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by kgermino 16y ago
Yes and No. If you have a few options than your entire business won't come grinding to a halt but if half of your customers choose to use FB Connect as their login option than they likely don't care that FB's down, or that people with emai
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by kgermino 16y ago
Unfortunately its difficult to avoid relying on other businesses for crucial systems. Example: Payment Processing, try building a business, especially an online one, without depending on Paypal, or at least Mastercard/Visa. Sure you can red
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by kgermino 16y ago
I believe ez77 is saying to make it so that the 2 factor auth. comes every time you try to change your password whereas this seems to be designed to only be used the first time you use a computer with an account. I may be mistaken though.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Why the downvotes? As far as I can tell it was a polite reminder of the guidelines for headlines by someone who I would argue has been around long enough to say it (account age >400 Days). Not to mention that it was the first thing I
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by kgermino 16y ago
Just because he's a CEO and you don't find the articles interesting doesn't mean that he shouldn't be posting them. As it's been said HN is full of entrepreneurs who contribute massively to the site. If you have a problem with that mayb
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by kgermino 16y ago
1) Speaking as a customer I don't see any reason to offer a pro-rated refund, it's nice but I have no expectation of it, and so it doesn't bother me. However if your would rather going the refund route you may be better off letting people
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by kgermino 16y ago
One option is to regulate it. You could make it illegal to pick up someone on the street and regulate it so that most if not all meetups would occur either online or by someone calling a number they found in a phone book. I would think th
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WTO Rules That Boeing Received Illegal Subsidies(chicagobreakingbusiness.com)
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by kgermino 16y ago
I receive and usually read the Groupon emails even though I'm yet to actually buy anything, but I think that the emails are significant because they make it easy to share Groupon deals with friends. As I said I haven't actually bought anyt
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by kgermino 16y ago
Serious Question: Why does prostitution need to be illegal? In the U.S. it is *legal* to: Have random, unprotected sex with anyone you want Have sex with someone only if they take you out to dinner or give you a nice gift, as long a
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by kgermino 16y ago
Exactly, when Social Security was started it was expected that you would live into your early 60's, nowadays the average is about 75 and it's common to live past 80. Yet the retirement age has change very little in the last 70 years. Anecd
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by kgermino 16y ago
WRT your question about buying a book for half price that you can't resell it's been going on for a little while now with college textbooks. Case in point: my accounting textbook (a new edition) comes in three versions: a $200 hardback boo
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by kgermino 16y ago
Umm 2020? Interesting story though, and one more thing that would make me concerned about having a FB account.
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by kgermino 16y ago
IIRC Around 1995 (I thought '96 but could be wrong) emissions standards were made stricter and cars made since then need to have computers that monitor the emission systems.
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Jobs: Faster Boot Times Save Lives [1983](folklore.org)
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A Better Title Is All Very Well – But What About A Raise?(timharford.com)
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by kgermino 16y ago
It worked before, the only change is that now you don't have to set the iPod to Manual Sync. It's not a huge deal but it is much more convenient because after enabling manual sync on one computer the iPod would default to manual sync on al
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by kgermino 16y ago
Actually "readability" made it work.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Same problem here. Safari for iPhone.
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by kgermino 16y ago
I think the discrepancy here is stores for different countries. Go the the US store [1] and it says Can I buy an iPhone without an AT&T contract? No. iPhone requires a two-year AT&T wireless service contract as Groxx point
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by kgermino 16y ago
Probably not front-page worthy but upvote your comment as thanks for the link.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Interesting idea, although I think the slogan (Eat 'Em Like Junk Food) might be so corn that it turns kids off of the product. If you want to reach kids you have to speak their language and whens the last time you heard a 12y.o. say anythi
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by kgermino 16y ago
Iirc this is a website for a magazine. Most such websites use the date the article is printed as the publication date rather than the date the article becomes available online. Gotta love old media.
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by kgermino 16y ago
>(since almost everybody else in this thread who refuses to participate in the Apple lovefest is down -4 right now)... Don't lead with that crap. I usually stop reading when I see that. Also its good to have the voice of reason but a
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by kgermino 16y ago
I think I'm more likely to use these "tells" to know if someone I'm investing in is lying. Though to be fair I work in a small company where I know my boss very well so the point probably don't apply.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Every image is an independent event so the likelihood of a bird appearing in a specific image is unrelated to how long the camera is up. However the likelihood of the bird appearing in any of the images the camera has taken depends on the
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by kgermino 16y ago
However you will also note that budget restrictions are self-imposed by state law or state constitutions, which would likely be rewritten as the states took over more social services. Another reason that I like the idea of states and local
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by kgermino 16y ago
Very interesting. I would love to see someone build something similar for other cities, perhaps overlaid with Points of Interest and mass transit lines. I think it could be made to be useful for tourists and people who are new to an area.
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by kgermino 16y ago
I'm not sure that this is a promo for IE8 so much as a promo for Amazon's IE8 toolbar. Especially if when you saw this page you were running IE8.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Actually if your primary interest is online streaming netflix offers unlimited streaming in their 8.99 a month plan, a bit less than hulu.

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