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And they even had the marketing prowess to use a kid so annoying, inept and clumsy that I couldn't be bothered actually watching the video long enough to learn any real info.

Mission accomplished indeed!

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> If one is legal, the other should be as well.

I agree, I should be able to purchase or rent an antenna from anyone I want to.

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> Aereo is doing almost exactly what cable television once did, putting a radio receiver on one end of a cable and a bunch of customers on the other.

No, Aereo is putting a radio receiver on one end and one customer on the other. Each customer has their own antenna. It's exactly the same as having an antenna on your home TV, only you're renting the antenna and it comes with a DVR.

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The thing to remember here is that people are changing USD > BTC, paying with BTC, and then that BTC is going back to USD. What's the point? This accomplishes nothing other than allowing Bitcoin exchanges to collect tx fees between customers and Zynga. It's non-conducive to adoption.

On the other hand, if Zynga were holding BTC, paying employees in BTC, and those employees started consuming with BTC, then they would actually be "using" it. Otherwise it's the same exact thing as punching in your credit card details.

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I'll plug SpiderOak here. Pretty decent prices and service, but their client was pretty awful the last time I used it... and encryption vastly slows the file sync (at least, it seemed so).

Hope that helps you though!

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It is rumored and further "confirmed"[0][1] that Google did offer to buy Snapchat for $4bn, in an effort to outbid Facebooks $3bn.

0. http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/15/5106950/google-snapchat-4...

1. "Confirmed" in quotes because Valleywag cites an unnamed source, and I typically find Valleywag, and Gawker Media on a whole, dubious and not entirely worthy of trust. However, this may have been more solidly confirmed elsewhere as well.

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> If the motivation to save pictures is there then a person will save the pictures.

Considering most "snaps" are sent between friends and family these days, it's important to understand that friends aren't fucking each other over to save pictures of cats with finger-painted mustaches.

Of course, if someone is dead-set on saving a picture from Snapchat then it's possible... but Snapchat isn't about sending dick pics anymore. I believe it's outgrown that, the same way when Vine started with was essentially an amateur porn broadcasting app. For the general public, Snapchat images appear and then they go poof, but I agree with you... it's hard to stop dicks from being dicks no matter how you send your photos.

But the one objective fact about the situation is that Snapchat is still the most convenient way to send photos and videos that are reasonably guaranteed to virtually disappear. Saving them out of Snapchat secretly isn't a priority nor is it trivial for 99% of people using the service.

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(My use: MBPr, Mavericks, Chrome Dev vs. Firefox 25.0.1)

I'll confirm there is a demonstrable difference between the two browsers, to my eye, being that in Chrome the odd numbers don't animate and in Firefox they do. However, I'd like to add that both are equally smooth and antialiased for me.

I'd also like to point out that Chrome font rendering can be smoothed/"crisped" by using in your CSS:

    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
    -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;

for future reference. (Note: this CSS example does not hold any bearing on the OP's example. For whatever reason, both fonts are equally smooth for me.)

Further, yes there are also settings in OSX for font smoothing. In System Preferences > General > Last checkbox is to enable/disable font smoothing.

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Just to comment on this part:

>I like the idea of a currency which doesn't allow politicians to introduce inflation, but perhaps we should have one which has a finite set of tokens on setup, and doesn't attempt to also attract people as some sort of investment with mining etc.

I'm sure someone will correct me, but as I understand it this is how Ripple[0] works. From my recollection (I haven't checked in on how Ripple has been progressing over the past 6-8 months or so), Ripple's currency (XRP) are established with a finite supply and all XRP is in reserve, not requiring any "mining" or similar. Also, it looks like Ripple is kind of an exchange as well? It seems to be able to cross-process payments between USD, EUR, BTC, LTC, XRP, and more (I believe most international currencies are supported currently)[1]. It's interesting but, like I said earlier, I'm not sure if I fully understand it.

[0] https://ripple.com/ [1] https://ripple.com/guide-to-currency-trading-on-the-ripple-n...

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>>The worst thing is to see something like this, allow it to emotionally effect one, then discover at the end that is is a corporate manipulation.

This is literally the entire advertising industry's purpose. If you think any single advertisement is not solely intended to trick you into equating good feelings with a particular brand, product, or person then you are very naive.

There is no such thing as advertisement that is made just "to give pleasure to people", even when it comes from Google.

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I'm interested in it's psychologically limited factors related to price "per" bitcoin... or, in other terms, bitcoin's "exchange rate".

Owning 1 bitcoin, no matter what it's worth, psychologically makes you feel poor. It's an arbitrary habit and, really, meaningless but to the average person they can't stand trading $1000 for 1-2 bitcoins. When people look in their bank accounts, they want to see thousands... millions! Not 1 or 2. Right? I think people would more likely buy 10,000 of something they perceive as a currency instead of 1.0000 -- even if through a change of "terms" they were worth the exact same in USD. Am I selling the general public short in this assumption?

(Probably not pertinent note: I sold today and no longer hold any BTC.)

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Saw it at $600 today and sold mine too. Made enough to pay rent, not to mention the other odd things I've gotten with my BTC over the past 2 years... it was fun, but I think I'm done with it.

I'd also like to know who is buying IN at this point. Anyone on HN have some insight?

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Ditto for Chrome.

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