bsullivan01

8 ms·

1.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
There are YouTube videos I watch recreationally that I don't necessarily want to attach to my public identity. Wait until what you viewed is broadcast http://uk.news.yahoo.com/google-users-stars-online-ads-14411... a
2.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
I consciously try not to use Google but when I do it's with ad blockers. For products is Amazon directly--they are usually #1 anyway after the many ads Google puts on top. Ironically Google is training people to go directly to the top
3.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
They work on razor thin margins so they shoot first and ask questions later. They don't have the resources to provide top notch customer service or investigate in depth, or prices would be much higher. So you get what you pay for, I wo
4.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
wrong comparison Larry. Now a few entrenched players (not always the best choice or cheapest) can outbid you and hide your ads AND free listing. Not many people scroll down and on top is all ads. Small business is going broke thanks to Goog
5.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
I'm surprised they didn't have their their government emails. But they should know that if NSA really wants them, suitcases of cash will exchange hands to get the key...
6.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
To subsidize affordable homes for 100,000 people would cost $25 billion. and then another 100,000 people would move in there. So yes, we should build as much subsidized affordable housing as we can. Skip as many meals as you want, work
7.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
I think it also has to do with a rush new votes up or down. Sort of trending
8.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
Employes of a certain company that starts with G do this on stories harmful to their employer. I'd bet that's the reason.
9.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
IBM researcher can decipher your personality from 200 of your tweets memo to self, always keep the total number of avail tweets at 199, or 198 just to be sure. Google and Facebook might, simply because they know everything about you and s
10.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
So the person born in the current Gates' situation would prolly have achieved what Gates did - given that Gates is who he is because he won the ovarian lottery. If he had a twin brother he's be, say Larry Ellison or Warren Buffe
11.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
Ads are fine, up to a point. If the page is almost all ads and not marked clearly as so, then F that company. But these AdBlock PLUS guys are extortionists. Google paid and their ads are "acceptable." all of the sudden. (Disclai
12.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
But it's not like the market punished them at all. They are still selling lots of them. Apple is the only that held them accountable in court, at least a little it. These b*stards are shameless http://cdn.mactrast.com/
13.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
Samsung is one shady company. They get away with murder in South Korea, given that they make up a huge chunk of SK's GDP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kun-hee#Samsung_scandal They do make decent electronics, b
14.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
You don't know what you're talking about. All I know comes from trying to help via the internet a cousin find a place to live around that area. Bullshit. I have friends that lived in Surreal Estate (a Bushwick artists' lof
15.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
No, what's fishy is the $135/week rent, even a small room can cost more than that--unless it's a really, really bad area. But you can live on $540, for a while. Food can be very cheap in the bodegas and the rest can largely b
16.
Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'(inplainsight.nbcnews.com)
40 points by bsullivan01 13y ago|51 comments
17.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
If it's anything like Africa has been over the past 100 years, agricultural tribes and hunter-gatherer tribes simply don't mix. You are missing the point IMO. Back then, it wasn't like today, where you check their LinkedIn
18.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussles for talent He may be an engineer but he got the $10 Mil for being "The senior vice president of engineering"
19.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
First thing I would have done, NOT F*CKING POST on HN. The person that lost it reads too and so do his friends. Second, if you wanted to you might used part of it you would have to be very careful and pair it with something totally yours. O
20.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
"A system provides a periodically changing story line and/or a special event company logo to entice users to access a Web page"...or change logo and upload the new one to the website. Revolutionary!
21.
Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)(news.cnet.com)
13 points by bsullivan01 13y ago|9 comments
22.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
Or maybe the two faced Google is the one trying to win brownie points with the tech crowd, while applying for patents on bill splitting?
23.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
If I had a choice personally, I'd go for Japan. For culture/food. Isn't that too expensive? I have no first hand knowledge, just what I read sometimes about it
24.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
Immigrant founders might also decide to go back to the motherland for a while if things get rough in USA.
25.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
Am i supposed to believe your word over the reality, given that all (other than Motorola) have licensed patents from Microsoft? >> Most have nothing to do with OS. If any is related, MS is too scared to disclose it because it would b
26.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
Let's cut the crap and get to the point: are you saying that the Patent Office should grant a patent for tip splitting to Google? Yes or no? It's sad and hilarious at the same time to see Googlers defend these ridiculous positions
27.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
IANAL, but could one make a case that our freedom of association is being violated by the Feds knowing every person we talk to, text, meet (location data) etc?
28.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
It's like a billionaire punching a street bum in the face, and then whining when the bum fights back ungentlemanly. Very touching, minus the fact that APPL was once almost bankrupt too and that the iPhone, that everyone started copyi
29.
Will China Colonize and Incorporate Siberia? (2012)(hir.harvard.edu)
7 points by bsullivan01 13y ago|1 comments
30.
by bsullivan01 13y ago
This guy is dreaming. He thinks that other countries will just sit, waiting their turn to be attacked by China as China attacks them one by one. My guess is that USA will rally them all against China during the first war dealing China a roy

More ›