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bwilliams18··on Google Loses Emergency Bid To Keep “Innocence Of Muslims” Film Online
One thing to note–It's standard for everyone on a film set to sign a 'Deal Memo' which among other things expressly releases all creative rights(copyright) to any work you do on said project. While I agree with Google, there isn't a big risk to movie studios etc.
bwilliams18··on The Lost Art of the Saturn V
F1 Just changed to 1.6 V6 With a Twin Turbo and a massive energy recovery system, and people are doing nothing but complaining.
bwilliams18··on Bitcoin Price Touches $1,000 Again as Overstock Sales Hit $130,000
Thats effectively whats going on here though–Coinbase is handling the bitcoin and sending USD to Overstock. So on the retailer side of things the only difference is Coinbase doesn't have the cache that PayPal does(or the baggage). They are backed by some solid VC though–so a worry about them disappearing is probably unwarranted.
bwilliams18··on The bomb-hoaxing Harvard student was using Tor, but they caught him anyway
Thats exactly what happened–he then confessed under interrogation.
bwilliams18··on Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
Would I be right to say it isn't a lack of fear, its just a much reduced fear?
bwilliams18··on Amazon Prime Air
When I want to return something will a drone come by and pick up the return? because that has A LOT of value.

Imagine being able to order something on amazon just to 'try it out', you get an hour to make sure x part works, drone hangs around, and if it doesn't you drop it back in the tupperware and the drone flies it back to the fulfillment center and your card is never even charged

bwilliams18··on Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt
Except defaulting on the loan still has a significant hit on your credit rating, and maybe buying your debt is another negative score on your credit rating.
bwilliams18··on Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
Also vectorworks for the theatrical crowd!

We're always taking big measurements and bouncing them around to other people, and measuring weird objects and spaces.

bwilliams18··on Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
$99 is ~ half the price of the cheapest leica that I can find on Amazon. For me, thats a great deal. Not to mention the fact that it can theoretically plug right into a drafting application automatically. Count me in.
bwilliams18··on $100 Invested in 100 $1 Lottery Tickets
Can you provide a source on the mafia connection?
bwilliams18··on Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?
give me an easy way to scan as well and i'll buy this in a second.
bwilliams18··on How long would the Mailbox app line be in real-life?
I'm around 20k. It's made me really excited to use the app. Just a couple days longer
bwilliams18··on Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
I just spent the past two months building an advanced dashboard revolving around complicated charts. After looking at both high charts and d3, it became clear that d3 was the better solution, as it allowed an order of magnitude of increased flexibility.
bwilliams18··on First 5 MVPs greenlighted
Yeah. They could use this sort of thing as a bye or something. It can help them see who is already doing good and interesting work.
bwilliams18··on Statement by Apple
The last quote there seems to indemnify them...they need cash to pay out "regular distributions to its shareholders" thus any amount of money they have is justified by the need for cash to pay dividends.
bwilliams18··on SF Bay Bridge + 25,000 algorithmically controlled LEDs
As a lighting designer my first thought was exactly the same, this is great, but how are you controlling it?
bwilliams18··on Sen. McCaskill to FAA Chief: Fix Electronic Device Rules or Face Legislation
They still need to serve me drinks and peanuts...and sell me food and alcohol.
bwilliams18··on U.S. Forecast as No. 2 Economy but Energy Independent
It's saying that taking the whole country off the grid would be worse than killing a thousand people.
bwilliams18··on YC W13 Will Be Smaller
I think even that is a great idea...albeit with a much smaller market capability than what airbnb is now.
bwilliams18··on Show HN: Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports
That's more work than you need to do, just provide two options-bulk add, or single add...the person is smart enough to know which to choose.
bwilliams18··on Alone Together, Again
If I remember correctly the marriage bit comes after the hitler bit in the same show, so Louis is just referring to the earlier joke.
bwilliams18··on Killing Your Startup on a Thursday Night
Some business certainly can, but when you HAVE to go door to door to make the business work, when it has such a physical "meatspace" presence you need to go full time.
bwilliams18··on How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days
They want to confirm your identity.
bwilliams18··on Mac Apps with Retina-Display Support
I believe apple came up with a tricky way of doing this on their homepage.
bwilliams18··on How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail
Stereotypically, because men tend to care less about clothing, fashion and the like, and so want clothes they can wear for a long time, while women worry more about changing fashion trends and wear clothes for relatively shorter periods of time.
bwilliams18··on Making Chrome better on iOS
Along with that allow chrome to run its own game-not require it to use the underlying web rendering thing.
bwilliams18··on The case for a 7.8” iPad
If they came out with an 8" I'd want the 10" to bump up to 12" I think it would still be manageable, you'd have 4 inch differentiation among each product.
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