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Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit card 13 years ago

I can actually see myself using this. There are times where certain stores have these promotions where I can buy a $30 gift card for $20, but I never bother doing it because I know that I will probably leave the gift card at home the time I come back. I also like the automatic locking feature as well when it loses the bluetooth connection with your phone.

Another benefit I see is that it doesn't actually have the credit/debit numbers printed on the card, so nobody could take a picture of your card and use it to fraudulently purchase things online.

This + Simple would be perfect.

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Full Screen Mario Takedown Notice 13 years ago

Without proper Trademark law, it is impossible to build up a "trustful" relationship between a company and its customers.

I disagree. This can still be achieved with the right (non legal) infrastructure to protect your brand i.e. an official Twitter account or domain name that can be used to identify the "legitimate" products from a company. It would be a much better tradeoff to the current cannibalistic nature of our current trademark laws that cripple the development of truly wonderful games like Pokemon Generations [1] while they milk the brand to death by regurgitating the same game with new Pokemon year after year.

[1] http://www.indiedb.com/games/pokemon-generations/news/change...

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Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible for All, Except the Feds 13 years ago

I agree with most things Cody Wilson stands for, but I just can't stand those videos he makes. It makes it sound like this wallet (and a few months ago, the 3D printed gun) is going to destroy the U.S. government in one fell swoop. This wallet isn't really bringing anything new to the table. Zerocoin / Blockchain.info already exist.

I'll pass.

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Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google 13 years ago

Significant consumer-facing iOS 7 Changes:

    UI
    Inter-app audio
    Background fetch
    P2P (arguably, this isn't a new feature, it's essentially a wrapper to dns_sd)
    Airdrop
Significant KitKat changes:
    *Actual* SMS/MMS API
    Storage access framework
    Printing framework
Plus, Inter-app audio and Airdrop are essentially wrappers to P2P (which is also a wrapper to dns_sd), so the only real added feature was background fetch.

You could say the same about KitKat (except for SMS), so really it boils down to this:

iOS 7:

    UI
    Background fetch
KitKat:
    SMS/MSS API
Which Android still wins, IMO.

Plus, Android already has way more features than iOS already, not to mention the ability to install unsigned software, NFC, custom lockscreens/launchers and who knows what else.

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Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google 13 years ago

It's only partially about taking the morally high ground; I'm afraid Apple is going to start losing significant market share.

i.e. I always hear of friends and colleagues who switch from the iPhone to Android (and not vice-versa). And from what I've seen Google is also actually making significant improvements Android's API instead of Apple's method of just making aesthetic changes (and some argue making it worse).

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Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google 13 years ago

I'm honestly starting to regret choosing to learn Objective-C now. I am seriously considering learning Android development and ditching my Macbook / iPhone for a Nexus 5 and some sort of linux distro. People like me are making this whole situation significantly worse by contributing software to Apple's platform.

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