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by spitx 14y ago
There is nothing "rude" about asking HN to chime in on your exploratory-stage ideas, especially when they are uncommonly ambitious and not your average badgeville startup ideas. Face it, Foursquare is not going to fetch you a mercenary if y
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by spitx 14y ago
Dwell on this for a second, if you will. These days in western societies, quite a few people hold this notion that can be best summed up as, "Happiness, to a large degree, comes from within" Or as a corollary, one can use whats been offered
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by spitx 14y ago
As of this writing, kylebgorman's post is grayed out. That shows a substantial number of votes have expressed disapproval of the post. Does his insinuation really deserve the treatment? Couldn't the disapproving parties have elaborated on t
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Law Students in Austria Challenge Facebook Privacy Policy in Irish Court(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by spitx 14y ago|0 comments
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by spitx 14y ago
...when there are an insane number of VC's & angel investors in the UK. The constant gripe of U.K. based talent is that nothing ever gets funded there. At least not at the rate or the fluidity with which it does in the valley. Beside
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by spitx 14y ago
Shucks. I don't even have a dog in this fight except for the following facts 1) I am a current owner of the storied T61 and 2) I have grown fond of the stupendously neat rMBP and am mulling getting one. That and you can throw the damn
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by spitx 14y ago
How are India, Estonia and Latvia on the same rung as highly suppression-ist China? This is clearly facetious.
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Facebook privacy targeted by Austrian law student(washingtonpost.com)
23 points by spitx 14y ago|12 comments
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by spitx 14y ago
Neat trick: Disregard the stream. It was buggy in Chrome and only mildly better in Firefox. (Oxford can't afford a more robust video solution?) Tackle the MP4 file instead. Only left click open it in place of downloading it. Quicktime shoul
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by spitx 14y ago
I'm not defending his disapproval of PG's response. Just alluding to the larger point he -- somewhat tangentially -- hit on, which is quite true. The herdism part. HNers incapable of presenting their own take -- worthy of some import -- oft
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by spitx 14y ago
"but at the risk of getting hell-banned or massively down voted your response came across as being unhelpful and rude, if it had been someone else making the comment they would likely have been down voted for it, or
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by spitx 14y ago
For the rest of us who are still puzzled at why this merits cheering or even any attention for that matter, this case and the response generated from the community - almost at will and on demand - illustrates the power of social proof. One
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by spitx 14y ago
We've heard of this once before in S. Korea in the case of the veterinarian Hwang Woo-Suk. http://www.asianscientist.com/features/hwang-woo-suk-disgrac... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33476693/#.UKoiNeSzpIE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor
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by spitx 14y ago
In some other cultures, female genital mutilation isn't prohibited. Now, whats your point?
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by spitx 14y ago
Elevation Partners Managing Director Roger McNamee on Apple lately: Apple is "already doing what you'd expect a dumb monopolist to do." Source: http://bloom.bg/OXP5Ad#ooid=Q5azF4NTq51l-7YDNIS84TWeSqfF0SQv...
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by spitx 14y ago
>"I'm talking about those of us who live in China (you know, the place with 1.3+ billion people and the second-largest economy in the world)." This claim is preposterous. There are 1.241 billion in India and Hindi is not even supported
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by spitx 14y ago
The Mayor of London has some tips http://i.imgur.com/o44nv.jpg
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by spitx 14y ago
I think it was the MobileMe team he humiliated and necked out of the door. Part of Apple lore. Now everybody knows that Apple's history with cloud-based initiatives have been less than stellar, and no time was that more clear than during
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by spitx 14y ago
Jobs would have fired the whole Maps team, en masse. Furiousness is a skill. Tim Cook falls short here.
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by spitx 14y ago
>Here in Manhattan, where I live, basic search by building names is profoundly degraded in Apple's maps search. "Bloomberg" doesn't find the Bloomberg Tower; on Google Maps it's the first result. Searching for its address "731 Lexington
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by spitx 14y ago
The tall-narrow screen is just a case of classic Apple orthodoxy. There is nothing in the dimensions of the iPhone 5 that make it inherently a better viewing experience over a wider configuration. If Apple had convinced itself to be less p
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by spitx 14y ago
This bothers me to no end. One of the major things beside the odd dimensions of the iPhone 5 screen, that prevent me from switching from Android. However the screen is clearly a bigger let-down for most Android users who are used to larger
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by spitx 14y ago
Walmart, even when it's potential for misuse of customer data is taken to it's negative extreme, is just a vendor. Not a repository of your most private data. Walmart cannot deduce from your pictures printed at their photo kiosk if you are
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by spitx 14y ago
And let's not forget the Google smear campaign, only last year, orchestrated / bungled by Burson-Marsteller. http://www.wired.com/business/2011/05/facebook-google-smear/
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by spitx 14y ago
In the Enron energy trading fiasco: "They're f------g taking all the money back from you guys?" complains an Enron employee on the tapes. "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?" "Yeah, grandma Millie, man"
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by spitx 14y ago
False equivalency. All over false equivalency. Walmart isn't a service. Walmart doesn't have access to your most intimate information like Facebook does. Heck millions of Virgin Mobile accounts have been compromised. But the potential dama
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by spitx 14y ago
Isn't that a rule rather than the exception in any massive project? "The project was scheduled to be completed in 1998 at an estimated cost of $2.8 billion (in 1982 dollars, US$6.0 billion adjusted for inflation as of 2006).The project was
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by spitx 14y ago
Nick Griffin and the BNP will be delighted to educate you on that, I'm certain.
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by spitx 14y ago
Or like bailing out the Greeks and the Irish when parts of your own country are on the verge of destitution. Perhaps this explains the recent nazi unrest in the East German state of Brandenburg. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/masked
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by spitx 14y ago
Different countries, different priorities (perhaps ?) Different things - equally noxious, depending on who you ask - get swept under the rug in different countries. A lynching offense in one is not so in another. http://www.dailymail.co.uk

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