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by pinaceae 10y ago
totally! i mean look at it, what is the difference? http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/06/iphone...
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by pinaceae 10y ago
And now let's apply such a scenario to autonomous vehicles, on land and in air. but rather than causing a virtual DDOS, now in physical space. shutting down a whole city, for the lulz. IoT and AV show that the "Facebook" meth
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by pinaceae 10y ago
well, but freelancers pay their own healthcare, 401k, etc. if you're running two well-paying full employments with all benefits, you have a sweet gig going. only possible in the US due to the setup of healthcare and overall taxes, etc.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
can != will
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by pinaceae 10y ago
speed dating with this merry group of intellectuals must be a blast. preferably to the temple.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
you don't understand my point: the US is the only country on earth that ever dropped nuclear weapons on civilians. US generals decided to kill civilians, in retaliation, to achieve pure terror. the US lost 3.5k civilians on 9/11 a
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by pinaceae 10y ago
How many US civilians were killed by Japanese troops total vs. how many innocent women, kids, elderly, artists were firebombed and nuked by the US in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki? This comic book version of history present in the US is disgus
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Good article, but misses the point on Oracle's risk against AWS. Understandable as Ben is more focused on consumer stuff. Oracle's main money maker is their database product. Running on prem, collecting money through license and m
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by pinaceae 10y ago
and apologies, but this guy really is on my shit list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Ackermann All of this happened under his CEO tenure, he collected millions of EUR in salary and bonuses, resigned in 2012. Runs
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by pinaceae 10y ago
The US fine is only for shenanigans pulled in the US, other banks in US paid even higher fines (JPMorganChase and BoA settled for 13-17bn each). The other investigations are handled by other entities in Europe and Russia. And there are two
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by pinaceae 10y ago
the DB has also massive legal issues all over the globe - the US one just one of them. bribery in Russia, fraud around CO2 certificates, the list is pretty big. you can argue that the past dual-leadership of Ackermann and Jain where heading
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by pinaceae 10y ago
hardware is full of patents. your point? pharma is full of competitors. exactly because it rewards risk. the whole point of the system. and the patent cliff hits and generics and biosimilars take over.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Portugal did and is seeing benefits.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
you're absolutely wrong. if you think finding out which molecule fights cancer cells vs kills you outright and how to produce it in controlled fashion is trivial, you're a moron. if you think creating genetically enginnered bacter
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by pinaceae 10y ago
are we for the legalization of drugs today or against? Heroin, basically a form of Morphine, has legit medical uses. Just like LSD and other fairly simple, potent molecules. Banning any R&D outright on them was a huge setback for medici
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by pinaceae 10y ago
a bit more complicated - IG Farben also produced multiple Nobel Prices in Medicine, represented the merged version of pretty much the complete German chemical industry. AGFA, Bayer, BASF, Sanofi all trace back to IG Farben. Not unlikely tha
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by pinaceae 10y ago
The overall design is a riff of the Steyr Pinzgauer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinzgauer_High-Mobility_All-... The British Army is using them, so Murray has likely been inspired by it. It was designed for Mountai
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by pinaceae 10y ago
and dealers should primarily punished for tax avoidance, operating a unlicensed pharmacy, breaking DEA license terms. which would put them in prison for way longer. and for the right crime.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
"Along with Bush and Powell, he exposed the personal information of magazine editor Tina Brown, author Candace Bushnell and actor Jeffrey Tambor." What a hero, a true Snowden 2.0.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
plus book and movie deals.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
and today we learn about the concept of average ...
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by pinaceae 10y ago
WeChat is the old AOL/Compuserve concept on mobile, nothing more,nothing less. An abstraction layer on the Internet, needed for China due to the langauge barrier of the Western/English-language Internet/WWW. Most of the stuff
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Russia anthrax outbreak affects dozens in north Siberia(bbc.com)
1 points by pinaceae 10y ago|0 comments
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Meanwhile in Russia, Anthrax spores are active again because of the thawing of (former) permafrost - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36951542
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How the cures for cancer have snuck up on us(buzzfeed.com)
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by pinaceae 10y ago
let's not debate the politics of YC partners here, nothing good will come out of it.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
you realize i am talking about current events, right? show me robert byrd's twitter postings please - vs. trump and duke. if you truly believe that today's democrat party, the one with the black president, is pro-slavery and pro
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by pinaceae 10y ago
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/07/mike-pences-top-seven-hom... this is the current candidate for VP. but yeah, he looooves gay people, mhm.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
what? have you looked at the positions of the current candidate for VP? the various "bathroom" laws, as currently exhibited in Carolina? the republicans, especially the evangelicals amongst them are pro LGBT. what. the. hell. trum
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by pinaceae 10y ago
9bn people - and all of them will be entrepreneurs. there is a world outside of HN and there a lot of folks can barely finish high school.

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