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by objclxt 13y ago
Building codes contribute to the problem. So does tech. Building codes are a scapegoat in the sense that SF would still have housing problems even without the building codes.
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by objclxt 13y ago
I think we may well see a situation similar to what's happened in Los Angeles and the entertainment industry. The main players are still based there, but the city has become so expensive to shoot and work in that many films are now mad
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by objclxt 13y ago
You are replacing one scapegoat - techies - with another - restrictive building codes. You're complaining about people adopting one-sided, myopic viewpoints whilst putting forward one of your own - that the tech industry is great, and
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by objclxt 13y ago
> London is not monolithic; it has several local councils all with differing rules [...] I don't know why it isn't done better Politically, London will never have a unified council because it would wield too much power over t
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by objclxt 13y ago
> They've seen how quickly a social network can dry up and are wisely using their capital to avoid ending up like myspace. ...they're using their capital to buy more users. There is no evidence that those users will remain wi
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by objclxt 13y ago
Just because something is popular doesn't make it inherently valuable , because popularity is often fleeting. Over the past fifteen years nearly all messaging platforms have had bell-curves of popularity. MSN, ICQ, AIM, BBM. What st
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by objclxt 13y ago
I am not sure we have any evidence that Clinkle has a huge amount of talent - in the absence of a product it is hard to prove either way.
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by objclxt 13y ago
You've kind of illustrated the argument against you - I do know qq and wechat. What's to stop wechat from growing at the expense of WhatsApp?
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by objclxt 13y ago
> In basically all markets outside of the US, however, they are dominating the messaging space ...WhatsApp certainly isn't dominating in the Asian markets, you only have to look at WeChat.
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by objclxt 13y ago
Some Android phones (the Moto X, off the top of my head) already have an always-on microphone - for better or for worse.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Alternatively, I'd also love to hear good arguments against this position Oh, I'll bite: If you have the choice between conspiracy and incompetence the latter is almost always the more likely.
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Lush trademarks cosmetics range named after Amazon's UK boss(theguardian.com)
6 points by objclxt 13y ago|3 comments
643.
by objclxt 13y ago
I don't think it's being suggested that a pay-for-review scheme was what caused it to be a hit. The game was available on the store for seven months without getting much traction. The developer probably thought he would try some k
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by objclxt 13y ago
> There is absolutely nothing a human can do in space that a machine can't do better, except die I would love to hear you explain how to perform, for example, research on the effects of long-term zero-gravity on humans using only
645.
by objclxt 13y ago
...except the internet means that bootleg albums and unauthorized samples are used more than ever.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> People didn't put lights on their bikes at night until about 15 years ago when low-weight, bright LEDs became cheap and ubiquitous Perhaps this is different in the US, but in the UK people were definitely putting lights on their
647.
by objclxt 13y ago
Yes, but ultimately you'd probably want to bill them all in one go every month, because otherwise you're paying far more in card processing fees than you need to.
648.
by objclxt 13y ago
Used to have? You're conflating a lot of very different things here. You may consider plain clothes officers to be "extremely unprofessional", but how does that infringe upon the rights of Americans? Plain clothes officers da
649.
by objclxt 13y ago
...except life is rarely that simple. For example, nearly all countries where the state delivers healthcare centrally have far lower costs than countries such as the US, where healthcare is delivered privately. This seems to fly in the face
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by objclxt 13y ago
It can take time for apps to propagate through the App Store once it goes live. It is not a 'flick a switch and the app appears everywhere' process.
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by objclxt 13y ago
I would guess the main problem with your idea is that unless you can find a way to cover customs logistics you are effectively encouraging people to break the law. How will you cover people needing to pay import duty and taxes on the goods
652.
by objclxt 13y ago
That's not true. In the brief four months between being published and the author being revealed as a pseudonym it sold a respectable number of copies (8,500 across all formats - that doesn't sound like a lot, but it was at the tim
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by objclxt 13y ago
Indeed it is - the Victoria Line uses ATO (automatic train operation), so nearly all of the train operation is automated. The system has been running since the 60s, you can read more about it here: http://www.trainweb.org/tu
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by objclxt 13y ago
...a lot of Motorola's patents are related to underlying voice and networking technologies. Unless Google X is proposing to come out with a replacement for GSM (...and it's not) that stuff isn't changing.
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't know how anyone can see selling off a company for $9.5 billion less than you paid for it two years ago as a "smart move". It is prudent to get rid of Motorola now before it eats up even more cash, but the smart thing
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by objclxt 13y ago
It's called being an accessory to a crime. It's not a new concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term) If you ask me to front up some money for you to buy some drugs, I'm an accessory to
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by objclxt 13y ago
The rules in this case are "don't enter into a drug based money laundering business", which is allegedly what went on here. It's certainly not new or obscure.
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by objclxt 13y ago
I think you're mixing up two types of acquisitions here. There is a difference between Snapchat being worth $3 billion and Nest being worth $3 billion. The former gets the valuation based on users, the latter on talent and intellectual
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by objclxt 13y ago
The one rather glaring fly in your ointment is that if your system was as secure as you make it out to be you wouldn't have been asking users to change their iCloud passwords after your database was compromised a few months ago. http:
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by objclxt 13y ago
That's not that old - Apple still has downloads going back to the Apple IIGS, some 21 odd years ago. http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html

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