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by phillmv 16y ago
Sure, whatever. I think we're splitting hairs. I think the overall point is that what we're currently engaged in isn't sustainable and the contraction is going to be painful when it hits in 6 months to a year once all the cheap money[0] dri
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by phillmv 16y ago
The problem is too many people, much like about half the people commenting here, confuse that with being an insufferable prick.
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by phillmv 16y ago
He's an economist that is not a raving libertarian!
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by phillmv 16y ago
>Right, there's really nothing fundamentally different about HN and reddit other than the audience. Yeah. It just has an incredibly more functional UI and working RSS feeds.
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by phillmv 16y ago
You know, back in '96 I can give them some slack for not necessarily thinking about that use case.
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by phillmv 16y ago
I don't know how people can withstand that. At 1k+ messages you might as well declare email bankruptcy and regain a meaningful counter.
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by phillmv 17y ago
Don't both of those cost much more than $6.99/mo?
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by phillmv 17y ago
All of those criticisms apply to Safari 4, tho.
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by phillmv 17y ago
> should be dominated roughly by the download size Well, judging by the graphs in the linked article this is clearly something that every browser vendor experiences. I imagine that the trade off in speedy page rendering is having a lot
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by phillmv 17y ago
Of course, it's not the actual downloaded text that takes up all that memory. It's not like programs take up gobs of memory because the programmers were being lazy and disdainful. No, it's the internal representation of the markup, and the