straight_talk_2

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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Yeap, that's 12 miles from each side.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
So why didn't humankind go to the stars from the very beginning? Wasn't that it's purpose?
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
F# type providers already do that, also static types from CSV files, REST services and many others.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Recommend Quora? Remind me to ignore your recommendations in the future. As for Apple contributions, you should probably check out the lawsuits vs Samsung.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Travel to US? Oh man, you don't value your freedom and privacy enough.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Not true, contract component manufacturing made only 7% of Samsung profits last year. The value of the Samsung branded smartphones they ship out is by far their most important financial metric.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Samsung makes the best smartphones in the world ;-) Also http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/pcs/NP940X3G-K01US
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
MS and Intel have the same partnership as airlines and hotels. Each wants their partner to make as little profit as possible, as that leaves more client money for grabbing. Intel has been among the top 5 Linux kernel contributors for many y
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Many interesting arguments here. I work at a software consulting firm, that charges $300+ per dev per hour. Excellent salaries, benefits, gaming consoles, free drinks and meals at the office, etc. Still the majority of the developers we&#x2
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Interesting - there are hundreds of millions of iOS devices out there and their average user spends more money on apps than the Android counterpart. Are we already at the point where Apple is irrelevant to the app vendors?
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Hard to understand what you mean. It's not like the current resource managers are trying to maximize happiness, but just lack efficiency. Just the opposite - the majority of ambitions, rich, powerful people in the world are putting tre
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Most people won't be able to legally run XP VMs once the XP activation servers go down.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
>> misleading title Not really - the article claims it costs $4 per device to move manufacturing to US, so that is the cost of a "Made in USA" label.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
It's still happening, in places like Alaska.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
I haven't read the linked article, but this doesn't sound right. Assembly is mostly a manual process, workers salary must be the biggest cost. Salaries in US are way more that 50% higher than in China.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
No, it's not required. Try the link in a private mode tab or different browser. This is one of those evil tricks, if Microsoft or Google know somehow you have an account they'll try to force a sign in ever after.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
You are completely wrong. Easier is better, most of the time. In a 21st century developed economy it's vastly more efficient to spend your time thinking how to improve your income than how to optimize small expenses. Same principle as
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Good politicians are experts at manipulating people to like them.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Very interesting. I remember back in the late 60s and 70s when credit card adoption raised in the US, charge back was a key selling feature. Customers refused to use cards that didn't offer it. Makes me wonder how the world is going to
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Just fax them to a random number, NSA will get them :D
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
It's very cold in Sweden. May not sound important, but people with genes from warmer countries get all kind of medical problems from the cold weather - joints are especially vulnerable. Also Sweden is the poor neighbor of Norway and De
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Right, because here we love the president.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Voting for a very small set of preselected candidates, endorsed by either wing of the elite party and mass media has zero chance of changing anything.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
This is an excellent example of newspeak - looks and sounds like speech, but completely lacks meaning.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
>> "Threat" is a bit of an exaggeration. Not at all.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Are you really that naive as to expect change under the next democrat|republican administrations?
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Obama is nothing, but a puppet. His masters surely have blackmail material to absolutely ruin him - say a recording of sex with an underage.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Maybe it can still turn, but definitely not quickly. It will take a huge amount of effort and blood to take the power away from the sociopath banksters and their puppet politicians, military and media. IMHO it is very unlikely as very few p
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
You missed the biggest businesses in this "war" - the private prison companies.
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by straight_talk_2 13y ago
Green and naive.

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