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This is a great way of thinking about it. Same goes for "unlimited" plans: the more I use, the lower their profit margins. I'd rather agree on terms and pay for what I use.

I got the offer and really considered it as well! It was the fear of an acquisition that convinced me not to take the offer. I was a TextDrive customer before they were acquired by…

> We believe that the risk of "logical failure" of an SSD is higher than the risk of physical failure. This means that some pattern of usage or strange edge-case causes the SSD to …

Why is it even possible to “charge [someone] as an adult”. If you have the concept of “adult” and “child”, and a line in between them, how can the crime dictate someone’s mental ma…

This is a very good point. I'm this is true to some extent, but (as much as I'd love to wholeheartedly agree with you), the reason I don't consider this likely is this: the main re…

This made my day, thanks. :)

I agree. I posted a crazy rant elsewhere in the comments, actually, prompted by the same thoughts. Poor HN.

Warning: crazy rant coming. So this is what HN has degenerated to? I'm sorry, but I remember eagerly reading the front page, learning things from interesting articles, and -- more …

Aww, HN takes itself so seriously...

Depends on how much you care about latency, right? The easy solution is just, y'know, write the log to a file and scp it back to some central place every so often. But then you hav…

It's the last friday of july -- your timezone is too advanced! http://www.sysadminday.com/

Can anyone tell me why HN is so obsessed with G+? This is a real question. I've mostly forgotten about it, and I work there.

No, I agree with you. I think the article is a perfect example of what it's trying to criticize. Re the article: People have always been running their mouths; technology makes that…

Because the comma adds a sequence point, it should be defined: the post-increments both happen before the use of the k lval.

Yes, this is how digital information works. If you give one person a copy, they can then give other people more copies. The UI fluff will never change that.

Okay... I still don't understand how this is better than simply putting the contact details on the card itself, other than the risk of staleness. (And the marginal case where you w…

So what is the purpose of this? How is this better than business cards?

I'm sympathetic to this viewpoint, but I'd be much more interested to read some research on this topic than a bunch of unsourced opinion. To make a claim like this you need some ha…

The fact that he could give up without consequence when his family member got ill is significant. If he was actually poor, caring for his family member could have put him back at s…

Once you have money, you have a lot more to lose, and become more conservative. Broke college students will throw their weight around as much as they can, but once they're rich, th…

Did anyone who has a subscription read this? Any thoughts? It looks interesting, but not $32 interesting, to me.

OTR supports this for pidgin, and has a proxy for other clients: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/

I ran into this from the other direction: I don't get much natural light at all in my bedroom, and when I moved in I had a terrible time waking up until I installed a lamp that aut…

> It's difficult to retain your composure when you're inconvenienced by the incompetence of your social inferiors, but it's usually worthwhile. Wow. I'm not sure that's the point o…

So how does Alexa get these numbers, exactly?