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by brentb 16y ago
"I would think that the real problem is Microsoft's unwillingness to become something completely new, something other than Windows and Office." Inability, perhaps. Unwillingness? You're out of your mind. Microsoft has had their fingers in
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by brentb 16y ago
As far as I'm concerned, net neutrality is always relevant. Limewire is merely a client built upon the gnutella network. It did nothing to promote illegal filesharing and actually did about as much to discourage it as it could (through wa
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Judge slaps Lime Wire with permanent injunction(news.cnet.com)
2 points by brentb 16y ago|3 comments
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by brentb 17y ago
So? Microsoft has never charged for any version of IE.
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by brentb 17y ago
The problem is you're not "simply mentioning Hacker News in the post title", you're running an experiment about the effects of mentioning Hacker News in the title. Unfortunately, your experiment has a few flaws. First of all, others might
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Open-Mindedness [video](dailymotion.com)
23 points by brentb 17y ago|16 comments
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Court Tries 'Google Street View Vs Privacy Rights' Case, Google Wins(businessinsider.com)
1 points by brentb 18y ago|0 comments
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OpenFeint: A Plug-And-Play Social Platform For iPhone Games(techcrunch.com)
2 points by brentb 18y ago|0 comments
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Social Network Downtime in 2008: LinkedIn Up - Twitter Down(readwriteweb.com)
3 points by brentb 18y ago|0 comments
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Web 2.0 Security Threats(readwriteweb.com)
3 points by brentb 18y ago|0 comments
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Entrepreneurship: The New Retirement?(entrepreneur.com)
3 points by brentb 18y ago|0 comments
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Facebook TOS Change: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit(mashable.com)
88 points by brentb 18y ago|56 comments
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by brentb 18y ago
The price levels of everything except for running an instance for an hour have dropped significantly since launch. This includes bandwidth (the pricing tiers used to be $0.18/$0.16/$0.13 per GB and have since fallen to $0.17/$0.13/$0.11 wi
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How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born(blog.layer8.net)
49 points by brentb 18y ago|24 comments
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by brentb 18y ago
I just happened upon your response and I can't tell if you realize how much you're twisting the facts to support your conclusions or not. I suspect you don't, so let me help illuminate where your argument goes wrong. "Higher tax rates for
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by brentb 18y ago
I also think it's funny that the simple 3-column example that took you 30 minutes to put together has exactly the same shortcomings that are discussed in the original article (for instance, try setting the background color of one of the sid
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Help Stop Copyright Madness on Youtube(eff.org)
42 points by brentb 18y ago|9 comments
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Microsoft's Plot to Kill Google(clusterstock.alleyinsider.com)
1 points by brentb 18y ago|1 comments
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Harvard Study on Entrepreneurship: Persistence and Experience Pay Off(bizbox.slate.com)
3 points by brentb 18y ago|0 comments
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Mark Cuban Gets Legal-Defense Dream Team (clusterstock.alleyinsider.com)
1 points by brentb 18y ago|0 comments
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Fake Social Network Profiles: a New Form of Identity Theft in 2009(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by brentb 18y ago|0 comments
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Venture Capital Returns Dip Below Zero(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
14 points by brentb 18y ago|4 comments
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Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
38 points by brentb 18y ago|38 comments
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by brentb 18y ago
I agree with Joel here: Bob is being unfair. Here's what I heard Jeff and Joel say when I listened to their podcast: Quality matters, but there are other things that also matter, such as actually getting working code written. Some of us (a
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US Military Shuns EC2, Building Its Own Cloud(alleyinsider.com)
4 points by brentb 18y ago|0 comments
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Artists Create Scenes For Google Maps Users(redorbit.com)
2 points by brentb 18y ago|1 comments
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by brentb 18y ago
Never confuse marginal rates with average rates. I didn't... I clearly stated that those were the top marginal rates and further down in my comment, I noted the difference between what someone making 400K would pay marginally and on avera
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by brentb 18y ago
One thing you can do about it is to tax a commodity that acts as a proxy for the negative externality in question. For example, we could tax fuel sources relative to the amount of pollution and/or greenhouse gases that are produced, on ave
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by brentb 18y ago
Except for pollution the cheaper one really is better for the environment. This is actually a great heuristic, but pollution is only part of the story. A more general (and correct) statement would be "excluding externalities (including p
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by brentb 18y ago
I would highly recommend against just paying yourself just cost-of-living. A low salary and high dividend is a big-time audit flag for the IRS... if your salary AND your dividends are low, then there's no problem. You state that your compa

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