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You’re ignoring what happens when you put a consonant after the vowel. It would be linguistically correct if it was a .gi, but there’s another letter after that i.

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Look at Brooklyn. It was a hellhole in the 70s.

Hellhole is quite harsh and inaccurate, but the crime rate was high from the 70s through the early 90s.

Guliani for all his problems did help clean up a lot of crap.

Giuliani was in office when we noticed crime was decreasing, but statistically, there’s no evidence that anything he did was responsible for the dramatic reduction. All of the best science so far points to a reduction in lead emissions.

13 days ago on Urban Compass: can a startup finally fix the nightmare of renting an apartment in NYC?

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Microsoft’s .wma format is cheap (and also DRM heavy) for them since it was developed in house, but it is also supported by many other companies.

Wrong.

Alternatively, the only devices I’ve seen that support m4a are made by Apple.

Hilariously wrong.

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I admit a mistake was made when I called m4a a codec, but the reason other companies don’t use it is because their are alternatives that are less expensive and just as good.

AAC is an open format. So you’re still wrong.

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I wish you could experience the New York of the 70s and 80s and early 90s. How fun it was to walk down the block or ride a subway with the constant threat of a mugging (or worse, depending on who you were). So exciting!

17 days ago on Urban Compass: can a startup finally fix the nightmare of renting an apartment in NYC? 1 reply 5 recommends

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There are 7 articles in the topline/headline section of the site. 3 of them qualify as “tech news.”

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For not being a “tech journalism” site you report 95% of the time on tech.

It’s weird when people make up statistics and then use those made-up numbers to launch a fact-based opinion.

When anyone I know talks about The Verge it’s described as a Tech Blog.

Why should other people’s perceptions affect what the writers choose to write about?

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99% of what you guys post is tech, so yeah, it is a tech website.

That really wasn’t even true when they were just This Is My Next. It’s even less true this year.

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The other OEMs actually gained marketshare in the last quarter at the expense of Apple

What marketshare did Apple cede?

28 days ago on Strong smartphone sales boost Samsung to $7.9 billion profit in Q1 2013 1 recommend