Evbn

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by Evbn 14y ago
Orkut was something like 5 years old before G+ was built. It has such a different social/sharing/privacy model, so it would be hard to convert, and it is only a major player in one country.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Interesting that no one ever talked about the alternative to Internet sales tax, to solve the competition problem: removing sales tax, and replacing it with use/income/property/head/etc tax.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Only if it harms user experience.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Linking a profile to your web page is not the same as using the plus.google.com website. Verifying identity is simply submitting a form to Google.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Mark them as Close Friends in Facebook.
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by Evbn 14y ago
It is a pretty easy word to learn. Heck, even FB already has a "news feed"
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by Evbn 14y ago
If he hoards until he dies, his currency is effectively worhless. If he tries to spend it all at once, hyperinflation. Money is not a store of value. It is currency, for current exchange.
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by Evbn 14y ago
What happens when someone retires at the same time and tries to cash in their hoard of btc to buy stuff that no one is producing (since they also retired)? Liquidity shock. Years of deflation instantly give way to hyperinflation.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Because money is a medium of exchange, and has no inherent value. Hoarding cash is equivalent to destroying production-- by then time you try to spend it, there won't be anything left to buy. Inflation encourages people to be active in the
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by Evbn 14y ago
So if I peep in your home window and photo you naked and photo your documents and post it all online, not illegal?
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by Evbn 14y ago
He can rot in jail for a while before justice catches up.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Exactly. The prosecution industry thrives on crime, not on preventing crime.
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by Evbn 14y ago
And the charities he stole from.
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by Evbn 14y ago
They shut down federated invitations, not federated conversations, I thought?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Sure, that could crash one spreadsheet and maybe the server that tries to serve it, but send the whole fleet flapping?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Yeah, the sync features are just there are a bare minimum checklist requirement. Drive was delayed for over five years for one single reason: because the VP in charge believed that storing files on a local machine was antithetical to Google
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by Evbn 14y ago
Google's hate for the desktop is extremely well advertised, and is their core value proposition.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Or use any commercial backup system.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Better to use one primary sync service and one secondary backup service , and during a primary outage, revert to hand management of edits.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Is that why Google is invested in AI? To figure out which documents will be important tomorrow, before I board a plane or the servers go down?
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by Evbn 14y ago
If shot happens less frequently than the SLA's limits, it is a fine excuse.
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by Evbn 14y ago
I didn't believe you so I flipped to airplane mode and opened Drive. It crashed. Then the crash reporter hung, so I had to Force Quit from the App manager in order to try again after enabling WiFi. Then I opened and "offline" doc amd found
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by Evbn 14y ago
I wonder if we will ever have a day on HN without talking about death. Or if someone could write a filtering app.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Many Federal contracts explicitly state that they must be the lowest rate being charged to any customer.
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by Evbn 14y ago
It is important to look down as well as up when assessing one's position. However, such behavior is not natural, since our animal survival chances are general higher when we always strive for more, than if we grow complacent.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Avoidance of suffering is cognitively rather different from desiring to live.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Blood can be removed completely painlessly from an unconscious creature. For example, human surgery is painless.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Don't worry, habitat destruction rids the world of large predators. And the numbers don't compare to human activities anyway.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Free range isn't BS. Current labelling standards are BS.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Resources such as what?

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