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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO
on Sunday January 20, 2019 @10:30AM (#18953446)
They should really wait until Game of Thrones comes back before disregarding them.
The Pros and Cons of Unlimited PTO
Re:Doing Business in Japan
on Friday November 07, 2014 @04:36PM (#8574757)
I see what you are saying, but it's also almost the complete opposite of a union shop. The huge differences that you don't have to work outside of 8 hour day (without time and a half pay) and you are also paid more than non-union people, but basically guaranteed pension and job for life if you get in.
Re:Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s ...
on Saturday October 25, 2014 @03:29AM (#8507514)
I just did a distance ride (100 miles per day) on my mountain bike loaded with camping gear on dirt paths. Average pace was 10mph, there are more than just carbon bikes on flat roads...
Good point and I agree, nothing left for small hands currently!
It's ridiculous. I thought I remember someone saying the iPhone 1/3/4 size was designed to be perfect for the human hand and I agree. It's easier to make things larger, it's hard to make them small, how are we regressing?
Re:Can We Trust Uber?
on Monday September 29, 2014 @03:57PM (#8384895)
I may be wrong, but I doubt the initial laws were setup to protect the cab industry. It solved a problem of safety, reliability, and set prices with cabs. See third world countries where a cab ride can easily mean a kidnapping or robbery at worst, or a fleecing at best. I'm sure once the basic infrastructure was in place cab companies used their lobbies to further entrench, but the basic laws are there for consumer protection.
Re:Can We Trust Uber?
on Monday September 29, 2014 @03:52PM (#8384874)
I am indeed from Baltimore, didn't know it was not widespread.
Re:Can We Trust Uber?
on Monday September 29, 2014 @12:56PM (#8383752)
We call them Jitneys or Hacks here in the US. Very common means of transportation in poor areas, but an app makes the same concept hip I guess.
Why Our Startup Is No Longer Using Facebook
Re:German armed forces warn that carbon fiber might be cancer-causing
on Monday August 11, 2014 @12:52PM (#8164015)
I seem to remember hearing that sofas release cyanide when burned.
Re:Hyundai’s 2015 Genesis will automatically brake for speed cameras
on Friday June 27, 2014 @12:27AM (#7952733)
Most areas with speed cameras (local) drivers already know where they are and cause a dangerous sudden braking condition anyway. I do fear that all the automatic nanny's are making people MORE likely to Facebook while driving their 4000lbs death machines though.
I'm suspicious of the "unnamed investors". Has anyone done any fact finding, I'm betting these guys are just looking for PR, and saying they got 1.2m for a "Yo" app is a pretty good way to do it.
Re:Carlypso (YC S14) could change everything about how we buy and sell...
on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @04:07PM (#7912505)
"If it gets stolen, your insurance company pays you for the car, so...mission accomplished?"
Except your rates go up, and they may give you less than you could have sold it for.
Re:U.S. Patent Office Cancels Trademark For Redskins Football Team
on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @01:50PM (#7911506)
When do we decide what is right? The Sioux conquered Crow and took their lands, so who holds the right to South Dakota?
Re:U.S. Patent Office Cancels Trademark For Redskins Football Team
on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @11:11AM (#7910534)
On the other hand, has any conquering nation ever set aside so much self managed land for the people it conquered?
Re:Not So Much ‘New York Poor’ as ‘Pittsburgh Rich’
on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @02:08PM (#7905949)
The salaries are not that much lower, and the cost of living is so significantly lower that you'd net more in Pittsburgh. I live in Pittsburgh and have had several jobs that pay over $100k. You can rent an apartment in the nicest hippest area here for $800/month (or less). You can own a home in a reasonable area for under $100k.
I speak from experience as sure my paycheck was larger when I lived in DC, but I could never afford to own a single family home. Now I own what would be the equivalent of a mansion in DC for less then what my suburban Maryland townhouse went for.
Re:LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
on Friday June 13, 2014 @04:34PM (#7890701)
The really terrible thing is how hard it is to get those contacts OUT of the system. The best part is once you figure out how, they only let you delete 100 at a time (odd they had the capability to upload more than that at once). Just spent an hour last week doing this.
Re:NFL players: height and weight over time
on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @04:50PM (#7848179)
Or Hockey or Soccer? Concussions are common in many sports, soccer which is considered a "safe" alternative to football has the second highest rate. Also not unlikely to occur in Basketball or Baseball.
Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks
on Thursday May 22, 2014 @05:56PM (#7786818)
Easy problem to solve, so many entire /8 blocks are owned by single corporations, which should either be forced to sell or give up this outdated privilege. Does Xerox really need all of 13.x.x.x? Or Ford Motor Company all of 19.x.x.x?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addres...
Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do?
on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @01:29PM (#7773874)
"and make their profit on the Internet because it costs so little to provide once the basic cable plant is built."
That's some big hand waving, because laying the cable costs a fortune, and takes many years to recoup the cost which is why there is so few are competing for this "super profitable" business.
Re:Why Yahoo Keeps Killing Everything It Buys
on Thursday May 15, 2014 @11:27AM (#7749974)
Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Sports (way better than ESPN app), Flickr
Re:Why Yahoo Keeps Killing Everything It Buys
on Thursday May 15, 2014 @08:51AM (#7749086)
Alibaba took off long before Mayer arrived. Regardless of financial improvements, the products have seen more innovation than the previous 10 years. I now have 3 Yahoo apps on my phone! Some improvements have been for the better, some for the worse, but she seems to have at least broken the "do nothing" attitude at Yahoo previously.
It explicitly says: "100% customized for comfort Settle into complete comfort with our fully customized 2014 Ford Explorers." So unless they are only accepting applicants who have 2014 Ford Explorers, it seems like they are providing the car here which seems like a substantial change...
Re:App.net State of the Union
on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @04:26PM (#7706877)
When I was bootstrapping my startup while working a day job, I used to wonder how to answer that question. My product was bringing in more money then the company's costs, so it felt "profitable", yet not enough to employ me full-time. Seems like there is a difference between that and something that is just plain unprofitable (where the burn rate will eventually cause the bank account to go to zero).
Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest
on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @12:23PM (#7628592)
I have no doubt they take it for granted
Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest
on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @11:17AM (#7628171)
American offensive activity has no effect on that fact that Canada is still counting on the United States to defend them in the event of an invasion.
Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest
on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @09:40AM (#7627552)
But then I suppose you'd also need to compare the quality? Is the free healthcare paid for taxes as good as the paid healthcare after taxes? I'm not saying it is or it isn't, just makes it hard to compare. If someone doesn't take advantage of the free education what then?
Also so much of US taxes goes to military, which countries like Canada benefit from, in a sense our military spending subsidizes Canadian healthcare.
Re:An Update on HN Comments
on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:33PM (#7606551)
I actually thought Slashdot's way of doing it was quite effective, especially the idea of rolling moderators.