sscalia

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by sscalia 12y ago
"Google has become 22% better at selling its users habits and personal information to advertisers"
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by sscalia 12y ago
You're a smug asshole, aren't you. The reason they are so successful is the technology falls by the wayside; that's how advanced they are. Just because you get off rooting your phone doesn't mean they're not the lea
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by sscalia 12y ago
This really isn't newsworthy. Also, anyone even marginally working in the Real Estate industry is a scumbag. This man added no value other than as an intermediary; he may have added value to Stanford (questionable) but he got rich off
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by sscalia 12y ago
Here comes the hurricane...
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by sscalia 12y ago
You enjoy eating at PF Changs China Bistro? Really? Do you also enjoy The Olive Garden?
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by sscalia 12y ago
This article doesn't even bring up ABC (alcohol boards) who's sole purpose is to waste taxpayer money on sting operations at bars and push for esoteric laws that make it harder and harder to get a drink. Make no mistake -- alcoho
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by sscalia 12y ago
Yes, my cash - the end user. Not other companies looking to get my "attention"
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by sscalia 12y ago
I wanted to point that out too. Heh. hi five
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by sscalia 12y ago
Did you really post this just now?
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by sscalia 12y ago
I find it hard to argue with any of the points he makes. I'm sure someone here will, but I found myself doing the mental "gulp of air and raising a finger" then getting silenced again. I really wish Microsoft had pulled off W
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by sscalia 12y ago
I won't buy a NEST after the Google acquisition; nice to see other players entering this space. Laughable how long it took them -- Honeywell should have completely owned this market. Next up for disruption is home security.
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by sscalia 12y ago
As an owner of a new Lexus -- absolutely. Can't wait until my lease is up.
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by sscalia 12y ago
I used my trial of Beats Music for awhile -- I will admit, it had the BEST discovery and automatic playlist creation of any service I've ever used (Rdio, Spotify, Pandora, iTunes Radio) -- you really could be confident when you suggest
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by sscalia 12y ago
How's the autism spectrum treating you? "CDS ARE DIGITAL MUSIC!!!"
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by sscalia 12y ago
It might be hard for someone with an autism-spectrum order to understand, but normals really love music. It's part of being a human being. So yes, Music is extremely important. For anyone.
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by sscalia 12y ago
As someone who's father died from rapid, late-onset Ulcerative Colitis, this is really fantastic and makes me wonder what could have been.
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by sscalia 12y ago
I had a Sidekick Color and a Sidekick II. I also carried a Moto RAZR while I was in high school. The sidekick was a phenomenal device. Battery lasted all day -- I could text and had unlimited data over GPRS (maybe EDGE?) - and I was one of
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by sscalia 12y ago
What? This is hacker news!
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by sscalia 12y ago
Ah, yes -- the down vote has come.
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by sscalia 12y ago
Great point
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by sscalia 12y ago
Don't be like this man. There are people on here, reading this comment right now, who will become fantastically rich. Minimize externalities to your behavior. Be considerate, be thoughtful, be kind. Be the opposite of Vinod Khosla.
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by sscalia 12y ago
They make no mention of much better driver training; higher-quality and routinely inspected automobiles; less traffic; and cultural values that probably play a huge role. *Edited Typo
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by sscalia 12y ago
Negative. We'll never see a Google self driving car commercially. It's a science experiment.
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by sscalia 12y ago
Dude, what the fuck are you talking about?
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by sscalia 12y ago
I love how absolutely fucking dismissive this community can be about Apple. They fundamentally reinvented mobile phones. They brought real touch screens (resistive doesn't count) to the masses. They had very real, seemingly obvious now
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by sscalia 12y ago
Just further reinforces my opinion that Google Chrome is a Bad Browser™ Not "bad" in the sense of rendering or security holes (Read: IE6), but bad in that "experiments" can be "deployed" to users at any time, a
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by sscalia 12y ago
I'm gonna make an assumption that you (and many people on here) sit all day and probably don't exercise intensely regularly, eat healthily, or sleep very well. I don't think "RSI" by swiping on a screen is your most
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by sscalia 12y ago
How dare anyone on HN attack Google.
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by sscalia 12y ago
Data is data is data is data. Youtube blocking "mobile playback" of videos is the same as carriers blocking tethering without a specific plan or arbitrary caps (3GB mobile data, 1GB tether) This is something, across all mobile pla
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by sscalia 12y ago
Gotta love the fucking down vote brigade on anything remotely pro-Apple.

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