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See anyone trying to get a loan vs anyone paying taxes. Duh!
Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:08PM (#22940659)
What they should do is come up with a trade pact for countries outside China and increase production there. Sort of like a Pacific-wide partnership...
Re:New iPhone SE on Thursday April 16, 2020 @11:48AM (#22890599)
Sony Xperia compact series are the best versions of this.
Can this guy be president?
Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry? on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:14AM (#22876799)
Mainly the grammar.
Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China on Thursday April 09, 2020 @11:06AM (#22823232)
More of this--mercantilism for all!
Re:Universal health care: will people finally get it? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:05AM (#22646976)
I'm optimistic, but can see the case for pessimism as well.
Re:Popcorn Time 4.0 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:03AM (#22646960)
People had gigabytes of free music on their computers and wanted a place to store them that enabled easy playback, hence the iPod. iTunes removed the friction necessary in piracy and priced inventory low enough to emerge as a viable alternative.
Re:Universal health care: will people finally get it? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @10:57AM (#22646909)
One way this coronavirus situation forces people to consider universal coverage is that the less fortunate, without health care and means for testing, become an attack vector for the virus towards the more fortunate. This makes universal coverage in the self-interest of the more fortunate, and hopefully they realize cost-efficient.
Re:Popcorn Time 4.0 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:03AM (#22604930)
Can you recommend a good VPN for this use case?
Re:Popcorn Time 4.0 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:50AM (#22604828)
Apple built iTunes on the success of Kazaa.
Re:FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:32PM (#22526724)
5 GHz band wifi? Or 5G wireless?
Hahaha.
Any Android burner phone with LineageOS.
If you have an old router with USB 2.0 ports lying around it's fairly straightforward to install OpenWRT and Zerotier and make a VPN with a private cloud attached if you mount a HDD, and as long as your file transfer requirements aren't too intense. Have one running on my LAN and it works well for FTP, SMB shares for backup, and normal VPN stuff. Plus, it doesn't consume much power as it's MIPS chipset.
Was it a known issue that you were sending scans of everyone's mail to everyone else who had a PO box at same address?
Yep. Sounds like USPS!
Good to know. Thanks.
Former. PO box at a post office.
They shut down the test after I pointed this out to them, but had I not they were completely unconcerned. At the time it was called "Real Mail Notification", so hopefully they have fixed the issue with this new iteration.
Was asked to participate in an early test for this last year. It was terrible.

I have a PO box and as that address includes the post office address you would receive notification and pictures of ALL mail going to that address, so everyone's PO box. Not good.

Re:Your car is about to go Open Source on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @06:23PM (#6524289)
As with most consumer prducts, the limitation isn't technical, it's what will drive sales and increase profit.

If you figure out a slick new way to mirror a phone's display, congrats, you've just cannibalized a major brand differentiator in the sales process. Better to require an updated car surrounding that updated software.

It made no sense to me a few months ago when I experienced this issue test driving an Audi. The salesman told me to hold off on purchasing a Q7 because it didn't have the updated software yet, but that next year's model would. Said the Q5 did have it now, so he was advising the purchase of a cheaper car due to the software stack.

Clearly there is room here to innovate. I believe Apple is facing this same issue with their upcoming Apple TV product.

Re:What is the best open source Hamachi alternative? on Friday October 04, 2013 @05:13PM (#6498040)
The problem I've always had with OpenVPN is that it seems to break down when you are behind the router running the OpenVPN server. I can get an 10.0.0.1 IP on the WAN but not on the LAN. I've asked this question in the OpenVPN forum, but never got a response so I am still using Hamachi. Still looking...
Re:What is the best open source Hamachi alternative? on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @07:18PM (#6486096)
Have looked at it but configuration behind NAT router is a bear. Guess there is a reason LogMeIn bought Hamachi. Not trivial to authenticate and tunnel behind NAT.
Re:Why Netflix should buy AMC on Thursday September 12, 2013 @02:07PM (#6375787)
Buy the production companies not the networks.
are his initials the same as a foundational religious figure?

Google is out executing Apple lately.

With the public release of Google Music, the redesign of Gmail and other properties, and the open source release of Android 4.0 Google seems to be out executing Apple lately. Thoughts? Seems like the ship has been righted since Page took over.

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Re:Steve Jobs' Biographer on Charlie Rose on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @11:08PM (#3161457)
Very well put.

I think it is also because Rose is a huge Mac guy, even fell and bruised his eye while protecting his iPad, and wants to understand how Jobs was able to make products that have so captivated the world. I don't think either Rose or Isaacson are techies, so they aren't approaching the discussion from a technical perspective, which is good, but from a general business and individual in history sense.

I agree, a great inteview. Makes me want to read more of Isaacson's books.

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