bluekitten

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by bluekitten 13y ago
How does buying a lot of Walmart shares make Walmart employees poor? I am frankly baffled here. Walmart buyers should probably get more blame here. Have you ever spared a thought about who made the electronics you own and under what conditi
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by bluekitten 13y ago
We aren't talking about independent escorts here. Here's the link for one infamous redlight area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonagachi >5.17% of the 13,000 prostitutes in Sonagachi are estimated to be HI
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by bluekitten 13y ago
>In May 2007 Vulpe and i4i successfully sued Microsoft, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Isnt that considered evil around these parts?
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by bluekitten 13y ago
As usual, Linus shoots straight. http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_is_...
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by bluekitten 13y ago
I already knew about that, but not sure what you're implying here. The link says this: >in 1994, a California jury ruled the infringement by Microsoft was not willful, but awarded Stac $120 million in compensatory damages, coming to
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by bluekitten 13y ago
Everytime a big company implements a feature or rolls out something, they affect companies working in that area. You can find similar things about almost any company or person, but for some reason the bad things about Microsoft are always a
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by bluekitten 13y ago
What would you prefer to see, $xx billion burnt in a hurry in 10 years and then run out of money, or have a foundation that keeps on working for upliftment of the most vulnerable human beings decades or centuries using money from its past i
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by bluekitten 13y ago
From the perspective of web users, there is choice(even if heavily skewed by default search in browsers). But from the perspective of web sites/web companies/web devs/web advertisers, there is very less choice and bordering a
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by bluekitten 13y ago
Personally, I feel the same way since a year and half or so ago.
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by bluekitten 13y ago
>Do you believe they couldn't use the Motorola patent portfolio against those companies if they wanted to? Huh, haven't they been using them against Apple and MS? MS now pays them for H.264 patents, though considerably less tha
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by bluekitten 13y ago
The author seems miss the point in the comparison to the Moto G's price, since ZTE does not have a ~$50B search business to subsidize its phone business(Motorola's been losing money at a fast clip) and needs to make money on every
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by bluekitten 13y ago
These three articles should give you a lot of background. http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/14/3335204/google-statement-a... http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-
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Mac Pro Trash Icon (jonathanhirz.com)
2 points by bluekitten 13y ago|0 comments
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by bluekitten 13y ago
Luckily I haven't had such experiences so far. I guess people go through too many daily stresses, especially in tech life. As the only girl in my team, its hard for me to say no to unpaid overtime because most of other folks can't
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The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android(theatlantic.com)
85 points by bluekitten 13y ago|82 comments
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by bluekitten 13y ago
It's a she, but I agree with the rest of what you said :)
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by bluekitten 13y ago
Do they allow us to install games outside of Steam or does everything have to go through the Steam store and their 30% cut?