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bvi··on Tell HN: I'm 18 years old today
This is absolutely correct. I'd go one step further and say over-communicate as needed. It's not stupid to ask questions. Ask away, process, and clarify.
bvi··on Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials
> centralised app stores

Makes me wonder...are there blockchain-based app stores that could serve as a viable alternative?

bvi··on Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements
> Elon has used those loans to finance a rather extravagant lifestyle.

How does this actually work? His stock is just his collateral for those loans, which can be transferred if he defaults on payments?

bvi··on It’s time to give Firefox another chance
I'm on Firefox 56. Is there a way to see if my extensions (and FT DeepDark theme) works on 57?
bvi··on China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from cameras to monitor citizens
...until gait analysis is incorporated.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528835-600-cameras-... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3925574/ [3] http://www.ai.mit.edu/research/abstracts/abstracts2001/visio...

bvi··on Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System
Indeed. Can't wait to look back at this thread 10 years from now.
bvi··on Ask HN: Critique my company
Come up with a way for them to provide anonymous feedback.
bvi··on Smart Photos
Interesting post - I'm fascinated by this space myself. I launched a site (http://judg.me) a few years back with a slightly different take on how users perceive your profile photos.
bvi··on We Can Do Better
I had deleted my unroll.me account several months back - yet I still receive emails from time to time about the new subscriptions I have. They've not had permissions in my Google account since I deleted my account, so it's odd that I keep getting emails from them.
bvi··on Startup School 2017 First Lecture
On a side note, Median looks fantastic. Hope you guys (just you?) go far!
bvi··on Ask HN: Is there a “product launch as a service” company?
> Collect as many emails as you can.

How would you go about doing this? I'm at the pre-launch stage myself, and this is proving to be a harder than I thought. I've only tried Facebook Ads as of now, with limited ROI.

bvi··on Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life
> So I set up a quick WooCommerce site selling Pokemon Go apparel

Can you give us a rundown on how you set up your site, and then marketed it?

bvi··on Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes
Honest / naive question. How do you even start an aerospace company "in your basement"?
bvi··on The Shipping News Suggests Economic Weakness
> Unfortunately, the amount of stuff being moved is not public record

Not true - you can get a sense of this through ATA's Truck Tonnage Index.

1. http://www.trucking.org/article.aspx?uid=5897732a-ea35-4369-... 2. http://www.trucknews.com/transportation/ata-truck-tonnage-in... 3.

bvi··on A new team at Reddit
No, it was just an interesting observation to put some context around just how massive reddit really is.
bvi··on Microsoft Announces Windows 10
Onedows.
bvi··on Meet the Apple Watch
> User should not use watch in the same way they use phone.

Nonsense. Would you have said the same thing about people using phones only to talk when the iPhone came out? Not an Apple enthusiast, but I'm impressed with their efforts in constantly trying to redefine how we use "established" products.

Not impressed by what is shown of the Apple Watch, by the way.

bvi··on Write Code Every Day
This is brilliant. Thanks!

Are there any other similar apps out there?

bvi··on Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt
No. All MRT stations - above and under ground - have platform doors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_on_the_Mass_Rapid_Transi...

bvi··on Secret State of North Korea [video]
If you're on Firefox, just download Media Hint (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-hint/)
bvi··on Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
What techniques do you use? I read at around 600wpm, and increasing it by 50-100% seems pretty daunting.
bvi··on Hyperloop
I was being facetious.
bvi··on Hyperloop
This is genius.
bvi··on Siri in a Teddy
You are being paranoid.
bvi··on Canada's Start-up Visa
Through which category did you get your PR?
bvi··on Smog over Singapore
There have been a few suggestions by the Indonesian officials on this - can you elaborate on which corporations exactly? I'm not saying that you're wrong, but I've not been able to find direct information on "non-Indonesian corporations" who engage in illegal burning, so if you have sources, that would be great.
bvi··on Priced out of Paris
Which clever video was this? Link please?
bvi··on Project Loon
So the question, then, is how high do you need to go before you're no longer in a country's airspace?
bvi··on Company with the “World’s Least Powerful CEO” Makes $2.5 Million Every Day
> to put things in perspective, SuperCell makes 10x more money per employee than Goldman Sachs.

That's...unbelievable. Wow.

bvi··on WhatsApp confirms Google isn’t buying it
This was possibly done to simply anchor [1] Whatsapp's value, should it seek to be acquired in the future.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

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