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by x03 11y ago
Adam Curtis, a documentary film-maker and journalist, has a brilliant aptitude at analysis in this area. His work in general, at the intersection of reporting and politics, is pretty excellent. It is some malice, more than you might expect;
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by x03 13y ago
The difference being, surely, that Snapchat has 26million users, not 26million customers. That said, it may very well be worth $4billion, or north thereof. The article concedes that it's difficult to speculate from the outside (and thu
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by x03 13y ago
"— All Mac App Store customers get 1Password 4 for free. Yes, all of them — All website customers who purchased 1Password for Mac in 2013 get v4 for free. Yes, that’s a nine-month free upgrade window — Launch sale price for new custome
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As People Head Into Space, PayPal Says It Will Follow Them(npr.org)
3 points by x03 13y ago|0 comments
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by x03 13y ago
The top answer to the question is visible without an account, and is interesting enough. The rest of the answers (frustratingly) require a Quora account to view.
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What's the shrewdest, smartest maneuver you've ever seen in business?(quora.com)
3 points by x03 13y ago|2 comments
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by x03 14y ago
Of planeraty size and mass.
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by x03 14y ago
It looks great and all that, but wouldn't 'FastPal' have made for a better name?
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by x03 14y ago
I'm a little surprised by the HN crowd's desire to turn this into some kind of Michael Bay movie with diplomatic explosions left, right and centre: the phrase "act of war" is being dropped around as if some kind of violent confrontation wou
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by x03 15y ago
The pilots, mostly, acted legitatemly based on the flawed and lacking data of which they were presented with. Initially, the captain's non-fear of the storm was based on incorrect weather data based on a mis-configured radar system. His dat
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by x03 15y ago
Well, of course, as one would expect the poor to take out hugely unfair debt agreements to load up their small houses in bad neighbourds with all the electronic gear they can muster for as much entertainment as they can barely afford to hav
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by x03 15y ago
While "1 in 6" appeals as a lot, the actual statistic of 15.1% poor people seems significantly less harmful -- as, ipso facto, the vast majortity of all American people (84.9%) are not poor. Isn't this the way the model essentially works ou
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by x03 15y ago
If large companies have the extra cash to drop extending their online identities in this very small way, then there's really no harm to the broader eco-system of domains. There will likely be a few "fun" uses of this, say drink.coke, but co
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by x03 15y ago
If you're looking for some language/translation help, then feel free shoot an email to the address in my profile and we'll see what we can do to help you guys out. :)
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by x03 15y ago
Although it's not specifically focused on HN users, http://usesthis.com/ is a really cool site showcasing the hardware, software and work flow of some pretty successful people.
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by x03 15y ago
Thanks! :) I'm working on getting us a "Team" page to showcase all our talent with pictures, Twitter links, etc...
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by x03 15y ago
We're seriously not even trying to be web2.0 (have you seen our site?), we just liked the name and pretty much everyone we've talked to agrees on that. We appreciate your feedback though! Thanks a lot for taking the time to let us know your
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by x03 15y ago
We'll look into it, we really will. But we'll still have to strongly advise everyone to again have them independently verified within their own territory and by a lawyer familiar with their situation. There's no way around that.
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by x03 15y ago
We feel all the documents on PearWords are solid, concise and fair to both parties. That said, we've not had these certified by a practicing lawyer simply because even if we do most people would still rather have a lawyer they know and trus
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by x03 15y ago
Thanks...yeah, we appreciate that an email disclaimer isn't necessarily the most effective means legally, but they're still in such wide-spread use that they do carry a certain weight to them that a lot of people find re-assuring to have, h
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Collection of documents that startups commonly need: Privacy Policy, NDA, etc...(pearwords.com)
220 points by x03 15y ago|25 comments
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by x03 15y ago
Since April 6th you've been able to incorporate directly online with Companies House at: https://ewf.companieshouse.gov.uk/9e98c6d412c60b928876bc14d4...
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by x03 16y ago
I'm a fairly eager, though passive, Hacker News reader and it seemed that a lot of startups were getting the message about what exactly they do a little jumbled: I imagine it's their own entrepreneurial excitement bouncing around with their
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Show HN: PearWords, pair your startup with some awesome words.
1 points by x03 16y ago|0 comments
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by x03 16y ago
For anyone interested, there's a service to help you along with this at: www.pearwords.com
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by x03 16y ago
Do you have a contact email? I can show you a quick preview of something I have...it's very rudimentary, but it works.
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by x03 16y ago
If you're getting into tracking multiple packages, Delivery Status does a very good job of this: http://junecloud.com/software/iphone/delivery-status-touch.h... -- although it's not a webapp.
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by x03 16y ago
The slight angle of being egotistical was included to almost make fun of the Journal itself: it's not meant to be a serious publication, per se, in that academics and others want to read it but merely a place for undergraduates to share wit
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by x03 16y ago
Okay, great, points noted. Thanks for your feedback! :) I think the critical point from your reply is that instead of there being a summary of what the essay is about, there should instead be a summary of what the essay is saying -- to basi
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by x03 16y ago
I didn't realise that introductory paragraph was such a barrier -- I'll look into getting that amended. As for the images, you're right: they're too same-same and identical, it was just meant to provide something other than text-text-text t

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