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by hect0r 12y ago
What ever happened to those?
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by hect0r 12y ago
And who here was on Altos?
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by hect0r 12y ago
Cloudant and MongoHQ are both pretty good and cost-effective. It would come down to DB preferences -- CouchDB v MongoDB.
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by hect0r 12y ago
I would put my money on Cisco. They have been trying to reinvent themselves as a cloud company and clearly their financials show declining margins on hardware as the market shifts to cloud. Their intercloud announcement is interesting but
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by hect0r 12y ago
Yes. This is also quite common with Arabic and there are a number of online Arabic courses that use Skype (for example) as the means of communication.
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Australia's CSIRO promises to accelerate dragon research(csironewsblog.com)
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by hect0r 13y ago
Freedom of press and freedom of speech are complete red herrings here. DO is a private company and they are free to agree to whatever they want in their contracts. They don't owe anyone any obligation other than to adhere to the agree
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by hect0r 13y ago
All DO are asking the blog author to do is to just honour the Terms of Service that he himself agreed to. I don't see any controversy here; it is all very simple. Maybe, the blog author is attention-seeking and trying to manufacture o
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by hect0r 13y ago
It is probably true if you consider SoftLayer and the number of websites they host. I think sites hosted by AT&T are also based on IBM Cloud.
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by hect0r 13y ago
Interesting. Who published it prior to Aleph One?
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by hect0r 13y ago
It would be interesting to see what would happen if Microsoft/Apple moved beyond Google to target IBM.
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by hect0r 14y ago
The orthodox belief you state that Jesus is the same as God is basically equivalent to the Hindu belief that their various gods are just different facets or aspects of God (with a capital G). If Christianity is monotheistic then, by this d
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by hect0r 14y ago
Right, however the Pauline creed places Jesus as divine alongside God. This is polytheistic as it has assigned divinity to something/someone other than God alone. And predates the period you describe. Of course, Christianity has become m
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by hect0r 14y ago
Many Christian societies are also polytheistic. The trinity is nothing if not an expression of polytheism.
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by hect0r 14y ago
Neither pornography or booze are prerequisites for startup success. If someone has a predliction for either that they cannot surpress then I suppose this UAE the place for them.
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by hect0r 14y ago
UAE. Free market economy, law and order, easy air travel to anywhere in world via Emirates/Etihad/Qantas, majority of world's people live within +/- four hours of timezone, access to both low cost resources but also some highly skilled reso
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by hect0r 14y ago
In general practice, you will find that doctors become less accurate as they get older; whereas in surgery, older doctors generally perform better with less complications. The reason is that the feedback loop in surgery is instant -- you d
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by hect0r 14y ago
Exactly. And let's not forget that Microsoft -- as a corporation -- as no responsibilities other than to make money for its shareholders and, as CEO, Bill Gates had likewise no responsibility beyond making money for his employers (i.e. shar
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by hect0r 14y ago
On your first point about access to education being based on wealth: education and knowledge are products just like any other and cost money to produce. Hence, it is perfectly moral to charge for access and indeed it is necessary to ensure
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by hect0r 14y ago
Yes but did it occur to him that maybe the only reason such journals exist is because they are commercial enterprises?
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by hect0r 14y ago
It is also a fallacy that they are giving it away. They must be deriving some non-monetary value from doing it else they would not do it since they are free to decide not to publish or select a particular outlet. The fact is that authors
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by hect0r 14y ago
I don't think there is a moral argument for "freeing" existing content since all parties to the "paid journal" business model, including the paper authors, seem to have entered into these arrangements with coercion. The authors of papers ar
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by hect0r 14y ago
Even if that is true, it doesn't change the fact that when the person's own family and friends are not discussing this matter, it doesn't behoove a stranger (more or less) blogging about it. It just strikes me as being in bad taste.
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by hect0r 14y ago
By his own admission, he had only had "dozens" of emails with Jody over a few years and wasn't a close friend. Given Jody's family and close friends haven't spoken on this topic, I still consider the internet pontification of someone with
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by hect0r 14y ago
This seems to me to simply be a gratuitous speculation on Jody's death with no other purpose than to try and generate traffic by appearing to be some sort of brave, dissenting voice. It is completely unnecessary and in bad taste to pontifi
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by hect0r 14y ago
I agree. It would be better of this content was anonymised so that it cannot be associated with the participants since the names of the people involved are, for the most part, irrelevant to lawyers who need to read this content. As for the
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by hect0r 14y ago
A marriage is a private contract between consenting parties just like any other. The state should not get involved.
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by hect0r 14y ago
The fundamental question is who decides what is a public record and what is not? Why are your medical records private but your ex-wife's court-room accusations that you were sexually promiscuous, impotent, or secretly homosexual to be cons
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by hect0r 14y ago
So what about when Joe's colleagues circulate his divorce case details around for a laugh or, worse, to character smear the guy to damage a promotion or gain political points in the workplace?
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by hect0r 14y ago
Why do people believe that this data is a "public good"? In the case of disputes between individuals, such as divorce, I do not accept that this information belongs to the general public and must be "emancipated". On the contrary, I belie

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