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by piokoch 14y ago
Unless you don't need to pay taxes if you get your salary in bitcoins :)
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by piokoch 14y ago
This researches are in fact very "biblical". First of all it seems that homo sapiens had one ancestor, as Bible says. Scientists would say that mutation leading to rise of homo sapiens was just a random mutation, the "bible thumpers" are al
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by piokoch 14y ago
As far as modern evolution theory teaches as (not original Darwin absurdities), new species arises in the course of genetic mutation. Mutations are kind of random and quite rare, so it is unlikely that the mutation leading to birth of homo
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The point is Java is open source...
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by piokoch 14y ago
> Which raises an interesting question - how do you make money on a platform like this? Sell trainigns, certification, support (QA tested fixes for bugs that affected you before they are released to the public). SUN was doing all of tha
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by piokoch 14y ago
Sun software division was profitable and was getting more and more profitable. The hardware part was responsible for the deficit.
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"The Catholic Church decided in the Middle Ages that too many people were getting convicted of crimes that they hadn’t committed. They instituted a rule that said nobody could be convicted without either two eyewitnesses or a confession. Co
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by piokoch 14y ago
I am looking at Facebook stock value on NASDAQ. The more users are complaining, the higher stock value is. Investors seems to like the route taken recently by FB. For some reason Diaspora is not catching up. I thought that many portal owner
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by piokoch 14y ago
There is a lot of resources available ( http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20111025/how-effectiv... ). Numbers like 40%, 50%, 60%, 70% appear in research - a lot of bias. "While the vaccine does work, and we still recommend that it be u
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by piokoch 14y ago
I can't stand "professional journalism" like that. First sentence "For Google, what is happening in Germany right now is a very big issue. If the German Bundestag (government) gets its way". Budnestag is German parliament, not government. T
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"foreign governments liked holding their reserves in US dollars" Yes every government has to keep dolar reserve because this is the only currency you can buy oil with. USA managed to force oil suppliers to accept only US dollars. This is
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Nice document. It shows well the way of thinking of our governments. "detecting suspicious activity, identifying users, and obtaining transaction records is problematic for law enforcement." - That must deeply hurts FBI people :) "Despit
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That's very interesting. There are two things, which seems to be crucial if Bitcoin will become more popular. - How banks would react? They would loose they power of creating money (which is good, since they create mostly sick kind of money
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by piokoch 14y ago
This post is an excellent explanation why Linux on desktops is as rare as unicorns. Imagine average computer user (consumer?), who see such post. Breaking news! Yada, Yada. And then ./configure && make && sudo make install F
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by piokoch 14y ago
I have the same impression. Windows 7 is very solid. People still think that "windows is crashing", while the application is working incorrectly. Microsoft people do what they can ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html - The
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by piokoch 14y ago
I'am curious how health insurace companies will react. Would they charge more from people who take marijuana? Would it be legal for them to investigate if someone is cannabies smoker?
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by piokoch 14y ago
I think that FB influence is largely overrated. As a matter of fact FB provides more convinient way to interact with friends. If one day FB disappear we can move to another social network. It is very likely that we have our closest friends'
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by piokoch 14y ago
Hmmm, they wanted to create Dropbox for photographers... Have they heard about Flicker (as far as I remember they offer unlimited space for a few dollars a year)? What's the big surprise they did not get funding? True, Venture Capital bussi
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by piokoch 14y ago
Why FUD? Javascript is well established, in fact it is the most popular programming language on the Earth. Are you sure that if Dart would not catch up for 2 years, it would not be cancelled by Google (or, as it is nicely said these days, "