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Re:Singapore personal data hack hits 1.5m on Friday July 20, 2018 @07:54PM (#17579912)
I would question assumption [2]. For example, all Foreign Domestic Workers are required to have 6-monthly medical examination http://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/work-permit-for-for...
How much of this is due to FB's migration to apps vs visits on the browser?
Re:Tesla's Model 3 volume production target pushed back again on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:27PM (#16068038)
It's only insanely expensive relative to the financing cost structure of traditional companies. If you view Tesla as a high growth tech startup, with an insanely cheap way to raise capital, you can say they are spending very little money to generate such high revenue growth rates, especially compared to say Uber.
Re:Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @09:26PM (#14907145)
Except not really, because number of Apple Watches sold in first month was in the millions whereas number of iPods sold was less than 100,000! I think OP is talking about rate of growth being like iPod, not absolute numbers https://www.lifewire.com/number-of-ipods-sold-all-time-19995...
Re:2011 Predictions on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @12:02AM (#2047965)
If Apple releases Lion as a Mac App store purchase, that could go a long way to approaching that $1Bn.

Ask HN: Community nurturing

I help run a moderately popular website, Gamers Unite! (http://gamersunite.com), a forum for Facebook social game lovers. It's a slightly controversial site because we also provide tools for gamers to help them advance more quickly which some view as cheating.We have a member who was helpful in the beginning in the sense that he very vocal in his support and evangelizing of our site and in...

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Re:Rate my startup: community reputation system. on Saturday July 24, 2010 @10:19PM (#1544811)
We're considering a build vs. buy decision for our site http://gamersunite.coolchaser.com. So, I'll say minimally we have such a need.