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by gkanai 9y ago
VLC for iOS can do that now afaik.
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> that's some serious growth in maturity My issue is that Zuckerberg has been apologizing about privacy lapses at his firm since the inception of the firm. His company's business is built on sharing the data of the users. I am
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by gkanai 9y ago
That URL is 404 atm. Stephenson's "Mother Earth, Mother Board" is the longest article in Wired afaik. It is a masterpiece.
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by gkanai 9y ago
Instead of shaming the OP for ignorance, you should be contacting the OP and providing this information before it ever got to the point that this blog post was needed. The shame should be on Amazon's side.
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by gkanai 9y ago
America wants Japan to take responsibility for more of Japan's own military defense. So the US wants changes to Article 9 as well. Trump moreso than Obama even.
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by gkanai 9y ago
From a non-rider's perspective, the difference between a loud Harley and a loud Ducati is the same- both obnoxious. Only riders would be able to tell the difference. Harley has made racebikes in the past, both flat track as well as tra
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by gkanai 9y ago
Fire treated wood is called 'shou-sugi-ban' in Japanese and is occasionally used in commercial and residential applications. Fire treated wood has the benefit of being naturally fire-resistant, insect resistant, and water/rot
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by gkanai 9y ago
I just am not impressed by this. Maybe I need to hear it in action?
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by gkanai 9y ago
Retail with no employees was done in China last year, fwiw: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608104/in-china-a-store-o...
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Scott Galloway Says Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Should Be Broken Up(youtube.com)
2 points by gkanai 9y ago|1 comments
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Ben Thompson who writes Stratechery, which is often posted here, had a piece on Net Neutrality a few weeks ago which was quite controversial. Thompson is pro neutrality, but anti-title II. https://stratechery.com/2017/p
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by gkanai 9y ago
He left NYU Shanghai earlier this year to move back to NYU Manhattan.
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by gkanai 9y ago
Shirky cites Joseph Tainter. If you want to hear from Tainter directly, which is the podcast that has kept me up at night, listen to this: podcast (en) – omega tau science & engineering podcast 184 – Societal Complexity and Collapse ht
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by gkanai 9y ago
> Time to switch to Android. Fwiw, the CEO of Google was at the same event. So... no difference.
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Blue Apron's CEO is out(businessinsider.com)
11 points by gkanai 9y ago|0 comments
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by gkanai 9y ago
This is indeed a bad black mark on Apple. With all the money they have, it's terrible that they let this one slip by. I'm still on 10.12 Sierra. Long ago I stopped major updating when those releases were new. I learned to wait mon
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by gkanai 9y ago
Having lived in countries that separate access/transport from bits, this is the way to do it (UK, Japan, etc.) Transport is like water or electricity - it should be provided like a public utility. Internet services should be competitiv
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by gkanai 9y ago
See also: "The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still [in 2016] the richest families in Florence" https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...
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by gkanai 9y ago
"No, AWS did not sell its business in China and remains fully committed to ensuring Chinese customers continue to receive AWS’s industry leading cloud services. Chinese law forbids non-Chinese companies from owning or operating certain
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by gkanai 9y ago
> I would have rather seen the founder not sell. You're not in his shoes. He has investors that probably pushed him to sell when they all saw that growth had plateaued. Selling gives the founders and investors all 'wins.'
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by gkanai 9y ago
> Technology has a much bigger impact on the daily life there Why do you say that? Fax machines are still in regular use in Japan, as are flip phones.
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by gkanai 9y ago
This is, afaik, the longest article ever published in Wired. It is one of the most iconic tech articles ever.
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Yuri Milner says he was not working for Russia to turn social media against U.S(recode.net)
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Trump commerce secretary's business links with Putin family laid out(theguardian.com)
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I thought it wasn't the weight so much as it was the Pan-Am markings.
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China has the same problem the US has. BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) control most of the Internet in China. So China only enforces the claims that NYT makes, at least for the China market.
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I will also recommend this episode and the entire Layovers Podcast if you enjoy aviation travel.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/china-congress-censorship/te...
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> Or is toutiao already working with the Chinese government closely? Every Chinese social media app/company has to follow the Chinese censorship rules, so yes. Toutiao has an army of censors working to censor the content. https:&#x
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by gkanai 9y ago
That is impressive! More incentive to become a Dreamhost customer.

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