makhanko

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by makhanko 12y ago
I own two Volvos and I can tell you that with the new insanely complicated engines no mechanic will touch the car. You will be stuck servicing it at Volvo dealership at lawyers hourly rates. And this will be aggravated by the fact that with
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by makhanko 12y ago
Indeed it was a very ... unbalanced piece from someone who has only visited Russia once in two decades (by his own admission). Basically a self-proclaimed "serial entrepreneur" who has little understanding or insight on the subjec
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by makhanko 13y ago
In personal income tax situation it would be an equivalent of paying a fee (bribe) to some 80 year old guy to sign him on as a dependent to claim a deduction your our income tax.
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by makhanko 13y ago
Here is a good explanation why corporations are taxable: Corporations are participants of the economy and their profits depend on tax-financed public goods: healthy and educated workforces; good infrastructure; publicly enforced respect for
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by makhanko 13y ago
I wonder if using outlet would be considered a fair use of the facilities. The car owner's son was playing tennis at the school which means he was given a permission to use the facility. If this is the case then using the parking lot,
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by makhanko 13y ago
Absolutely agree that if there were no prior encounters with man who charged his car, then the cop acted in bad faith wasting tens of thousands of dollars of public money in judicial costs for a "crime" than could have been preven
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by makhanko 13y ago
On the other hand. Apple users can already determine the location of their phone and remotely lock or wipe out the iPhone using Apple's iCloud website. Thus apple has technical ability to do just the same - just a matter of sending few
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by makhanko 13y ago
Great summary!
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by makhanko 13y ago
Kudos to this comment for pointing out the addiction angle. There are definitely much more dangerous products being sold than even traditional cigarette, but hardly there is a legally marketed product more addictive than nicotine. The sale
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by makhanko 13y ago
Why hasn't anybody figured out to put a reasonable time limit on each device Mac address? 1 hour since you first log in should be enough to satisfy 90% of customers and discourage the 10% hogging seats. Its like saying - you are limite
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by makhanko 13y ago
This is why Google and technology in general should stay away from foreign policy where the end always justifies the means, no matter what the rhetoric is.
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by makhanko 14y ago
Unfortunately building trust using this method is becoming increasingly difficult. The more sellers use it (up to the point that books are written about it) the more it's being washed out and abused, the more aware consumers become of the m
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by makhanko 14y ago
Can't agree more. Pleading guilty for 6 month for Aaron would have meant publicly admitting that he was nothing but a common thief without a day in court. Despite what Dolan says in his twitter, the threat of 35 years must have been pretty
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by makhanko 14y ago
Article on Boston.com with the screenshot of Dolan tweeter posts http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/277353-l...
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by makhanko 14y ago
Being Russian myself I always thought that nobody took anything that RT publishes seriously. I guess I was wrong.
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by makhanko 14y ago
As Uber's similar difficulties in New York show, the governments both North and South of the 49th parallel consider city transportation to be their exclusive domain and are not shy to regulate it instead of looking out for consumers. In Van
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by makhanko 14y ago
At least Russians did not plant the microbes for Vladimir Putin to find using a giant microscope in front of television cameras. :)
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by makhanko 14y ago
This article is an excellent example of the knee-jerk reaction from the stock market and the attitude that if it's not profitable this quarter it's not worth doing.
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by makhanko 14y ago
That's why the big G will always be the king of search. :)
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by makhanko 14y ago
Dead on point about scheduled one-on-one turning into a useless formality.
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by makhanko 14y ago
Other than the idea of framing the one-on-one meeting to be 90% controlled by the employee the post is thin on suggestions. "How do you get help when you love your job, but your personal life is melting down?" - Really?
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by makhanko 14y ago
Regardless of the fact that this was written by a former US president, what’s truly amazing is that somebody could take a subject old as the world – love and marriage and write such a simple, genuine, straight to the point message, without
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by makhanko 14y ago
There has been so much said already about patents and lawyers killing innovation, but if this is not a perfect case in point then I don't know what is.
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by makhanko 14y ago
China Daily has lighyears of learning to do to produce better PR (propaganda) pieces, at least in English. They will never catch up with US. But they should consider doing what Russians did - hiring bunch of Englishmen to do the spin, like
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by makhanko 15y ago
May be we are barking at the wrong tree, carriers and device manufacturers that is. Case in point - Google's own Nexus S phone which has not yet received official ICS update! Either google intentionally holding it back hoping to sell more G
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by makhanko 15y ago
And this is exactly the reason why paid Android upgrades is a terrible idea - Apple has set a gold standard for updating OS and paying for Android updates will make the situation even worse for Android users.
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by makhanko 15y ago
Great article. Being an Economics major in my previous life I always suspected that Supply-side economics was kind of bullshit. This just nails it - "When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for
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by makhanko 15y ago
If this were an active military facility there would have been a portrait of Vladimir Putin hanging in every room. But obviously this factory has long been abandoned.
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by makhanko 15y ago
Google Nexus phones have horribly inefficient release cycle. It happened with Nexus One, Nexus S and is happening with Galaxy Nexus: - Announce a flagship device superior to iPhone late in the late fall, make it big, get everyone excited -
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by makhanko 15y ago
How many schools are in this city? Or anyone over 10 years old automatically gets a job at the factory? Nice!

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