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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Good if these things become more acknowledged and more explicitly described, but I'm a little concerned about jumping to conclusions, which would reduce credibility from future "real" China hacks.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Shouldn't the example 640 x 480 image instead be labeled DCXL x CDLXXX?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Besides the abstract "engagement" to shore up retention, more friends increases the ad surface without requiring an increase in users. An advertiser can target to more users, some of whom they might not normally be able to identify as inter
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"That said, when Grandma first signed up at building-and-loan.com, she probably went to the correct site." When I first followed this thread, I had this same thought. And it's true for this scenario. Maybe it's even true for most bank custo
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Why do consumers have the right to their choice of form, channel and price?" I'm not saying they have that right, not beyond deciding to buy or not. I'm pointing out that some consumers do try to appropriate that right, and that's one indi
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Producer has the complete right over their product." I completely agree with you. "Piracy doesn't provide information." Everything is information. Some is more relevant than others, and relevance can be because you decide to treat it as re
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"I am surprised that this post reached top of hacker news." I sometimes upvote articles that I disagree with so that they'll live longer, because I want to see more discussion about them. Does anyone else do this?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
You're right that producers have the right to price. However, it's not just about price, it's also about being able to get a product in the form and through the channel that a consumer wants. This relates to the current argument about the a
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
This thread, plus the thread on the recent SC decision removing restrictions on corporate political spending, has caused me to change my mind. In that other thread I made a comment that was negative re the decision. After reading that other
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"That applies to PACs, too, as long as they aren't blatant fronts for corporate interests ..." What if the PACs are merely subtle, hard to detect fronts? :)
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Some researchers have argued that it is unfair to attack the IPCC too strongly, pointing out that some errors are inevitable in a report as long and technical as the IPCC's round-up of climate science." Yeah, especially if you willfully ig
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Having something to do, knowing what that is, and doing it.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The only thing worse than a rising population is a falling population.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"This is not how the world makes its copyright laws." Apparently it is.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"I predict 500 years from now people will remember him. They won't remember Bill Gates." That future is going to spring from this present, where N people use Windows and Word and know who Bill Gates is, but M people use emacs and know who R
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Actually corporations are more than people. This case is one data point. I can't imagine Harman Int paid facebook so much money to be noticable when it's added to their pile. We (many of us) just assume that a corporation has a right, stron
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I'm not so sure this was a hiring problem. It sounds like everyone he came into contact with treated him well, while he was in contact with them. The individuals who promised to get back were probably in chaos, and/or told to say exactly th
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
True, but still ...
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Why not use three circles with an orientation indicator?" ! "Or words?" !! That last is great. "Now, what sort of well-known symbols can we use to represent colors? Think. Think."
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
It's probably a little early for them to have given back. But eventually I would expect them to make available apps, services, etc. that they use to run SF, so that other cities can use them and contribute.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
How can you tell that that's an official facebook page, and not a joe-random-fan-of-facebook page? It looks like any other individual or entity page. I run in to this, for example, when I want to be a fan of a band or some other entity. Whi
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"If you say yes to anything I just asked, I will kill you." ... no?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Why not on Posterous or Flickr? Not everyone wants every post or photo to persist. Or, more practically: if this were convention or law, why would Posterous or Flickr be exempt? BTW I like this idea.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The HN title is different enough from the actual title to mean almost completely the opposite.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
... and all that Lucky Charm sugar gives you cancer of the semicolon.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
My ex-wife was not a native speaker, and I once asked her for the male end of an extension cord. Hilarity ensued.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
And executing processes.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I'm speechless, and the result of this decision will make that more so, relative to rich non-person corporations.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The overall theory becomes less believable with each "isolated incident." You can dismiss one or two, I guess, but eventually you have to wonder how many more isolated incidents there are going to be. You couldn't have made up a more alarmi
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
My thought too.

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