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15 years ago
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on: Flickr Accidentally Deletes a User's 4,000 Photos and Can't Get Them Back
You're right in your point about backups. These cloud services present quite a problem in the sense that they're structured to accommodate massive amounts of data. Often times this data is generated within the service itself with no means provided to extract it. So even if the user wanted to be responsible for backing up their data it's often times impossible. Moreover, even if the user wanted to AND had the means to do it, it could be a massive amount of data to sync up -- more than your average user is going to take the time to do.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Good documentaries to watch?
"The Cove" (
http://www.thecovemovie.com)
I had no idea what it was about when I flipped it on, but it's a great hacker movie. The guy who trained Flipper is trying to save some dolphins from being killed in Japan, so he teams up with some folks from Industrial Light and Magic to rig a secret cove with all kinds of spying equipment to catch the guys doing it. Really interesting.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Rethinking 99 weeks of unemployment
In a sense, yes, but that's mainly on the books and it depends on which interest rate you're referring to. You're right, much of the bailout money was used to cushion the capital accounts of these institutions. However, banks are businesses too and at the moment happen to be making tremendous profits, much of it due to the spreads they're getting on the low lending rate from the Feds.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Rethinking 99 weeks of unemployment
If I got an extra $100 or so on my paycheck, it would have very little economic utility. It would just be added to my pile of savings.Nonsense. That's great that you'd save the $100, but even if you do that it still has economic utility, presuming you're putting it into a bank account. It then gets lent out to businesses or reinvested into the economy. The bank isn't sitting on a giant pile of money.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: New security settings coming to Facebook
It probably had more to do with the lessons learned from the Tunisia situation.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011
What happens if you get acquired by Google? Do they still make you go through the interview process?
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: BofA mails your PIN to the same address as the card it unlocks
Where else would you like them to send it?
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: DHH: Un-Manage Your Employees
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: High-Powered Laser Pointers Pose Risk to Pilots
I hear about this happening all the time, but what amazes me is that people actually get caught. Days and weeks after the incident. If you're thousands of feet in the air, sure you can get a generally vicinity of where it's coming from on the ground...but how then do authorities actually track it down? Presumably the person is long gone...
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Word Lens More Than Pays for 2 Years of Bootstrapping
That's essentially what bootstrapping is. How do you define it?
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Why You Should Not Charge for Your Webapp From Day One
I made the lucky mistake with Pluggio of not charging from day one. Not because I didn’t want to – but because I didn’t have the payment stuff setup and I was too lazy to do it before launch.Sorry, but laziness isn't a compelling enough reason not to charge for your application.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: FCC Open Internet Apps Challenge
No joke. As far as I can tell there really is no reward.
You get "invited" to D.C. to attend a reception where you have to present your app to a commission. Your app then gets featured on the FCC website. You have to pay your own way there for all of that and can then get reimbursed by the FCC...up to $500 per person.
What exactly is the incentive?
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: What happens when an entire country legalizes drug use?
Completely agree, but my point is that even if you score it from a trusted dealer -- the so-called "pure" ecstasy you're getting is still dangerous to your body and mental state, even in the absence of additives.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: What happens when an entire country legalizes drug use?
It's a good point you make about alcohol, but I think the difference is that the "pure/regulated" alcoholic being sold can be consumed in a safe manner without any physical harm. I don't think a "pure" version of hardcore drugs are safe under any scenario. It's not simply a matter of them being laced with something that makes them dangerous.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Will Apple remove the home button from the next-gen iPad and iPhone?
That would get them an extra inch of real estate on the iPhone screen. That's significant.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Confirmed: Personal Hotspot feature coming to all iPhones in iOS 4.3
As an alternative to waiting for this official release, jailbroken iPhones have been able to do this for a while now, with no tethering fees from your carrier.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Apple will not allow Verizon to preload software on iPhone
I don't own one, so I'm not sure -- but couldn't you just reflash it with the downloadable Android?
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Why So Many Rich People Don’t Feel Very Rich
Maybe, but probably not comfortably. After taxes, that 172K will be about 120K. Even if you were to somehow make 8% interest on your money for the rest of your life, that's still only $800 a month.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud
Of getting stolen? What are basing that on? If you look at Google or Amazon, for example, they have teams of people who's only job it is to secure said data. I don't think the average office can say the same.
d2viant
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15 years ago
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on: That guy who called the big one? Don’t listen to him.
I had a professor that told me it's actually a good strategy to make wild predictions far in the future. If you're right, you look like an oracle. If you're wrong, nobody remembers to go back and dig up "he predicted this on this date", primarily because they're already focused on the next predictions. Most of the time it's a win-win; the farther out in the future the better.
