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by blueben 16y ago
This isn't just about demand for an album; demand is tempered by the price attached to the product. This is about demand for an album at $15/copy. There is demand for the album; the downloads demonstrate that. There is almost no demand for
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by blueben 16y ago
He is the consumer, creating the demand. There is no demand for $15 compact discs, and there is lots of demand for good live performances. A band, like every business, must provide supply to meet demand if they want to make money. This is e
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by blueben 16y ago
It's a really, really, really nice device . Not so much a nice telephone.
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by blueben 16y ago
Yes, it's not so bad in Mexico. Nobody would ever attempt to run across a minefield to escape grinding poverty and bloody wars waged by rich and powerful drug cartels fueled by demand from the United States.
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by blueben 16y ago
What advice? To shutter the 30+ year old global information network upon which entire economies now depend and that at least a third of our species participates in because Prince doesn't like it anymore?
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by blueben 16y ago
Arbys beef cheddar sandwiches can never be served as they appear in advertisements. Photos of the sandwich slow plentiful cheese dripping out of the side, while cheese on the real sandwiches is doled out in small carefully measured dollops
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by blueben 16y ago
Is there something factually incorrect about it, or do you simply dislike what it implies?
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by blueben 16y ago
Or, perhaps, it's about a culture where little lies and cheats like this are accepted as "no big deal".
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by blueben 16y ago
SocialGold handles payments for a wide variety of international currencies and payment systems.
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by blueben 16y ago
It makes sense now, riding on the back of years of growth fueled by demand. Bandwidth is cheap! Sure, I'll pay for a few extra gigabytes. But without the years of "unlimited" plans, we would still be living in an age of glacial bandwidth sp
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by blueben 16y ago
There are thousands of applicants for every job. They aren't exactly in a position of power.
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by blueben 16y ago
If a Dropbox employee has access to the company's AWS account information, then yes; they can access any file in their bucket.
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by blueben 16y ago
Read some more. The support is limited in many respects, and does not include the ability to complain about and get resolution on issues of website performance.
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by blueben 16y ago
Aside from the UI, what can't be replicated?
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by blueben 16y ago
I pay $50 per user, and get the same "support" as free users. Got any clever comments about that?
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by blueben 16y ago
I pay handsomely for Google's Premium service, and I still get no customer service. So now what?
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by blueben 16y ago
JVestry, 1. You can't count IPs and internet users, and conclude 2 IPs per user. That betrays a vast misunderstanding of the nature of the internet. 2. Unless you have a very odd ISP, you and all of your neighbors are using public IP addres
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by blueben 16y ago
A law firm recommending that you do things that require a law firm's help, and scaring you away from cheaper competition in Legal Zoom. Color me surprised.
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by blueben 16y ago
When you write a language and an operating system that both endure for more than 30 years; across numerous hardware platforms; emulated and rewritten dozens of times; becoming the fundamental underpinning and architecture of the greatest in
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by blueben 16y ago
First question: Will they issue a new Root CA?
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Symantec is purchasing Verisign's SSL Cert and PKI business(symantec.com)
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by blueben 16y ago
Good intentions, horrifically bad judgment in marketing message.
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by blueben 16y ago
I can concoct a hundred different worst-case scenarios about how a bad guy can do exactly this. You can't protect against all of them.
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by blueben 16y ago
Take pride in the fact that people love your work so much that they will spam their friends to share it. :)
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by blueben 16y ago
I think you missed both points. Point 1 was that he doesn't need to install anything on his Windows client to publish to his blog. Point 2 was that Toto is not a WP killer. By naming Toto as a replacement for hackers (solutions for hacker
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by blueben 16y ago
Is DDG engaging in some sort of grassroots campaign to make sure they get a link on HN at least a few times a month? I get it. DDG is out there. They're an alternative to Google. Great. How about some articles with merit rather than yet-ano
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by blueben 16y ago
Instead of considering GDP alone, perhaps we need to be considering share of GDP. We are significantly more people today than we were in 1950.
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by blueben 16y ago
Is Turbo Tax's data from all Americans, or just their customer base?
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by blueben 16y ago
Jason, People are loyal to people and institutions they respect. People and institutions that give them value in their lives. There is no respect simply because you're in charge. No loyalty just because you're the leader. Those coaches work
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by blueben 16y ago
Look up the definition of Tourettes tics; this most certainly does not count as a tic. The popular condition people who are "brutally honest" (aka: an asshole) claim is Aspergers. Aspergers is not in fact an asshole syndrome, but internet a

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