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by phlux 16y ago
Ads are blurbs that are asking for your attention. If they are asking you to go somewhere (link), think about something (statement) or buy something, they are still ads. Given that twitter is a one-to-many medium, unless your friends (real
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by phlux 16y ago
Out of curiosity, when a hot tech startup is going to IPO - what difference does it make which investment bankster does it? For example, if there were 1 million people who wanted in on the deal - would there be less if the deal were led by
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by phlux 16y ago
Because Stanford can charge a huge tuition and still get incredible endowments from alumn.
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by phlux 16y ago
No, but we know they have schadenfreude :)
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by phlux 16y ago
TL;DR: Money printing machine capable of $100,000 per hour now producing $99,500 per hour.
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by phlux 16y ago
It is the most annoying feature possible.
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by phlux 16y ago
Tow things: no longer automatically remove posts that have been flagged - but show the ad and note to the user that it had been flagged N times. This is due to the flag for removal abuse that people use to block others from seeing items fo
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by phlux 16y ago
I think this offer happened before the #dickbar debacle.
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by phlux 16y ago
It wasnt called predator for nothing....
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by phlux 16y ago
Better be for a full 24 hours - none of this 11AM checkout crap.
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by phlux 16y ago
Maybe if people weren't actually dying mysteriously when they were opposed to totalitarian / oligarchs, then we'd stop bringing it up.
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by phlux 16y ago
If this moves forward, I expect Mr. Levin's tragic death in a small plane crash. Edit, apparently people are not familiar with cases like that of Paul Wellstone, or documentaries like "Conspiracy of Silence"
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by phlux 16y ago
There was an amazing discussion about this some time recently on Reddit, and there was a lot of input from someone who had read all the studies with well backed, researched info, fully cited. The short answer was - Probably Yes. At least th
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by phlux 16y ago
In the global scheme, sure -- when you make a single purchase of 12 PB all at once, as apple did, that is quite a purchase.
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by phlux 16y ago
Given their new DC builds in NC though - and the recent purchase of 12 petabytes of Isilon storage... the writing is on the wall.
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by phlux 16y ago
I have an idea, thinking out loud here - so bear with me: Traditional point based forum systems provide a way for people to up/down any given post - but its a binary decision. There are a range of factors that one may want to upvote/downvot
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by phlux 16y ago
I have both zipcar and city car share memberships. I find both to be horrendously expensive and foolish to participate in if you need a car more than once a week, or for extended hours. For example, last month I use CCC 3 times and my bill
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by phlux 16y ago
It is pretty clear, that when people are discussing places in gmail and chat etc. Google will be able to offer google-direct travel offerings pertaining to their discussions. Further, they could offer full trip scheduling suite in which you
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Ask HN: Example of a good software spec
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by phlux 16y ago
Given that we have so much data about the moon, is there a "Lunar Environmental Cheat Sheet" anywhere that delineates all the aspects of the lunar environment which could be used by aspiring engineers who have some ideas for moon-base struc
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by phlux 16y ago
After reading this : http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewive... I am starting to get very very pissed off.
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by phlux 16y ago
Pagemaker 5 is still one of my all time favorite apps. In fact, I think that it is STILL better than word and most other apps. The reason is that the app acts more like a visio than a word processor. In word, your editing text on a sheet. I
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by phlux 16y ago
Out of curiosity, aside from Friendster which companies has Jonathan built? Also, didn't Friendster falter greatly, enough to make it second-fiddle, due to its inability to scale? Finally, wasn't socializer a flop -- I haven't been back in
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by phlux 16y ago
This is called FanBoism. Journalists can often times be as unscrupulous as Mark Zuckerberg. "I'm a journalist, I wrote this piece - it's hosted on slate.com - Can't argue with me internet peon." This is what the "Get over it" portion of t
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by phlux 16y ago
My friend sent this to me: > Here's a good "calm down" piece. I think the author is right... the eventual environmental impact of Fukushima will be less than all of the chemical pollution caused by the earthquake and tsunami. Not to s
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by phlux 16y ago
This is BS! If you read the bios of the EC, it would appear this is a case of mediocre people attempting to exercise control of an area where they don't have the mental acuity to truly understand the impact of their actions, and are erroneo
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by phlux 16y ago
I am in no way defending either party. And, while that contract was made by two naive, business-savvy-lacking individuals about a site that neither had any idea how big it would become - it was clearly a lame contract. But an agreed to, sig
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by phlux 16y ago
Exactly what I was thinking - that to have been fake, he maintained character of MZ quite well. Further, I would doubt that he would have known exactly the whereabouts of MZ during that period. So to be able to know and make claims as to wh
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by phlux 16y ago
I would suspect that he had to go subpoena / pay-off some ISP to recover backups to pull out the emails after the other factors gave his a little bit of leverage, namely the twins case and the fact that facebook did concede that MZ and Cegl
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by phlux 16y ago
The only remote chance I can see DLA Piper taking a troll case like this is if they negotiated some very significant % of the settlement likely to come of this. Thinking that they would not get 50% or 84% of zucks shares - but 50% of $XXX

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