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by grhino 14y ago
And it's not even clear to me what additional financial gain they are getting from most of the geo-blocking shenanigans.
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by grhino 14y ago
Isn't the look of Olark customizable? I guess it depends upon how much work you want to put into it.
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by grhino 14y ago
I assume Steam will let you view it on any computer where Steam is installed and you are logged in.
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by grhino 14y ago
And then some blu-rays still include unskippable advertising anyways. It makes me feel like I cannot actually purchase content. I can only pay for the privilege of watching advertisements + content.
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by grhino 14y ago
I'm guessing the relationship Meebo has built with its customer base is more important than the technology.
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by grhino 14y ago
Or Bing doesn't even fall on Microsoft Entertainment's radar. I would expect the fiefdoms to defend their own turf.
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by grhino 14y ago
In a peer-to-peer network, it may be the case that 10 peers each share 1/10 of a file to 10 other peers. Would each of the sharing peers hold full responsibility for sharing the file even though technically they only delivered 1/10th of it.
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by grhino 14y ago
If your competition is the one that you have to give away your 30% to, maybe your competition is rigging the game?
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by grhino 15y ago
If nursing and primary education were the glamorous professions where the next generation of billionaires were coming from, there might be more clamoring.
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by grhino 15y ago
It's also possible that word hasn't spread enough among potential foreign travelers of the pain of the U.S. Border control. A lot of foreign travelers to the US may have not experienced recent border control at all, and so they decide to tr
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by grhino 15y ago
You can get away with a less than stellar design if your app provides a lot of utility in an under-served niche. Group messaging is not an under-served niche
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by grhino 15y ago
Yep, my understanding is that DNA damage is unavoidable and will eventually lead to cancer. The repair mechanisms for DNA are eventually outdone by the damage mechanisms. Improving the efficacy of the repair mechanisms for DNA could end up
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by grhino 15y ago
Yeah, the addition of Google in the title feels like link bait, although the author may not have intended it that way. It would have been more honest with email in place of Google. Honestly, stuffing letters into file cabinets makes me crin
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by grhino 15y ago
There are hidden costs to increased airport security. Money spent on increased airport security could be spent elsewhere. The expected cost of a unwanted event should be less than or equal to the expected cost of preventing that event. The
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by grhino 15y ago
I question the value of all vice laws. My brother is wasting his life as an alcoholic. Our current drug policy didn't help him or my family. I have no interest in gambling, drinking, using currently illicit drugs, or prostitution. My drug u
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by grhino 15y ago
Our current drug policy is already a large tax burden. The budget for the DEA alone is $2 billion. I imagine the imprisonment, local law enforcement, and court costs associated with our drug policy dwarf that number. If you are interested i
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by grhino 15y ago
Is that the reason why pixel tracking is used because other requests might be cached? When viewing a page, the browser client may just pull the page from cache and not make a request to the server? A 1x1 gif is small, static, and downloaded
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by grhino 15y ago
It could be a net gain for Microsoft if the Windows developer community begins to embrace github. As long as the most talented in the community don't leave the Windows platform, it could lead to a more vibrant and productive Windows develop
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by grhino 15y ago
MPEG-LA needs to keep Microsoft as a customer. Your biggest customer often has more influence on your business model than your smallest customer. If Microsoft can show they are willing to make moves to no longer be a customer of MPEG-LA, MP
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by grhino 15y ago
A lot of what people consider "talent" is arguably due to the right upbringing and social connections.
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by grhino 15y ago
Good catch. I kept reading it as K*(1/(1-uptime)) and carelessly left it out.
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by grhino 15y ago
K*(1/1 - uptime) = K/(1-uptime)
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by grhino 15y ago
How did you first find out about the next show z that you want to watch? Content distributors know that often some is introduced to their next show z while watching x on y. They want to make y one of your dedicated content discovery places.
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by grhino 15y ago
Microsoft had slowly moved their way into the video game business. The PC had become a popular gaming platform by 1995, and Microsoft made a commitment to building a first-class video game platform/SDK, DirectX. Microsoft eventually decided
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by grhino 15y ago
It does a lot of initialization while populating the context menu for the first time. It really gives the wrong first impression on UI latency.
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by grhino 16y ago
I agree with what you say, but I know a ton of users that run PHP on windows. I think there are a class of developers who prefer to development on Windows but deploy on *nix.
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by grhino 16y ago
Great point. Right now, doctor's have to charge twice what they expect to be reimbursed by insurance companies. So, an individual who chooses to buy health care without a health insurance provider has to pay twice what doctor's even expect
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by grhino 16y ago
The experimental procedures he went through gave little additional support for his argument than simply stating: "I noticed I sleep better when I stand on one leg for a while". The statistical analysis of the study does not provide any addi
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by grhino 16y ago
Mozilla is trying to position FireFox a as superior alternative to IE9. Therefore, there's no cognitive dissonance at all with Mozilla saying that 1) IE 9 is worse than Firefox because it doesn't run on XP and 2) IE 9 isn't really modern wh
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by grhino 16y ago
I think when folks are saying the most exciting feature is the 'smart covers' they are using hyperbole. They haven't gotten a chance to touch and use the iPad 2 to determine speed improvements or OS improvements. If they already have an iPh

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