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by pcc 17y ago
I agree. Also at play is probably our cultural way of thinking about what "smart" constitutes. Children absorb everything -- at their own pace, they learn how to walk, they learn their mother tongue etc, without parents "teaching" them by r
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by pcc 17y ago
As to your first point; there are many counterexamples where the people that remain in their country are as multi-lingual on average as the people who emigrate. I would venture to say that level of ambition, education, opportunity & saf
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by pcc 17y ago
Interesting, my interpretation is not at all that the article is referring to "teaching" of babies, merely to the languages to which the babies are exposed. In my experience (based on observation of a community of immigrants from South Afri
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by pcc 17y ago
I'm inclined to think most parents from multilingual households do speak multiple languages with one another and with other adults; hence the baby is exposed to multiple languages. (My interpretation of the article is that it pertains to la
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by pcc 17y ago
Afaik there is a quota, something like 60:40 economically active to non-economically active; so priorities are firstly skilled workers (or where there are shortages), then most immediate family, and lastly other family (eg parents, grandpar
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by pcc 18y ago
There would probably have to be some monitoring that visa recipients are actually engaging in start-up activities; in which case there shouldn't be time for any terrorism...
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by pcc 18y ago
Hmmn -- surely, if something were completely independent/neutral of OS, by definition then it would not be able to exert any influence on the popularity of any OS? So if Linux arguably is gaining in popularity because of average home users
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What Apple gets about Design(coherentnoise.ca)
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Response to "The Surprising Effect of Distance on Download Speed"(coherentnoise.ca)
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by pcc 18y ago
This writeup oversimplifies a little. See e.g. http://coherentnoise.ca/blog/2008/08/response-to-the-surpris...
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by pcc 18y ago
This is not a particular problem at all in this case. The business in question is not a payment service provider at all, they only happen to process billings and disbursements on behalf of third parties as a part of the service they provid
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Ask YC: Billing Systems
7 points by pcc 18y ago|6 comments
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The Singing Mac (Leopard)(coherentnoise.ca)
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Giving Telemarketers a Taste of their own Medicine(coherentnoise.ca)
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by pcc 18y ago
>> and I have yet to hear anyone explain to me what OGG gives me that mp3 doesn't > The right to use - or as a developer, create - a program that can play/record music in that format without permission from, or payment to, the p
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by pcc 18y ago
Maybe not - since you can't see the code you don't know when location info is being transmitted without asking your permission. Considering that OnStar is apparently being pressured to provide a remote "kill switch" to law enforcement, that
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by pcc 18y ago
drinko -- maybe you could give me a shout, pcc5757 AT gmail.com (just a temp addr, will pass you the real one once we start talking); can't promise anything, but might be able to help.
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by pcc 18y ago
Zimbabwe is not inside SA (its also bordered by Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique). But even if it were, would this not be a bit like Canada being "inside" the USA? Anyway, by extension of this logic, then also places like Israel, Palestine,
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by pcc 18y ago
That's why I ask the question -- it seems this is the easy conclusion people jump to (ie to construe this type of a move as "abandoning Africa") -- while in fact it is a strategy designed to benefit both African operations as well as intern
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by pcc 18y ago
I would be interested to know what precisely the word "tellingly" means in this context ;) This actually has to do with access to capital markets. It is a common pattern for these companies to decide to list on LSE or NYSE, since it allows
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by pcc 18y ago
Maybe you are a beer or appletiser drinker ;) (SAB Miller has a market cap double that of Ford, if I'm not mistaken)
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by pcc 18y ago
OK so there's been some discussion here on the second sentence ("can they produce..."), but maybe its also worth zooming in on the first sentence: are there hackers in africa and other 3rd world countries? Here is an article from the IEEE S
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by pcc 18y ago
These may be huge multinationals now, but they were not so at the beginning. I guess the question of "can they produce companies" is really (at least) 2 questions: the one pertaining to the initial creation itself of something like a Goog
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by pcc 18y ago
Sure there are (many) problems -- but where there is a will there is a way. Eg South Africa produced Thawte which at one time had > 40% of the world market in SSL certs. Bought by Verisign for $500m, allowing its founder (Mark Shuttlew