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And completely ignored by serious programmers/engineers. You want a rockstar, sure let's sign that million dollar contract and we'll be on our way. You want a ninja, sure I will assassinate anyone, that will be again be a mil
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It was not built by college kids. A prototype was built by college kids which was then commercialized by billionaires. The college kids got the credit, and some dough, and the billionaires got 70%+ of the profit. The stuff was built by a te
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It puts the fear of the markets and investors in the mind of the CEO and makes him or her work like a dog. As it should. There is definitely something to that. Don't meet analyst expectations and get burned. Yes that keeps you performi
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I begrudgingly watch these games, and I hate all the ooohhhs and aahhhs at stupid Microsoft integrations with Linux. But this too shall pass. If Microsoft was to put out a free version of Windows say Windows Developer Edition, I would happi
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I have 1 billion dollars. I spend maybe 20 million in 10 startups, I diversify the risk. How much risk have I taken?
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Why would anyone sympathize with capital over labor? At the end of the day why anyone does is efficiency. Other than that capital is simply a means to coerce labor to do work. Why would anyone side with coercion rather than the people? Peop
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Brawndo has electrolytes!
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"of only" there fixed it for you.
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Real damage hacks like corporate espionage you don't hear about, because it is in no one's interest involved to reveal those to anyone other than the buyer of the information, which usually a premium if it's kept discrete. No
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More power to her.
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CloudFront is cheap to start using, it does not stay cheap much like most of Amazon's offerings.
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Not sure how you would get double taxed this way. You only end up paying Federal tax if you are not in the country. Not State tax as you don't belong to any State.
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It would not, the US has tax treaties with countries like Canada so you don't get double-taxed. The only case in which you get double taxed is if the US has no treaty with the country. The US is one of the few countries which does this
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I look forward to this being possible. To have even some of your youth restored at an old age is huge.
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Grew up in the US. American schools, especially in the South, are very much a rendition of a prison, along with a fence and only one exit to the outside through the front door which is guarded. Compare that to Canada, where I also went to s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
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Not what I meant, I meant as in when it becomes a subsidiary of another company or something as such. Not bought or sold on the stock market.
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It's fine for corporations to own patents, they should be however nontransferable so only that corporation can ever bring a lawsuit to enforce it. And if the corporations is bought or sold or dissolved or rearranged, it loses the paten
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No one cares. People with capital looking to make profit see employees as interchangeable machines and as a cost center. They don't want to pay for training, i.e. 2 years experience for a junior position. They don't even want to
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Hololens will eventually be a contact lens. Progress is progress.
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> author is making bad career choices and people in her family are prone to making bad choices. It's the standard mantra however it's not true. The reason it's not true is that there is a labor market. The labor market can
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Which is the wrong message, but that's what happens in constant class warfare society. They screw us we screw them, and on and on it goes.
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Agreed, I think this can be generalized to say that this should be the case with all these cloud services. The hardware should be open source, so you can at least control that part. At least you have that much control over the cloud APIs.
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> There are individuals who truly suffer from deep psychosis and other troubling issues. Let's not be so callous with our broad brush strokes. As Foucault pointed out (and even Sapolsky) these people used to have a job, we called t
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For instance: http://www.newsecuritylearning.com/index.php/archive/75-chin... "The key market strategy of the Chinese companies seems to be their competitive pricing, tailor-made for cash-stricken African cou
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Nothing as it is today. If you could hunt or gather you had a place. And you were related to everyone in your tribe by blood. So it is a similar relationship to the one that you have with your family or extended family. So yes to an extent
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Mostly because most Telco companies are monopolies that are not run by 3rd world people, and even if they are they still feel the right to milk it for every dollar; eg. Carlos Slim. I think though if China was to get into the game, they mig
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To be functional in an inherently dysfunctional system that is the nature of hierarchical society. It is made for certain personalities to thrive at the cost of others who may or may not be economically as important, but then why should per
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And yet this giving up is the quintessential behavior of humans which makes mass society possible. If we did not cede power and allow ourselves to be made into essentially slaves to serve each other's desires, society and the economy w
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Not to mention millions of years of evolution.

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