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by swombat 13y ago
Same - I bought it on 10th Feb, and their cutoff date for getting a free upgrade is 1st March, not even 20 days later. I emailed to ask if they'd let me through anyway or allow me to pay a discounted price some other way, and they fair
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by swombat 13y ago
Good lord, no. With that kind of thinking, soon you'll be outlawing hyperlinks!!
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by swombat 13y ago
I'd watch that... F1 without drivers but with weapons... it'd be like a real live and super-expensive version of Mario Kart...
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by swombat 13y ago
Thanks! This is just what I was hoping to hear and presages very well for the future of HN! Here's an example that I've observed a few times... And I'd love to know what is actually going on in these cases... I often submit a
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by swombat 13y ago
So why not be transparent about those reason? Who does it hurt to have a heavily flagged post display "this post was flagged by 15 people", or to let a post that's against the guidelines be identified as such?
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by swombat 13y ago
It's absolutely possible, perhaps even likely. The point is, without any transparency, we don't know. People have a fairly reliable tendency to assume the worst option - the simple cure for that is transparency.
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Ask YC (dang and kogir): How about some transparency?
218 points by swombat 13y ago|57 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
Worth reading through to the end of the article, rather than just the point about Program A and B... a surprisingly good article. I use a lot of the techniques in there in my blogging, and have done for years... they're pretty much unc
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by swombat 13y ago
Of course, because money is the only criteria that is important to any business. There couldn't possibly be anything else, like a sense of mission or purpose, that could inform decisions.
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Microsoft finally brings Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the iPad(venturebeat.com)
3 points by swombat 13y ago|0 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
Great find, thanks. Key quote for those too lazy to read through: > For the last year, many people have been working to make clinical trials possible. We are now hopeful that the first human clinical trials of anti-CD47 antibody will ta
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Amputee drummer gains "superhuman" skill(independent.co.uk)
3 points by swombat 13y ago|0 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
I don't see how that's not cool.
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by swombat 13y ago
Medium was founded by Evan Williams (who also founded Twitter and Blogger.com): https://medium.com/about/9e53ca408c48
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by swombat 13y ago
On a slight tangent, that was an amazingly well-written article, with very professional illustrations, photos, good research, no typos I could see, etc. How come this is on Medium rather than on, say, the NY Times?
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by swombat 13y ago
The other one that you really need to fix to access larger markets is having multiple users per accounts. Eventually you need roles as well, but just the simple fact of setting up multiple email accounts on one droplet account is a barebone
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by swombat 13y ago
The abstract for the study is here: http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131%2814... Unfortunately it's not clear from the article what else was being ingested... is it just high protein with l
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Study shows High Protein diets may increase risk of cancer(cbsnews.com)
1 points by swombat 13y ago|2 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
7. Criminal investigation 8. JAIL!
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by swombat 13y ago
Leaving a USB stick on a train is one thing. Spending weeks to upload 27 DVDs' worth of confidential health data to Google servers is quite another! One is negligent. The other is, imho, criminal.
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by swombat 13y ago
Surely PA Consulting should immediately be sued out of existence. This kind of behaviour must be considered beyond negligent, practically criminal. I would strongly support throwing anyone involved in this into jail for a long time as a det
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by swombat 13y ago
You're probably ritht. I feel the original article was itself in poor taste, but that is no excuse for me stooping down to the same lack of taste. Apologies.
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by swombat 13y ago
Preaching? No. I'd find it very disturbing if someone started discussing their genitals over dinner, though, whilst a discussion about faith and religion can be interesting and fun.
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by swombat 13y ago
I guess his finances aren't enterprise-ready...
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by swombat 13y ago
Sounds like a lot of misplaced "outrage" about nothing. You've done nothing wrong, don't let yourself feel like you did. The internet is a weird place like this, where mobs can assemble in hours and stick you on their pi
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by swombat 13y ago
If there was any evidence of that they'd go to jail for a long time - even if bitcoin is not directly regulated, I'm sure there are still some anti-fraud regulations that would kick in...
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by swombat 13y ago
> So if this payment needed to be stopped in the eyes of the bank then why did they suggest a measure for circumventing their own rules by sending a paper check. Making everyone accept a system which doesn't make sense is just ano
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by swombat 13y ago
WhatsApp makes $1/user/year after the first year, and appears to keep users around pretty much forever because it's such a good deal. So that's a revenue that, today, is probably a sizeable fraction of $400m/year. A
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by swombat 13y ago
> Why exactly should Steve Jobs be on a stamp? Iconic figure of the late 20th/early 21st century IT revolution? Led a company that was involved in multiple hugely-successful, era-defining products (the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod,
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by swombat 13y ago
While this is a good development and I care about it and I'm glad to hear of it, I'm not sure that this is anything to do with Hacker News, sorry. There's not really any conceivable "hacker" or "interesting to

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