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by netfire 14y ago
You make a valid point given the current system, but the government mandated system of limited medallions seems like an unnecessary barrier to entry and prevents small (and perhaps more innovative) companies from competing in the market. (w
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by netfire 14y ago
Plenty of industries are subject to local and federal government regulation, but that doesn't mean they should be protected from competition. Where does the motivation to provide good service at competitive rates come from if you are protec
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by netfire 14y ago
+1 for full-res screenshots. I like to see what I'm getting before having to create an account and download an app.
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by netfire 14y ago
Like the concept. Just submitted 4 reviews and haven't got one back for my site after 15 mins. Any way of shortening the queue to provide a quicker reward for my critiques would be awesome. It'd also be nice to see your site's screenshot to
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by netfire 14y ago
Seems like a strange move by Google. Most small or starting businesses don't need a 25GB inbox (at least not every user) or 24/7 tech support. Why create the barrier to entry? Now people with businesses will be more likely to use personal G
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by netfire 14y ago
I like the concept but the product doesn't seem to work well (at least the free version), perhaps due to HN traffic. I can't connect to most websites and the ones I can connect to take a long time. As for your website, I agree with some of
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by netfire 14y ago
Sooner or later, we'll have to in order to compete with other nations. The problem is that it will eliminate jobs, which is unpopular. We seem stuck on preserving jobs in certain industries, regardless of whether the economy is better off w
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by netfire 14y ago
Yes, printing is part is a problem, but I just don't see the advantage of being able to explore a model using the augmented reality technology instead of just using your mouse or finger to rotate the model on the device itself. Interesting?
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by netfire 14y ago
Although the Augmented Reality part of the 3D models may be fun or interesting, its not particularly useful and may be annoying if you use it often (where did I put that marker paper again?). Seems like a direct interaction with the 3D mode
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by netfire 14y ago
A few things bug me with the site design - The header background at the top of the page seems strange, not exactly sure what it is (wood logs?). It makes the white text harder to read and doesn't seem consistent with the feel of the rest of
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by netfire 14y ago
The chances are very low that a national popular vote would be so close that counting or not counting dimpled/pregnant chads would make a difference. Lets also not make the assumption that the same people would vote in an electoral election
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by netfire 14y ago
Seems a bit extreme. Other parts of the US have significant problems to deal with as well. The west coast (earthquakes), midwest (tornados and drought), south (hurricanes) and northeast (snow) all have problems which cost lots of money (som
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by netfire 14y ago
I would prefer that the government not sell ad space at all. (The reason a subway should be built is to transport people from one place to another, that's what you are paying taxes for). The main point I was trying to make is that we should
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by netfire 14y ago
We should be careful to not limit other rights in protecting the right of free speech. I defend the right of people to express their opinions, views, thoughts, etc in society, but I also believe you must have balance and allow people to cho
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by netfire 14y ago
This link posted says they are looking to rename Personas to something different, but it doesn't look like its actually happened yet (or what it will be called). Given that the getpersonas.com website is still calling them Personas, I'd say
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by netfire 14y ago
The main problem seems to be the lack of competition due to restricted infrastructure. In a lot of areas in the US, you only have one company that provides service to the area you live in. In a situation like that, the provider has little m
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by netfire 14y ago
It's not the fact that they are competing with Uber, it's how. If your way of dealing with a competing business is to pass laws that shut that business down to preserve a monopolistic system, instead of competing on price and quality of ser
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by netfire 14y ago
I was wondering about the security as well. I would imagine it would make it easier for thieves to rob a house where they could turn off all the lights. Or turn on the lights and see if there is any reaction (to see if anyone is home).
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by netfire 14y ago
Although I agree that having things like ping-pong, nerf guns or free soda available does not guarantee that there is a good company culture, I don't think its means there is a bad one either. Regardless of whether the work is interesting o
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by netfire 14y ago
Agreed. Very cool. I do wish it had better integration with the web console though. It just seems strange when you pop-up the web console tab to have a JS prompt for entering javascript directly above a Browser prompt for controlling the br
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by netfire 14y ago
So you replace a bike helmet with something you wear around your neck instead. That seems less comfortable and more annoying that just wearing a normal helmet. Plus you could get a very comfortable helmet for much less than $600.
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by netfire 14y ago
I'm curious to know how this compares to other new aircraft testing, since there are already plenty of commercial companies in that space. Admittedly, spacecraft is a a bit different from normal aircraft, but something going horribly wrong
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by netfire 14y ago
Isn't a user's browser technically an intermediary? The browser reads html from an initial request and makes automated additional requests for images, javascript and css files, etc and then renders the page using its own rendering engine. T
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by netfire 14y ago
Same here. Doesn't bode well, does it?
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by netfire 14y ago
Using Captcha on an ad landing page to determine whether someone is bot seems like a bad idea. It would almost certainly increase the bounce rate on that page and you couldn't just say that people who didn't choose fill out the captcha were
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by netfire 14y ago
Although our current poverty situation may be due, in part to income inequality and policies that favor the wealthy. I think it has more to do with how we deal with poverty, which is essentially to throw money at the problem and hope it goe
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by netfire 14y ago
If this were a replacement to the current backscatter scanners, this would be more interesting. Since it doesn't seem like this would catch knives or other non-chemical weapons, this seems like yet another step at the airport that won't pro
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by netfire 14y ago
I had the same problem. I opened up multiple stories from Hacker News and had to click through each of the tabs find out where the music was coming from. Perhaps you could use some sort of javascript mouse event to detect actual user intera
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by netfire 14y ago
Yes the subdomain is different, but they both share the same domain (that's what I meant by site) and both have to deal with the same thing--your company. Seems like they should as close to one another in look and feel (and navigation) as p
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by netfire 14y ago
The whole navigation when on your blog seems confusing. If you click on the logo while on the blog, you get the blog home, but if you click the about link, you are taken to the main site with similar navigation (and a similar looking logo/l

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