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EwanG
1,378karma·583submissions·November 21, 2010
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Writer, Photographer, Programmer - Not necessarily in that order
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Do we think this is THAT much different from the Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos), Time Magazine and related (owned by Marc Benioff), etc? I mean, is there any major news outlet (short of possibl…
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Sounds a lot like Archive.org? Am I missing something?
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Not THAT difficult - assuming you have enough stone tablets. I mean the program code exists. The problem I think you'd have (and true of most of these digital artifacts) is all the other hardware…
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Have we finally found the perfect use case for SpaceX's Starlink here? Assuming you get a suite with a window that the pizza-box receiver can use...
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Dooce aka Heather Armstrong - has been down quite a long path and it's hard to believe she's been at it over 10 years.
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A tool I have used in the past (and one of the favorites for folks doing full Visual Novels) is "RenPy" which is based on Python - https://www.renpy.org/ Not involved with t…
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And somehow the actual drugs being used are not mentioned. I get the concept is to identify pathways and then find similar pathways in humans, but still...
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This feels like Sears buying KMart - One ailing firm buying another in the hopes that scale will fix everything...
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Only one I didn't see there that I read commonly is Bloomberg. But they (like NYT and so many others) can be easily worked around by using an Incognito window - use up all your "free article…
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I'd be interested in a follow-up to see how many companies have made the effort in the past year to address this. I suspect not as many as one would hope.
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Just curious, but do you think a paid service that served photos and no ads, and allowed the customization of feed order, would be able to compete? I've presumed the reason folks continue to floc…
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Had not realized that in many circles Rodgers is considered a near-genius and Hammerstein a bit too preachy and sentimental. The article argues otherwise.
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Had to shorten the article's original title due to HN restrictions. Hopefully the revised version still makes sense :-) Article talks about a launch scheduled to happen this week.
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So I'd go read this, except that Bloomsburg seems to have decided to go the NYT and WSJ route - which probably wouldn't bother me if they weren't $30+ dollars a month.
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I note that 2061 and 3001 are still available if we want to see what a remake of the full series could be like.
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Would having an Amazon Prime "Membership" likely count enough to expect to see Amazon offer this to consumers (possibly at enough of a discount to make it competitive with employer insurance…
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One more for consideration - does a nice job of showing how the cars work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se4KrC0nfGE …