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Did no one ever have the conversation about how Alibaba is a racist stereotype or do we just give Asia a pass on this kinda thing?
Still the third most visited Web property in the United States According to Alexa it's the 5th [1] but I'm sure it's not a huge difference between third and fifth. Yahoo still makes almost $5BN a year. It's a 24 year old internet behemoth. I mean by any reasonable measure of a company, those are ungodly numbers. Given how people talk about Yahoo though you'd think it was populated with lepers. I guess it's all about…
Did no one ever have the conversation about how Alibaba is a racist stereotype or do we just give Asia a pass on this kinda thing?
There are other characters from literature that could be problematic, but this just isn't one of those.
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Im speaking demographically and from what I see on Facebook a lot of older people who have no clue how the Internet works like we do here. They believe everything they see on the web and share it. They don't use Gmail as a whole and as for the politics comment ... older people were a huge majority who voted for Trump. These are facts ... not someone trolling here.
I don't think you're being downvoted by people who necessarily disagree with you. I think you're being downvoted out of fatigue. Not EVERY thread needs to pivot to discussing Trump's latest tweet, or how deplorable everyone over 30 is, etc.
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Wi-Max or alternatives like DIY long range Wi-Fi, cannot have both 10 miles (~15 km) range and high throughput. At the very minimum because earth curvature, and also because the radio signal has to go right through the moisture in between the sender and receiver. I came up a few years ago with the idea that it would be possible to use the mesospheric layer as a passive relay for communications at 40 miles range in de…
Sure you can, you just need a bigger tower; you can get gigabit speeds with microwaves, no sweat, very directional too. Signal loss due to moisture? Up the power. It doesn't work? Use more power, or add 5 feet to the tower and try again. Remember, if brute force isn't working, you aren't using enough of it. BTW: I like how you kinda gloss over the advanced math for atmospheric corrections. The idea is interesting, th…
You just made my day with that phrase.
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Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time[1]. Another part of it is that it shows the incredible value of inertia. Sports scores and email is with $5B. And I think a third is just a bit of schadenfreude from the internet insider set. Selling half of yourself to a Baby Bell-revenant and turning the rest into a tracking stock is a sad way for the first interne…
> Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time It's like the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M ). They make $30 billion in annual sales with 55k products. How often do you hear about them? They're big, profitable, and news is mostly boring to HN interests.
This article could be a tweet: The new name is meant to be a combination of the words “alternative and Alibaba,” according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to speak on the record about the name change.
If you're going to claim that it could be a tweet at least bring it down to 140 ;)
Altavista + Alibaba was my first thought.
Still the third most visited Web property in the United States According to Alexa it's the 5th [1] but I'm sure it's not a huge difference between third and fifth. Yahoo still makes almost $5BN a year. It's a 24 year old internet behemoth. I mean by any reasonable measure of a company, those are ungodly numbers. Given how people talk about Yahoo though you'd think it was populated with lepers. I guess it's all about…
As an aside, isn't Alexa sampled from a self-selecting set of people who install a browser toolbar of dubious value? Should its figures really be relied on at all?
This article could be a tweet: The new name is meant to be a combination of the words “alternative and Alibaba,” according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to speak on the record about the name change.