simonsez

The galaxy s8 and LG V30 also have large screens in relatively small form factors - are those too big for you?

That's interesting, for my nexus 5 (granted it's only a few days old so perhaps there is some break-in) seems to go down to 80-85% in 10-15 minutes of morning web surfing/reading.

Perhaps I have a bad device or something?

Agreed - the sample size is also really small to be interpreting slower arrival times as well, if only 1 or 2 packages took a long time it's likely they just found an outlier.

I don't understand your analogy: in the Craigslist case Craigslist has no issues being free, but others have issues with it being free. Craiglist is not making changes to their free model to appease others.

In the RIM case the system is secure except when they are giving access to the system to governments - making it not secure (at least in many people's eyes).

How are these similar?

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How big do you all think Facebook can reasonably get to? I have to think it's going to be difficult for Facebook to grow anywhere near as fast as they did to this point unless they can get to China.

It seems like most US companies (search, portal, etc.) haven't done very well in China - will Facebook be able to buck this trend?

Right, so all of those work now through the existing financial system, but they take a long time to clear (I believe ACH is several days).

I imagine a startup (would it have to be a bank? I'm not sure) could build something where the transfer is semi-instantaneous and disperse the risk among it's other customers somehow in a more equitable manner (perhaps charging a fee?). It might, of course, be difficult to compete against the credit card, which seems free to most consumers (but is subsidized by the merchants and those borrowers who don't pay in full)

I think the point re: credit cards is that PayPal has actually been able to create an alternative payment system that lives outside the banking system - I think PayPal itself is a bank (am I wrong?) in that they take your deposits when you leave your money in your account.

I agree that there is no getting around the banking system completely (unless you rely in cash somehow), but theoretically you could enable another way to move money from one bank account to another without charging 20%+ interest rates and exorbitant late fees, no?

I'm curious how you use Evernote to keep it effective. I use Evernote as well to keep track of ideas, but I find as I start to fill out the ideas with research and notes the "parent" section - the list of ideas - becomes overwhelmed.

I ended up moving to a Google Apps Spreadsheet for a list of ideas, and then fill out info on each idea in Evernote, but would love to hear about better methods...

Thanks for correcting my grammar, and thanks for explaining why you think my statement is "utterly ridiculous".

As whites and asians disproportionally make up the college body in the US it's quite possible these two are the same.