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by codex 13y ago
When BillG ran Microsoft, he was a total asshole. Now he's trying to be remembered in a positive light, but he's still thin skinned when it comes to competition.
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by codex 13y ago
Amazon doesn't make a profit because the stock market doesn't demand it. As long as a company is growing, it's stock will appreciate. It's only when growth stalls that shareholders will demand that the intrinsic value
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Apple’s Board Concerned About the Pace of Innovation Under Cook(wallstreetpit.com)
2 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments
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by codex 13y ago
This article claims that some regulations exist to protect certain industries. The proof is the fact that these regulations are harmful to various new startups but not to existing industry. But that's not proof: that's correlati
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by codex 13y ago
Make money fast--earn thousands of dollars working from home in your spare time! Truth is, in a world where everybody is special, nobody is.
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by codex 13y ago
On the other hand: - Tesla recently halved the deposit required to order a Model S, an indicator of weakening demand. - Tesla is raking in up to $35K in profits per car by selling ZEV credits earned through a CARB loophole which may soon cl
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Tesla profits could be challenged by Calif. credit-rule change(autonews.com)
1 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments
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by codex 13y ago
An argument I've never seen made regarding H1B software engineer hiring: is better for the entire county in the long term for the US to import as many good software engineers as it can, or is it better to restrict supply? If any good s
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by codex 13y ago
Most accidents require multiple simultaneous factors: bad weather, a tire blow out, a bad night's sleep, a crying baby in the back seat, a deer in the road. The driver of any one car has control of only a fraction of these. By operat
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by codex 13y ago
It looks like these requests are being denied by the intelligence committee; do the asking members of Congress have the requisite security clearances? If so, I wonder if by law this information is restricted to members of the committee.
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by codex 13y ago
Should this turn out to be true, the legal rationale is likely that a warrant is only need to read a communication, not to collect it. So "they" archive everything and then promise to look at it only when legal to do so. The NSA
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Qaeda Intercepts Prompt U.S. Terror Warning(nytimes.com)
7 points by codex 13y ago|6 comments
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by codex 13y ago
There are easier ways to reconstruct your HTTPS Wikipedia browsing habits than to crack HTTPS. Because Wikipedia's content is public, the NSA can crawl the site repeatedly with all common user agents, generating the number of HTTPS byt
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by codex 13y ago
So all of your datacenters are in the U.S. and in Holland? State surveillance in the Netherlands is even worse than in the U.S. [1] [1] http://www.bit-byters.net/2009/11/netherlands-still-1-in-pho...
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by codex 13y ago
He might disobey a personal gag order, but I can assure you that as long as PRISM exists, U.S. companies will comply if targeted. There are also plenty of other attack vectors for the NSA even with HTTPS; obtaining the private keys of the
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by codex 13y ago
More computational load = more CO2. Even if they offset CO2 emissions, that money could have been spent more efficiently by not running HTTPS.
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by codex 13y ago
This is ridiculous. Wikipedia is headquartered in San Francisco. If the NSA wanted to snoop Wikipedia lookups it would force Wikipedia to install PRISM-like access devices to the site itself, secretly. Switching to HTTPS consumes more re
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by codex 13y ago
This makes sense; YC is all about paying a pittance to a huge number of people without experience or connections, and from that farm team a very small set of promising candidates emerge. Investing in that set would likely be reasonably pro
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by codex 13y ago
HN's increasing inability to apply critical thinking is frustrating. I think it's due to a combination of groupthink, a tendency to be manipulated by their fears, and a willingness to believe what they want to believe.
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by codex 13y ago
Do they sequester the massive amounts of CO2 that trash burning generates? If not, sinking that carbon into the ground may be a better idea. Or not: landfills produce methane and other natural gases which are more potent than carbon dioxi
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by codex 13y ago
Evidence of harm?
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by codex 13y ago
The Guardian strongly implies this system is used to intentionally target US citizens in violation of the law, but then admits that would be "illegal." I wonder if the leaked presentation touches on this point.
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by codex 13y ago
Doesn't this describe every scalable business?
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by codex 13y ago
Given that surgery costs are dominated by labor costs (surgeon plus support staff) and labor costs 20x more in the US than in India (see: http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/china-and-india-real... ) is it any wonde
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by codex 13y ago
It's the case, historically, that civil liberties restrict during time of war and expand again in peacetime. Lincoln suspending habeas corpus during the Civil War, Espionage Act of 1917, Japanese American internment camps during WWII,
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by codex 13y ago
For $70 a year, I can afford to lose a couple of books, all without the trouble of scanning them. What is the value of the personal edition?
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by codex 13y ago
Apple still leads in profit per phone and in gross profit margin. Furthermore, Samsung overtook Apple in its weakest quarter (not for the whole year), as people hold off iPhone purchases as they await the unveiling of the newest iPhone mod
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by codex 13y ago
TL;DR: lobbyist group for special-interest industry A wants to change laws favored by lobbyist group for special-interest industry B. Both industry A and B are motivated by nothing other than self-interest; specifically, tech. companies th
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by codex 13y ago
I'm not saying that they are there yet, but that's the goal of all of these companies. For various reasons, it's harder to merge UI paradigms on platforms with a large base of legacy apps and users--so while all of these com
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by codex 13y ago
Mac OS X/iOS: One OS, one interface, all devices ChromeOS/Android: One OS, one interface, all devices Windows: One OS, one interface, all devices All three of the above companies have been moving in this direction for quite some t

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