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by earl 14y ago
So essentially ESR is butthurt that Turing is remembered for being gay. This somehow diminishes him. And Turing most definitely wasn't persecuted for being gay. It's just that he was prosecuted and forcibly treated with female hormones.
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by earl 14y ago
The former, and it seems to vary by location. from the article: [...] search results for hotels in cities including Las Vegas, Orlando, Philadelphia and Boston were the same for both Macs and PCs. A New York search turned up mor
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by earl 14y ago
I think it's unlikely in this case. Content producers ask for enormous up fronts, and you'd either hire very good in house attorneys or pay Fenwick & West or Wilson Sonsini a ton of money. Not to mention the RIAA had just lost in June
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by earl 14y ago
To be fair, it's only the aol acquisition that gave them potential access to the time warner music library and the ability to go negotiate deals with the other content owners. I think it's unlikely 4 guys in arizona making $100k/mo with no
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by earl 14y ago
Did you read the article? Before the first hospitalization, the father had already repeatedly assaulted the mother. Convinced that nameless people were trying to kill him, he slept no more than an hour or two a night and started dr
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by earl 14y ago
what marketplaces do you recommend for apple gear? tia
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by earl 14y ago
Why, so pinch can actively undermine yet another sucker who will soon accept an enormous golden parachute in lieu of suing?
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by earl 14y ago
tools shouldn't rely on undocumented behavior when passing out-of-spec parameters into functions. Relying on such behavior eventually gets you what you deserve.
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by earl 14y ago
If you read the article, it points out that the price premium is for all the risk various actors bear in the cocaine supply chain. If you derisk it, you kill most of the profits and suddenly the cartels will have to compete with industrial
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by earl 14y ago
In his 20 years as a lawyer, he says, he’s written hundreds of letters like the one he sent Inman, but the response to this one was unique. Yeah, I hate it when there's pushback to extortion too. But watch yourself, internet
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by earl 14y ago
1 - I know people will disagree, I use and love linux etc, but a macbook is like using linux except not ass for desktop usage. Audio playing, wifi, volume controls, brightness controls, sleep, hibernate, multiple monitors, multiple screens
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by earl 14y ago
It's not the midwest, but Tony Hsieh, founder and ceo of Zappos, is running a $300mm investment to turn Las Vegas into a tech hub. Apparently a big piece of the investment is his money too. $50mm is allocated for startup funding. http://
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by earl 14y ago
oh no -- don't hurt the extortionist's fee fees
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Facebook to launch giant bt/rtb ad network(bloomberg.com)
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by earl 14y ago
Most peoples' aversion to advertising ends the second they have to pay cash instead. Basing a business on advertising is a rational response. Remember the incredible tantrum on HN when Chargify started charging money? As for the free user
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by earl 14y ago
I just did it to my account -- 2:11am PDT -- and I got the email.
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by earl 14y ago
Dynamic keyboard and method for dynamically redefining keys on a keyboard [1] [1] http://www.google.com/patents?id=SRQZAAAAEBAJ&printsec=f...
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by earl 14y ago
clicking glyphs on a screen and having a device speak the words the glyphs represent is patent worthy? It's a perfect parallel to ASL. And there's enough social utility that we should help companies gouge parents $8k a pop [1] instead of
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by earl 14y ago
I love this quote from the article: "I’m not going to apologize for the cost," Zimmermann told CNET, adding that the final price has not been set. "This is not Facebook. Our customers are customers. They’re not products. The
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by earl 14y ago
Yeah, except amazon has always had amazing customer service, at least for me. That said, I doubt I've spent less than $2k per year there any of the last 5 years since with prime amazon became the source of everything we used to buy at targ
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by earl 14y ago
At a guess: the author feels ripped off in the same way I feel ripped off when I buy an airline ticket and have to pay $25 to check a bag, $12 for a sandwich, etc. If amazon's fee is $4.50 they should say so instead of burying a cost almos
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by earl 14y ago
I think gp meant the big 4 state owned commerical banks: people's bank of china (pboc), construction, industrial + commerce, and agricultural [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_the_Peoples_Republic...
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by earl 14y ago
re #1 -- i'm going to take a stab in the dark: you're white Because "how it works" is indeed that people get randomly stopped because they have brown skin. For example, driving while black. You're white so you ignore this, but other peopl
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by earl 14y ago
@100k: cool screencast; thanks for sharing. What tool did you use to make it? I recently tried using screenr but had some issues... edited for grammar
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by earl 14y ago
The users already are getting tons of free content, and on the android platform, free apps.
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by earl 14y ago
:%s/instagram/instapaper/ thanks
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by earl 14y ago
I disagree. If someone is providing a free app, it's essentially a honeypot. For what? Who knows. Contrast with paid apps such as instagram or evernote or 37 signals: their business is to charge money. They have no interest in selling d
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by earl 14y ago
I need a bot to post this. If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. -- blue_beetle
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by earl 14y ago
How does the quantcast measurement not measure growth? Note it goes up and to the right...???
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by earl 14y ago
it's very difficult to monetize eyeballs without intent. If you're going to do that, you'd better do what fb did, and generate a fuckton [1] of pageviews. [1] Definition: lots and lots -- 1T / month in summer 2011 [2] [2] http://mashable.

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