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It’s Time for Microsoft to Reboot Office(wsj.com)
1 points by larrys 11y ago|1 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
In a similar way, Starbucks. Can't think of a time when I am in Starbucks and mom or dad is there with kids in tow. All future customers. Ditto for McDonalds obviously. SB is more significant to me only because McDonalds is a place you
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by larrys 11y ago
What is interesting is that in the US you have freedom of speech but that doesn't mean you can yell "fire" in a movie theater (as the example often goes). Otoh you have freedom of the press but there are little restrictions o
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by larrys 11y ago
Ref to HN in this article as a reason for the success: "The site has been nearly overwhelmed with traffic -- the founders won't disclose how much -- since going live on Friday. To announce their service, St. Sauver and Pollak init
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Website offers to cancel Comcast for $5 (ref to HN/YC)(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by larrys 11y ago|1 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
"it's that it's not worth my mental energy to debate whether to spend a nickel." Related in a way: How people can easily waste "energy" because it takes no "mental energy" to do so. Each time you tur
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by larrys 11y ago
"Who are these BGP admins?" Similar to my question. Who are they, how many are there, how do they communicate, is the fact that they have this power in itself some kind of risk?
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by larrys 11y ago
"disconnected from the Internet completely". Perhaps a blog post on exactly how that is done. And after what particular time would that happen and is that something that needs to be coordinated or??
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by larrys 11y ago
"or any other company" Any other company? You've named three. Truth is enterprise grade companies that serve the business market and don't give their products away for free or participate in a race to the bottom typicall
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by larrys 11y ago
"so that you don't have to travel." Or perhaps better actually where your attorneys are located?
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by larrys 11y ago
Here is one. My Porsche has a display which tells you the MPG. However the car display is consistently between 1 and 2 mpg better than what I calculate after filling the tank and doing the math. And I repeat it's consistently worse tha
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by larrys 11y ago
"it probably would be a good idea for him to mention there that he is the moderator of the site" I have mentioned that also in the past as I am sure others have. Likewise for sama, for pg, for that matter anyone else that is invol
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by larrys 11y ago
Reminds me of a joke that goes something like this. "If you never have sex (or maybe it was "if you cutoff your testicles"?) you will live an extra 10 years. And the punchline is "you call that living?". Why in the
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by larrys 11y ago
Well if there is editorial independence, will we still see posts for when YC companies are looking to hire people, where you can't leave a comment, I am guessing for fear of creating noise that is not helpful to the hiring process? And
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by larrys 11y ago
If I may ask, what is your last name, Dan?
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by larrys 11y ago
It would be nice if YC had a site (similar to triplebyte) searchable and sortable highlighting their startups, what they do and so on. For example I didn't know about your company until I read your profile. I would probably take a clo
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by larrys 11y ago
"It's a wonder they're as big as they are." Not really. Part of getting big is not sweating small details like this when you have a constant stream of customers coming in the door and using you (to make up for the unhapp
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by larrys 11y ago
So that's great but then you are doing part of the work that airbnb should be doing.
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by larrys 11y ago
"just that people need and deserve more income" You may be aware that there are people who specifically choose not to live in a high rent place such as San Francisco or Manhattan (as only two examples) because it is expensive and
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by larrys 11y ago
Ah yes. Operation "me loves you long time". Ref: Full Metal Jacket (link is a nsfw video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tce-THLUE
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by larrys 11y ago
Interesting theory actually. And so simple (and as academics say "elegant"). You have to wonder why the US isn't raining down "propaganda porn viewing devices" instead of leaflets. (I'm serious a self contained
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by larrys 11y ago
To pass the paywall: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
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Cyber Risk Isn’t Always in the Computer(wsj.com)
14 points by larrys 11y ago|2 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
This is actually pretty scary. It's as if they are stretching the truth for their own political purposes. Kind of like politicians do all of the time. Kind of like Rolling Stone does when playing loose and fast with the facts. It'
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by larrys 11y ago
"But to a broke college student, anything that costs more than a few hours of minimum wage =/= free." With all due respect to a college student today there are so many things you can do to make money that your professor could
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by larrys 11y ago
A multi user system that I bought in the mid 80's held a max of 4mb of memory and a max of 144mb hard drive. I think the memory was something like $4000 (in 80's dollars, that's close to $9000 today) for 2mb of memory. So tha
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Cyber Risk Isn’t Always in the Computer(wsj.com)
1 points by larrys 11y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
Thanks - I will but not just yet (a few reasons for that actually).
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by larrys 11y ago
Was through a barter exchange. So in other words the restaurant barters meals and gets "trade credits". The other participants barter either the products they are selling "plumbing supplies" or services "lawyer, acc
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by larrys 11y ago
I want a way to be able to use this with ssh rsync scp and so on to preserve legacy backup routines that are now in place. (Including on systems that you will not be writing b2 clients for like old versions of Solaris).

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