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China’s Stopchat: Censors Can Now Erase Images Mid-Transmission(wsj.com)
3 points by wsr 9y ago|0 comments
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by wsr 9y ago
Photos and videos are harder to spy on. However, this might be changing too... https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-stopchat-censors-can-now...
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by wsr 9y ago
Thanks for sharing madcaptenor! Very interesting to know this!
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by wsr 9y ago
I have friends who have gone through this experience. I was pretty surprised too that the company was willing to pay so much to defend their patents. Granted... my friend's rate was fairly reasonable... I think between $500-$1000/
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by wsr 9y ago
Thanks for the long reply patio11. I can see where you are coming from, and I wouldn't be surprised if the same argument is used by the company. If that is the case. O well, I wish them well but I would never be this naive again. There
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by wsr 9y ago
Interesting! At least there is one case that the company is doing the right thing. Thanks for sharing smoyer!
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by wsr 9y ago
Good point! I'll check to see if any of my friends can get me a copy of the patent policy. I wonder how legal it is in the state of California to bar the people from getting their reward simply because they are no longer with the compa
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Ask HN: Reward for Patents After Leaving the Company?
12 points by wsr 9y ago|12 comments
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by wsr 10y ago
As these hacks are becoming more common place, I'd love to hear fellow HN reader's take on their password strategy/management. Many thanks in advance!
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by wsr 10y ago
Can you please elaborate on what you mean?
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by wsr 11y ago
According to Alexa Voice Service page ( https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo... ) Amazon is starting a $100M fund for anyone building voice related services. This is very interesting. Ha
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by wsr 11y ago
This is a very good question. I really hope someone with domain knowledge answers it.
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by wsr 11y ago
This might be a silly question, but why was there a fork in the first place? The article wasn't as clear on explaining that part. Can someone else elaborate on that part?
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by wsr 12y ago
As a fellow serial entrepreneur, it seems to me that between success, sleep, and living the life, you can only pick 2 out of the three.
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by wsr 12y ago
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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by wsr 12y ago
Can someone explain to me the rationale behind this valuation? It seems a bit high. As far as I know, their biggest distribution has been on Youtube. Maybe I'm wrong here, but assuming this is the case... Some rough math: - On Youtube
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[Infographic] US Internet Speed by State(dadaviz.com)
2 points by wsr 12y ago|0 comments
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by wsr 12y ago
Looks like it is fixed now. Did anyone else just experience it as well?
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2014 Big Mac Index (interactive chart from The Economist)(economist.com)
2 points by wsr 12y ago|0 comments
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by wsr 12y ago
Dear All - World Startup Report team here. There have been many repeated questions in this thread, so we compiled all them into a single long answer for everyone. At World Startup Report, our goal was to show the world how big of an interne
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by wsr 12y ago
Svip - The country location for a company in this research was determined by where the bulk of the employees are currently. The intent of this definition is to show which countries are most capable of building big internet companies, not wh
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by wsr 12y ago
Grexi - As mentioned in another thread, The World Startup Report team aimed for 100 countries for this research, but realistically we were able to only get good data for 50 countries for this research. If your country is not on the list, an
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by wsr 12y ago
Hi all - The World Startup Report team aimed for 100 countries for this research, but we settled for 50 as we didn't have enough local support from the smaller countries. If your country is not on the list, and you would like to join u
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by wsr 12y ago
Unicorn club = companies over $1b in valuation. We've been tracking all of the billion dollar (unicorn) companies around the world. Here is our internal list of all 212 unicorns that we've found: https://docs.google.com
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by wsr 12y ago
unicorn club = companies over $1b in valuation.
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by wsr 12y ago
World Startup Report team here. It's awesome to see our data on HN! One interesting point to note is that out of the top 7 countries, none of them are from Europe. To put into context, the biggest internet company in Europe is merely 1
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by wsr 12y ago
Incorporation is the easy part. Paying taxes is the much tougher thing to do in Brazil. But! Brazil it's the land of opportunity in Latam, so that's why foreigners like to go to Brazil.
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by wsr 12y ago
Absolutely agree. I especially enjoyed my short stay at Belo Horizonte, go check it out if you have a chance!
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by wsr 12y ago
telecuda, everything you said is right on point. The tax is Brazil is beyond crazy. If I recall correctly, even Amazon had problems bringing servers into the country because of the taxes and import duty. That's just the tip of the iceb
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by wsr 12y ago
Bowei from the World Startup Report team here. Thanks for reading the report. If anyone has any question regarding Brazil startup ecosystem, I'd be happy to help answer it!

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