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by bobbyi 17y ago
It depends which of their numbers you use. A few charts later, it claims that 96% of people use the internet at home at least once every few weeks.
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If he were a master of controlling perception we would not be having this discussion.
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> Mabye it’s time the company sold off its online division to a company that is just that – like Yahoo. I don't think Microsoft could find a buyer for its online division.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
I expected another article about web-based Google Voice.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
I don't see how the web browser is the right place for codecs to live. I have multiple web browsers and multiple media players installed. Do I need six copies of every codec?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
What happened to Hawaii?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Your six person, six month, $200,000. budget game is reviewed THE SAME as a three year, three hundred person studio game Why wouldn't it be? The point of a review is to tell me how good the game is, not to reward you for effort.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
The reason for outlawing the first syntax is that it isn't a legal javascript literal in the case where the key is a javascript reserved word (if we change 'foo' to 'for' in this example).
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Can you explain why this doesn't quality as extortion?
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I love the implication that the Daily Mail isn't comfortable lying about other subjects.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Can you quote the portion of the article that you interpret as saying that Western civilization has never done anything good?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
It's not their problem. It's Google Spreadsheet who is exposing people's information without them knowing.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Today I searched for the answer to a question. The top hit was a useful article written by a subject-matter expert. (Good job, Google.) Not really destroyed then.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Being sane is overrated.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
> Computers don't work that way. Unless you have many CPUs, nothing happens at the same time. I have many CPUs.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Why wouldn't I just do: $.fn.misbehave = function () { alert('Oh behave!');} $('.bad-behavior').misbehave(); ? What is gain by adding an extra "object-oriented" wrapper around standard jquery functionality?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
The Federal Reserve System is run by a Board of Governors. The Governors are appointed by the President. They must be confirmed by the Senate. The Board of Governors is accountable to the House of Representatives and must give them an annua
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by bobbyi 17y ago
If money flows from one part of the government to another, there is no reason why it wouldn't flow through private banks. The government isn't one monolithic agent with a single (overdrawn) checking account. Whether you count the Fed as bei
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by bobbyi 17y ago
In this case, the government. This article shows what would happen if everyone were able to operate the way the big banks do now.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
This isn't about fractional reserve banking. If the bank could only lend out 100% as much as it had, it would still be making free money here by borrowing from the government and lending the money back to the government at a higher rate.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Only for certain values of "you" that don't include you.
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How To Make The World's Easiest $1 Billion(businessinsider.com)
123 points by bobbyi 17y ago|39 comments
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Or just put an alarm in the device itself. I can see the appeal of a $50 alarm that attaches to my wrist and wakes me up at the right time, but I definitely don't want something monitoring my sleeping pattern and reporting them to somebody'
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Flightcaster manages to predict ten times as many delays as the airlines do. And they manage to stay 90% accurate (which is on par with the airlines). They're equally accurate, but predict ten times as many delays? Doesn't that imply that
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Yes, that's pretty much the standard lifestyle business. It puts you in a similar situation to someone owning a local store or restaurant. You will be able to live a solid middle class life (or a little better), but you aren't going to reti
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by bobbyi 17y ago
A dispensary implies that it "dispenses" the product, like a pharmacy. You take it home and consume it. A cafe implies that people are consuming the product on site.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
It's no more a "marijuana cafe" than many existing dispensaries in California. The guy running it is a marketing genius though since I've come across this story multiple times on different sites in the past few days.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
> "I’ve been in more than one startup that had bad chairs and small screens for their engineers but they had an expensive coffee machine." I'm more productive with good coffee and a small screen than I would be with bad coffee and a lar
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Hasn't NASA announced new "breaking, clear evidence" of moon water/ ice every year for the past decade?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
If google stopped ranking the most relevant content at the top, I would start using bing instead.

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