked to a person in aerospace, he said they would change to a service
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by patkai 9y ago
Google will stop reading my emails for Gmail ads because I will stop using Gmail. It's kind of a sad story, because they are the good guys, but once they built a huge company they started to focus on maintaining it, possibly at any cos
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by patkai 9y ago
Basically if FB creates a - shadow - profile of someone _not_ on FB they don't gibe her the chance to accept or reject their terms.
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by patkai 9y ago
I wish we had such a paper for programming.
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by patkai 9y ago
Alan Kay should remember that evolution includes random mutations that get you out of local extrema, and "interesting" recombinations. The rate of these is maybe low, but there are examples where large organizations renew themselv
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by patkai 9y ago
Good point! I thought about templating also when I read this article. I also like how a similar perspective inspired Tero to develop RiotJS, he is even quoting the Facebook team: "Templates separate technologies, not concerns" -
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by patkai 10y ago
His daughter's book The Martian's daughter is pretty good, though.
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by patkai 10y ago
I'm not surprised that the general public is worried about AI but I would expect many others to worry about data. Exaggerating a bit: mathematics and AI skills is something any talented person can get individually, but gathering useful

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