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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
I think that Singapore is suffering from almost exactly the same problem as Vancouver, Canada. It's a fantastic city enveloped by the ocean and mountains, has world-class cuisine, and city planning that has a semblance of sanity to most obs
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
I don't think there was a dedicated one then (at least I never took time to look for them when I was a teen, more focused on whatever piqued my interest at that point) but you could find people requesting and filling requests for them throu
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
There are upskirt videos on youtube as well. I remember people trading them on AOL chatrooms, random popular forums, and Usenet before that. The only way you can stop it is by censoring the Internet, thus human thought. That's going to prov
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
When people stop buying cheap bric-a-brac with just-enough-for-youtube-480p integrated graphics from HP and Dell for 499.
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Not in the US, I'm assuming. My "triple play" in NC, US was $140, that's with 6Mbps internet (at the time), HD digital cable with no premium channels, and digital phone with unlimited calling in US and Canada. I "downgraded" to 30Mbit Inter
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
If that's not a joke, then you seriously need to look to other than 2 feet around you and and your own opinions to analyze a market.
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
No one is expecting Yogscast to be aired on NBC. But, how many kids you know watch Television in any quantity even approaching how much they surf and watch youtube on mobile and PC? That's the future of entertainment. Kids are getting endor
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
On the contrary, there are companies blossoming based on people doing "let's play". Youtube is filled with partners making incredible amounts of money doing "let's play" videos and frag highlight reels with dramatic music and editing. Any r
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
The difference is that there aren't 1 out 6 people (50 million) without health insurance in the UK and Canada. Another difference is that no one in the UK or Canada would ever have to go bankrupt trying to get that "fancy heart surgery" or
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"For some reason there is a perception that American schools are failing, but I don't see it in the data." It's been a linchpin to the ultra-conservative and libertarian arguments for "free market"-izing education in the US. The opinion bei
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
And, what if your wife also works? What if she makes, gasp , more money than you? You know, that's actually a thing, at least in a lot of industrialized countries that allow their female citizens to, you know, vote and learn stuff and driv
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
And, yet, you seem to be talking about developing for them in the past tense. There's a reason why Apple and Google are dominant now, and it's not just marketing, luck and timing. They've built fertile marketplaces that (especially) indepen
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Definitely. But that's the thing. GP said he only has G+ because he has GMail, but uses those other email workalike interfaces because they are superior products. Just pointing out that they work in strikingly similar ways to email.
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"I use Facebook to share and chat about photos." Which I'm sure you used to do in email. Smaller circle, same user task. "I use LinkedIn for recruiting." I still use email sometimes for that. Smaller circle, same user tasks (attaching resum
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
The irony is that most people use Facebook (and LinkedIn) as glorified publicly-facing email accounts with automatic reply-to-all and attachments set to auto-open and display in-line. The only thing added is a rudimentary voting system.
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
When the government regulates vice, the criminals go legitimate or get caught/killed doing more outlandish stuff. Look at California for just a taste of how it could be. Cartels can't push their outdoor mass produced garbage marijuana in Ca
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
In almost no category that I've sampled has Walmart ever been the absolute rock-bottom cheapest compared to several places (Big Lots, Dollar General, local grocery chains, Amazon... even Target, believe it or not). People, however, can't go
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"All of them had fan support and all of them failed in the marketplace" But the people who are most likely to buy it day one just did, on Kickstarter . Ouya just crowdsourced the customer, the product message, and the marketplace. "The que
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
WSJ has, from what I've seen of it, anyway, a thriving community of lively and animated discussion... as long as they post an article about President Obama or the Democrats.
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The Rise of Costs, the Fall of Gaming(notenoughshaders.com)
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Angola's Chinese-built Ghost Town(bbc.co.uk)
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
It lasted less than 6 months before they created the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, which instead of creating artificial scarcity bought the stocks and distributed it (some 600 Million pounds of grain, cotton, and meat) to impoverished
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Africa On the Rise(nytimes.com)
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"knowing that if I had a serious illness our cash flow would dry up" I will never in my life understand how Americans (myself included) can think this is, in any way possible , okay. Or, how, if we just moved it more toward private compani
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Japan does that, too. They have a big book doctors follow for every procedure. Their system is regulated, price-fixed, and universal.
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
"If Linus would get off his high horse about closed source drivers" ... then he would be Microsoft and Apple, and not an Open Source operating system developer, maintainer, producer, and evangelist. All his years of working openly and freel
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
Samsung is king, then ZTE, then Huawei, then Apple. But, China is filled with domestic brands that pepper the market with Android phones (Honor, Huawei, Lenovo, Coolpad) that bite at mostly Nokia's well-chewed heels.
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
So, the masses are stupid, VCs are smart. Stock brokers and investment bankers are the ones who truly caused every recession and the Great Depression. Oh, sure, poor and dumb people getting mortgages wasn't a very good idea, I totally agr
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
I agree with alot of what Cringely is implying, because current VC funding at every level (including YC) has been very cliquey. You simply can not with a straight face say that the only insanely great technology business ideas come out
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by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
I think the content question will never be solved as long as a) Cable companies put the squeeze on content owners to give them exclusive rights b) Netflix religiously clings on to both commercial-free and buffet-style pricing It's tricky.

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