tiatia

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   by tiatia 12y ago

   Every Bozo downvoting this has obviously never lived in China
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   by tiatia 12y ago

   "- Try to access any popular web site in China like Youtube, facebook, etc. Good luck." Try to access the internet in China. Good luck! (But Baidu always works)
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   by tiatia 12y ago

   They should have hired Chuck Norris instead to shoot all the people that block the internet in China or make the internet slow. With slow I mean slowing gmail down by factor 40.
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   by tiatia 13y ago

   "We are all drastically more wealthy than our parents and grandparents." I doubt that is true based on inflation adjusted income. True, due to progress in science and technology, you have better medical care, faster computers, car
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   by tiatia 13y ago

   I doubt that you have read the paper.
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   by tiatia 13y ago

   Take this as a start: In vivo non-invasive monitoring of glucose concentration in human epidermis by mid-infrared pulsed photoacoustic spectroscopy M.Pleitez, T.Lieblein, A.Bauer, O.Hertzberg, H.v.Lilienfeld-Toal, W.Mäntele Analytical chemi
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   by tiatia 13y ago

   "Non-invasive glucose monitoring is a holy grail of biomedical engineering. " We could show you a working prototype in our lab anytime. Investors welcome. ;-)
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   by tiatia 13y ago

   "To echo some of the other comments, non-invasive glucose testing is a 'holy grail' of diabetes research efforts and would be hailed as a major breakthrough--something covered by major media outlets and aggresively pursued by
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   by tiatia 13y ago

   I prefer ixquick.com
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    Take this as a start: http://grugq.github.io/presentations/Keynote_The_Grugq_-_OPS...
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    "to serve debt you have to create more" This is actually a well known fact. "creating more debt is incompatible with a capitalistic system" Wrong. It is the basis of the capitalistic system. "because someone has to
12. 432.▲
    by tiatia 13y ago

    Actually, the line Debt is a law... Should be Interest is a law...
13. 433.▲
    by tiatia 13y ago

    Yeah. North Korea is pretty good in this to help people figure out what they want. The typical person is closer to Homer Simpson than to the intelligent, long term thinking and rational decision making individual.
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    "but debt is not the precursor to money' There are people that would disagree. Actually already 100 years ago: http://www.ces.org.za/docs/The%20Credit%20Theoriy%20of%20Mon... "and certainly debt is not a
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    yes. And this is why I was talking about "debt" and not "barter".
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    It is very easy. If you speak German I actually could send you an excellent PDF. Debt is a law like gravity. You can have it explained by Ludwig von Mises. It is a reward for risk and saving. Discounted cash flow is actually the opposite an
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    Question: What is money? And something existed before "money" was "created". It was and is called "debt".
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    Scarcity was a problem, is a problem and always will be a problem: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e... And sorry to break the news to you: A capitalistic system can not be run with
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened? http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimyst... BTW, I wonder how much AI is based on "facts". I someone tells me, h
20. 440.▲
    by tiatia 13y ago

    If I may ask something offtopic: I try to host my own email in Iceland. I go everything working so far. My server is not powerful enough for spamassassin but I can live without it. One last problem: I don't get SSL to work. Does https
21. 441.▲
    by tiatia 13y ago

    Since I live in Beijing. Yes.
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    Wow. I and my friend have build a similar project (similar technology, not topic). I will announce it here in NH, I am just afraid the tiny server won't be able to handle the traffic. It just took him two days to build it. But I realiz
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    I agree that Ukraine is a divided country. This being said: Just recently a newspaper in Beijing had a comic showing the Ukraine as a car. Uncle Sam was shown trying to stir the stirring wheel. This gives you an idea. Trust me, the US has a
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    There are two forces clashing. US supported groups (That basically want Ukraine to be part of the EU) and Pro Russian groups (supported by good ol' Putin). Let's hope it all ends well. This is the Bozo who thought it all up: http
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    This is not news. I experienced the same thing at Agilent in San Jose.
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    I tried GGG but I prefer ixquick.com or startpage.com
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    I remember when I learned to walk (man, the chairs were as tall as me). I know the exact place were it happened. Actually, I could not walk but "run" a few steps before somebody had to grab me and prevent me from falling. I also m
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    Best router? http://www.fritzbox.eu/en/products/FRITZBox_Fon_WLAN_7390/in... specs [PDF] http://www.fritzbox.eu/Datenblaetter/AVM_FRITZBox_7390_en.pd... with this OS http://fr
29. 449.▲
    by tiatia 13y ago

    Well, something like a "technical singularity"?
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    by tiatia 13y ago

    Great. If you know a little tiny bit about finance then you know that stock prices are not a random walk (with drift or without). A random walk would give you a standard distribution. In reality you are dealing with a fat tail distribution.