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by profeta 11y ago
# * "LS" prefix: built by Samsung # # * "LP" prefix: built by LG
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by profeta 11y ago
the graphs show tax paid by gun manufacturer's sales. This is interesting. unless they don't pay tax for gov/military sales or they report it differently, the jump from 1.5B to 5B in christmas says that the gun business is mo
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by profeta 11y ago
and the people that did that will go largely unpunished in any way and continue to receive the same votes as always.
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by profeta 11y ago
well, there is still none. So even the most conservative projection of "one" would have missed.
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by profeta 11y ago
The wii hacks were all based on awful implementation of the AES methods, wasn't it?
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by profeta 11y ago
I always used someonewhocares.org host list on my wireless modems to protect my IOS devices (which never leave the house anyway, since they exist only to test apps/sites for people like you that do not value device ownership :) the lis
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by profeta 11y ago
you are probably a late adopter. 2010 it was used exclusively for overseas sms. Since nobody had it installed. Then, after it was bought by facebook, they started to PAY telcos around the world to increase penetration and block any competit
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by profeta 11y ago
because the CEO can do so much more than an accountant? do you also fire your doctors because they don't pray? the CEO should be rallying troops and making deals. well, at least that is the excuse for their obscene salaries and bonuses
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by profeta 11y ago
remember how you used everything form yahoo when you were first online? well, there are billions of people just getting their first online experience.
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by profeta 11y ago
OTOH if the CEO is excited about a tax shenanigan i will not be excited by the company.
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by profeta 11y ago
the funny part is, if you mixed messenger, mail and flickr (let's not forget geocities, delicious and 60% of all online stores before 2006) they could have what facebook is still trying out to be and then some.
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by profeta 11y ago
ironically, they have laws that demand free SMS on most plans. i think only a few categories of pre-paid plans do not. Though that is changing. Couple years ago there were laws that set maximum prices on internet and sms for pre-paid plans
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by profeta 11y ago
what about besides "known household name"? any technical merit? anything you know you do better than the alternative, for a fact? and in the process of fairness, any other blocker doing anything better that you plan to add to your
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by profeta 11y ago
Spending so much time on a platform that you have no control and is sure to undermine you is a waste of open source project resources. Specially one that is handled indirectly such as mozilla nowadays. if it were users submitting patches or
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by profeta 11y ago
doesn't help much if most your new users are searching to correct a mistyped brand name (hipmunk? hipmonkey?...)
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by profeta 11y ago
compelling example but naive. it fails to look at how social media is evolving to handle that as well. Companies PR are now abandoning the smiling white families in banners because they know it won't work. They are now using your relat
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by profeta 11y ago
which pretty much all the time, it is the same as the first organic result. if you search for "brand x", the first ad will be a paid link to "brandX.com" and the first organic result, will be the same, free link. But tha
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by profeta 11y ago
yeah, that is easy. i also do that with firefox. i have one themed using a proxy to work, the other not. i was mostly talking about android apps, where there is hardly an alternative for google services.
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by profeta 11y ago
I am one of the suckers that try to live with two google accounts. It is maddening. For example, if you do not agree to g+ on your main account and by mistake you select that account on the dropdown from hangouts or the play store* then yo
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by profeta 11y ago
Senator, if i was spending billions on robots to go to people homes and read their diaries and then explode before leaving, would you think there was some ulterior motive on me building those robots?
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by profeta 11y ago
summary of the summary: Google tracks students the same as they track you, regular users. To the fully extent the law allows and then some on the gray line.
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by profeta 11y ago
i'm too lazy to read all the papers on this subject, so indulge me: Do any measure brain "output"? i bet earlier humans would eat a lot, then walk for miles until finding another spot, or stuff them on seals and then sleep on
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by profeta 11y ago
Nope. Marisa. Terry couldn't even do that! talk about a failure.
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by profeta 11y ago
probably. the world only needed to decide on one search engine. it happened to be google. after the world set (for google, thanks more for universities putting search boxes on their sites, more than algorithms) they could do absolutely anyt
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by profeta 11y ago
they are called late minority holders. they are the ones that bought stock yesterday, on a company that do not pay dividends, making the long term holders foot all the proverbial bill. Just because those recent minority holders are a little
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by profeta 11y ago
which proves that having more than 140 chars is overrated anyways.
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by profeta 11y ago
do not forget that Snowden made it pretty clear the NSA was spying on the German Prime Minister, for the german intelligence agency! ...guess what may have been the offer they had. My guess? One agency spy on the other's leader as part
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by profeta 11y ago
now that the gag order is not in place, can we learn who the FBI was spying on? was it legitimate? if not, who approved it? this is a pointless victory unless we use it for accountability.
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by profeta 11y ago
why the spam to a closed group buy? also, the mouse has 3 physical buttons, but one is hardwired on the controller to a scroll modifier. you cannot, even with new firmware, make that a third button. So it is a two button mouse forever.
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by profeta 11y ago
telegram is slightly better than the alternative, such as whatsapp. only problem is that nobody uses it. so i might as well not use as well. which increases the problem that nobody uses it. it is really hard to break into the IM market.

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