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by the_gws 15y ago
It would be great as a starting point to be able to charge in currency other than USD, I suppose that should be easier to set-up than accepting non-US based merchants. There are a lot of non-US people like me that have a SSN and US bank acc
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Ask HN: if you google 'bottle' what is your first search result?
1 points by the_gws 15y ago|6 comments
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by the_gws 15y ago
All the examples of "bad" things that can happen reported here can already happen today because credit card companies already log all your transactions. The key point Jacques makes in his article is the the novelty will be in associating pu
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by the_gws 15y ago
We did an interesting experiment on conflicts of interest in Italy with our prime minister and it didn't go very well. Better avoid them.
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Hackers don't need powerful tools [video](youtube.com)
2 points by the_gws 15y ago|0 comments
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by the_gws 15y ago
Half cheek in tongue answer: The difference is that in the US people believe that they will be making more and more every year while in Sweden you don't. So they think they will own tomorrow the money to pay back what they spend today. Are
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Roger McNamee says social is over(businessinsider.com)
13 points by the_gws 15y ago|1 comments
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Geohot now works for Facebook (zdnet.com)
1 points by the_gws 15y ago|0 comments
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Write your first MapReduce program in 20 minutes(michaelnielsen.org)
96 points by the_gws 15y ago|12 comments
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FTC Prepares Google's Antitrust Investigation(techcrunch.com)
1 points by the_gws 15y ago|0 comments
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Here's Why Women Will Drive The Future Of The Internet(businessinsider.com)
3 points by the_gws 15y ago|0 comments
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by the_gws 15y ago
I would bet that most of that ie6 and ie7 share is business computers. It's the IT department that decides when to upgrade those browsers and not the users. In home computers ie might not be the dominant browser anymore!
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by the_gws 15y ago
I am Italian and I dislike Berlusconi. That said it must be recognized that all of Italy's issues were already there before him. We can't really say that Italy has worsened with him but we can surely say that it hasn't got any better. There
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by the_gws 16y ago
This reminds me of wordings from Osho (I will paraphrase from memory here): when we go to see a movie we immedesimate in the story and we laugh, cry, feel happy or sad based on what we see. Then the screen go dark and we remember who we are
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Ask HN: learning web programming vs. tablet programming
37 points by the_gws 16y ago|25 comments