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I don't know why I'm having a crack out of this. It's just so silly.

ethanaon After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move

Sensational! On the edges of my seat!

ethanaon Monochrome browser – bringing mobile web apps to desktop

why?

ethanaon Libertarians/conservatives launch hackathon

I think small l libertarians see liberals as supporters of both empire building and social welfare, so they'd align themselves with the lesser of two evils.

ethanaon AirType

So the solution is to invent something worse than detachables and on-screen keyboards?

Not saying AirType is bad...yet. But I didn't see it working either.

ethanaon Zuckerberg, Nadella and Other Executives Ask Senate to Restrain NSA Spying

Hurting their bottom lines? I thought it'd be sooner.

ethanaon Piketty’s ‘errors’ aren’t mistakes: They’re questions, and he answered them

Piketty's economic is rickety. Sorry had to do it ;)

ethanaon The Origins of the Blink Tag

What's stopping ya?! http://jsbin.com/xizagasi/1

ethanaon [dead]

Oh noes, robots are stealing our jobs. I wonder how did we ever gotten off from hand picked cottons, horse-n-buggy, and all that time-consuming manual labor of olds.

How did a luddite ended up on a tech forum anyway? Did someone fixed the irony device? He could've at least waited to read this news from the good old newspaper to support his local economy.

ethanaon Australis Performance Post-mortem Part 4: On Tab Animation

I don't know...if Mozilla is still having problem with tab animations by now, why not just scrap it all together until their multi-process gain some ground.

All this fancy animations they've added into Australis are non-essentials and impacting their already super busy single threaded model.

ethanaon AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage

Adguard does that. Been beta testing it. One adblock to rule them all kinda thing.

ethanaon Automatically Mark as watched your TV, Anime + Movies

I'm using Cliffhanger for Android, basically the same idea.

These guys should get together with the Popcorn Time guys, all in one package...just saying ;)

ethanaon Dumb.domains

  slippery.contractors

ethanaon The next version of DuckDuckGo

Off topic, but I still think the domain name is a few strokes too long for people.

edited: Oh hell no, duck.com redirects to google. That sucks.

duckie.com is parked, buy it?

ethanaon Yahoo In More Turmoil: Is CEO Mayer Running Out Of Options?

Search engine was never Yahoo's core business. Being a portal is and it's still top dog in that area.

Dropping Bing to make their own might not be a good idea as building a crawler is a multibillions dollars business and Yahoo might not have the financial nor technical will to commit to something high risk.

It's true that Microsoft is benefiting more from its contract with Yahoo. Bing is powering Cortana and Microsoft's other big data services. Having Yahoo's traffic is indeed beneficial.

If Yahoo continue to see itself as a "media" company, perhaps buying Vimeo might be a good way to get there. The web can sure use a competitor to Youtube.

ethanaon Dropbox tone-deaf? Hardly

Revolving doors that's all. Remember Colin Powell? He's on the board of Bloom Energy. Slowly Silicon Valley is infiltrated by ex-politicians and cabinet members.

ethanaon Bing is here to stay

Bing Translate is actually better than Google Translate in my experience. Especially for east asian languages translation. It's one of the hidden gems that I though is under-utilize by Microsoft.

I hope Microsoft open up the Bing platform more to devs. That'll be a huge opportunity for Microsoft to ever compete with Google.

ethanaon A giant art installation targets predator drone operators

Good idea, they might want to have this all the Middle East.

ethanaon Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come

On the contrary, what if George Carlin was right and mother nature just needed human to make plastic?

ethanaon [dead]

Yes. Gods are probably a bunch of mathematicians and programmers. And we are living in their life simulation program. The universe might as well be a projection.

ethanaon Daylight saving impacts the timing of heart attacks

I still have no idea why we even go through with daylight saving anymore. It's been exactly 100 years since WWI.

ethanaon Microsoft Should Have Acquired Oculus Rift, Not Facebook

I'm pretty sure Microsoft already has its own VR product in development. That internal leaked doc a couple of years ago about xbox 720 revealed something similar to a wearable headset.

Combine VR with the holodeck Microsoft has going could be interesting in term of VR GUI.

ethanaon It Is Time For Basic Income

The 47 millions food-stamp recipients disagree with you.

ethanaon It Is Time For Basic Income

this guy: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568109/Unemployed-b...

ethanaon It Is Time For Basic Income

So basic income is the minimum living cost? What if minimum cost of living increase every year as it does? What if you live in San Francisco where the standard of living is crazy high? Do the citizens of S.F get a higher basic income than say Milwaukee?

ethanaon It Is Time For Basic Income

Basic income already exist for some people, it's extended unemployment checks + food-stamps.

ethanaon It Is Time For Basic Income

So what should the basic income be? $10k/yr? 20k? 50k? 100k?

ethanaon Internet Tolls And The Case For Strong Net Neutrality

Remember when Netflix did the price hike and got a consumer backlash? Hey maybe if they could indirectly price hike through IPs, then no one would notice ;)

ethanaon [dead]

Well, the world have a lot of people, and some of them post stuff on HN. Then some other people vote on them ;)

ethanaon Satya Nadella Set To Launch Office For iPad Next Week

We'll just have to wait to be proven next week. How long can that take?