Sangermaine

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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>That benefits THEM...how does it benefit the world? You may be surprised to learn that these companies do not at all care what benefits the world.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
You've had an attorney with experience in this area confirm and help establish (e.g., by drafting the sponsorship contract) this arrangement?
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
You're under the mistaken assumption that Amazon is actually trying to set up a fair system with this, instead of creating something they can point to when they're criticized for hasty firings.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
All of them. Currently there are severe restrictions on foreign ownership of Chinese ventures, though the restrictions vary by sector and this year some of the restrictions in some sectors have been eased up a little.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
You seem to be intentionally ignoring the parent's point. They're asking why, if China doesn't allow US ownership of Chinese companies, should the US allow Chinese ownership of American companies, not some abstract question o
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Other manufacturers just seem obsessed with raw specs and power, rather than actual gameplay experience.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>It's difficult for me to accept the article's insinuation that in such an environment, Facebook must somehow do more to counteract the undercurrents of society. Your conclusion is fairly bizarre given the explanation preceding
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Or the more tragic and infuriating question: "What would current computing be like if Alan Turing hadn't been driven to suicide?"
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>When did people get told that their lot in life was to be productive. Hacker News is the worst about this. It's very creepy, the constant talk of "productivity". I recall a comment in one of the threads about Anthony Bour
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>Cyberpunk dates at least a decade before Neuromancer No, it doesn't. Proto-cyberpunk ideas existed, certainly (and more than 10 years before Neuromancer; you can trace the roots back to 60s New Wave SF), but the word itself only pr
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
You're missing the point focusing on the inaccurate descriptions of tech. The point, and greatest strength, of the book is in how people interact with the tech, and how it shapes society. Gibson has always been very good at articulatin
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
> Fabulously rich, unreliable mystery man of dubious moral integrity (possibly being a front for a near-omniscient A.I.) hires one or more people to find one or more McGuffins; I see this as a nod to old detective pulp novels and film no
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
> I heard from some people that it hadn't aged too well Good, you'll know who to avoid in the future. >In particular, the language used to describe drug states and events in cyberspace (such as the Kuang virus) was just so v
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
This is perhaps the Platonic Form of Hacker News comments. All it's missing is blockchain hype.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>No, I don't see how you think it's opposite. Because you're misunderstanding the issue at hand. Greece and Macedonia aren't having an abstract argument over sets. As the article explains, Greece has two specific obje
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Except, lol, it’s the reverse of the Macedonia-Greece issue: the US was the only recognized independent state in the Americas when they chose their name. If “Canada and Mexico and all of South America would like a word” they should invest i
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>Equitably enforced hurts a lot of smaller players. So? The goal of the law is user data privacy and control. It doesn't matter if the abuser is Google or someone operating a site from their dorm, violation and misuse of user data i
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
This is a deeply disingenuous characterization of the author's point. The linked post is responding to claims made by blockchain proponents and businesses that the blockchain completely obviates the need for trust or outside verificati
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>I can definitely see where you are coming from since that mechanism of "most token wins", sounds very unintuitive and inherintly cheatable (and in a lot of places has rightfully bad connotations like "pay to win" in
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>> The appeal of the Stanford prison experiment seems to go deeper than its scientific validity, perhaps because it tells us a story about ourselves that we desperately want to believe: that we, as individuals, cannot really be held a
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>I can't wrap my mind around people that think that 'too many tourists' or 'too many jobs' are a problem. Step outside of theoretical economic thought experiments and try living in a formerly quiet neighborhood o
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
You don't understand what NIMBY means, then.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>Am I not the master of my own existence No, in many ways and cases you aren't. As comments below note, one of those ways is through mental health issues. While I do agree that people should ultimately have the right to choose, it&#
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>goes through type theory, not philosophy. You’re going to be very surprised when you look up the origins of type theory.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
There’s no need to posit conspiracy nonsense. Tesla has received glowing uncritical coverage for a long time, this is just the correction. It appears from the comments that the Cult of Elon can’t handle this. Elon is perfect, anything negat
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Or if one were less charitably inclined toward Musk and his cult of personality, one might say he's a con man deliberately misleading people, especially investors, to get money out of them and papering over his distortions/decepti
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
"There's no such thing as bad publicity" is one of the oldest rules in entertainment.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
> First, there's a lot of entropy in terms of border definitions and leader turnover. The now Italy region had a new leader every year for a stretch This is one way that illustrations like this, while cool, are misleading or at leas
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
The Harvard Classics anthology was compiled in 1909. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>1) A College student working on a side project with no revenue are treated the same as some massive multi-national. If the side project uses personal user data, then there is no reason to treat them differently.

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