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BlackNapoleon··on AOL acquires gdgt.com
What does AOL do besides cull ad money for websites it owns while it rests on the laurels of not doing anything?
BlackNapoleon··on Federal Reserve confirms hackers breached site
Its only a matter of time until they rape that place for everything.
BlackNapoleon··on How To Make Trillions Of Dollars
Is this an homage to the Rothschilds?
BlackNapoleon··on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands - Starting With Mine
How does Cuban make money these days?
BlackNapoleon··on Petraeus case shows FBI's authority to read email
Thing is...do I really think that in using Google they won't read my mail?
BlackNapoleon··on Why Is the Surface So Bad?
I don't know WHY its so bad, I just know that based on MSFT's commercials, that it IS bad.

They don't even show anyone using the damn thing. Its just a bunch of choreography.

BlackNapoleon··on Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
I saw this earlier and I noted that news agencies seemed to be reluctant to post it. CNN has been on this from the jump. I think people are afraid of it being revealed as a fake. There is some serious validation that needs to occur if this is the case.
BlackNapoleon··on Someone is jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East
how do you learn this stuff?
BlackNapoleon··on Brazilian judge orders arrest of Google Brazil president
Should we be worried about the Olympics?
BlackNapoleon··on Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene
...they live together?
BlackNapoleon··on Ask.com buys About.com for $300M
Its funny when you think about it because you never realize how important that site is for many people who aren't as savvy as the rest of you all.

Gotta remember that for every person who uses the web, there is someone who knows even less about it.

There is a niche for everyone. Literally.

BlackNapoleon··on How to Write
I find that being active on forums and debating stuff like religion (agnostic-atheist) has really made my persuasive and argumentative writing better.
BlackNapoleon··on Uruguay could be the world’s first marijuana republic
I have a personal theory that many countries want to do this and eventually legalize. I think they're following these experiments closely and developing policy along these lines.
BlackNapoleon··on On Apple's new ads
>2) Steve Jobs personally said that he was involved in 2-3 years worth of products. So you can skip that whole "Steve Jobs is gone. Apple is going to die." rhetoric.

Disagree completely.

At some point or another Jobs' forecast won't matter.

Just because they think "that far ahead" doesn't mean that those "ideas" were concrete 2-3 years later.

Apple WILL change, but we can't predict what it will do.

BlackNapoleon··on How well does Khan Academy teach?
So because its not perfect, lets drag it through the mud.

This is ONE MAN.

BlackNapoleon··on Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon
What does Yahoo do now?
BlackNapoleon··on Sparrow acquired by Google
Google invented the entire notion of email streams. Did you forget that?

People weren't used to seeing emails that followed like IM conversations.

BlackNapoleon··on Sparrow acquired by Google
Agreed.

I don't even see how anyone could debate this.

BlackNapoleon··on Sparrow acquired by Google
Won't mean anything without PUSH email enabled by Apple.
BlackNapoleon··on Sparrow acquired by Google
Agreed.

Sparrow needed to be acquired by Apple. Period.

Imagine iOS mail with Sparrow's gestures and organization?

Fantastic.

BlackNapoleon··on Sparrow acquired by Google
GMail has changed A LOT since its early days. What are you talking about?

Gmail is pretty much perfect and the Labs additions can basically give you a "Sparrow-like" window and viewing pane already.

APPLE needs these improvements, not google.

BlackNapoleon··on Sparrow acquired by Google
I wish Apple acquired them.

iOS Mail needs those gestures more than Google does.

BlackNapoleon··on Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen
In-Q-Tel was one of the first investors in Google anyways
BlackNapoleon··on Instagram? Zynga? There's a lot big minds chasing small ideas
This changed my whole perspective on the nuances on the comment...
BlackNapoleon··on What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?
The Last Psychiatrist: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
BlackNapoleon··on Facebook 'likes' and adverts' value doubted
Seems like this will always be the case since social media isn't tangible anyways.
BlackNapoleon··on Groupon Shares Tumble to Record Low
I was thinking the SAME thing. That says a lot about google.
BlackNapoleon··on The Economist on the LIBOR affair (video)
>I like the Economist and was glad to see them report on the facts as they currently stand and not offer an opinion nor get overly passionate on the matter, like some news reports in the States tend to do.

Its... the Economist...lol

BlackNapoleon··on Ask HN: Which desk do you use? Which desk Y Combinator use?
How do you make a "Ask HN" post?
BlackNapoleon··on The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn’t a Crook — He’s an Artist
This sounds like a path to getting hired by the FBI/CIA after you serve your jail time.

We need to be employing these sorts of lifehackers.

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