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by 1_2__3 10y ago
I would actually argue with on on the iPod. Back when they came out digital music players were still considered a kind of cutting-edge gadget, not something you'd expect a random punter to carry. It was in many ways the iPod's suc
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
You seem to think that new small businesses don't contribute to productivity, which is bunk.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Of course they shut down lemonade stands. Especially if you tried to run a daily lemonade stand out of your front yard, staffed by people who don't live there.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Subletting is not short term, and is rightly considered to be largely governed by the same laws as those that apply to rentals since the uses are so similar. I honestly do not understand the willful ignorance in this thread. Short term rent
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Our system of government is specifically designed to limit the tyranny of the majority. It may not be to your liking but a lot of smart people who came before you learned that slow and steady change is what effects actual progress, and (add
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
I'm really looking forward to the point in the future where we look back and say, "Why did we ever think it was a good idea to allow the same company to provide the pipe, the content, and the backbone?"
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
I wholly disagree. It can have a culture , that I will agree with. And that culture can be objectively better/worse when compared against a traditional moral system (and I'm only being so pedantic here with the "moral system
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
This isn't even a fair use defense, and I'm utterly baffled why anyone (let alone most people) in this thread seems to think it is. Copyright does not protect Samsung from having their products rendered (in other words, I'm n
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
When acting on their own behalf? Of course. When advocating for a company? No, of course not.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Companies don't have "values", they have internal PR. People, sentient, living breathing people have values. Companies are not that.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Specs page: Nonexistent. Details page: Nonexistent. Cost hint: Nonexistent. I've seen Kickstarters more compelling.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
It's not just you, I had to hunt to figure out WTF was going on. I thought at first it was a phone case that doubled as a camera.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
...due to heavy demand of an artificially constrained resource. If this worked the way free-market idolizers like to pretend there'd be competitors driving prices down and features/capabilities up. But none of that is happening.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
If you want to throw government agencies around: The NSA seems to be doing a fine job keeping up with current technologies.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Are you holding them blameless? If so, why? This is the largest employer in the US and to not hold them responsible would imply they don't have the leverage to change the playing field. Of course they do.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
From firsthand experience I can tell you the intent is worse than most people realize. The discussion is usually "well of course <company> wants to prioritize mobile, that's where the money is." That's small thinki
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Sure, but neither does trying to put kids from vastly different socioeconomic strata into the same school and expect that to result in anything but misery for everyone. The core issue is the idea of mingling "underprivileged" kids
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
You're not old enough to remember bussing in the 80s. Forced integration didn't work then, and it won't work now.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Try sitting in an area near, say, a marketing team. It's not quiet.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
There's a long tradition in business that once the price of something drops below a certain point it makes no sense to offer it metered, as the cost of managing that exceeds the income you get from micromanaging it. It literally makes
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
"AI is just around the corner, everyone, it'll be replacing humans within a few years."
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
> The question remains whether any company has an incentive to make a product that is not designed to fall apart or become obsolete. What a patently ridiculous question to ask. I can't even fathom how the writer thought it up, but I
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Wait, so we're supposed to believe this was some kind of merit or business acumen thing? Is anyone really that gullible?
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
And having lived through that, and now lived through the walled garden/App Store experience, I'll say with confidence the old way was better.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
That is by any measure a misleading chart, and absolutely should be derided for such.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Shall we come back in a year and see how it did? Tell you what, let's try this. In a year (let's say next 10/1/17, easy to remember) we'll start a timer. How long to do you think that timer will run before Google ma
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Well, no. As of today it's $685 + $80. In the future if you either already have the phone or if the magical "partners who have signed up" start delivering Daydream-capable phones then it's only $80. And I'm not tryi
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
I don't ever regret having an opinion and sharing it, at least so long as I don't get annoyed and my tone gets away from me. I hear what you're saying, but I just don't buy any of it. I DO agree that this is the kind of
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
It looks like every other apple phone, the camera quality is table stakes, come off with that "super advanced" ridiculous hyperbole (it's just Google Now rebranded), and... wait that was all? I'm supposed to be leaping a
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Oh so HN exists to help companies market their gadgets?

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