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cbowal··on Apple's Plan to Own the Entire Music Industry
You mean "Apple revenue is around $225 billion"
cbowal··on Zillow CEO Overpaid for His Los Angeles Home, According to Zillow
Zillow announced they're settling with Move Inc for $130 million - http://www.wsj.com/articles/zillow-to-settle-trade-secrets-s...
cbowal··on Facebook uses location to suggest new friends
Android 6.0 Marshmallow has fine-grained permissions.
cbowal··on Google Comes Down on the Wrong Side of the TPP
The TPP is the Trans-Pacific Partnership which doesn't include the EU (only countries on the Pacific).
cbowal··on Ask HN: Am I expecting too much?
Performance Improvement Plan
cbowal··on All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
Should be marked [2013]
cbowal··on The Massive Wildfire Burning in Alberta
There is definitely a controlled burn programme. http://www.wildfire.alberta.ca/prescribed-fires/default.aspx
cbowal··on Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations
You're off by a factor. ¥840,000 = INR 500,000
cbowal··on I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience
google cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w1Pctj...
cbowal··on Washington Post’s ‘Bandito’ Tool Optimizes Content for Clicks
I've just noticed Vox.com doing this too - very annoying.
cbowal··on Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate
No everyone - there's a lot of money to be made from volatile price swings.
cbowal··on Google’s AMP Poised to Take the Lead from Facebook’s and Apple’s Walled Gardens
It looks like you don't have to use AMP specifically - speeding up your site is valid however you do it.

"Google made clear that AMP wasn’t the only way to speed up mobile pages." http://searchengineland.com/google-amp-coming-rank-fast-2380...

cbowal··on Google to start sending search traffic to fast-loading AMP articles in Feb 2016
AMP versions have their own meta tag.

<link rel="amphtml" href="AMP-URL">

It's not very well documented.

cbowal··on Will emoji become a new language?
A classic example of Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

cbowal··on Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
I'm guessing he's talking about The Guardian article linked to above with AMP. The AMP site looks great to me on a large display.
cbowal··on Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
Part of AMP is caching on Google's servers (and others). That can't quite be done individually.
cbowal··on Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
The Guardian sample AMP page:

With AMP: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/07/lindahl-modri...

Without AMP: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/07/lindahl-modri...

cbowal··on C-51 will undermine Canada’s businesses: Open letter from 60 business leaders
Out of curiosity - isn't an economy more diversified (and thus stabilized) by having both manufacturing (which benefits from a low $CAD) and oil (which benefits a high $CAD)?
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