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by smtddr 13y ago
> it'll just be par for the course, similar to how random DUI stops work now, which are a warrantless invasion of one's privacy without grounds. I think I'd like the DUI comparison to be expanded on a bit. How are they b
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by smtddr 13y ago
Then the meta-bets, will said start-up fail? If you bet "yes" and you're right, there won't be anyone around to facilitate the payout ;)
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by smtddr 13y ago
Which brings us to an interesting question... how long does something have to go before we consider it a success even if it fails later? When something comes along to defeat Facebook, are we going to call Facebook a failure? Was Myspace a f
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by smtddr 13y ago
>I mean, I agree with you, but just because you are 'on duty' doesn't mean that you become an automaton of the state. You are still a person with privileges, rights, and responsibilities. As a person, sure. But as an on-
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by smtddr 13y ago
I don't really agree with the G+ and youtube connection since I haven't seen any quality-improvement in youtube comments(anecdotal), but what _really_ bothers me is the constant popup asking me to connect and the constant rewor
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by smtddr 13y ago
I still remember the first iPads in 2007. I was totally one of the nay-sayers. "Who'd want this giant iPhone? This is silly, nobody wants a mini-flat-screen as a computer" --- 5 years later --- smtddr cannot imagine life with
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by smtddr 13y ago
I sure would like to know what bitcoin service you were using...
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by smtddr 13y ago
Glad to hear good things about coinbase. I've been waiting for them to send the 2 small transactions to my bank-acct so they can verify it and I can buy bitcoins. I started the verification process on Tuesday. I also like their paper-w
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by smtddr 13y ago
So, from my 6yrs in SBC/AT&T, the OP is completely correct and I don't see anything insulting in his comment. That's exactly how they made decisions when I was there. It doesn't make them wrong per se, but that'
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by smtddr 13y ago
...and not everyone who's rich, is happy...
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by smtddr 13y ago
These people aren't just a group of kids on xboxLive making idle threats. They are making real plans and use their influence to make money at the cost of killing people. Conspiracy to commit murder for financial gain sounds like a good
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by smtddr 13y ago
Ah yes, the obligatory pessimistic/negative HN comment. I can think of some things an "ffmpeg.js" would be good for. Maybe not super-high-performance, but the masses don't care. Keep in mind ffmpeg does more than just vi
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by smtddr 13y ago
That rule absolutely still applies today. It gets a little fuzzy in some situations. I wonder if ETrade has to give apple a cut since Etrade makes money on every buy/sell transaction... or the Amazon shopping app... P.S., I just signed
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by smtddr 13y ago
You're wrong. The "cool in-crowd" of Nigeria can totally afford this phone(minus shipping costs that I don't know about). "Only" the poorest of the poor are left out. Like, people who can barely feed their fami
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by smtddr 13y ago
That vid @ 0:25 - 0:39 ...it grew three thousand percent from last year to now? O_o;
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by smtddr 13y ago
I think Cyanogenmod can be considered dangerous to your device. And to be honest, I actually do think AVs should flag it. It's a good barrier to entry. A user that doesn't trust the developers of Cyanogenmod enough to turn of AV(o
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by smtddr 13y ago
This is a sorta common thing to do when installing complex software; especially hacks like this that could be detected as a rootkit. If during the install, some anti-virus decidecs to quarantine a file and the updating of hyper-sensitive
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by smtddr 13y ago
These stories of hacks & scandals and your link showing increasing-value only increases my desire to buy bitcoin. Also, this wild story[1] makes me want bitcoin too. What if I just want to buy $500 USD worth of bitcoin and just sit on i
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by smtddr 13y ago
Look at it from the point-of-view of poor people. If you're really poor, you might depend on acrobatic credit-card usage & cash-advance agencies to barely hold together a paycheck-to-paycheck life. If one of your children gets sick
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by smtddr 13y ago
>This libertarian nightmare will soon come crashing down. That sentence tells me everything I need to know about your thought process.
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by smtddr 13y ago
FWIW, WhatsApp is huge in Nigeria; at least the major cities like Lagos.
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by smtddr 13y ago
If you liked that, you may also like: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...
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by smtddr 13y ago
> I have no problem saying that Western culture of tolerance and inclusion and freedom is absolutely better than and superior to some of the other alternatives out there like fanatical Islam and capitalist/socialist China. As long
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by smtddr 13y ago
If Photoshop, basically industry standard in image-editing software, isn't an achievement... then nothing qualifies as an achievement. And this is coming from someone who prefers GIMP on linux. I would love to produce something even
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by smtddr 13y ago
I haven't even read the article, but I did just read this[1] and I agree very strongly that SV; particularly developers, are very difficult to approach. Everything & everyone is below them; not worth their time. If you lack any det
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by smtddr 13y ago
Of course, normal human reaction. And of course, nothing can go wrong with a nervous & not-so-well trained TSA agent with an armed guard at his beck and call at an airport-checkpoint; where people tend to be stressed out under already
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by smtddr 13y ago
To pile on to this, when my daughter was born the doctors were going on and on about how her Frenulum[1] was too short and our daughter wasn't going to be able to talk properly. They brought in some Stanford research paper and everythi
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by smtddr 13y ago
> I remember the thread about phoneblocks and how it was never going to happen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6373237
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by smtddr 13y ago
>"It also appears that the already massive source code leak at Adobe is broadening to include the company’s Photoshop family of graphical design products." Whoa, GIMP version 3.0 is going to be AMAZING++
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by smtddr 13y ago
I accept this explanation and have updated my internal bias database to reflect it. :)

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