hnsmurf

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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Just because you're paranoid/doesn't mean they're not after you.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
That's not really fair. The people who run corporations have a fiduciary responsibility. (There are of course caveats, and we can argue all day over whether or not SOPA is unconstitutional or otherwise illegal, but you get the point.) If yo
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Good Times RIP never did happen. Within a few months of that presentation people started wondering whether or not we were in a startup bubble.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
As a merchant account provider PayPal has lots of competition.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
PayPal will re-evaluate your rolling reserve periodically. Assuming steady volume and low charge backs they will lower it. Rolling reserves are not uncommon for merchant accounts. PayPal didn't event them. 30% is on the high side but if Pay
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
I get a blank page when I click that link, so maybe a better publish button is in order.
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FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers(foxnews.com)
5 points by hnsmurf 15y ago|1 comments
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
For my Epic 4g I was able to buy 2 batteries and a charger for less than $8 on Amazon. The charger even has a USB port on the bottom so you can charge an external battery and your phone at the same time. I find it not too inconvenient to ju
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
I don't get this one. I would assume that you'd have to be extremely wealthy to be Steve Jobs's neighbor. As a result you'd think bumping into other extremely wealthy, successful people would be routine.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Tablet apps are generally not consumable, books are. I use maybe 5 apps on my iPad that weren't free and I keep using them. If I only purchased 5 books on my Kindle it would have become worthless to me after about 2 months.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Yeah I'm certainly not suggesting there's no demand for this now. I just think the demand will shrink over time. I don't think I'd want to try to build a long term business in a market that will certainly shrink.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
I feel like selling printed photos is a lot like selling CDs. You know at some point nobody will ever use these anymore. You don't know when, exactly, and they'll probably outlast the CD, but I personally already get annoyed when someone gi
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
They don't make money because they compete on fares, which is because that's all most people care about. Those who care about luxury just fly first, but that's a small percent of the market. Even most people in first got there via free upgr
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Yeah. There are two possible scenarios. 1) Everyone who has run an airline for 30 years is an idiot. It never occurred to them that people would pay more for better service, even though they all went to prestigious b-schools. The author of
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
This guy has apparently never heard of first class. You pay $200 extra, just like he suggested, and you get every perk he suggested that isn't impossible due to government regulation. They'll give you more legroom, better food (and you don'
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
That's not customer service, it's advertisement. There's a difference. When you do something to get a mention from a guy with hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers/blog readers it's marketing. If they did that for me it'd be customer s
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
It's 2011. Who picks up a phone? Phones are for texting, web surfing, and posting on HN.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
It wasn't that long ago when you could have shown a similar chart with Android phones.
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Will DARPA's 13,000-mph plane fly?(news.cnet.com)
1 points by hnsmurf 15y ago|0 comments
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
I'm not so sure. I think the broader economic forces may help tech companies rather than hurt. No matter what happens, America (and the world) will still have a lot of very wealthy people and institutions. Those people need to put their mon
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
If I were AirBnB I'd be talking to an insurance company right now about offering supplemental insurance to renters. AirBnB could make a nice chunk, the way Best Buy does when it gets you to purchase those stupid protection plans, and simult
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Does homeowner's/renter's insurance cover the property damage from renting out your place?
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Not to be grammar police, but either this guy is allergic to his "s" key or he thinks Apple is plural. The tile of the post, "But Apple make fewer acquisitions", "Apple over-invest in their supply chain", Apple pay a significant portion" ma
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
The back button on Android is fundamentally broken. WebOS is the only operating system that really does this right, and it's because they've architected the entire OS around it. The way apps use scenes and stages makes the whole thing flow.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Remembering state intuitively makes sense because the real world remembers state. Apple uses a lot of real world metaphors, such as the inertial scrolling, for this reason.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
The exit section is a little silly. When you take $50m you don't just get to not exit later. You're just saying you're going to do it via an IPO or an IPO-sized acquisition. If you really don't want to exit, don't take money at all. The min
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
It was something I did pay for, just not as much. They increased cost by increasing convenience.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
I don't think they've cut costs at all. I pay them $9 a month now or whatever. I didn't spend $9 a month at Blockbuster before they existed, and I don't watch very many more movies now than I did then. Might even be less. I do it because it
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
I don't disagree with you, but a lot of people feel the same about marriage. A lot of people (not me, btw) feel that this is a Christian country and it's antithetical to our founders' beliefs for gays to marry and yadda yadda. The point I'm
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
That wouldn't end the deficit, that would just ensure the deficit was 0 the day before elections. Also there's a slippery slope. This same logic, if we allow it to be applied to the deficit, could be applied to other things. No congressmen

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