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by pinaceae 13y ago
gun ownership (illegal) in Brazil is crazy high, no ones gives a shit about legality. Switzerland? yes, you have an assault rifle. which you DO NOT CARRY while walking around. and, you have no ammo for it. http://en.wikipedia.or
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by pinaceae 13y ago
so, in Vienna I can walk around unarmed, with zero risk of getting into a firefight and being hurt/killed. walk around as in drunk, with earbuds in, at 2am. in your gun-zones i need to carry concealed, know how to properly shoot and ki
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by pinaceae 13y ago
Right, and looking at stats like murder rates, incarceration numbers, etc. the US system is clearly working and superior. I can walk any street at 2am in Vienna without looking over my shoulder. Oakland? Philly? A personal gun doesn'
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by pinaceae 13y ago
well yeah, the Brazilian model. But this sucks, try living behind barbed wire and being dependent on your bodyguards. I definitely prefer being able to walk the streets at night by myself and not getting robbed/stabbed/hijacked.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
As a European we are bit further down that path than the US. I assume most of the readers here are "wealthy", would not need basic guaranteed income. So let me explain why this is a good idea from a rich man's perspective. Yo
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by pinaceae 13y ago
and let's revisit this discussion 5 years from now. right now there is so much fluctutation within BC it might as well be tulips. maybe it will become a stable currency, maybe it won't.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
aka "intelligence agency of random country does its job"
518.
by pinaceae 13y ago
teenagers in wealthy, western countries will soon be a very small target group. western europe will shrink dramatically. just read an article on how western society is becoming more and more aggressive towards kids due to people not being a
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by pinaceae 13y ago
so google can claim higher google+ subscriber rates. i just wonder if investors, ad men will be that idiotic when comparing user counts betweent say Fb and G+. real vs. forced users.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
are Americans that daft? seriously, how can one not see this movie for what it is? feels like a giant whoosh.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
oh come on, not this shit again. this has been debunked a thousand times by now. he broke rules, he had motorcycle couriers work in lightspeed, etc. classic exploit strat, more starcraft than real life. hence they reset, just like blizzard
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by pinaceae 13y ago
funny, in the old school economy this would be a failure. oh crap, i couldn't run my company, the business i have built. i have failed my employees, my vision, my customers. all for naught, i got swallowed and now i am an employee. but
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by pinaceae 13y ago
a) 99.9% of the population does not give a shit. oh great, now you're reading my emails with boring, meaningless stuff in them. exciting! b) google would LOVE it. no more context sensitive ads. let's shut down free gmail then. c)
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by pinaceae 13y ago
comparing Linux to Android is ridiculous. Linus released and built it from genuine, ulterior motives. google wanted a platform to display ads.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
Google threw the gauntlet when it took a billion dollar investment into a mobile OS and gave it away for free. these dumping tactics ruined the market for licensed OS like Windows. did anybody truly believe the rest of the software industry
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by pinaceae 13y ago
we went public recently, one article even called out that we were likely a far better deal than twitter. did we make it to HN? nope. if you're not something tech-journos are using themselves, no coverage for you. twitter is hot because
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by pinaceae 13y ago
only rich and bored people want to be poor. this is like painting yourself black to prove you can live under racism.
528.
by pinaceae 13y ago
don't be evil.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
By now this is a complete clusterfuck. The core idea behind this "service" of injecting LI info into any mail is broken. No security theater around it will change that. LI should have worked with Apple to come up with a way to emb
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by pinaceae 13y ago
a live video stream, global, for a demo against being watched. i am posting my entire life on the internet for anyone to see, how dare you look at me.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
Erm, just because you buy a new bike doesn't mean you stop owning and driving a car. When I was living in Vienna we had 2 cars and 3 bikes for the family. Bikes were replaced more often, I needed to buy a bike twice in 5 years due to t
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by pinaceae 13y ago
no. this is me pointing out how ridiculous this comment starting with "apart from..." is. using monty python's life of brian, which is brilliant in 28 different ways.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us? That's you.
534.
by pinaceae 13y ago
they knew it's crap and wanted to bury it?
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by pinaceae 13y ago
sales is kind of easy if you don't care about profit. also kills off competition, which in turn makes sales easier. but what happens once profits are needed? or is amazon the largest NPO on earth?
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by pinaceae 13y ago
and who are you to say that all of these things are "better" than watching a season of dr.who on your comfy couch? why is outside by default better than inside? I live exactly once, so if i want to do what pleases me i should not
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by pinaceae 13y ago
doesn't matter if the robot is pulling the trigger - just like modern automatic gears are actually manual ones where a "robot" is the shifting. streams of bullets are no longer necessary as accuracy goes up. why waste ammo on
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Was Veeva a better VC deal than Twitter?(finance.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by pinaceae 13y ago|0 comments
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Veeva IPO Generates 300-Fold Return for Emergence Capital(bloomberg.com)
1 points by pinaceae 13y ago|0 comments
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by pinaceae 13y ago
easier to secede if there is a weak federal structure.

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