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Without having to spend money it ends up being confusing for consumers because it's like craigslist and inevitably results in people not being able to find what they want.

So Google without ads, when it first started, was worse than other search engines? Nope. The advertiser that bids the highest might not be the best option for the user at all

Comment · 13 years ago

I'm surprised they didn't have their their government emails. But they should know that if NSA really wants them, suitcases of cash will exchange hands to get the key...

Comment · 13 years ago

To subsidize affordable homes for 100,000 people would cost $25 billion.

and then another 100,000 people would move in there.

So yes, we should build as much subsidized affordable housing as we can.

Skip as many meals as you want, work as many hours and you want to do that. People can move to different cities you know...

Comment · 13 years ago

I think it also has to do with a rush new votes up or down. Sort of trending

Comment · 13 years ago

Employes of a certain company that starts with G do this on stories harmful to their employer. I'd bet that's the reason.

Comment · 13 years ago

IBM researcher can decipher your personality from 200 of your tweets

memo to self, always keep the total number of avail tweets at 199, or 198 just to be sure.

Google and Facebook might, simply because they know everything about you and sites you visit.

Comment · 13 years ago

So the person born in the current Gates' situation would prolly have achieved what Gates did - given that Gates is who he is because he won the ovarian lottery.

If he had a twin brother he's be, say Larry Ellison or Warren Buffet?

No doubt knowing that daddy is there for you if you fail and that Harvard will take you back is a huge relief and fall back strategy but Gates did make some amazingly good decisions. Some forty years later his company is worth close to $300 Billion and makes over $20 Billion in profit, year after year.

Comment · 13 years ago

Ads are fine, up to a point. If the page is almost all ads and not marked clearly as so, then F that company.

But these AdBlock PLUS guys are extortionists. Google paid and their ads are "acceptable." all of the sudden. (Disclaimer: not a fan of Google at all) Google being the world's largest advertiser is leading the way in putting the entire business model at risk, ruining ads for everyone. They started with no ads, then a few ads on the side, then on top, then 2-5 on top and 12 on the sides, now ads everywhere and just a few results hidden by ads. Now the product search is 100% ads and I doubt that most people know (not everyone reads HN and Ars) I posted them before but this is a disgrace and it's not receiving the needed attention from the media:

http://i.imgur.com/mhJhc5W.png

http://ho9od35yvs05ejqn.zippykid.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/u...

Comment · 13 years ago

But it's not like the market punished them at all. They are still selling lots of them.

Apple is the only that held them accountable in court, at least a little it. These b*stards are shameless http://cdn.mactrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-A...

Comment · 13 years ago

Samsung is one shady company. They get away with murder in South Korea, given that they make up a huge chunk of SK's GDP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kun-hee#Samsung_scandal

They do make decent electronics, but I wouldn't trust anything they say.

Comment · 13 years ago

You don't know what you're talking about.

All I know comes from trying to help via the internet a cousin find a place to live around that area.

Bullshit. I have friends that lived in Surreal Estate (a Bushwick artists' loft) five years go for 150/_month_.

Apparently Surreal Estate is some sort of experimental commune so I don't see how this makes my argument invalid. Oh, and it's in Brooklyn, not Manhattan. And apparently it was five years ago.