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frm1001xplrron Trump family to launch $500 gold smartphone

It's entirely a licensing deal.

From the website footer: Trump Mobile, its products and services are not designed, developed, manufactured, distributed or sold by The Trump Organization or any of their respective affiliates or principals.

frm1001xplrron Intermittent Fasting Promotes White Adipose Browning by Shaping Gut Microbiota

ELIhuman?

frm1001xplrron Ask HN: What would be the effect on our earth if humans would disappear?

"Life after People" describes this exact scenario over 20 episodes.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_After_People: Life After People is a television series on which scientists, structural engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of Earth should humanity instantly disappear. The featured experts also talk about the impact of human absence on the environment and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind.

frm1001xplrron Dropbox for Business

In mid 2013 I signed up 22 referred accounts in a VM box for a family member with a newly created Dropbox account. Three months later all 22 inactive accounts were removed, and the extra storage was gone too.

I did it in 2011 as well for my own account and still have the extra storage. I've since upgraded though. Even 15GB is peanuts today...

frm1001xplrron Code Firefox

This is pretty awesome. Though I'll probably never code dekstop apps, something like this for Addons would def. trigger a coding spur.

frm1001xplrron Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

And they didn't even put in any investments or work hours ;)

frm1001xplrron Why Phonebloks Will Never Happen

Your use of "never" is going to bite you in the ass, brother!

frm1001xplrron Ask HN: Can’t we define a new e-mail standard with Facebook’s features?

Tried and failed, unfortunately: http://support.google.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=108...

frm1001xplrron Facebook just came up with a great new way to make money — and it’s too late

Too late?

That depends on the size of operational overhead and opportunity of income.

If it's set it and forget it('ish), why not reap a few years income from a market that'll sell around 500M feature phones this year?

frm1001xplrron I want to create a startup, now what?

Step 1: Validate your idea. Ask people if they would use it.

Seriously.

frm1001xplrron Any HN readers have ideas for improving gun safety?

If all guns were fired before sale...

(http://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/175ibg/if_all_guns_...)

frm1001xplrron Google cuts Cloud Storage prices another 10% after Amazon S3 price cut

> Break even is in the bracket between 10 and 49 TB but after that amazon again undercuts you with 7cent/GB/month

did, i mean did.. did you graph and solve that mentally while browsing the pricing page?

frm1001xplrron Google cuts Cloud Storage prices another 10% after Amazon S3 price cut

...unless Amazon matches Google and retorts "let's battle this out on agility, support, security, service"

frm1001xplrron Google cuts Cloud Storage prices another 10% after Amazon S3 price cut

Welcome to Cloud Pricing a´la Oil Pricing

The Confusement of Variable Pricing Throughout the Day

Storage is King

Datacenters are the New Parking Lots

Computation is the Future Occupant

frm1001xplrron Re-Designing the classic email client

I guess you didn't RTP where it said "if you're a developer[...]"?

Guy's a designer :|

frm1001xplrron Re-Designing the classic email client

Really, it's not that big of a deal...

Chrome: Zoomy (http://goo.gl/40hiR) Firefox: Zoom Page (http://goo.gl/80Pa9) Etc.