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by numair 8y ago
There’s been several lawsuits’ worth of material uncovering highly preferential treatment afforded to Spotify by Facebook, which both parties pretended didn’t exist. I’m sure a Google search can help you out with this one. As for your secon
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by numair 8y ago
You’re talking about the rank and file, my friend. I’m talking about people who had billions of dollars on the line.
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You might have forgotten this because the market has copied almost everything they’ve done, all of their aesthetic choices, etc — Apple creates products that are highly, highly opinionated. The Apple consumer isn’t buying access to a generi
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by numair 8y ago
Maybe he was on his way to the airport. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/07/google_bed_plane/
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by numair 8y ago
The fact that this guy is writing this open letter on behalf of the governor’s office, and seems to believe we still live in a 2008-esque Change-We-Can-Believe-In view of tech company largesse, shows how clueless Albany really is. If we hav
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Locadot for Developers(locadot.com)
2 points by numair 8y ago|0 comments
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by numair 8y ago
Actually, his employees got a ton of experience building systems and processes the “hard way,” from ground zero at a startup. This inevitably made them more attractive to whomever they decided to work with afterward — startup, large company
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by numair 8y ago
Okay, so this is a throwaway account whose only posts are in defense of Facebook. Readers on HN, you’re supposed to be far more skeptical and employ your Young Reaganite “Trust But Verify” glasses before upvoting blindly like this. Even if
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by numair 8y ago
These sort of replies always show up in these threads. They’re also absolutely, 100% wrong. About as clueless as the classic “less space than a Nomad” line. Apple isn’t buying your credit and loyalty card transaction history. Apple isn’t s
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by numair 8y ago
Beyond the entire conversation about whether this is legal or illegal, and whether this is typical or atypical, there is a much more significant issue. The entire image and “vibe” of this guy / his team is supposed to be an egalitarian
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by numair 8y ago
This feels like an accidentally arrogant, Western-centric way of looking at addresses that might not conform to our description of an address. Like, “the White house on the hill in John’s village” is as much of an address as 12 Whitehouse L
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by numair 8y ago
I’m not so sure 6GCRPR6C+24 is a great replacement for an address, but maybe I just don’t know. Although I could memorize my own address, I’d have a hard time memorizing my friends’ addresses. Yes, nobody knows each other’s phone numbers an
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by numair 8y ago
(Re-posting my comment on this link from yesterday) This is really interesting. I wonder how much of this is real, versus PR (although, Brad Smith has an excellent track record in this area). The company that has the most to lose, were ther
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by numair 8y ago
This is really interesting. I wonder how much of this is real, versus PR (although, Brad Smith has an excellent track record in this area). The company that has the most to lose, were there to be real regulations concerning facial recogniti
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by numair 8y ago
Actually, I’m pretty sure American Airlines has 950 jet planes on lease , and they have a century’s worth of pension and other obligations that remain hidden in their books. Companies are far too complicated to compare based on single numb
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by numair 8y ago
I have spent a lot of time observing this phenomenon in Venice; here are some of my thoughts. What these scooters have done for SM-Venice is, they’ve gotten people to park farther away and spend less time in cars. Especially the tourists. W
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Culture: Game Over(numair.com)
4 points by numair 9y ago|0 comments
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by numair 9y ago
Finally, people are beginning to realize the insanity of this entire PATENTS file situation! When I first brought up how misguided people were for embracing React and projects with this license, I was downvoted to hell on HN. But really, ev
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by numair 10y ago
Programming is so much more fun and awesome now. Everyone has a computer, and has their computer on them 24 hours a day. Whether it's a website or a mobile app, you're able to immediately get things in the hands of your "norm
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by numair 10y ago
Medicare and Social Security are the largest components of the budget. Most of the government's people and money are dedicated to services for the average person.
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by numair 10y ago
I was recently shocked and practically offended to read guidelines on what to eat while undergoing chemo[1]. It was a high-sugar diet, basically (milkshakes were encouraged !). I couldn't imagine anything worse than shocking your body
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by numair 10y ago
It is interesting to note that the only Satoshi-existence scenario whose probability improves with each passing day, is the scenario in which Satoshi / the "Satoshis" is/are dead (unless you think Bitcoin was the first g
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by numair 11y ago
I am assuming that you don't care much for Silicon Valley, which was a creation of the Federal Government. https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
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by numair 11y ago
Umm, the good doctor's wealth comes from HCA, a chain of for-profit hospitals that once held the record for the largest fraud settlement in US history. Frist clearly has excellent PR, because very few people ever mention this. http:&#
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by numair 11y ago
This story is written with such an incredibly obnoxious and sensationalist slant, like most things written about Erik Prince and Blackwater. You'd think they had uncovered evidence he was working on contract for ISIS or something. Amer
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by numair 11y ago
For me, the tl;dr on the entire subject of the Singularity can be summarized as: "...the field of artificial intelligence has a long history of over-promising and under-delivering..." That being said, I think we are finally at the
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by numair 11y ago
That was part of her alpha-ness: she actually got her stuff pushed through and built. The sort of personality necessary for accomplishing such a feat is so incredibly rare -- just think of how difficult it is to get people to adopt a new pr
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by numair 11y ago
This is insanely sad. This brilliant woman had so much left to share with us. Zaha was given the title of "starchitect" for good reason -- and unlike so many people attempting next-generation forms in architecture, her work actual
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by numair 11y ago
The founder of Cryptome was educated as an architect (as were some other interesting figures in near-history..). If you read any architecture theory, a lot of it uses this sort of language.
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by numair 11y ago
First, a disclosure: I hate Facebook, I think Free Basics is evil, and I think Marc Andreesen says a lot of stupid shit. That being said, this whole uproar is just more proof that social media is totally, utterly broken. Let me explain. Whi

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