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> If you're already fat, you're pretty much fucked. That's not true, and that's a mentality that justifies self-destructive behavior. I used to be overweight but turned it around a…

69% of statistics are made up on the spot :P The quoted number is plausible insofar as many vendors offer free shipping with purchases over $X

The monthly fee makes it unappealing for small volume customers, and the per-transaction fee makes it unappealing for large volume customers. I'm guessing there's some intermediate…

Not sure why you were downvoted. A perfectly reasonable growth strategy would be to limit API requests for applications based on a free plan (and progressively increase the limit b…

> In order to register for the developer program, you must be on a paid plan.

If they really did create two sets of disk images based on presence of Firefox, Dell could argue that the price is not for the software but for other differences between the disk i…

.. or that IE comes with Windows and Google pays to include Chrome in Dell computers. For example, here's a 2009 note involving Sony: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01…

It hasn't been ruled a suicide, according to WSJ: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/27/american-ceo-of-singa... > “I was informed by the Singapore police about her death,” Abrams…

relevant: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

I think there's a different force at play here: When the software comes with the computer, you can turn around and complain to Dell about the software. There is someone you can cal…

The problem is that Mozilla's policy applies to distribution but not necessarily to installation. Since this is a legal issue, the details are very important. In this case, the pro…

> Dell has responded saying that this practice is okay because the company is charging for the service and not the product.

It's about future likelihood, not prior probability, and the fact that an issue was discovered means that the likelihood is much higher than if it were some isolated incidents. To …

I brought up the same point last week ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6703967 ) and the Model S appears to be 25x more likely to catch on fire: https://news.ycombinator.com/…

You aren't looking at the whole picture. In fault states, the insurance company would have to pay out to the other party in the case of an accident. That money needs to come from s…

That logic makes sense if you assume the only incidents are single-car. When this happens near other cars and is deemed to be the factor behind a multi-car accident, the insurance …

> Unfortunately, they love "the fall of the guy" even more. Tesla went out of their way to flaunt the safety features of the car, alleging a 5.4 NHTSA score when the agency explici…

Once an open source project has enough traction, there is generally little need for outside donations (as companies that use the product will hire people that focus on using and im…

Strictly speaking, it's a community blog post. The author, Touchpoint, probably paid BOA to put the post up there: https://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/peopl... I…