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901.
by forensic 17y ago
They're living in Silicon Valley now.
902.
by forensic 17y ago
Well I think Arrington is actually profiting from increased traffic. Drama and gossip is good for a blogger's bottomline. He also has a lot of pride invested here. So yes, Arrington is out to destroy them, and he wants to send a message say
903.
by forensic 17y ago
He's supposed to be a journalist. It's a massive conflict of interest and in traditional media would be a breach of professional ethics.
904.
by forensic 17y ago
Not true in any country. All countries recognize oral agreements as legally binding contracts.
905.
by forensic 17y ago
I don't understand what we're supposed to do with 500 twitter feeds. Surely you don't read all those? And to be perfectly honest, I usually can't stomach reading to the end of the typical TechCrunch article, let alone reading an entire week
906.
by forensic 17y ago
Fuck. I had no idea I was so uncool until I read this rant. Apparently being an entrepreneur means reading the marketing soundbytes of over 1000 twitter feeds. I guess the media likes twitter because they can just write headlines and omit t
907.
by forensic 17y ago
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl
908.
by forensic 17y ago
We need to use this to pressure giant marketers so they will pressure ISPs to improve net performance.
909.
by forensic 17y ago
I think this poll has two options. 1. Yes 2. Comedy option that people only vote on out of sarcasm/irony Everyone borrows. But there is some fine line where borrowing becomes plagiarism. Not everyone plagiarizes.
910.
by forensic 17y ago
I think that is true for the great mass of men, but I think there is a minority of people willing to pay good money for high quality, ad-free content.
911.
by forensic 17y ago
The fact that you are posting on HackerNews means you are minimum ten times the value of the people you are criticizing. Those people are being brainwashed to do those things because people like you (ie. the strongest and smartest in societ
912.
by forensic 17y ago
I'm a computer nerd, so I don't say this often: These pictures are breathtaking. They remind me of gothic cathedrals, but more stimulating, deeper, and even more beautiful. Knowing they are mathematically generated gives me a feeling not un
913.
by forensic 17y ago
I wonder how often Russians launch ICBMs from submarines? I suppose they do regular tests?
914.
by forensic 17y ago
Carmageddon was such a great game. Just pure sandbox-style fun factor from start to finish. At least half of the fun of GTA came out of copying carmageddon. I won't lie - when I first started driving at 15 years old, I had instinctive urges
915.
by forensic 17y ago
Hell of a lot of words to pretty much just recover, "Build something people need."
916.
by forensic 17y ago
I agree with you that that is what China's leadership wants. But it's almost impossible to estimate the kind of pressure that will be put on those leaders, when these 30million+ poor males start realizing they are not going to reproduce. On
917.
by forensic 17y ago
I think Murdoch wants publicity more than anything, and you don't get publicity by attacking small things. The only reason Murdoch's google-attack made the news is because google is so popular.
918.
by forensic 17y ago
How many poor, rural, Chinese men have that option? It will be the poorest Chinese who go without mates. They are the most violent and the most dangerous, and no country is capable or willing to support the immigration of literally millions
919.
by forensic 17y ago
The most efficient use of excess males is war. The most efficient solution to an excess of geriatrics is euthanasia. (Baby boomers should be worried about this.) These are bitter pills to swallow. Chinese social planners are not fools. They
920.
by forensic 17y ago
>The second you give women the opportunity to work instead of raise a pack of squalling children, they seem to prefer work. Debatable. Women in the West were forced into work due to declining wages. A single income was no longer enough
921.
by forensic 17y ago
If you do online checkin and don't check any bags...
922.
by forensic 17y ago
>Why would they intentionally make it difficult to compare prices when travel agents and price comparison sites make it easy? Most people don't know about these sites. AA makes money for every person who is clueless. And there are many.
923.
by forensic 17y ago
Not having a keyboard is a good idea. The keyboard is a waste of space. It should just have bluetooth so you can hook up a keyboard if you want. They have all this hardware... it wouldn't be hard to turn it into something good. That's why I
924.
by forensic 17y ago
WhatWhatWhat?! I thought I made it clear you could assign as much money as you want to particular articles. And the amount of money assigned would obviously be used in some algorithm as a kind of sliding scale vote?
925.
by forensic 17y ago
Yep that's why I said "almost" I had The Economist in mind :P
926.
by forensic 17y ago
You can aggregate without it being free. Imagine a website that does news aggregation. To access the website, you have to pay $10 per month. For this $10 per month, you have the right to read all of the news posted on the website. The websi
927.
by forensic 17y ago
That applies to news but not necessarily to in-depth reporting. Murdoch is right that people will pay for quality. But there are almost zero commercial writing institutions that produce quality.
928.
by forensic 17y ago
Evolution created the wheel by evolving humans who would create the wheel.
929.
by forensic 17y ago
I guess I just don't understand wtf the point of this thing is when the Archos 9 is on sale for $499
930.
by forensic 17y ago
physics rarely matters for MMOs. The biggest MMOs like wow have almost no physics at all - just gravity and occasionally a single force vector being applied to a perfectly rigid, non-rotating object in a frictionless environment.

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