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by stevoski 14y ago
"If their seeds blow from a customer's farm to a non customer's farm and the non customer doesn't actively try to remove the Monsanto seeds, they sue" Got a source for that claim? There's an article on huffington post which conflicts with t
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by stevoski 14y ago
This article makes some rather terrible claims. I've never heard of readersupportednews.org before. Are there similar articles in well-known, respectable publications? (Note: I'm not claiming the site is disreputable, I've just never heard
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by stevoski 14y ago
I see. Yet another good reason to outsource payment processing, and concentrate instead on what you do well. I use FastSpring because they are good at the headaches of making it easy for people to pay whenever, however, in whatever currency
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by stevoski 14y ago
I don't understand what you are saying - the banks don't control how I charge my customers. I've charged in numerous currencies, either directly or via payment processors. Can you elaborate?
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by stevoski 14y ago
IMO Great. Here are some reasons why: 1) It is remarkably easy to start a business in Australia. Three steps, IIRC, and can be done in a day. 2) There are significant tax breaks for people selling a company they started 3) The language is E
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by stevoski 14y ago
For everyone wanting to comment, "but Mac OS X is like this or that"...do note that this article is specifically about iOS, not about OS X.
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by stevoski 14y ago
Agreed. I visited Chernobyl two years ago, and in all of Europe I've never seen a place so verdant, and teeming with wildlife. The canal especially had many large fish.
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by stevoski 14y ago
Spending more than you earn can sometimes be quite healthy, for an individual, for a company, and for an economy. It's called investment. An example: when you buy take a mortgage to buy a house several times your annual income, you've spent
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by stevoski 14y ago
Not just wrong but completely absurd, not even close to having a factual basis.
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by stevoski 14y ago
Probably okay for your tutorial...but country areas change from time to time due to territorial disputes being resolved, or due to older erroneous info being changed. Cities can also change country. Pristina used to be in Serbia but is now
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by stevoski 15y ago
Actually it should be an obsession not from the customer but from the company. People like quick, helpful responses when they are stuck due to a bug or confusing feature or a payment issue. Companies that obsess over support benefit from it
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by stevoski 15y ago
There are a few unresolved issues with the OS X look and feel in OpenJDK. I've been actively seeking them out and reporting them, as my product is written in Java and is a Mac-only product, so I affected by any issues. IMO Apple and Oracle
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by stevoski 15y ago
Oracle has indeed taken on Mac OS X specific changes. There are a few cosmetic issues still not resolved as of this update. But they are known, and in their bug tracker. Oracle and Apple have actually worked together closely and openly on t
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by stevoski 15y ago
The URL is unresponsive. I believe this is what it says: "Two Plus Two Forum Outage On April 26th at approximately 11:20 AM pacific time, the Two Plus Two Forums were closed as a result of a hacker who has displayed the ability to access e-
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by stevoski 15y ago
Ryan, how do you handle customer support requirements on the days where everyone is out of the office? Customers who are working on Fridays like to have access to timely support. This is what's preventing me from going 4 days a week.
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by stevoski 15y ago
disrupt: verb * drastically alter or destroy the structure of (something) I think this word is being overused. 250 customers for a new accounting product is not disrupting.
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by stevoski 15y ago
This has been a trend for years now. IMO, when Macs switched to Intel that was when the trend really picked up.
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by stevoski 15y ago
The theory that a people's language affects their cultural values? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity My country was the first in the world to introduce universal suffrage, in 1893. We speak English with its gender-specifi
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by stevoski 15y ago
When I sold my Australian consulting company, I received two 25% tax discounts on the proceeds, both designed to encourage small business. Those tax discounts were a surprise to me and didn't encourage me to start the business, nor to sell.
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by stevoski 15y ago
Actually, I do know about Mauritania. I've been there. I've seen the cities and the desert. I've travelled thousands of kilometres in the desert, slept in the desert. It is an open secret that slavery exists there on a wide scale.
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by stevoski 15y ago
"Dima is Russian. Some Russians are crooks. Therefore Dima is a crook." This bad logic is what you are applying here.
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by stevoski 15y ago
illegal where? Perhaps in some juridictions - which one are you referring to?
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by stevoski 15y ago
A friend of mine works in BBC sales. He tells me that selling rights for their TV shows to channels in various countries is highly lucrative for the BBC. He also tells me that he understands this model won't last much longer. But until then
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Ask HN: Recommended Mac software for creating a user guide?
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by stevoski 15y ago
I run my own company. I lived in Germany for 8 years. Now I live in Spain. In both countries I encounter many free-lancers and young entrepreneurs in numerous industries. In both countries, with the right professional advice, I've had littl
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by stevoski 15y ago
I started Poker Copilot mostly while doing full-time consulting. I was able to scale down my consulting work gradually as Poker Copilot sales increased, until after 15 months it became my main income source.
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by stevoski 15y ago
I agree totally...just pointing out that the site is useless to us living outside of the USA. Hard to get excited about something that is, from a European resident's perspective, useless.
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by stevoski 15y ago
I try to get a flight from Frankfurt - the 9th busiest airport in the world. - and I get "Unavailable". Post this again when I can actually use it.
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by stevoski 15y ago
There are various alternative accounts of ArsDigita's history on the web from people who worked there. Here's one: http://michael.yoon.org/arsdigita In a nutshell, Yoon claims that Philip Greenspun played a significant part in his own com
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by stevoski 15y ago
The steps should be: 1. Find a helpful, competent accountant who deals with small businesses (because that's what you'll have at first - a small business) 2. Tell the accountant the nature of your business 3. Follow the accountant's advice.

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