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by ajkirwin 18y ago
Or maybe these people don't have the $600 for it either.
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
Depriving how, exactly? I'm talking about non-sales. I am talking about people who literally DO NOT HAVE ANY MORE MONEY. If they download something, how can you count that as a 'lost sale' or a 'loss to piracy'? You just can't. That's makin
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
I thought you were talking about depriving OTHERS. Which is what matters, is it not?
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
You seem to be overlooking the scarceness issue. It's not about Just Another $20. It's about Just Another $20, And Another. And Another. You are saying that it would be wrong for me to download something, even if the very act of doing so do
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
You cannot really use morals in an example where you aren't depriving anyone of anything.
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
He mentions the 50% figure a lot of times and it's one I find particularly interesting, because in a lot of countries which tend to have good socialized healthcare, social security, et al and don't have to run deficits or anything like that
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
I see this argument a lot, "Oh well, it's cheap, so people should just pay for it!" and it seems to gloss over one important fact. Money is not an unlimited resource. If there are say.. $4,000 (purchase price) of fun and awesome things rele
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
Hacker News could use a merge too. So we can merge together multiple topics like this.
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
I added this. A bunch of people demanded it. :) As it stands, it has a few things that twitturly doesn't have, but also they have things I don't. But, it's a beta product and hopefully soon, I can get a slicehost/linode server and get it of
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
That was my bad! I added some fields to a table and forgot that'd crap all over my UNION.
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Ask HN: Review My Doohicky
19 points by ajkirwin 18y ago|13 comments
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
There is a difference. The amount of money given is such that you have time to work on a product due to it. That amount of 'scholarship' is not enough to develop something fulltime and if you're only doing it in your free time, then, you pr
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
Un.. durr.. lin?
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
I've never read such a crock of shit since the last time I read something like this. I'm sorry, because we don't subscribe to the model of "Grab all you can and fuck the other guy", somehow we're going to be useless entrepreneurs and crap a
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
Somehow, I don't think so. They'd just say, "Oh, we need to make this EVEN MORE STRINGENT AND DIFFICULT.", rather than abandon it.
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
I bet they'd LOVE to try, though.
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
There's a solution to all of this, rather than sitting back and waiting for the sky to fall. We use our own operating systems and safe hardware. We develop new protocols and technologies. We build our own infrastructure and abandon the old.
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
The aiming argument does kind of fall apart if your agressors have access (and they virtually all do) to any kind of high-powered automatic weaponry with a high fire rate. Even zigzagging won't help against a hail of bullets. You're likely
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
No. Because they are not building consumer vehicles, but luxury cars.
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
Am I one of the few people who looks forward to death? To know that there WILL be an end to things is something of a comfort to me. I'd like to live for a time, sure, but even five hundred years might be too long. I'd either get driven insa
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
I love this part -- gearing up for acquisitions, especially of Internet startups that have plunged in value. "Six to 12 months ago, many of these companies were priced to perfection," says James Breyer, a managing partner of venture firm Ac
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
What good is an arm, if you have no fingers? Infact, what good is a CEO -without- the workers? Then he's just a guy.
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
I'm sorry. Since when is the CEO the most important thing? That's bullshit. The WORKERS are the most important thing.
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
See, now THAT is impressive ;) And I don't really have that many users. 1,840~ activated users at last count. Which puts me between Niue and the Falkland Islands :D
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
I have a site with more users! Admittedly 98% of these are spam signups or people who don't use the site anymore, but it's the raw numbers that count, right? right? No, of course not. So they've hit user #2,500,000. How many of those users
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
This post seems to gloss over the point about VALUE. Sure, sell your app for $9.99 if you want. But it'd better be worth it. And almost all of the apps ON the app store are little quick pieces of fluff, barely even worth 99 cents. Even the
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
And how does this chart account for possible factors such as: People leaving for a different, newer platform. More Ad dollars being funnelled into platforms which don't restrict the type of content on which they're delivered. Sites that pul
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
> Whenever it comes down to "squares" vs "cool", you can be pretty sure that the "cool" will screw things up more. How can you be so sure? They've never really had the chance.
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
Not quite. My father was an aeronautical engineer. He hit his 40s and.. that was it. He was, thankfully, offered voluntary redundancy and they replaced him with someone half his age. Thankfully, he had it in him to go back to college and re
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by ajkirwin 18y ago
I dare you to name one piece of security, be it physical or virtual, since say.. 1990, that hasn't been theatre.

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