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by r3m6 13y ago
I am with you - as someone who was forced to learn Latin in school for four years. The reason given to us was exactly the same, just replace "India and beyond" with "Europe and beyond". I'll repeat: it has zero valu
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by r3m6 13y ago
Youth unemployment is currently a serious problems in a few European states (e. g. Spain) but (a) not in most and (b) it is certainly not related to maternity leave or universal health insurance.
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by r3m6 13y ago
I am not sure about Canada, but in most of Europe not the company but the state (= tax payer) pays for the cost of the maternity leave.
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by r3m6 13y ago
Alternative: The iMacros addons for Firefox, Chrome or IE. Not exactly an autofill replacement, more like a macro recorder for web browsers.
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Why Cognition-as-a-Service is the next operating system battlefield(gigaom.com)
2 points by r3m6 13y ago|0 comments
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by r3m6 13y ago
One of my favorite quotes (forgot by whom): " Great ideas are fragile at birth because they are indistinguishable from crazy stupid ideas."
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by r3m6 13y ago
Why would you care about in which currency you are paid?
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by r3m6 13y ago
Paid and free MOOC do not differ much, but they have can significant advantages over a book, especially for subjects where you do not have already domain expertise: 1. Exercises 2. Community/forums/meetups 3. Exams (with prestigio
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by r3m6 13y ago
If you want to understand why Merkel - and people from all political leanings - are so upset, just watch "The Lives of Others" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_iLOp6IhM
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by r3m6 13y ago
Most people expect and accept "007-style" spying for security purposes. But exactly what kind of threat are Germany, France and Brasil to the US? The general suspicion in these countries is that the main motive behind the overzeal
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by r3m6 13y ago
Today's Nobel prices are the result of work done decades ago.
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by r3m6 13y ago
Last time I check all the fields you mentioned do controlled experiments. Example climate science: Have two models, and see which one predicts the next decades better.
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by r3m6 13y ago
Only a 100 open slots and potentially 10,000 of applications as it seems they accept applications from all over the world. And there will be no visa issues. That means they might be able to be even more selective than with their regular off
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Nature for $38/yr(hardmob.com.br)
1 points by r3m6 13y ago|0 comments
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by r3m6 13y ago
>They'll sell their subsidiaries roaming at X and their competition roaming at X*1,000. I doubt that would be legal. Anyone knows for sure?
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by r3m6 13y ago
Parody? This is real: http://www.android.com/kitkat/ (IMHO a bad move for the Android brand, unless teens are their new main target. But let's see...)
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by r3m6 13y ago
"Apple can not decrypt it" - does it mean somebody else can? Or is it encrypted at a level that is virtually unencryptable with today's technology?
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by r3m6 13y ago
iOpus GmbH, Heidelberg, GERMANY We need help developing new features for our fast growing AlertFox Web Performance Monitoring solution. => We need Software Engineers! :) http://www.iopus.com/company/careers/ The position will be in ou
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by r3m6 14y ago
The amazing thing here is: A few of my non-programmer friends told me that they would NEVER install a Chrome extension that can access all their data. At the same time, all of them have no issue at all to install a regular Windows applicati
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by r3m6 14y ago
http://www.acstede-test.co.uk/blackhill/images/stories/Lleyn... Sheeps were detected as horses, faces but not as cats or cars. This seems to be the current state of the art for a general purpose classification. I haven't seen anything bet
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by r3m6 14y ago
Mark S. mentions it in the Engadget interview: "If I dock this, I can get the full Ubuntu desktop".
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by r3m6 14y ago
Xiaomi's phones run Android, so what sets them apart? Just the price?
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by r3m6 14y ago
Ignoring TechCrunch (and other high profile blogs) is bad advice. Right, the traffic you will get from them surprisingly low, but they are a fantastic source of instant social proof - After all, you must be good, otherwise they would not
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by r3m6 14y ago
Skype is peer to peer. That this THE clever invention that put them ahead of all competing services when they launched. They can scale without any significant additional bandwidth or server costs.
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by r3m6 14y ago
First, I wonder if you would quote the same sources if Amazon, Google,Starbucks would move the money from the USA to Europe and not the other way around. Second, everyone knows that this "sorry, we have to pay royalties" thing is most likel
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by r3m6 14y ago
"Think Big" certainly applies to Kim Dotcom ;)
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by r3m6 14y ago
Every HN reader knows that. But "normal" web users do not know it (anymore?). Every so often I see some anecdotal evidence of that when I watch people doing searches.
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by r3m6 14y ago
Yep. Google is still a one trick pony when it comes to revenue: Advertising revenue in 2011 was 97 percent of Google's revenue!
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German Telekom starts iPhone5 pre-sales(focus.de)
2 points by r3m6 14y ago|0 comments
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by r3m6 14y ago
Everybody is taking about Stripe. But how is Stripe different from existing/established services like Digital River or Plimus?

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