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nanokilo
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nanokilo
7y ago
On the other hand, if an airline offered these seats, I'd definitely choose them over the competition. Better seats might not drive more seat upgrades, but it might drive more traffic to your airline.
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nanokilo
7y ago
They’re offering privacy, yes, but not as a service. They’re still very much in the business of selling devices to their customers, and this business model is incidentally one of the main reasons they, unlike Facebook or Google, can afford
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nanokilo
7y ago
Forgive my naivety, but aren’t Whatsapp messages encrypted? If so, how can the authorities see what’s written in them?
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nanokilo
7y ago
Not quite the same though, since Epic and Steam don’t require paid subscriptions to access their content. The only difference now is that you’re buying some of your games from Epic instead of Steam.
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nanokilo
7y ago
Crazy to look back at that exchange between him and Drew Houston knowing what we know today about the success of Dropbox (which hadn't even launched at the time of that comment!). It's easy to look back at the "good old days
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nanokilo
7y ago
Drew Houston even replied to one of his comments in that thread suggesting possible collaboration, and this was while Dropbox was going through the Summer '07 YC program, before they had even launched. Crazy to look back and see how th
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nanokilo
8y ago
Do you have sources for all of these claims?
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8y ago
Population growth is actually slowing worldwide, and we face the very real possibility of a global population decline within the next century. You’re trying to solve a problem that is already “solving” itself.
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nanokilo
8y ago
If this works out, this has the potential to be huge for the industry. I would love to see more unionization in tech, and this could be a first step in that direction.
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nanokilo
8y ago
Of course lobbyists are behind the weakening of patent laws. Something really has to be done about the lobbying problem we have in this country.
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nanokilo
8y ago
That’s true, but do you have any examples that you can share with us? I’d be curious to read more about these companies and how they got to where they are.
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nanokilo
8y ago
It's a trend that seems to have started on Buzzfeed, and I've been seeing more and more blogs adopt this style over the past couple of years. I'm personally not a fan, as I feel it takes away from the content of the post, but
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nanokilo
8y ago
It's pretty interesting to see that even after all these advancements in technology and better-than-ever animated movies, the best way to tell a story to a child is still through a good old illustrated book.
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nanokilo
8y ago
Ah nice, kinda reminds me of Talk O'Clock, the P2P alarm clock network where people all over the world could call each other to wake each other up.
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nanokilo
8y ago
Thanks for sharing! You'd think that with Apple's great Taptic engine, they'd have built haptic feedback into the touch bar by now.