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  1. Re: Another OS from Google on Google Invests $22 Million In Feature Phone Operating System KaiOS (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You probably hate-click leftist articles to rage as liberal crazies, then Google takes this to mean you want to see more.

  2. Re: Seems odd on Study Suggests There's No Limit On Longevity (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if it has something to do with relying on birth certificates. It could be that those around 100-110 years old who have a birth cirtificate are -for whatever reason - skewing the results.

  3. Apple used to be cool on Apple is Rebuilding Maps From the Ground Up (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's this type of thing that makes me think Apple has lost sight of what they offer as a business.

  4. Re: But y tho? on Apple is Rebuilding Maps From the Ground Up (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple Maps is the TMobile of mapping; good coverage is only in the cities.

  5. Re: Strong Maybe? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No matter how many dipshits like you don't understand, selling ads that target data is not selling data. Learn how English works, or learn how ad networks work.

  6. Re: Strong Maybe? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They serve ads over the web. Or are they running TV and radio ads now and didn't tell anyone?

  7. Re: the lead consumer technology writer for NYTim on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you provide an example of a site that A) renders in FF so badly you can't read it and B) has any quality content?

    My guess is this is more of an academic argument and there aren't really sites like you describe.

  8. Re: Bubblegram reaches 100 billion chucky tokens on Instagram Is Estimated To Be Worth More Than $100 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you accept dollars? To burn? You know dollars are backed by the U.S., right? If there's no U.S., dollars don't have value, similar to the way that if there's no Internet, Bitcoin has no value.

    So, the question is, which will sustain an apocalypse: the United States or the Internet?

  9. Correction on Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Plastic recycling is a problem that can't be solved by markets. Environmentalists need to put their money where their mouth is and stop trying to convince people recycling can be profitable. Tax your community to pay for it, or stop requiring them to waste their time with bins.

  10. Re: Wait - I thought this was an article about In on Intel Is in an Increasingly Bad Position in Part Because It Has Been Captive To Its Integrated Model (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber relies on Google Maps, Apple relies on Intel and ARM, Google relies on Sprint/Nextel/AT&T/Comcast/etc...

  11. Re: Does that make them suckers? on Instagram Is Estimated To Be Worth More Than $100 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or Facebook would have found another way to crush them. Just look at SNAP.

  12. Re: A better way to look at valuation on Instagram Is Estimated To Be Worth More Than $100 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how it stacks up if you include dividends. Lots of the older, stable industries (including MS to be fair) pay out decent dividends which keeps the P/E down.

  13. However much you can sell it for on the open market.

  14. Re: Bubblegram reaches 100 billion chucky tokens on Instagram Is Estimated To Be Worth More Than $100 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    People think Bitcoin is like tulips. They are right.

    People think there was a bubble in Dutch tulips. They are mistaken. There was a bubble in tulip FUTURES.

    Futures are like the CDOs and other derivative instruments that brought about the 2008 financial collapse.

    Tulip futures bubbled for a season. Bitcoin has been rising for a decade.

    You are a low information voter, too, I bet...

  15. Re: Instagram is estimated to be worth something? on Instagram Is Estimated To Be Worth More Than $100 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    They are susceptible to advertisers who convinced them ads are valuable.

    Between marketeers, investors, and corporate customers, there's a whole lot of mass delusion going on in the ad space. Frankly, I think it's a sign that corporations are making too much profit, and their leadership is too incompetent to know where to re-invest, so they just dump it into marketing.

  16. Re: A better way to look at valuation on Instagram Is Estimated To Be Worth More Than $100 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And the fact those contact lists will inevitably split is why neither will ever succeed in become a de facto form of communication. Instagram's growth is a flash in the pan. Social networks grow into unusability. It's inevitable.

  17. Re: Wait - I thought this was an article about Int on Intel Is in an Increasingly Bad Position in Part Because It Has Been Captive To Its Integrated Model (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    Every single tech company in Silicon Valley depends on the success of other tech companies, in or out of the Valley.

  18. Re: A common refrain from Musk on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's fine. Not all iPhone owners are Apple fan boys, but it's the fan boys that make AAPL valuable.

    Tesla is attempting to move into a high margin premium market. By controlling the battery supply and making advancements to stay a couple years ahead of their competitors in cost, as well as focus on direct sales, they've positioned themselves to reap much larger proft margins than any of their competitors.

    That's the Apple model.

  19. Splitting religion from science becomes somewhat nonsensical before the scientific revolution. The builders of stonehenge may have had a version of astronomy steeped in mythic tradition, but they were still essentially building an astral calendar. That's engineering, no matter the stories they may have told about the reasons they felt compelled to do so.

  20. Re: lol 'toxic' on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Asians aren't minorities though. Just look at any newspaper article talking about minorities in college and you will find that Asians are consistently left out of minority status. And we all know racism isn't really racism unless it involves the oppression of minorities.

    Asians gotta suck it up like the white people when it comes to college.

  21. Re: the lead consumer technology writer for NYTime on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Web designers should be the ones caring about their sites not rendering properly, not you. You should care about the quality of the content.

  22. Re: I never left Firefox, but it frustrates me.. on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Webpages are inefficient masses of the crappiest software built under the dumbest constraints. Using large amounts of memory is how you make them operate reasonably well. And humans are notoriously bad at understanding how much memory used is too much memory.

  23. Re: Developer Tools on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I recently switched to FF from Chrome and haven't noticed much difference.

  24. Re: 4 out of 5? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It uses the renderer which is the part everyone likes.

  25. Re: might be a valid strategy on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    ...demonstrating you have no idea how IQ works...