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Just because you're paranoid/doesn't mean they're not after you.

That's not really fair. The people who run corporations have a fiduciary responsibility. (There are of course caveats, and we can argue all day over whether or not SOPA is unconsti…

Good Times RIP never did happen. Within a few months of that presentation people started wondering whether or not we were in a startup bubble.

As a merchant account provider PayPal has lots of competition.

PayPal will re-evaluate your rolling reserve periodically. Assuming steady volume and low charge backs they will lower it. Rolling reserves are not uncommon for merchant accounts. …

I get a blank page when I click that link, so maybe a better publish button is in order.

For my Epic 4g I was able to buy 2 batteries and a charger for less than $8 on Amazon. The charger even has a USB port on the bottom so you can charge an external battery and your …

I don't get this one. I would assume that you'd have to be extremely wealthy to be Steve Jobs's neighbor. As a result you'd think bumping into other extremely wealthy, successful p…

Tablet apps are generally not consumable, books are. I use maybe 5 apps on my iPad that weren't free and I keep using them. If I only purchased 5 books on my Kindle it would have b…

Yeah I'm certainly not suggesting there's no demand for this now. I just think the demand will shrink over time. I don't think I'd want to try to build a long term business in a ma…

I feel like selling printed photos is a lot like selling CDs. You know at some point nobody will ever use these anymore. You don't know when, exactly, and they'll probably outlast …

They don't make money because they compete on fares, which is because that's all most people care about. Those who care about luxury just fly first, but that's a small percent of t…

Yeah. There are two possible scenarios. 1) Everyone who has run an airline for 30 years is an idiot. It never occurred to them that people would pay more for better service, even t…

This guy has apparently never heard of first class. You pay $200 extra, just like he suggested, and you get every perk he suggested that isn't impossible due to government regulati…

That's not customer service, it's advertisement. There's a difference. When you do something to get a mention from a guy with hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers/blog reader…

It's 2011. Who picks up a phone? Phones are for texting, web surfing, and posting on HN.

It wasn't that long ago when you could have shown a similar chart with Android phones.

I'm not so sure. I think the broader economic forces may help tech companies rather than hurt. No matter what happens, America (and the world) will still have a lot of very wealthy…

If I were AirBnB I'd be talking to an insurance company right now about offering supplemental insurance to renters. AirBnB could make a nice chunk, the way Best Buy does when it ge…

Does homeowner's/renter's insurance cover the property damage from renting out your place?

Not to be grammar police, but either this guy is allergic to his "s" key or he thinks Apple is plural. The tile of the post, "But Apple make fewer acquisitions", "Apple over-invest…

The back button on Android is fundamentally broken. WebOS is the only operating system that really does this right, and it's because they've architected the entire OS around it. Th…

Remembering state intuitively makes sense because the real world remembers state. Apple uses a lot of real world metaphors, such as the inertial scrolling, for this reason.