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What happens when Dropbox is acquired?

Touché

Rather than the cause being something other than corruption, I think this is in addition to corruption. Without corruption all the way to the very core of the government (as it is …

This reminds me of a story[1] around 8 years ago of the eye-watering costs of ADSL in South Africa. Whereby it was cheaper to fly to Hong Kong and download 100GB of data in an inte…

But that's what Dustin is saying. If you're using the right tool or the right equipment, you won't focus on it. You won't worry about something breaking. You'll get to enjoy the ex…

You need a backpack to hike. You could hike without one but that would involve carrying everything in your hands. Backpacks are the evolution of ergonomic design to make carrying i…

What you seem to be forgetting is if you spend the time researching and ensuring you're buying a quality pen or book or utensils. You're also ensuring you don't need to buy another…

I thought that was just Business Insider. VB occasionally has a story worth reading. But usually they're just rehashing what everyone else had yesterday.

I have the same dream about CDs and DVDs.

>"tweeting a picture of themselves with their new investors, M.C. Hammer or Ashton Kutcher." Has no one else picked up that the only reason Arrington responded was because Bilton v…

1 reason to develop for iOS first: revenue.

What happens when they fail one too many times and the seemingly endless supply of R&D money runs out?

Google has a huge revenue generating machine in search, and adwords. This allows them the opportunity to spend massive amounts of money on a lot of projects that will mostly fail. …

I think its great that you accomplished this, and I guess seeing as its hit the front page of HN you may inspire a few tech folk to believe they can too. But I still find nothing n…

That would be like banning liquor stores or corner shops selling cigarettes. The monopoly is because the government wants a piece of it. The potential of gambling sites to make hug…

I imagine you are talking from a US perspective. I don't believe there is a negative perception of gambling startups in the UK / Europe, especially if you consider success stories …