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libso··on Google Nexus 5x and 6P
As an owner of Nexus 6, I was taken aback by the Nexus 6P pricing. Effectively you can get 6P for 500-50$ vs 650$ for Nexus 6 (32GB). Agreed Nexus 6P is smaller than Nexus 6 but if they can sell 6P at 450$ I wonder why they jacked up Nexus 6's price so much.
libso··on The real anti-Facebook is good old email
Point 1 is true for me as well. But I take a different approach in doing Point 2.

Since everyone has a gmail account (at least my target audience) and hardly have any activity on G+, I created a G+ community with just the right people and post updates there. These updates automatically send notifications via email to the community members.

The way content is organized and presented in a community is much better than email IMO. Of course everything can be translated to email - comments can be reply with text and likes/+1s can be reply with +1 - but looking back, it is a much better user experience to do this in a community/group rather than email.

libso··on The real anti-Facebook is good old email
Facebook is flexible enough to provide this. You can post updates visible only to a group of people. Problem with Facebook is how people use it. Users tend to have > 500 friends on an average including ones to whom you have never spoken or never want to speak. This would make your timeline pretty irrelevant and uninteresting to you. Why would I care if a colleague in your first job (10 yr ago) went on a trip with his childhood friends.

Take a scrub to your Facebook friends list and you can get a more powerful TinyLetter.

Practically speaking you'd never un-friend people unless they personally bother you. This is why I hardly check my Facebook timeline. All I use is Messenger which is pretty useful to keep in touch with people you want to.

So, the real anti Facebook is Facebook itself with a fresh start.

libso··on Ask HN: I'm 19. Should I leave my education for my startup?
Trust maths. Read, re-read what this dude says. You can work on your startup simultaneously as you study and get your degree. That's what probably says, that's what we say here... because... you asked us. Looking back in the future, if you did drop out and became the next Zuckerberg, still in retrospect our response remains the same.

FINISH YOUR DEGREE!

libso··on iMac with Retina 5K display
And I assume you also mean content providers will also be forced to shoot their videos in 4k/5k resolution? (I don't think so)

I understand this is a big + for monitors. I have used Dell ultra-sharp 32" @ 3840x2160 with display port and it's fantastic. Larger workspace, better gaming, better multitasking!

libso··on Syria’s largest city just dropped off the Internet
So sorry to hear that.

US always learns from its mistakes and comes up with a new way of bringing peace! </sarcasm>

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