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by briandh 12y ago
> In 2012, the United States refused to sign an international telecommunications treaty, supported by both Russia and China, that would shift the Internet away from its current U.S.-centric form of governance. As the linked article expou
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by briandh 12y ago
Your comment history is full obvious of pro-Apple, anti-Google, and anti-bitcoin trolling. Like or dislike any of those you please, but can't you find some other way to occupy your time?
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by briandh 12y ago
Of note, Google denies the report's accuracy, albeit without specifying any details http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/30/google-glass-parts-es...
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by briandh 12y ago
On top of what wmf said, with whatever government investment has or has not already been made, the U.S. has the fourth highest* IPv6 adoption by percentage of requests as of Dec 2013 [1]. That is double what it was just six months prior [id
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by briandh 13y ago
Why must it be a throwaway account? Not everybody in tech has an HN handle.
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by briandh 13y ago
Well, the truth is somewhere between the two of you. The academic consensus (at least among economists) says that there is a gender pay gap that they cannot account for other than because of discrimination, but that it is in the single-digi
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by briandh 13y ago
Among many issues: * contrary to the narrator's statement, the two males are not dressed similarly * they speak differently * there is no black female control And of course, being a TV show, there is no systematic statistical analysis.
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by briandh 13y ago
I highly doubt he/she meant it in a derogatory way.
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by briandh 13y ago
I generally dislike telecom companies, but to be fair, the spokesperson said "decreasing revenues", not "paltry revenues", and said nothing about profit.
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by briandh 13y ago
The percentage of 5-4 decisions being handed down is practically meaningless without relating it to how controversial or "hard" the questions being decided are. That of course, is fundamentally hard to quantify, although you may m
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by briandh 13y ago
That is some seriously sloppy "evidence" to be citing. It makes no reference to any accounting for the popularity of the candidates before and after ad campaigns, the competitiveness of their districts (for House campaigns), incum
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by briandh 13y ago
> It was also one of the few services that would let you upload ePub books to your account through the website and then sync your library to your mobile device. Google Books does this now
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by briandh 13y ago
No. In the US, many (most?) think tanks are 501(c)(3) nonprofits -- NCPPR included -- and cannot make lobbying a primary activity [1] More broadly, think tanks are groups of like-minded people expressing their opinions, typically about how
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by briandh 13y ago
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted for this, unless you are being interpreted as snarky (whereas I interpret you as offering a noncommittal answer). While it has not been settled in court yet, IIRC, the 5th amendment right agains
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by briandh 13y ago
Where are you getting those numbers? It would seem [1] that Comcast has about 24% broadband market share. Subtracting the 3 million or so planned divested lines, even a post-merger Comcast would only have about 34% of the market -- which ma
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by briandh 13y ago
Out of genuine curiosity, in what respects do you think Google is allowing Android to "stagnate"?
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by briandh 13y ago
http://www.alibaba.com/wholesale/categories/Mobile-Phones_50... or http://www.aliexpress.com/category/5090301/mobile-phones.htm... depending on the quantities you would like to purchase
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by briandh 13y ago
Yep, the kernel sources are available on the Amazon website: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
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by briandh 13y ago
This piece seems to imply that only full source compatibility with Android (including Play Services) would be valuable to the Windows Phone platform. I don't think that's the case. I think getting 80% of the way, combined with the
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by briandh 13y ago
A lot of mainstream media reports paint Bitcoin as essentially a currency for buying drugs.
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by briandh 13y ago
That doesn't make any sense. Android phones sold in China don't have the Google Play store, thus Play doesn't matter anywhere?
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by briandh 13y ago
The type of users who value extensions heavily are the type that evangelize browsers, and the type whose friends and relatives ask them what browsers to use.
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by briandh 13y ago
An awful lot of Firefox users happen to value its "BS" plugin ecosystem quite heavily.
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by briandh 13y ago
> That has been a fair assessment historically, but that is no longer the case. Today’s companies are increasingly destroying the value of existing companies to create the next generation of products and services The automobile destroyed
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by briandh 13y ago
I agree to an extent, but what happens to the smaller tech companies that have few or no patents to cross-license? I fear that if the "patent wars" are ended by cross-licensing agreements between big players, no one influential wi
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by briandh 13y ago
Why? I mean, on economic issues I can understand the mistrust, but I'm curious to know what kind of Shadowy Business Interest might be behind a post such as this. Also, BTW, it's not a "study", it's just a blog post
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by briandh 13y ago
That is exactly the wrong thing to take away from the video
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by briandh 13y ago
He just said "accidents". He didn't say who was at fault.
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To those influencing environmental policy but opposed to nuclear power(plus.google.com)
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by briandh 13y ago
Someone with more knowledge of the situation than me may be able to offer more useful input, but it appears that the terms of the Tizen SDK are troubling from an openness perspective: https://developer.tizen.org/forums/

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