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by selmnoo 13y ago
But that is presupposing that a) data is undeniably king as a competitive edge, (it might be, but we don't know this for sure, we might be in for a surprise), and b) that Snapchat is simply unable to make any significant change in its
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> The purpose of the criminal law is to punish those who are morally culpable and to create societal norms certain kinds of behavior. The purpose of any law should never be to punish the culpable. It may very well be reasonable to punish
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Oh, for goodness' sake. You could have made a legitimate point if you hadn't been so abruptly cut-throat. The fact of the matter is that connections, luck, etc. rule pretty much everywhere. It's useless and unproductive to ca
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Are HAMR drives commercially available yet? Wiki makes it sound like 60TB HAMR drives will be readily available at low cost for consumers by 2016 or so, do you think that's likely the reality of things?
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Great comment, thanks.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Sridhar Vembu of Zoho - http://blogs.zoho.com/author/sridhar Craig Newmark - http://craigconnects.org/blog Mark Cuban - http://blogmaverick.com Tim O'Reilly - http://radar.o
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Before we get farther into this, consider the results of the two. What's the worst that will happen if kids are being advertised toys? They'll ask their parents to buy them? Maybe buy them themselves? Okay. Maybe not a prudent cho
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by selmnoo 13y ago
That is a cop-out answer. Consider what's being advertised to people who have the aforementioned mental disorders: Eating disorder = fast foods of all sorts, Mcdonald's, KFC, Burger King, etc. ice cream, chips, candies. None of th
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by selmnoo 13y ago
If we're going that way, what about adults who have below 100 IQ? Or people suffering some mental disorder -- eating disorder, drug addiction, depression, impulse control disorder, poor memory, etc. They're not capable of properl
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by selmnoo 13y ago
It was more for the benefit of others who may not have read it on Wikipedia. Making a reply in a thread does not always mean you're directly and only replying to the person you're replying to -- it can be more than that, it can be
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UK Authorities: Reporter Glenn Greenwald’s Partner Involved in “Terrorism”(slate.com)
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What will your camera look like in 2020?(usatoday.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
It seems Susan Kare, the pioneer designer of the original icons, also designed the icons for Nautilus (the file manager). Here I was, thinking Nautilus was just some small hobby project by some guys. Anyone know how this came about? Is Sus
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> Also, Murdoch is not American. Most people consider the UK Conservatives left of center of even US democrats Uhmmm, you do know that Fox News is also owned by Murdoch? And clearly it is thereby evident that the logic you're operat
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by selmnoo 13y ago
There's a reason premium domain names go for a high price: having generic-words for domains is big value. Similarly r/politics is a big deal. Gaining traction on a new subreddit would be a big issue in and of itself even if one se
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by selmnoo 13y ago
How do you know B has really nothing to do with it in this case? I was assuming that Ars did the research and had some evidence to believe that B was true and thus relevant.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I don't think it's a small minority. I'd say every 2 or 3 of 5 heavy computers users I know do this. I'm not one of them (I do it, just rarely), and I've gotta say it annoys the hell out of me too. Totally unnecessa
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by selmnoo 13y ago
HN does make use of Cloudflare apparently, I got several not loading messages which made mention of Cloudflare.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
By the way, when you say Nick, you don't mean nickb' ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb ) do you?
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Sorry, I don't get it, what's wrong with that sentence?
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by selmnoo 13y ago
In a way, we (or at least, the decision-makers in the valley at least) do approve of the snooping. Google did something very drastic when it was found out that the Chinese were looking into people's e-mails: they pulled out from Chin
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by selmnoo 13y ago
The submitter of this article, pg, is in fact a major contributor to the FWD.us intiative [1]. But it's probably better to assume there's a good faith basis in the submission of this article, since we've no reason to believe
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by selmnoo 13y ago
You probably didn't go to East Germany then? I have a lot of (brown) Asian family relatives who've spent decades in Germany, they tell me America is basically a heaven in comparison. Canada is pretty much the only country that com
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What Happens When The Pace Of Startups Slows Down(npr.org)
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A really interesting case is Urdu. In Nastaliq script, the Urdu language word-wise goes right-to-left... diagonally . Here's a picture: http://i.imgur.com/nIHmZJc.png See how every next letter is just a little bit low
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NSA spied on the future Pope Francis before and during Vatican conclave(news.nationalpost.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
How about not musing out loud that people who are criticizing companies just "want to hate on these companies", if you're entertaining the idea of not being insulting and condescending. Google is a company that's been le
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by selmnoo 13y ago
As has been pointed out, Google owns a lot of fiber. When you have stuff that spans thousands of miles, there's a very real possibility that a bad actor can try to tap into it. Apparently even tapping undersea cables is not as challeng
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I'm not getting through to you. At the end of the day, Google lost. To a considerable extent, cloud lost. People who were trusting Google with their data lost. What is ostensibly true at this point at is that Google could have done so
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by selmnoo 13y ago
What an unbelievably stupid line of thinking. Kidnapped their children? Get a hold of yourself here. Google is a tech company, it is a perfectly reasonable expectation that they get the big parts of their security model right. Not encrypt

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