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by neworbit 16y ago
Maybe. He's likely to be more ruthless than Mubarak was, since he's not all that reliant on external support these days (whereas the US propped up the Mubarak gov't for quite a while). I give him longer than that.
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by neworbit 16y ago
We all moved to Silicon Valley and are working on our startups
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by neworbit 16y ago
ABBA? I recall them being the largest export Sweden had around that time, possibly next to Volvo. Yeah, I think I've earned the grey in my hair.
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by neworbit 16y ago
...what state are you in?
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by neworbit 16y ago
When a buddy of mine was having an obsessive time of it and begged me to save him from himself, I edited the .hosts file to redirect from wikipedia, reddit, and similar sites. It worked (but not as well as just dropping in on him at lunch,
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by neworbit 16y ago
As one major exception, Google looooooves PhDs
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by neworbit 16y ago
There seems to be a great deal of difficulty in implementing this in order to displace the "digital goods are free" problem. Building a multi-level-marketing system to displace conventional paid digital purchases is conceivable, but then im
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by neworbit 16y ago
keyboard kill for you
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by neworbit 16y ago
Yeah that isn't nearly as entertaining a comic book :)
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by neworbit 16y ago
LOL I like it. But in all seriousness the Android phones we have today are way better than our choices from back in that era, even the ones running dated 2.1 OS... curse you AT&T! Blackberry REALLY changed mobile phones. Then a lot of c
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by neworbit 16y ago
If you make it to Palo Alto, I'll buy you a cup of coffee, swap war stories, and see who I can introduce you to. Good luck to you no matter where your road takes you!
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by neworbit 16y ago
Depends where you live. If you're in California, ignore it. State law protects you pretty well.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Oh gawd yes. There seems to be some conception that Apple has nailed it with the iPad and competition is impossible. Gang, the devices we're going to be able to get in three years will make today's iPad look as useful as a brushed-metal fri
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by neworbit 16y ago
Based on this article, I have one piece of advice to anyone entreprenurially minded in North Carolina: Leave. If you have a tech startup idea, build a skeleton of it and come to San Francisco. Raise an angel round. Get connected to people w
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by neworbit 16y ago
That's a good summary, if perhaps a little down on the HN knowledge base than I'd suspect. For instance, I'm afraid I can tell you an awful lot about tinnitus but I would be happier if I hadn't had the occasion to learn about it.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Parent
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by neworbit 16y ago
First, remove your sugar crystals from the thermos of liquid nitrogen...
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by neworbit 16y ago
Yeah - it's full of really dated cultural references - I'm not exactly a spring chicken and Serutan meant nothing to me until I looked it up.
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by neworbit 16y ago
in a world where Comcast can buy NBC? Monopoly statutes might as well not exist.
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by neworbit 16y ago
I shouldn't wonder if then conveniently enough Apple follows on with a subscription service of their own...
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by neworbit 16y ago
David Brin wrote an interesting piece on this a few years back. I think Salon picked it up then, too. http://dir.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/12/17/tolkien_brin/ind...
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by neworbit 16y ago
Depends on the industry but that sounds great - are those paying conversions, signups to email, something else?
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by neworbit 16y ago
That's great. Should level the playing field a bit.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Only if you jailbreak it
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by neworbit 16y ago
Did anyone really think this was a surprise? Symbian? Not gonna do it. Nokia clearly bet the future on Meego, decided that it wasn't going to cut it, and hedged with WP7 instead of Android (because they weren't going to be competitive with
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by neworbit 16y ago
citation needed
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by neworbit 16y ago
Yeah, people give my friend David Davis crap all the time too. To be fair, he gave his parents at least as much crap.
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by neworbit 16y ago
...sounds like a nice daydream, but in real life, that would be pretty boring.
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by neworbit 16y ago
It means "we can cut staff and save billions"
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by neworbit 16y ago
they have more staff / their average revenue per employee is less - and junkies aside, lockin is less with farmville than with facebook

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