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On the other hand, if an airline offered these seats, I'd definitely choose them over the competition.

Better seats might not drive more seat upgrades, but it might drive more traffic to your airline.

They’re offering privacy, yes, but not as a service. They’re still very much in the business of selling devices to their customers, and this business model is incidentally one of the main reasons they, unlike Facebook or Google, can afford to offer such comprehensive privacy measures.

Forgive my naivety, but aren’t Whatsapp messages encrypted? If so, how can the authorities see what’s written in them?

Not quite the same though, since Epic and Steam don’t require paid subscriptions to access their content. The only difference now is that you’re buying some of your games from Epic instead of Steam.

Crazy to look back at that exchange between him and Drew Houston knowing what we know today about the success of Dropbox (which hadn't even launched at the time of that comment!).

It's easy to look back at the "good old days" with the benefit of hindsight, but I'm sure that even today many of the famous founders of tomorrow can be found commenting here on HN. We just don't know who they are yet.

Drew Houston even replied to one of his comments in that thread suggesting possible collaboration, and this was while Dropbox was going through the Summer '07 YC program, before they had even launched.

Crazy to look back and see how things panned out for these two random internet commenters.

Do you have sources for all of these claims?

Population growth is actually slowing worldwide, and we face the very real possibility of a global population decline within the next century. You’re trying to solve a problem that is already “solving” itself.

If this works out, this has the potential to be huge for the industry. I would love to see more unionization in tech, and this could be a first step in that direction.

Of course lobbyists are behind the weakening of patent laws. Something really has to be done about the lobbying problem we have in this country.

That’s true, but do you have any examples that you can share with us? I’d be curious to read more about these companies and how they got to where they are.

It's a trend that seems to have started on Buzzfeed, and I've been seeing more and more blogs adopt this style over the past couple of years.

I'm personally not a fan, as I feel it takes away from the content of the post, but I'd be curious to see how it impacts the readership metrics.

It's pretty interesting to see that even after all these advancements in technology and better-than-ever animated movies, the best way to tell a story to a child is still through a good old illustrated book.

Ah nice, kinda reminds me of Talk O'Clock, the P2P alarm clock network where people all over the world could call each other to wake each other up.

Thanks for sharing! You'd think that with Apple's great Taptic engine, they'd have built haptic feedback into the touch bar by now.