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by rabble 12y ago
I think what he did was take the official exchange rate. I live on that amount (or a bit more), but i've got two kids in private school, a house with a pool, house keeper, etc.. It's important to use the real exchange rate not the
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by rabble 13y ago
Just because it's never happened doesn't mean that it won't happen, just as the percentage's suggest it's very unlikely.
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by rabble 13y ago
Interesting, i know a lot of americans go to Berlin but German laws make being a freelancer quite tricky. Interesting to see it's easier in the Netherlands.
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by rabble 13y ago
It's missing the H1B1 visa which is very easy to get but isn't dual intent. It's only available for citizens of Singapore and Chile. It requires little paperwork and takes about a week to get. If you're so lucky as havin
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by rabble 13y ago
We didn't have a choice last time.
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by rabble 13y ago
Not like the US, Uruguayans never say they're celebrating easter, they call it tourism week. People say 'christmas' but the government calls it 'family day'!!! Compared to the rest of latin america or the US, Urugua
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by rabble 13y ago
Let's see, Uruguay. I'm from California but i've spent a few years living in Uruguay and started and ran a tech business in Uruguay. The country is a special unique place, but it's far from perfect. Let's start with
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by rabble 13y ago
I think today foursquare does serve a lot of the dopplr niche. When i'm traveling and i check in to a new city, i find other folks who are in town. It's not so good for planning, but it works for discovering who's in town.
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by rabble 13y ago
How much do they cost? They're sold out now so they don't list the price. Does anybody know how much they run? Seems like a really good idea to me, there are lots of known USB hacks for phones and somebody smart could probably fin
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Chromecast-Control a open source python lib to control chromecast(github.com)
2 points by rabble 13y ago|0 comments
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by rabble 13y ago
That's pretty funny, Xobni's CEO is Jeff Bonforte who used to be a yahoo running IM and eventually part of the business where delicious was. Now he's been brought back in.
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by rabble 13y ago
Am i the only one who thinks making $30k as a graphic designer freelancing in California for 6 months is incredibly low? In fact less than making at $42k annually as a salaried employee once you count in health care and self employment taxe
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by rabble 13y ago
I started reading this and i kept thing, why the hell would GitHub be buying a food startup! I know they're doing well but this is really beyond developer tools.
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by rabble 13y ago
Yep, it's to expensive. We were invited to participate and decided it simply didn't provide the value. Especially starting focusing on tech conferences, which are Lanyrd's core, each company which could pay for pro could also just code up t
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by rabble 14y ago
There are countries where this is being done. Uruguay is tiny and highly urbanized, but it's got a goal of achieving this very thing. Every phone line in the country, there are only about 900,000, comes with free no cost broadband. You get
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by rabble 14y ago
I faced a choice like this as I went through M&A of my most recent company. We were doing well, growing like a weed, but also because it was a consulting services company it was very cyclical and dependent on a few large clients. There
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by rabble 14y ago
Looks like there are a few more pages, but most of it seems to overlap with what Aaron already posted.
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Aaron Swartz's FBI Files [pdf](scribd.com)
22 points by rabble 14y ago|3 comments
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Aaron Swartz's FBI File Released(news.firedoglake.com)
184 points by rabble 14y ago|52 comments
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by rabble 14y ago
I've got a xiaomi M1 which i picked up in China, it's only sold in mainland china and i've never had any problem telling AT&T that it's a dumb phone. No messages or anything. Maybe it's just an obscure enough phone. Miui is a pretty wel
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by rabble 14y ago
That's true, but Kara usually does a pretty good job of actual journalism and verifying sources.
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Aaron Swartz Pitching 1-800-INTERNET(mako.cc)
4 points by rabble 14y ago|0 comments
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Official Remembering Aaron Swartz Site(rememberaaronsw.com)
3 points by rabble 14y ago|0 comments
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by rabble 14y ago
He wants to be an exchange student in high school, but instead of doing it through a program like AFS or Rotary, he's arranging things himself and put up a website to find a family. With programs you don't get so much say as to where you go
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by rabble 14y ago
So sad to see matrix.itasoftware.com's amazing search engine get most of it's features ripped out and replaced with a pretty UI that does so little. For folks who like hipmonk? Do you really travel? Their search engine also fails to find mo
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by rabble 14y ago
Pretty fair, for every $ that Apple steals from Samsung in patent BS, Samsung raises their rates to charge Apple for chips.
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by rabble 14y ago
Back in the day, 2007 and 2008 there was live running federation between Twitter and Jaiku. I remember i was sitting in the room when Ralph and Blaine got it working, at 4am at a foo camp. Unfortunately Jaiku was bought by google and they s
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by rabble 14y ago
This is the same guy who designed DHH's Pagani HH a couple of years ago. http://filer.progstr.com/1/post/2012/05/dhhs-pagani-zonda-hh...
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by rabble 14y ago
He listed himself as an investor in PayPal on his angel list profile. https://angel.co/greg-kouri As somebody who has a complicated relationship with a well known startup's founding, it's tricky to explain sometimes. Important and early r
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by rabble 14y ago
Simon and Nat started Lanyrd (W11) on their honeymoon even! They were planning on traveling around the world, but got delayed and built the first version in a couple weeks from a rented apartment in morocco. I bet there are other YC compani

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