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Wow, I initially thought it was the same name.

The problem is that you're unwilling to apply that same logic to Ben Edelman and pretty much call him a paid shill. At least the commenter you were replying to noted the potential …

According to this post, they do. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8620539 It would be nice to have that in a disclaimer in the posts discussing Google or in the HN profile page…

Are there any official sales/revenue/margin/profit numbers for the Nexus devices or Chromecast announced by Google?

Most likely it got penalized by the flamewar detector, since it had many more comments than points. http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... Also, dang is in…

That's wrong. Statcounter measures usage , while Net Applications measures user share and IE has by far the larger install base.

Did they check the lithium levels in those places? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-we-a...

Perhaps they should be forced to release keywords versus clicked links data to other companies like Duck Duck Go, just like Microsoft was forced to document things like SMB for Sam…

I'll bite the troll in the off chance you're serious. Wait, Open Source is magically free of bloatware? OpenOffice, Firefox, KDE? Try running a modern Linux desktop distro like Ubu…

>The need to change passwords arose in April, when the Heartbleed vulnerability was revealed. Heartbleed makes systems vulnerable to data theft since attackers can use it to gain a…

>The brightest minds aren't programming on Microsoft platforms if you look at colleges and conferences worldwide. This cannot be reversed; Open Source products are now technically …

Not really true, and Google stopped blocking Windows Phone after the outrage. See "Misspelling "Windows Phone" Makes Google Maps Work". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7RiMCrZFw

>I never saw Chrome as the way for Google to ascertain that the general public can have unfettered access to Google properties, I saw - and see - Chrome as a way to extend the Goog…

The practice originally seemed to be in place to give discretion to officer to deal with druglords and people like that since proving everything is court is very hard, but since th…

From http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2014/04/protecting-student... >removed all ads scanning in Gmail for Apps for Education, which means Google cannot collect or use student dat…

I remember reading somewhere that Google announced that they're now stopping using emails in Apps for Business and Apps for Education for building ad targeting profiles. Very surpr…

Not sure if you're referring to Walmart or VISA/MasterCard.

>On the other hand, these are their rules; the conditions under which various transaction fee schemes apply are defined entirely by the card associations (Visa and MasterCard, et a…

And possibly Oracle as well.

I wouldn't want to risk legacy proprietary medical applications for hardware interfaces into medical devices to be running on an API re-implementation layer that could easily be mi…

It's quite possibly infringing, but it's unlikely to become a target for a lawsuit unless it starts making a lot of money or starts hurting a good percentage of sales of MS product…

Drivers.