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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Imagine that landline phone calls were initially free and had to be "monitized" via adverts. Or, if it ended up being the case that they couldn't be sufficiently monitized and thus were considered a "failed business mode
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Indeed.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
People had to build this system. Many people. People had to operate this system. Many people. People had to keep this system a secret. Many people.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
It's Google's property, Google can make whatever changes it'd like, so it's Google's responsibility.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Just a guess, but, because it was a Google effort? Google may get software and systems (and even hardware now), but Google has failed spectacularly when it comes to social.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Well played.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Which schools did Zuckerberg and Gates drop out of? (Harvard. And, incidentally they both came from already very well-off families.) And Steve Jobs dropped out of a school in what I would call the "New Ivy League". I haven't
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
lol, possibly the only reason this landed on Top
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Might I humbly suggest going camping, without your phone? The right beach is an amazing place to do this, the right time of year. You might discover why 8 hours can be so precious.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Bahh! I read as, "DNA reveals the Higgs Boson". Was mighty intrigued.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
The Ivy League is an anthletic conferrence, similiar to the Big Ten. The Ivy League schools excel at producing financial and business professionals, who then, as the other commentor states, are funneled to the most lucrative careers. They a
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
JS is a language, and my opinion is that languages should be maximally flexible. They must be maximally flexible because a language has the primary function of being the medium through which an individual might transmit their ideas. Since i
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Back in 2005-2006 I was working on Wall St., studying for my CFA exam, working to get a place in our equities group, all while half-diverting my attention to the other coast, watching in awe as a whole bunch of upstarts were following in th
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Since when has, as relates to the web, standardization above all else been a thing. The web's design was intentionally decentralized and has led to occasional Cambrian Era level explosions of features and tools, that simply manifest. I
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
True, true. Faxes maybe? Doesn't seem like a bunch of emails really make the same impact as a bag of mail. Any way you go, though, it's kinda like a DoS attack though, ha.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Ty!
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
I deleted my comment because I didn't see a reply from you and wasn't certain my comment was correctly speaking to your points because I just don't get your comment. Since I wasn't certain my response was speaking to the
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Wow, I never knew that! That is a gem of a piece of history.
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Ask HN: Is someone down-voting all my comments because they don't like me?
12 points by throwaway98237 10y ago|14 comments
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Upon seeing the headline I was hoping this was a reworked version of Vim that was more intuitive, that didn't require the user to learn all the secret handshakes and voodoo recitations to get things done.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Strong AI on the horizon, about the same horizon as quantum computing and pervasive robotics; the new triad. Nuclear arsenals capable of destroying the world several times over. Biological weapons that can be created and deployed by organiz
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Nuclear power is the problem of the "Black Swan" embodied.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
This is an awesome find on HN. I was just the other day wanting a Geiger counter to use as a random number generator. I was sure that I wouldn't be able to find one for an affordable price.
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Which is exactly why I deplore the term "terrorist". The U.S. throws the term terrorist around with reckless abandon while proudly parading its strategy of "Shock and Awe"[1] and weapons like the "Daisy Cutter"
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Perhaps this is this election cycle's "October Surprise"? If this is Clinton attempting to seal-the-deal on the election, I'm officially not voting. Anyone that uses the power of the state (read: the power of the gun) to
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
It doesn't make it "more predictable". You're simple achieving better fit to the sample data distribution. I guess another way of saying it is that your mess is starting to look more like their mess. Anything that deals
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
That's quite an argument to engage in only a line. First, I say, except for logical truths every "truth" is subjective, and thus does not stand by itself but rather stands within context of the subject that holds it (i.e. bia
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
So, I was going to write mine as well, holy ish is it difficult to get all of your state's Senator's and Representative's email addresses without giving out your address, phone number, email, etc. Absurd. Hacker News could be
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Ah, cool then. (Sarcasm, not exactly the best conversational device for short-form plain-text, though.)
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by throwaway98237 10y ago
Really smart monkeys. And monkeys which will (hopefully) be self-correcting to converge on the bulls-eye. Most people don't realize that the "markets" are 49% random, 48% sentiment driven, and 3% fundamentals. If you approach

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