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by rbarooah 15y ago
I can see this becoming the subject of antitrust action. Penalizing other people for advertising rather than relevance when they themselves make their money through advertising is going to be a problem.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'm a bit uncertain about this. If people can't afford to buy apps, can they afford a data plan, or to buy the advertised products? I certainly think there's a necessity for free apps. I'm just not sure that there's any necessity for ad-su
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I didn't make a prediction so save the insults. Where do you get that 6 million figure from? The nook doesn't include the Google app store, so if 6 million includes it then the relevant figure is much smaller, and if it doesn't then you're
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It would be interesting to see what proportion of apps are bought by people who buy the low end Android phones that are actually cheaper than iPhones. I suspect the answer is not many.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What's your reasoning for it being 'ridiculous'? It seems reasonably that the fire could outsell all the other Android tablets combined by 2x, possibly even in its first quarter of existence. Amazon has a great brand and distribution chann
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It should be obvious why I think you're making such a claim - you said: "What's different now is that there is historical evidence that open source projects can produce higher quality software than proprietary ones." By using the word 'high
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I did notice. I don't think you're claiming that open source software is always better. I do think you're claiming that overall open source software is systematically better in some way than proprietary software, obviously not in every inst
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Right - and the kind of thinking embodied on that slide doesn't inspire much confidence in their motives. i.e. they aren't being open because they believe it's good for everyone. They seem to intend it as a Trojan horse that will give them
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Really? It's clear that open source projects can produce excellent quality software. It's also clear that proprietary software can be excellent quality. Both can also produce garbage. If you have evidence that open source can produce gen
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What makes you expect the 'good-old Google' to come back? They have been steadily moving in a more and more closed direction for years now. What would cause that trend to change?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The implication of what you are saying is that Google has determined that openness is a strategy they have failed to make work.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It's not free. That's why it wasn't supplied to users of earlier iOS devices. The cost of the new device includes Siri service for the lifetime of the handset.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I don't really understand why so many people expects a billion dollar service to be given away free to customers who didn't even know it was a possibility when they bought their equipment. Why shouldn't all software anyone writes be given a
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Why aren't people equally worried about Google becoming the sole owner of the Internet? Honest question - is it because people are ok with Google being in that role, or because they don't think Google is trying to get into that position?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It seems to me that pageviews is relatively transparent. How do you think it should have been priced?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
He didn't say there was no difference - just that it's obviously not 'all-new'.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Fair enough - I just saw this comment of yours: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979935 which clarifies a lot. It does seem as though political opinion is moving in the direction of reducing attempts to mitigate then problem at the l
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Could you explain what it means for people to be 'right' or not 'right' about inequality? I'm referring to where you say 'That doesn't mean they're right' If we're genetically constructed to feel unhappy about something, and we build a soc
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by rbarooah 15y ago
That's fair enough. I think this explains the reactions of others in this thread. The distinction between want and need isn't important to my original point, and I certainly wasn't intending to claim them as objective. It was a careless
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I haven't denied my parent post. You are quoting me out of context - it doesn't make sense if you don't include the full sentence, and you aren't explaining why you think I'm claiming needs are not subjective. Where have I said anything ab
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I didn't say everyone's needs are the same.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Plausible case for what? What case do you think I'm making that you are somehow contradicting? Nothing I've said is in conflict with the idea of preferences being subjective.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Fair point, but it doesn't really affect the sense of what I said in my original comment. Also, just because economists haven't found a bright line between concepts doesn't mean they aren't distinct. I think there's a distinct difference b
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I don't see how I've equated a conversion to a genuine need being met. That would imply that nobody ever buys anything that isn't suited to their needs. I guess I'm falling for trolls here.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Where is anyone pontificating about what people should have? I also don't see any mention of whether people's preferences are coherent or not. I didn't use the words 'genuine demand', but I did talk about genuine need. This isn't a true Sc
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by rbarooah 15y ago
This is effectively a straw-man. Treating advertising a way to connect suppliers with those with a need is a common, benign interpretation of what it is, but that view rests on assumptions of trust or informational parity between buyers and
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You do realize that half of all wealth in the US is in the hands of 400 super-rich families, and that this concentration is increasing, not decreasing? Maybe you were being ironic and I just took you too literally!
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What would you want to see in another browser that would make it worth switching away from chrome?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I put 6 cinder blocks under my ikea galant corner desk. Works perfectly and cost about $8 from home depot.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Fair enough. The title made it sound as though Google+ was providing something to the collaboration.

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