tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I don't know if it's more conspicuous than glass - it's very similar to a lot of bluetooth headsets. And it's been out on the market for a long time with hardly any controversy. There's lots of devices like this - I
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Astrid Winding Down(blog.astrid.com)
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There's some debate about this: asthma rates in cities tend to be worse in poorer neighborhoods where there's greater exposure to pollution and toxins. Some studies have also suggested there are particular allergens in inner-city
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The problem is that with the density of population and the amount of garbage produced, the boxes would heavily obstruct the sidewalk in some neighborhoods. They'd be the size of small carting dumpsters (which some of the newer building
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Most NY apartments also don't have garbage disposals in their kitchen sinks, because they were banned until about a decade ago. Apartments that haven't been built or renovated since then generally won't have one. This further
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I don't disagree that it's potentially a problem, I'm just saying that as someone recording in a public place you're unlikely to be running afoul of wiretap laws. We should be far less concerned about personal cameras (w
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If it's in a public place where there's no particular expectation of privacy - in particular, if you are not party to the conversation but can clearly hear it and are visible to the parties talking - it doesn't seem like it w
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There are already dedicated personal video recording devices that can do this. When you're just recording video (and not doing any other functions) it's easier to extend battery life, etc. http://www.amazon.com/Loo
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Yes, stone will last longer, simply because it doesn't get eroded by the elements as quickly as possible. But it's also simply not usable as a construction material for bridges beyond a certain size and span, because it's o
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Hardly anyone offers a subscription service without an automatic renewal of some type. It's counter to the entire business model, which is that you spend once to acquire a customer but then earn back multiple subscription cycles from t
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For a lot of infrastructure, the ability to more accurately model and calculate the performance of structures has meant that they don't need to be overbuilt so much. The less you overbuild a structure, the less it weighs, and the less
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Non-compete clauses are very limited and hard to enforce in California (where most Google employees reside.) Assignment-of-invention might apply but if the individual has left the company (rather than building it in their free time while st
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It would be like adding Flickr (something like 30M) to Facebook (1B) -- the difference just wouldn't be noticeable.
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Yeah, but you're assuming they'd be engaged. If they don't like G+ and they're just using it as a news reader, that's pretty much the opposite of engaged, from a social network perspective.
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6M users is just not interesting when you're chasing having hundreds of millions of users. And 50% is a wildly optimistic percentage for how additional G+ users you'd create. Let's say they have 12M monthly active users; a la
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Unfortunately, the fact that you're paying for a product isn't a particularly better signal that it's sustainable, unless you individually can cover the costs of running that product. I've had for-pay services I used dis
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There's an assumption here that doing this would result in a material number of users for Google+. But I'm not sure it would: it's reasonably safe to assume that everyone using Google Reader knows about G+, and is either usin
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What you're describing is the MO for dishonest subscription services. But there's lots of subscription services that aren't dishonest and have very happy customers. To your points: 1. While there are dishonest sites, I'm
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This depends a lot on the particulars of the individual subscription agreement. But in most cases, you owe for the services once the new subscription period starts, not when payment is received. (In most cases, your card company actually pa
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
No, you provided initial payment using the credit card account, but you signed up for the service until you cancel it, not until your method of payment expires. Even if you cancelled the card outright, you're generally technically (and
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I'm not a lawyer (nor an expert on payments) but generally it doesn't seem to have any element of fraud - it's collecting payment for services fairly rendered via the credit card account provided by the customer. Fraud would
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I'd check the wording of those updates. It's usually that your service may be interrupted if you fail to update your credit card when it expires. And usually, the terms of the site say that you're on the hook for the recurr
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Google local listings come from a wide range of sources. It's basically the phone book.
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It's relatively easy to update the expiry date, since the month doesn't usually change. You just add two years, try the charge, and if it doesn't go through, wait a day and try it again with the next year. This is pretty stan
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That's only online at a PC, I believe. If folks are on a phone, they won't have a green bar.
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Yes, but almost every provider is going to tell you up front that they will comply with requests from the government. If they then do that, there's no violation of trust.
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My parents were a book household too. But back then, there was no Internet, no e-books. The only place to wander onto a book was your shelf or the local bookstore. Times change.
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I get rid of them. My forcing function is that I won't buy any more shelves - I have two bookcases with about 4 shelves each, shared with my girlfriend, and if I want to keep a book I have to get rid of one. It's still probably 30
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It doesn't make sense to stockpile books on the chance that your children might one day want to read them when a used copy is generally a click away. (Not to mention that you may prefer to re-buy them in digital form.) Every square inc
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Things like books and games are fluid enough markets that the difference in the price I'm going to get between Amazon and other outlets is going to be fairly small. I just want a faster way to scan in ISBN codes so I don't have to

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