eshrews

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by eshrews 14y ago
Personally, I think this stuff is great. It eliminates a lot of extra communication regarding whether someone has received a piece of information or not. That said, I wonder at what point is a post considered "seen".
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by eshrews 14y ago
Some of the issues that have come to light on HN have been genuine, but in this case I feel like this guy has spent more time complaining than he did participating in the contest... They scammed you out of what? 5, maybe 10, minutes of your
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by eshrews 14y ago
I read it as meaning the 196 million came from a combination of Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Accel Partners, so I think they are still making money.
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by eshrews 14y ago
>But make no mistake: this is bad for Facebook. Sure some investors, Zuck and (maybe?) some employees made a few more dollars but Facebook doesn't need the money and neither do most of the investors. But that's incredibly shortsighted.
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by eshrews 14y ago
Am I missing something? What exactly did Facebook do wrong? Seems like the bankers were the ones that made the mistakes when it comes to the facebook IPO. Facebook made out like a bandit. If the price tanks after IPO, it's not Facebook that
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by eshrews 14y ago
Betting one's retirement on a single security seems like a bad strategy regardless of how successful it's likely to be. I'm hoping the title is just hyperbole.
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by eshrews 14y ago
I read the "methods" section of the study, and saw no reference to controlling for occupation nor socioeconomic status (as opposed to marital status, self-reported health, and other things that are listed). However, I only read it briefly,
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by eshrews 14y ago
This is the source you are looking for - http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/col...
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by eshrews 14y ago
Read the article again, its not making the passwords case insensitive, merely allowing you to invert the case. i.e. if your password was "aSdf" neither "ASDF" nor "asdf" would work.
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by eshrews 14y ago
Did you even read the article? His point isn't that parents should follow the box ratings, its that parents should be proactive in choosing the content that they expose their children to. Especially if they are going to complain about it la
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by eshrews 14y ago
I'd never seen this picture before, so thank you. I'd imagined it differently before viewing. Seems more like a pale blue speck.
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by eshrews 14y ago
Yes, he confirms further down in the comments that this is a fictional story.
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by eshrews 15y ago
Well, they don't have much to differentiate do they? I don't think anyone chooses carriers based on the phone's bloatware (although maybe on the lack thereof), so I don't see why they need to differentiate at all.
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by eshrews 15y ago
"Believe it or not, they're official LG booth babes, for MWC! That's a press photo from this morning, for the Optimus 4X thing. They do look a bit young for booth babes, IMO." From the comments - http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119571