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Yeap, that's 12 miles from each side.

So why didn't humankind go to the stars from the very beginning? Wasn't that it's purpose?

F# type providers already do that, also static types from CSV files, REST services and many others.

Recommend Quora? Remind me to ignore your recommendations in the future. As for Apple contributions, you should probably check out the lawsuits vs Samsung.

Travel to US? Oh man, you don't value your freedom and privacy enough.

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 fina…

Samsung makes the best smartphones in the world ;-) Also http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/pcs/NP940X3G-K01US

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 h…

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 …

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 whe…

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 ambiti…

Most people won't be able to legally run XP VMs once the XP activation servers go down.

>> 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.

It's still happening, in places like Alaska.

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% …

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 tr…

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 …

Good politicians are experts at manipulating people to like them.

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 did…

Just fax them to a random number, NSA will get them :D

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 vulner…

Right, because here we love the president.

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.

This is an excellent example of newspeak - looks and sounds like speech, but completely lacks meaning.

>> "Threat" is a bit of an exaggeration. Not at all.