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by valas 12y ago
You don't do yourself much favor in this discussion when you post links to returnofkings.com or avoiceformen.com :-)
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by valas 12y ago
Sorry, you sound like Rush Limbaugh. Stop clinging to silly conspiracy theories of journalists sitting down together and deciding future of the gaming industry. Journalists don't care about future of gaming industry, as long as it brin
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by valas 12y ago
Good points, but they don't help much if you're active victim of trolling. E.g. try to sleep at night if they doxxed your children :-( Technology affects culture (and vice-a-versa). Trolling is/was rampant in blogosphere and
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by valas 12y ago
Yes, I really believe Facebook is not assembling "shadow profiles" as described by the article. I also believe there is nothing Facebook can do to convince you to believe that as well. Or is it?
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by valas 12y ago
Isn't it obvious? SIS cannot force Google to convert some employees to full-time (nor it makes business sense for them).
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by valas 12y ago
And if it takes you 100M to design the soy-bean-printing-machine, you will get the necessary investment exactly how? I don't like MPAA either, I think they go over the top. But you are no better than MPAA by failing to take a more nuan
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by valas 12y ago
In some terrain, rear suspension is advantageous both in climbing and descending. When descending, it keeps wheel planted on the ground for better control and braking. When climbing rough terrain, it similarly can keep the back wheel plante
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by valas 12y ago
Why you don't care about the price? In the end, money is just means to an end, e.g. to improve your life comfort. If one day someone transferred you X amount of potential comfort and then the next day you see you very suddenly have 0.8
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by valas 12y ago
Sounds like scaremongering to me. Chinese powers/oligarchs act here quire rationally. Protecting and promoting their own industries has paid them well so far (e.g. movies, car manufacturing, e-commerce/web). Will that hurt 'i
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by valas 12y ago
FWIW, in some EU countries holocaust denial is a crime.
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by valas 12y ago
Feds are obsessed with keeping inflation at a certain level, not at zero. I think the target is 3%, while current inflation is around ~2%.
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by valas 12y ago
Your argument is invalid, because Verizon holds monopoly in many areas for high-speed broadband. I would entertain your argument only if there was consumer choice. In such case we could perhaps experiment with different business models wher
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by valas 12y ago
Why is it relevant if AI "understands"? The post above doesn't claim it would understand, it just claims that for all the practical purposes it would pass Turing AI test.
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by valas 12y ago
Except that there are a lot of alternatives to Amazon with low switching cost to consumers.
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by valas 12y ago
I know a lot of folks who get car sick sitting backwards in busses.
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by valas 12y ago
Perhaps at current AWS prices your self-hosting is 3x cheaper. But thinking about fundamentals, a few years out, why do you think self-hosting will still be cheaper? What is it in self-hosting that economies of scale of AWS/GCE can&#x2
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by valas 12y ago
In AdWords, which is 90%+ of Google's revenue, advertising prices that advertisers pay are set by advertisers, not by Google.
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by valas 13y ago
> "People must have the right to review the terms of contract, decide to sign or not" You are describing a universe which only exist in an imaginary island where all the Galts are living. "Freedom of Contract" works w
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by valas 13y ago
Why do you think "forces of supply and demand will keep the value stable"? Bitcoin is much more susceptible to huge valuation fluctuations than fiat currency, where central bank can step in to shift demand/supply.
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by valas 13y ago
What's the benefit of using IPv6 as transport (as opposed to using IPv4 as transport)?
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by valas 13y ago
Do you run virtualization in your DC? If you do, is IPv6 only inside VM context or you also use it as a transport (i.e. switches see IPv6 packets)?
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by valas 13y ago
"Net-neutrality" means different thing to different people. If by net-neutrality you mean the system where a paying broadband customer can consume any content, irrespective of that content owner ability to pony up to cash to broad
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by valas 13y ago
Comcast Profit Jumps 28.6% on Growth of Broadband: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/business/media/comcast-pro...
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by valas 13y ago
Why do you think it would drive down Netflix costs? In old world there were a dozen of "tier1" providers who would all peer with each other more or less settlement free. It is conceivable that one of these providers (I think it wa
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by valas 13y ago
Citation? There is no use for Google to participate in long-haul wholesale. There is a lot of supply there. The real issue is last mile, where consumers have no choice.
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by valas 13y ago
Comcast is relying on last mile monopoly. Samsung/Apple have alternatives.
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by valas 13y ago
What does it mean "confounded signal/noise ratio"?
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by valas 13y ago
Everyone is dissing Google here. Perhaps understandably so since most folks in HN are advanced users and an advanced search feature was removed. Google is driven by data and sorry but advanced users are a mere blip in that data. I can bet t
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by valas 13y ago
Marissa was a programmer.
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by valas 13y ago
They do to an extent they can. They fight for more transparency ( http://gigaom.com/2013/08/22/google-and-microsofts-plea-on-n... ) and fund organizations such as EFF. You have to understand how US law works. I

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