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by hbosch 8y ago
VRs best chance at mass market adoption is still games and entertainment IMO. This is priced like a game console.
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by hbosch 8y ago
> Pick the culprit, time, and location. Then arrange the scene to exactly match the false accusation. Ah yes, but I logged on to Facebook at 8:12am and scrolled my news feed for a moment when I clicked a Chevrolet ad at exactly 8:15am (F
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by hbosch 8y ago
> what does another billion buy you, besides bragging rights? The only real way to look at wealth is through the lens of power and influence. In day-to-day life, is $250 million that much different than $1 billion? Probably not. But when
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by hbosch 8y ago
>I will say that I think he dismisses Snapchat's founders too quickly. Yes, they've been struggling, but they are trying to build a business rather than just integrate with an existing conglomerate. From yesterday: https:&#x2F
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by hbosch 8y ago
I haven't used it in a while, but wasn't this also the main differentiator between Unity and Unity Pro (or whatever the paid version was called)? It was an excellent motivator. :)
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by hbosch 8y ago
Alex Jones, every day, talks about how he wants to personally kill and mutilate the elite global cabal of Jewish child-raping Democrat subhumans. Alex Jones is a violent, abhorrent, slanderous racist and peddler of distorted, hurtful propag
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by hbosch 8y ago
Whoa, I definitely think you’re over-rotating on this. No, I don’t think the cake shop was right to discriminate. This example is more like: Do I think it’s okay for a cake shop to refuse baking a cake for someone who comes into the shop ev
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by hbosch 8y ago
It's OK to be inconsistent, because tech companies aren't governments and their rules aren't laws. They are allowed to control their platform however they want. Everyone is welcome to create their own "free-er" Twit
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by hbosch 8y ago
Because when you pay an extreme amount of money for something, you are automatically biased towards liking it.
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by hbosch 8y ago
As much as I want this to be true, there is (in my experience) an observable difference between product designers and product managers when it comes to understanding technical and business problems... especially in communicating with engine
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Amazon hires a star cardiologist to help its push into health(cnbc.com)
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by hbosch 8y ago
You can’t just buy the shares back. Sometimes shares aren’t for sale. If I have 100,000 shares, you can’t just buy them from me — I have to sell them to you. You have to target high in order to entice shareholders to sell.
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by hbosch 8y ago
I agree with the other posters, he looks incredibly out of it here...
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by hbosch 8y ago
I live in Seattle and have never heard of “Ketron Island”, the location of the crash. Cursory googling shows that the 220 acre island is privately owned, and only 17 people live there. Of all the land masses to hit in the area, that one is
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by hbosch 8y ago
> It's a cheap and nasty way to make companies look/feel uncaring about the issue being reported, but imho it does nothing but reflect poorly on the reporter and publication using these smelly tactics, and leaves me wondering w
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by hbosch 8y ago
Here's one better: I want to filter out an artist from ever appearing in my playlists. I would love to block artists from my music universe.
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by hbosch 8y ago
> Sometimes it is better NOT to apply technology to a problem. Let's NOT make this easier to accomplish. I am happy that most people don't think this way.
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by hbosch 8y ago
A flight time of 2.5 hrs is realistically 4.5 hours when you add in security, boarding, deboarding, getting a taxi on the other end...
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by hbosch 8y ago
Sorry sir, we can’t let you through customs until you Accept the U.S. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
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Spotify users request refunds after over-the-top Drake promotion(engadget.com)
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by hbosch 8y ago
In my opinion, not only is it fair but it’s important that all ads — particularly political ads — are transparent in this way. This transparency is a public good for media literacy. Marketing is manipulation and often people don’t notice
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by hbosch 8y ago
As an aside, Etsy has really more hurt themselves. There is a conversation upthread about counterfeits on Amazon — Etsys problem is the flood of generic Chinese goods on sale as “handmade”.
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by hbosch 8y ago
By creating a Facebook account you should assume they have your permission.
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by hbosch 8y ago
You might enjoy this video. It’s part humor and part technical discussion on how his talking “Banana” bot was brigades by users on Twitch in an effort to make him say racist words and phrases. After he got a strike on Twitch, he patched the
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by hbosch 8y ago
Day traders are people who trade the same equity within the span of a single day, basically, or that’s the definition at a brokerage. If you were to flip an equity a couple times in a single day often enough, you’ll be labeled a “pattern da
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by hbosch 8y ago
“Forced membership” is a way to maintain the union’s power.
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by hbosch 8y ago
And yet... imagine my abashment when I sit down for my 5 hour flight across the country and suddenly realize the airplane TV's don't support bluetooth.
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by hbosch 8y ago
I think it's obvious Apple just sees their ideal customer to be totally wireless. AirPods, Apple Watch, iPhone X. It's hard to argue against the convenience of this kind of system, but it's a very narrow funnel that naturally
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by hbosch 8y ago
Believe the parent is referring to the iconic and world famous Google Doodles.
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by hbosch 8y ago
Amazon Prime doesn’t lock people in. That’s like saying a Costco membership stops people from shopping at other stores.

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