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by crystaln 12y ago
If your heroku costs significantly cut into your profit margins, you should certainly start paying attention to those. For most well designed services, that is simply not the case. If my revenue from $1000 of heroku bills is $20,000, cuttin
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by crystaln 12y ago
You can send to any number, with just the phone number. When developing an application for the general public, none of the services you suggest come close to solving that problem.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Unworthy of hacker news: - Inflammatory headline irrelevant to content ("Nude" Body Scanners) - 50% more than an insignificant amount of radiation is still insignificant, and likely difficult to measure precisely. The idea that th
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by crystaln 12y ago
iOS users spend more, are worth many times Android users to ad buyers, get laid more, and are an all around better demographic. It's true - look it up. http://www.wired.com/2010/08/gadget-sex/ http:&#x2
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by crystaln 12y ago
Looks like a beautiful product. Unclear to me why anyone would want one. Much like Google Glasses, I'm straining to think of a compelling use case in my own life.
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by crystaln 12y ago
I highly recommend picking up a book covering the history of invention and thought rather than waiting for such posts to hit meme status at random moments on HN.
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by crystaln 12y ago
I would happily pay for soundcloud, however I will stop using the service entirely if I start hearing ads. I don't care how good the music is. If I'm grooving and hear an ad for redbull, the mood is lost.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Odd they didn't use such stretch marks anywhere else.... except perhaps check boxes.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Do you think that brands paying for their name to be associated with articles does not influence the content and quality of the journalism? Do you think a series about solar energy sponsored by BP is not going to be less critical of BP? Whi
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by crystaln 12y ago
If I recall, clicking on the X on old Macs added an X inside the square, so I think there's a step missing from this article.
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by crystaln 12y ago
> "even when "acceptable ads" is not selected. You can't block them using Element Hiding Helper." Is this true? After disabling the non-obtrusive ads, I don't see any ads anywhere. Can you give an example of
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by crystaln 12y ago
One might imagine naughty parts from just about any logo. The Y Combinator logo looks like cleavage to me.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Curious if this takes the same pains with anonymity as Secret itself, where identities and post associations are, supposedly, opaque even to individual founders - it takes at least two to reveal the identity behind a post, and only reveals
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by crystaln 12y ago
It was acquired by Ebay, which means it was no longer a small firm. Not that I'm surprised, however it's further evidence that such statements on acquisition have no credibility whatsoever. They are just to make current customers
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by crystaln 12y ago
That's not what I said. Many of my friends do know what I do. This whole thread is about first dates and meeting people. I don't want to be around people who have that as their first question. It indicates low creativity, low fun,
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by crystaln 12y ago
Contrary to your guess, this approach has brought far higher quality and more intimate relationships into my life. You'd be surprised how immediately rejecting what you anticipate will bother you results in the void being filled by wha
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by crystaln 12y ago
You might have confused "genuine" with "compliant" and "truthful." I am under no obligation to answer your stupid, predicable, and irrelevant to our social future questions. In fact, it would disingenuous of me
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by crystaln 12y ago
Funny how a group who can't accept "normal" socioeconomic or personal success is ok with "normal" social lives.
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by crystaln 12y ago
There really is an epidemic of lameness in SF and Seattle. I'm a straight single guy. We also want interesting dude friends. I'm fortunate enough to have found many, but almost all of them are outside the tech industry or women. M
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by crystaln 12y ago
Would it not make more evolutionary sense to remain reproductively capable for hundreds or thousands of years? The motive for genes to reproduce does not end after a single set of offspring. In fact, I don't think the motivation is eve
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by crystaln 12y ago
There is zero evidence of this claim in this article. DRM is, in fact, to prevent unauthorized usage and copies. In fact, even some of the examples in this article are exactly that. What is more important is that DRM doesn't have to be
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by crystaln 12y ago
> I can provide plenty of evidence that consciousness falls within the domain of physics So then provide some. Regardless of any evidence you have, it's certainly not conclusive, given the minimal understanding we have of existence
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by crystaln 12y ago
I certainly believe in the possibility of stuff beyond the "physical world," by which I assume you mean the space-time continuum of our universe. You'd have to be a fool to not be open to that possibility, given that we have
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by crystaln 12y ago
How is that obvious? You can't presume that the physical world is a component of consciousness.
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Your presumption is that consciousness falls within the domain of physics, which is not by any means a good assumption.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Seems like replaying the twitter chatter in time would be more interesting than creating a new content silo.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Lots of things. For starters: Facebook is pretty limited for broad event promotion. Google+ - really? who is looking for events there? Meetup.com - expensive and really only for small-medium groups, not events
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by crystaln 12y ago
Unlikely. Some assets will probably be distributed to depositors, but chances are you'll get less than 10% if anything.
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by crystaln 13y ago
Perhaps you can refer me to a less doctrinaire viewpoint. I read enough on that site to make it quite clear that the Great Work is the actual book they seem to worship. Regardless, this still seems rather religious, even if some sects are l
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by crystaln 13y ago
> modern science is like a religion in many respects I'd disagree with that, in that science when practiced purely is inherently self doubting and does not claim to know anything. However as practiced, it can sometimes take on the d

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