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by harmonicon 12y ago
I have always wanted Amazon to have a store so I can play with their kindle products before pulling the trigger. Hopefully this deal can make that happen.
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by harmonicon 12y ago
Urh, anyone think Amazon might buy them? It would be nice for Amazon to have a physical store to demo Fire products.
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by harmonicon 12y ago
"It's strange to imagine now, but prior to the 1920s, city streets looked dramatically different than they do today. They were considered to be a public space: a place for pedestrians, pushcart vendors, horse-drawn vehicles, stree
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by harmonicon 12y ago
I didn't understand the Chinese wall reference in the pro automobile cartoon. Thought it was interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall
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by harmonicon 12y ago
I guess my question is, since you are employee #2, why are you not any of the guys you have named that "takes care of things". Like, it would be pretty normal for you to be that VP of engineering or Engineering manager. Have you s
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by harmonicon 12y ago
What would you suggest the workers do? Striking collectively until all business owners agree to pay more wage? How much more? What is fair? I would think a federal law is the best way to solve the problem while avoiding repeating the messy
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by harmonicon 12y ago
Also I feel like this article just reflect a familiar trend across all US labor market: Winner takes all. The people at the top always take a disproportionate amount of the overall resources. In manufacturing it's the CEO vs the assemb
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by harmonicon 12y ago
My first college major was biology. I was determined to become a "scientist", inspired by all the giants I learned about in high school. I immediately found a job working in a lab after getting to college. However, I quickly becom
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by harmonicon 12y ago
Can you post a link to the picture of the side vents? I thought all rMBP has vents in the screen hinge area. Also does this feature exist on 15" rMBP too?
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by harmonicon 12y ago
Every heating issue I had with my T420 is solved by opening up the laptop and thoroughly cleaning with compressed air. It will stays good for a few years until the dust gathers up again.
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by harmonicon 12y ago
Open office is by no means a new thing Google invented. It existed a long, long time ago. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/04/23/opinion/23rfd...
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by harmonicon 12y ago
I would say it's more like the commoditization of the potential to extract profit from human beings. It is hard to blame the big Co though; most people happily give up information voluntarily for the services the websites provide. I am
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by harmonicon 12y ago
The story is told from a very critical angle and I wonder if there are another less the-sky-is-falling side. On the other hand, I did not think yahoo.com got better (yes i am a frequent user): - Yahoo mail actually got worse. 2 Years ago th
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by harmonicon 12y ago
I have to say I rather like it that way but I guess I am not the target user group for such accessibility features.
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by harmonicon 12y ago
I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates because of his philanthropic efforts. However, I am very skeptical of the consumption tax argument. To me that sounds like a sales tax and sales tax is regressive. i.e. Tax on French baguette hits the
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by harmonicon 12y ago
What 2009 film is this? Sorry I am a movie illiterate.
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by harmonicon 12y ago
"the sites where men are most dominant – Wikipedia and Reddit – are on the whole very dry and text-based. ...The sites where women predominate ...Pinterest is full of gorgeous, nourishing images uploaded by contributors." While I
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by harmonicon 12y ago
I always thought "turnstyle" and its variants ("turn-style" in this post) are misspellings of the word turnstile. However I have seen it quite a lot online in different articles. Is "turnstyle" actually a diffe
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Sprint and SoftBank Back Away From T-Mobile US(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by harmonicon 12y ago|0 comments
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by harmonicon 12y ago
In a capitalist society, the key to "a good life" is passing a certain threshold of capital accumulation. The poor, not having much to begin with, has to constantly fight this uphill battle of trying to save more money, of finding
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Critics Point to Drawbacks in Starbucks Tuition Program(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by harmonicon 12y ago|0 comments
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by harmonicon 12y ago
"Have you any idea how lucky you are that we got to you before you got on that plane?" I think the German police officer was right. If you got arrested on US soil, (your side of) the story could have been very, very different.
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by harmonicon 12y ago
Turned it off years ago. Thank goodness.
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by harmonicon 12y ago
So the constant cry by the government for better STEM programs is just a sham? It should be just renamed to TEM.
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by harmonicon 12y ago
While economic development are very important, I hope Mr. Modi will not bend over backward for business interests just to return the favor. Excessive corporate tax cuts and environmental damage all set back the lives of the "lay people
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by harmonicon 12y ago
In my case, my new number (for my android phone) is associated with someone else's iPhone. I could not de-authorize that person's iMessage token. I handpicked that number but had to give it up thanks to iMessage's implementat
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by harmonicon 12y ago
This happened to me when I got my android phone with a new number. When my friends with iPhones texted me, the text always shows up as iMessage and I would never receive it. The thing is, I have not owned ANY smartphone before this one. My
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by harmonicon 12y ago
I really enjoys the mindless strolling the article talks about. Assuming most people work 9-5, you can only take such walks in the morning or at night. Unfortunately, taking a solitary walk in my (US) city at those times is simply not safe
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by harmonicon 12y ago
Does an ad-free, data-collection free and paid subscription based version of Facebook has any chance in the market?
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by harmonicon 12y ago
I am very dismayed at news that Facebook acquired Moves. That's one less app I will be using on my phone. However I have to stop to think is this just a knee-jerk reaction? Most of my friends, when I talk to them about how much informa

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