On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Ingrid Srinath
ingrid.srin...@gmail.comwrote:
On 22 Mar 2013, at 17:46, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Ingrid SrinathThanks, Pranesh.
Tax exemption aside, the expectation that an organisation can be viable
Till it starts to get exchanged for hard currency bitcoin is merely a token of
barter - you barter X bitcoins for say legal services. Or a dime (or is it 10
bitcoin) bag of weed. Or whatever.
Once it starts getting exchanged for hard currency - the point where this
exchange takes place WILL
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On 04/02/2013 01:55 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Till it starts to get exchanged for hard currency bitcoin is merely a
token of barter - you barter X bitcoins for say legal services. Or a
dime (or is it 10 bitcoin) bag of weed. Or whatever.
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:25:01PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Till it starts to get exchanged for hard currency bitcoin is merely a token
of barter - you barter X bitcoins for say legal services. Or a dime (or is it
10 bitcoin) bag of weed. Or whatever.
BTC exchanges have been
On 02-Apr-2013, at 18:35, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote:
Hard currency is merely a token of barter, just one that's gained
widespread trust. That's a quantitative matter rather than a qualitative
matter!
Except that it has a sovereign guarantee backing it.
Which may not
Hmm not sure what to say except some random thoughts: like Nathan is a
great writer (he managed to captured a lot in a short piece) and it is
weird to have been catapulted in the limelight due to Anonymous, something
I need to write about in my new book.
I do find the explosion of hacker/geek
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:49:09PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Except that it has a sovereign guarantee backing it.
Busily destroying it, you mean.
Which may not matter as much if the country backing it is, say, Zimbabwe.
But you get the picture.
No, I actually don't. All
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
Which may not matter as much if the country backing it is, say, Zimbabwe.
But you get the picture.
No, I actually don't. All sovereigns default, in the long run.
We're all dead in the long run, but that doesn't mean we
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 08:00:49PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
We're all dead in the long run, but that doesn't mean we can't use the
Sovereign defaults are unfortunately a lot more frequent.
Since collapse of currencies is always associated with
considerable hardship to participants in the
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/01/novartis-denied-cancer-drug-patent-india
Novartis denied cancer drug patent in landmark Indian case
Supreme court ruling paves way for generic companies to make cheap copies of
Glivec in the developing world
Sarah Boseley, health editor
The
There's a long (paid column inches I am sure) rant in almost all Indian
newspapers today by the chief of Novartis lamenting the death of
innovation. I couldn't be bothered to read it.
The front page headlines that weren't paid for ran with the conventional
wisdom that the ruling was good for the
The case is about evergreening and in a way, about proving that an
innovation is useful enough for patent protection or extension. This I
think is fair and Novartis got what they deserved. Their posturing is
pointless, because India also does compulsory licensing, meaning if
Novartis says we won't
- *OTOH, the reductionist overhead:revenue ratio as a metric of
'deservingness' . to play the
ratio game, as it is of the need for a one-size-fits-all comparator*
Sorry...but that acronym, those wordsI'm afraid this is a good example
of the kind of prose that will switch my
Ingrid,
What parts of the DTC are the worst for the NGO sector? Would like to
hear also of some alternatives, or at least to address whatever has
caused the IT department to believe that a change from current rules
was necessary?
OTOH, the reductionist overhead:revenue ratio as a metric of
On 2 Apr 2013, at 23:33, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote:
Ingrid,
What parts of the DTC are the worst for the NGO sector? Would like to
hear also of some alternatives, or at least to address whatever has
caused the IT department to believe that a change from current rules
was
On 2 Apr 2013, at 23:20, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
- *OTOH, the reductionist overhead:revenue ratio as a metric of
'deservingness' . to play the
ratio game, as it is of the need for a one-size-fits-all comparator*
Sorry...but that acronym, those wordsI'm afraid
Hello,
My first post here. I was told introducing oneself is a good sign, was
too afraid to ask questions. Here goes, you will have to find some
matching rap melody (rap melody? if there is something that fits):
Yo, my name is Tomasz Rola
I'm a programmer from Poland
I like learning and
Welcome, Tomasz!
Is this the first intro-by-poem on Silk?
Chew Lin
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.pl wrote:
Hello,
My first post here. I was told introducing oneself is a good sign, was
too afraid to ask questions. Here goes, you will have to find some
matching
Yo, my name is Tomasz Rola
I'm a programmer from Poland
I like learning and reasoning
and I also like programming
Human behaviour and lambda calculus
and hexadecimal code - these give me stimulus
and future of technology and its implications
and some more are my preferred leisure
On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 00:31 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home**
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
For me, Deepa and other non
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Ingrid Srinath
ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 Apr 2013, at 23:20, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
- *OTOH, the reductionist overhead:revenue ratio as a metric of
'deservingness' . to play the
ratio game, as it is of the need for a
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