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by jm4 8y ago
It was reported that Assange had a “panic button”. The report said that he had directly threatened the government of Ecuador with with retaliation if anything happened to him. I don’t have a link handy, but it shouldn’t be hard to find. The
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by jm4 8y ago
Do you know anything about Java? I'm not trying to be insulting. Java has its problems, but your points are so far off the mark. Applets haven't been a thing for 20 years and I'm not sure they were a thing then either. Do you
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by jm4 8y ago
I get the sense that his response is more about principle and not getting pushed around by some sleazeball hack posing as a journalist than it is about avoiding personal embarrassment. Bezos is secure in his professional life. Whether or no
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by jm4 8y ago
That only stops the next episode in a show from automatically playing when the current episode ends. It doesn't get rid of the obnoxious autoplay previews when you are browsing.
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by jm4 8y ago
Not exactly true that advertising allows publishers not to pander to a specific audience. A couple times every year we see advertiser boycotts demanding some host be fired because he or she said something a part of the audience didn’t like.
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by jm4 8y ago
Not really. It’s a fairly short list of organizations with the means and the motivation. If you’re already spying on them it’s not hard to pick up on changes in communication, movements or even catch them red handed on a recorded line.
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by jm4 8y ago
They don't need to because if the creditors really wanted to limit retention bonuses then they would. They see it as an investment that they will get a return on by having key people around to run down the business in an organized way
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by jm4 8y ago
Someone on the margin of affording a rental in SF isn’t homeless. They live someplace else that costs less. Why should taxpayers foot the bill to build more homes with the goal of making SF marginally more affordable when there are plenty o
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by jm4 8y ago
You think people are homeless because there is not enough housing available in the city? How many homes do you think you could build on the same plot of land as a basketball arena? Several hundred? Maybe a thousand condos? That’s like spitt
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by jm4 8y ago
Never had that problem. I'm certainly not going to preemptively switch from iPhone to Android - which has a laundry list of its own problems far larger than the lack of a headphone jack - in order to avoid an issue that may or may not
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by jm4 8y ago
I couldn’t care less about those features. I’ve never met anyone who says they would buy a new iPhone if only it had those features. The problem is the iPhone has been so good for a few iterations now. There is absolutely no reason to buy a
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by jm4 8y ago
The whole point is for users to spend less time exploring so they don't realize the selection of decent content is actually quite limited. Netflix doesn't care if people don't like it as long as they keep paying for a subscri
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by jm4 8y ago
There is a lot more to it than those magic quadrants and articles that vendors send you. It’s not really fair to pick out an article or two and then say they are crap. It seems to be the cool thing to pick on them and most of the people tha
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by jm4 8y ago
It does with Dish/Sling. Fox has been blacked out multiple times on Dish. There is nothing inherently wrong with ATT or the fact that they own HBO that caused this. They want to raise prices and Dish doesn’t want to pay. This is how Di
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by jm4 8y ago
I have no idea. In any case, Jobs never would have allowed it. The iTunes Store has the optimal purchasing process that happened to be covered by Amazon’s patent. They took the cheap way out. That same UX morphed into the AppStore after the
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by jm4 8y ago
Us old timers remember what was happening at the time. It turns out it was an incredible deal for both sides. The 1-click patent didn't have a great deal of credibility at the time. Many people in the tech industry were railing against
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by jm4 10y ago
Don't buy the Vive for virtual desktop unless you don't care about your money. I have the Vive and it's awesome for games. Virtual desktop is cool too, but it's not something you want to use for any length of time. It&#x
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by jm4 10y ago
Well, you could assume he meant "secure" in the same sense as many of us in the industry would interpret it today and conclude that he is a dimwit. Or you could read the sentence right before which gives the context for the use of
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by jm4 10y ago
Read the sentence right before that one where he says no one else reads his email. The implication is that he doesn't have an assistant screening his messages. His email is completely secure in the sense that it's a private one on
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by jm4 11y ago
Wrong. Read up on WARN. There are conditions where an employer is required to give warning and others where no notice is required. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
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by jm4 11y ago
Why in the world would I want to connect this to Facebook? You really need an option to sign up with email. Other than that... Very cool looking design. Looks like it would be interesting to try. I like the integration with other apps and s
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by jm4 11y ago
Amazon blasted out an email to early users a few days ago soliciting reviews so that could explain it. I have had Echo for 6 months and I imagine many of the other reviewers have as well. I got a 50% discount for being a Prime member. I&#x2
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by jm4 11y ago
I have been using one for a few months. It's still a novelty at this point, but it's a neat device. The voice recognition is great and it works from very far away. I can change songs or adjust volume from 20 feet away with no prob
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by jm4 12y ago
Unfortunately, Crashplan doesn't work on a Synology box. Even if you are willing to muck around in Busybox it still won't work because there is no inotify support. The best you can do is sync your Synology to a PC and then upload
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by jm4 13y ago
It's someone's job to know. I knew a buyer at a major office supply company. The buyers' responsibilities included occasional visits to the factories where suppliers made the products that were bought and then put on sale in
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by jm4 13y ago
I saw you make this argument elsewhere in the thread. Do you have a source? I would expect the opposite to be true- at least until drones become more prevalent. There is a lot more that goes into these systems than a model-sized self flying
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by jm4 13y ago
I would imagine the helicopter costs less than the drone.
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by jm4 14y ago
It would be interesting if Linus finally broke down and developed his own desktop.
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by jm4 14y ago
Unite was awesome. The problem is hardly anyone used Opera. A company like Facebook could actually do something with it. Imagine the possibilities for apps and games if a big chunk of Facebook users had it.
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by jm4 14y ago
I think you are missing the point. The whole conversation about what something should be trading at is stupid. It is worth what it actually trades at. If it wasn't worth the trading price then it wouldn't trade at that price. What it should

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