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by Top19 9y ago
Wow this story is shocking. I want to point out it’s quite believable if you look at this situation historically. Microsoft was known for doing this exact same thing. Their tactic was to wine and dine startups, give them the “big megacorp c
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by Top19 9y ago
Can you expand more on this? What do you mean by “much deeper than html”?
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There’s a certain incredible postmodern truth to this. News, even though sounding really important, is really just entertainment. This is such a hard idea to wrap your head around sometimes. That being said I just got off of The Daily Mail
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by Top19 9y ago
FWIW, and perhaps the best evidence of the strange new universe we live in, Steve Bannon called Republican tax cuts on Charlie Rose “an economic hate crime against America” back in early September.
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by Top19 9y ago
This is the choice quote: > "This simply is not a company that deserves to be trusted with Americans' personal data," said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Obviously this quote leaves out a lot of nuance, but I like it and I li
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by Top19 9y ago
Wow very sad reading this. In general the idea of sparing someone from prison to go work in any kind of profit generating enterprise is a bad idea subject to abuse. Does anyone remember the Pennsylvania judge who got sentenced to 30 years i
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This book by a couple of very good liberal sociologists (whose other work I also recommend): The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005PS3CFM The most fascinating part was
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by Top19 9y ago
Worked at Oracle for 6 years. IMO the company is incredibly authentic. Cares about a lot about making money for Larry, doesn’t care that much about the customer, etc. Always had this “you always know where they stand feel”. It’s kind of sad
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by Top19 9y ago
I tried to enable MFA on a Yahoo account I was helping someone with at work 24 hours ago. Their MFA is still SMS-based, which I’m pretty sure is a bad thing. They don’t allow an app like Duo (although they do reject VOIP numbers which I gue
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by Top19 9y ago
You know I briefly wondered as I was writing whether it was Swedish or Swiss but then I was like, “aren’t all the bad banks from Switzerland, aren’t they also just famous for their banks?”. Thanks for the correction or else I would have bee
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by Top19 9y ago
Such a shame reading news like this. I’d like to point out that this isn’t really even a conservative vs liberal view anymore, regarding corporate greed, corporate malpractice, etc. Even Steve Bannon has said this. While we definitely will
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by Top19 9y ago
My manager just got back from Hashicon in Austin. I asked him what his main takeaway was and that was that Vagrant is kind of dead. I mean there is still Packer, and Hashicorp is absolutely still around, so I don’t think it’s that bad at al
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by Top19 9y ago
Want to briefly hijack this thread to quickly point out that there is no such thing as a Nobel Prize in Economics. Literally a Swiss bank made it upon the 70’s and dubiously said their prize was to “honor Alfred Nobel”. They were very force
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by Top19 9y ago
Literally just came to Hackernews to post this article. I don’t really hangout with older people or come into contact on a frequent basis, but Jesus H. Christ this is the most horrifying thing I’ve read in terms of scams in a while. For wha
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by Top19 9y ago
Makes sense about the bridges and roads thing. You need to know that for tanks. Even today in Germany you’ll see tiny bridges crossing a stream, a sign right by that says “this bridge rated for 70,000 pounds” (so can hold multiple tanks at
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by Top19 9y ago
Steve Bannon is kind of known for having a “hit list” within the political establishment. So first it was the Bush’s/Clinton’s, then it was the Koch Brothers, and now he is saying “the day of reckoning” is coming for Karl Rove and Mitc
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by Top19 9y ago
A big problem with modern capitalism is that there is hardly any risk anymore. Risk is like a rocket ship that has left Earth, gone out of the solar system, and is not present on or near the planet anymore. Your stock can drop 20% in a week
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@justabystander wow your reply was long and very detailed and you put a lot of effort into it. Let me add one more point, and see if what I said merges with what you said. If not I'm completely wrong. A lot of books, like The Idea Indu
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by Top19 9y ago
Thank you for your comment. What you said is the best balance I’ve found of how bitcoin (and in my opinion also AI) is a really really really cool technology with a lot of potential, but also a complete scam.
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This seems great, especially since having a criminal record early can destabilize you so much long term. Also keep in mind that just yesterday there was an editorial in the Washington Post blasting Seattle’s city council for losing their ma
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by Top19 9y ago
I want to comment that academics provide such an incredible amount to the world we live in. In a time of bullshit thought leaders and companies like Equifax who will tell you obvious lies, the academic discipline with its rigor, criticalnes
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by Top19 9y ago
1. l I use OneNote using a numbered hierarchical structure. You can use anything really, like the Dewey Decimal system, but in my case it just evolved into a 1000’s section for the Sciences and Applied Sciences, a 2000’s section for Busines
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by Top19 9y ago
Google cancelled Amazon’s access without warning because the Echo Show “creates a broken user experience”. I get that it’s a 1st gen device, but that statement sounds like Equifax wrote it with such blatant bullshit from Google. What are th
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For some background here, ATT claimed for decades that there was no reasonable way they could provide cheap local phone calls unless they were given a monopoly whereby they could charge super expensive prices for long distance calls to make
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+1 on this, would also like to know. I would in general like to say that being a researcher in our society is such an underrated skill. Knowing how to do legal research for instance is an incredibly important skill. Cornelius Vanderbilt, th
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Currently reading the work of Hubert Dreyfus. Dreyfus was widely ridiculed in the 60’s and the 80’s for coming out against AI simply on the grounds that it wouldn’t work, but for those decades at least he was certainly right as it turned ou
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One criticism of having a centralized national police force, a common feature in developing countries, is it makes corruption easier and more attractive. In a sense you’ve also centralized corruption and given it just as many efficiencies.
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Oh man forget about these / that movie! As another aside, current really David Halberstam’s “The Next Century”, published in 1991, and his main focus in the book, after Eastern Europe, is Japan. All of this is laughable now (though som
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by Top19 9y ago
Good article and makes sense. It’s a lot harder to establish a group and get traction versus just creating an another account. It would be like starting a company vs just getting a job (although that second one gets harder everyday).
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Should have clarified physical or virtual in the question. I’ll go with physical since that’s more fun and we don’t see it enough. My answer is...a catalog. The internet makes it easy to find something, but knowing what to find, having thos

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