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   by estel 15y ago

   Ok, how about considering a different demographic: China. IE6 remains by far the most popular desktop web browser in China (Statcounter [1] says 50% of the market). If my site is targetting a Chinese audience, IE6 support is a must and no
2. 512.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   Alzheimer's is such a horrible disease. The prognosis for cancer has improved incredibly over the last few decades; it would be nice to see some funding re-prioritised for Alzheimer's.
3. 513.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   Genuine question: are these repeats a bad thing? When the articles appear simultaneously it's obviously a pain to have discussion fragmented, but if they're appearing distinctly, is it such a bad thing if people are discovering something ne
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   by estel 15y ago

   Or better yet, Erdős number.
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   by estel 15y ago

   How does this fit with the linked article, where the lady in question claims her personal liason at the company hadn't even contacted her in a month? How does that possibly match up with "doing everything they could be doing to help this wo
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   by estel 15y ago

   For contracts, I think carrier-subsidised handsets are significantly more popular than the cheaper handset-free ones; but both are widely available (a contract of, say, £30/month will be half that price if it excludes the handset). More pop
7. 517.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   The discussion was here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813118
8. 518.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   > EDIT: downvotes for trying to explain myself diligently for you guys, thanks... Perhaps people are just passing along the torment.
9. 519.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   I doubt I'm the only one that was interested in using AirBNB with their growing traction and successes. No way will that happen now. It's hard to imagine how they could have handled this worse.
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    by estel 15y ago

    That looks like a personalised result, especially with the google.ca underneath. My UK Chrome incognito result has BBC, Wikipedia (World Wide Web), Wikipedia, Facebook and... uhh... Radisson Blu hotels.
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    by estel 15y ago

    The article has been updated with information from Brian Chesky where he clarifies that AirBNB have offered financial compensation and are trying to go "above and beyond".
12. 522.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    I imagine it's possible, but there's probably a whole mountain of paperwork and cost involved in insuring property in various countries.
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    Why European VCs are lean, mean and more extreme(gigaom.com)

    4 points by estel 15y ago|0 comments
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    by estel 15y ago

    Well, ignoring the atypical nature of the HN crowd: most people, really. According to the BBC [1] the average (non-startup founding...) person spends 28 hours watching TV per week. That's plenty of time to do play games. [1] http://www.bbc
15. 525.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    I've seen a few decent attempts at this. Particularly the Guardian [1]. [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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    by estel 15y ago

    I don't think it's fair to say it's "yet another FPS". I think that people who only play Indie titles are missing out just as much as those who only play huge AAA releases.
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    by estel 15y ago

    Given the subjectivity of "better", who wouldn't?
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    by estel 15y ago

    The other aspect you're missing is the probably somewhat larger energy consumption from non-residential properties. Wikipedia [1] says that the energy consumption of the US is 25,000 TWh per annum. Looking at the top rated comment and picki
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    by estel 15y ago

    By 2015, there will probably be three or four other buildings taller than the Burj.
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    How America just lost 1 million green(ish) jobs to Europe(grist.org)

    1 points by estel 15y ago|1 comments
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    by estel 15y ago

    www. works for me, * . doesn't. *.newsinternational.co.uk has that error uniformly.
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    by estel 15y ago

    The radio feature, incidentally, was disabled (temporarily ?) for the US launch. It's not been removed from the client internationally.
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    by estel 15y ago

    Edit 1736: removed all the used ones Edit 1740: all gone.
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    by estel 15y ago

    Ahh yes, that would explain it. http://www.spotify.com/us/get-spotify/free/ This table shows that it's only available for paid accounts.
25. 535.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    Second item in the left-hand navigation pane.
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    by estel 15y ago

    There's a Radio section. You can choose genres and decades, but nothing equivalent to an "Artist radio".
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    by estel 15y ago

    There are some great websites dedicated to sharing playlists around, particularly http://sharemyplaylists.com/
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    by estel 15y ago

    I (and I guess any other EU subscribers) have a number of invitations if anyone here wants to try the Free version before committing to Unlimited. Anyone interested in one? Edit: can only send if your email address is on your HN profile, of
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    by estel 15y ago

    Woah, 5%? Do you have a citation for that?
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    by estel 15y ago

    I imagine that the law would be interpreted to say that monkeys are not legally allowed to hold copyright, and the works in questions therefore have no copyright.