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by roc 13y ago
But what would the partner get out of it? Anyone with a track record at this point has far more to gain by letting the streaming providers compete for a license every few years. Netflix might offer slightly better terms than competition wou
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by roc 13y ago
If the libraries removed from Netflix are licensed to competitors, it is indeed Good for consumers, provided the barriers between services aren't too steep. [1] It incentivizes providers like Netflix to continue increasing their value
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by roc 13y ago
The interesting part, from where I'm sitting, is that I don't think the younger generation will see any "error" in Snowden jetting to Hong Kong, nor in revealing information about NSA surveillance on foreign targets. I t
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by roc 13y ago
I find it darkly amusing that the rarity of these events is being invoked to convince people to moderate their concern, when this situation only exists due to the government's insistence that we treat even more rare events as gravely
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by roc 13y ago
My problem with "I don't vote because it's a sham" is in two parts: 1. It's very often just a pseudo-intellectual justification for not bothering to educate yourself about any of the issues, politicians or policies
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by roc 13y ago
Not really. During setup, when you specify your Apple ID, new devices offer to restore from an old device's last backup. But when they record a note on their phone and later want to recall it for a bit of typing at their laptop or iPad...
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by roc 13y ago
In that sense, he's been priming the pump since 2008. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/11/16/finnell-app-stor...
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by roc 13y ago
Last we had a news story, the bar was as low as: "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?"
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by roc 13y ago
Official documentation, plus the notion that a Judge actually signed off on this nonsense?
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by roc 13y ago
Eric Schmidt, is that you?
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by roc 13y ago
Well, I'd have had a hard time building an empire off copy/paste game development, spammy-to-fraudulent marketing schemes, encouraged social pressure/spam, an 'arcade' currency, and a pretty shameless twisting of game designs to really sq
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by roc 13y ago
> "This must be an enormously stressful time." If he's already taken (a lot of) money off the table, what's there (for him) to be stressed about?
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by roc 13y ago
Facebook doesn't really want to pick that up. What keeps people coming back is the illusion of activity. The sound and fury. If/when people close out the noise successfully, it winds up looking a lot like an email box.
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by roc 13y ago
> "Google+ really was on to something with its circles:... I could use google +, but no one else does" I wonder how much of Google+'s 'use' problem relates to this feature working extremely well. You section off people you like to kee
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by roc 13y ago
> "There are proven-better alternatives" Some of them, yes. Which is what I said.
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by roc 13y ago
Popcorn?
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by roc 13y ago
> "Our prison system is probably near the top of that list," If by "our" you mean "the US" then I'm already of the mind that it's bizarre and barbaric and I doubt I'm alone. In many ways it strikes me as suffering from problems simila
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by roc 13y ago
If Tesla-class ranges are accepted, I'd think further battery density advances would translate into fewer batteries/lower-weight, rather than maintaining weight and adding additional range. Particularly if charging speed is also advancing,
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by roc 13y ago
Tuition is rising, across the board, without much regard for marketability of degrees. It's more a function of the way society values school 'brands' and the way government guarantees abet this behavior by allowing essentially anyone to bo
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by roc 13y ago
> "The whole school thing strikes me as weird though." Weren't Levchin and Thiel both just out of school themselves? Who else would they really know ?
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by roc 13y ago
> "I really feel this is a non-issue." For geeks, probably not. For normals? It's a pretty big deal. Normals weren't entirely convinced by the mouse. They learned it. Sort of. But many never even grokked the whole 'click vs doubl
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by roc 13y ago
I'm guessing because doctors aren't confident that there's an inherent level of safety. [1] Some are optimistic, some less so. But the way they and the FDA generally come to conclusions on these things, is through trials. Trials which h
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by roc 13y ago
And speaking to a live person via cellphone, in many places and contexts, is still considered socially un-acceptable. And this hasn't changed all that much after a decade-plus of near-ubiquitous cell phone ownership. So I can't see how repl
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by roc 13y ago
And as iTunes and Amazon Music have demonstrated, if you make paying the easy solution, having DRM is either irrelevant or a net negative.
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by roc 13y ago
The snap-in app stuff loses a lot of its potential when Microsoft comes out and says that devs have to establish traditional console publishing partnerships. e.g. Want to put your app.net snap-in out there so people can communicate that way
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by roc 13y ago
This sounds like a necessary evil of the "disc-less" gaming feature. As long as the used/borrowed copy still plays fine without any fees when the disc is in the tray , I don't see any difference to the console status quo. Used/borrowed cop
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by roc 13y ago
Trick is, much of the business world is measured by (and thus optimized for) quantifiable short-term impact. The short term positive impact of cutting out snacks is immediate and obvious. The costs are less obvious and longer term. Do eno
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by roc 13y ago
You seem to be agreeing with me. If "Googled" goes the way of "Xeroxed" then the potential value of "DuckDuckGo-ed" is as irrelevant as "Ricoh-ed".
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by roc 13y ago
I don't understand the fascination with Google competitors needing to have an easily "verb"ed brand. People never felt the need to verb their search engines before Google. [1] Nor do they now feel the need to verb any other search engine, h
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by roc 13y ago
You can't argue it both ways. He either still has power over what the suits come up with for revenue, and thus hasn't actually abdicated any responsibilities at all (just given some biz dev guys a little more autonomy) or he has given up

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