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by ansy 15y ago
This is great that Netflix is being bold. Netflix needs to be bold. The networks own the studios that produce all of the content and will continue to use that to keep Netflix under heel. Arrested Development certainly has risk though. It's
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These sites that could use Bitcoin to evade the financial embargo would likely break US money laundering laws. If not in the existing form then an easily modified one. Also, eventually coins need to turn into real money to pay rent, buy foo
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These are all popular open source projects that are still hosted on Source Forge posted in response to the parent. That said, the list of category leading software on SF that people still care about is dwindling.
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by ansy 15y ago
The included iOS email client does what you want. If you configure as Exchange the emails are pushed to you instead of pulled. Use m.google.com as the Exchange server. Also, the trash icon doesn't actually delete anything. It sends the mess
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As someone who never liked FPS much to begin with, let me say in comparison it's been a bad decade to be anything but an FPS fan.
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A lot of people in this thread seem to be trying to pick apart Whatsapp's business model, but I can't seem to find anything to criticize. 1) Creating a new identity and communicating it to people is a chore. Whatsapp just uses your existing
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by ansy 15y ago
Good journalism in my book attempts to report the truth objectively no matter the subject. By-lines are an important part of that. It puts the author out there so his or her biases and conflicts of interests are not protected. The Economist
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by ansy 15y ago
I disagree with the Economist's lack of by-lines. Also, it has more of a dogmatic free market ideology than a bias [1]. Whether you agree with that ideology or not, I think it is bad journalism. The Economist basically puts itself on the sa
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PolitiFact.com says "by the end of 2011" [1]. Looks like this announcement puts him on track to meet this campaign promise on the nose. PolitiFact also has a more comprehensive set of Obama's campaign promises kept and broken [2]. Interesti
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I think the idea was that none of the Hulu partners felt a real need to keep Hulu around. The Netflix threat has been thwarted. Enough providers have turned against Netflix it can't stand on its own anymore. Everyone with content is instead
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As an outside observer, Netflix appears to be in a state of panic over the content providers playing hardball with it. Much like Google, Netflix has such a huge lead nobody wants to give it a fair break anymore. In many cases, companies won
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The Kindle has one feature that the Nook does not have: Electronic delivery of personal documents. You can't email a word doc or PDF to myname@bn.com and have it converted and delivered to your device. You have to save it from a computer, c
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The reason the iPhone 4's screen is 3.5 inches is because the iPhone 3GS was 3.5 inches is because the iPhone 3G was 3.5 inches is because the original iPhone was 3.5 inches. A consistent platform is a huge deal. The whole point of the iPho
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PG does not typically delete accounts; he just disables the login. All of the comments and submissions are still there under the original name.
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Personal Best: Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you?(newyorker.com)
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By most accounts the iPhone 5 will not have LTE. That's going to sting with Verizon customers in the United States. While it will probably support HSPA+ on AT&T which is already decently fast, Verizon CDMA is direly slow. It will be a h
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by ansy 15y ago
For people unable to look at the source, here is a direct copy of the chart in question: http://i.imgur.com/DV5JZ.png As you should see, it's not really that simple to say "39% stay and 61% fall out." While technically correct, falling is
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I don't know why anyone would doubt this could work. It worked for patio11 [1]. His empire was pretty much built on selling bingo card software to elementary school teachers. In fact I'm surprised for all the author's citations he doesn't c
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I actually think you're wrong with regard to the rich getting richer not being the same people from year to year, at least for the majority of rich Americans. Yes, movement is possible, but most of this happens between the upper and lower m
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by ansy 15y ago
These are my comments from an earlier thread on this story: IANAL, but arbitration clauses are standard in contracts[1] at least in the United States. Arbitration is generally seen as preferred because suing people in court is actually very
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According to this article from 2006[1] the average out of pocket loss (to the consumer) from identity theft was around $400 and is often nothing. While the fraud committed from identity theft is generally in the several thousands of dollars
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IANAL, but arbitration clauses are standard in contracts[1] at least in the United States. Arbitration is generally seen as preferred because suing people is actually very expensive. In Sony's favor, Sony excluded small claims. So for prett
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by ansy 15y ago
I think you are missing the even more important detail. These are all idle power consumption numbers. Intel is just telling us they've found a way to use less power when doing next to nothing. There's no claim you will see a similar magnitu
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by ansy 15y ago
In fact abusive language is against the HN guidelines[1] under "In Comments": Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is
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If you do this you are probably violating the unemployment rules in your state[1]. If you reported this income with the unemployment office you will most likely have your benefits reduced or eliminated. But most people don't report this inc
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I agree that Tim Cook is an advantage to Apple. I disagree that he is really "new." Tim has been at Apple since 1998 and has been in a place of power since at least 2004 when he took over for Steve Jobs as CEO the first time. Tim has been p
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I am going to dissent on this one. This buy is something Yahoo or AOL would do. Google didn't buy a technology or a business model. It bought content, an address book, and a logo. Very un-Google. If Google's technology isn't good to compete
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BitCoin is no more anonymous than your IP address. As soon as your BitCoin address can be tied to your identity, such as by trading through a major exchange, your transactions might as well have your name on them. Like IP, anonymity can be
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The key word there is "solely." If your company only exists to make money, it will tend toward a state that doesn't create real value. It will be a company of charlatans. The quote needs to be taken in context with the other quotes. The mes
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I can think of a couple other things Google would want in addition to longer license terms. 1) A license to stream for free to any device. No more differentiating between a computer, a set top box, and a mobile device. No more Hulu Plus to

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