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by Traster 5y ago
Well what I'm saying is... if it were would facebook tell you? Or would they find a way to produce a report that tells you something else? As another commentor points out - the independent version of this consistently ends up listing
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by Traster 5y ago
They link to the page - so if someone can say "Hold on, page X only has N likes/shares, page Y has >N likes/shares!" they'd have problems.
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by Traster 5y ago
I think this suffers from the same problem that most technology based proposals suffer from: it reinvents something that already exist. >First, form a social network around a clear leader, a proven centralized mechanism for dispute resol
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by Traster 5y ago
>Eventually, I hit on a new strategy. Instead of trying to generate good tweets I just followed people at random. I forget the exact number, but somewhere between 15-30% of the people I followed at random would follow me back. This is ex
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by Traster 5y ago
I can't help but think it's not a coincidence that Facebook decides to produce a content report that lists the top 20 most viewed items and it just so happens that the top 20 items are inexplicably spam. Either facebook is enitr
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by Traster 5y ago
This article seems to sort of pre-suppose that the target is billion dollar business, and describes Miguel's success at building a small enterprise as a failure. It wasn't. It was much more successful than WeWork. There's als
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by Traster 5y ago
For me, that version was too short.
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by Traster 5y ago
I'm not moving the goal posts -the goal posts as I'll state them is "Big Tech Media" is a nebulous term that you can't reasonably define as these 13 companies. I don't know why you're struggling to find th
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by Traster 5y ago
The big tech media term is just bullshit. "Big Tech" describes a handful of companies that employ hundreds of thousands of people . "Big Tech media" is either media about big tech - in which case this list is a horrible
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by Traster 5y ago
Because if you look at the actual data from the big tech companies there is literally 1 very obvious reason that all groups are under-represented. Because the "Asian" group in most big tech companies is about as big as the "W
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by Traster 5y ago
My issue isn't that he comes up with an approximation. My issue is he comes up with a bad approximation. Are you really telling me all 13 news organisations declined to comment to him? Or did he not even ask. And at least justify you
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by Traster 5y ago
Some of this looks quite.... questionable, and ironically for people that spend so much of their time attacking "the media", this authors would do well to learn something about journalism, and some of it seems downright disingenou
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by Traster 5y ago
I wonder how the economics work for this - it's great to have cheap FPGAs like this, but I suspect Renesas will need to produce a lot of IPs for people to use on these devices. With a cheap FPGA device like this you need quite big sc
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by Traster 5y ago
I very aggressively abridged that story, but the builders bought cladding material that suppliers told them conformed to the appropriate regulations. In reality the regulations weren't fit for purpose or enforced. There are questions a
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by Traster 5y ago
Yeah this topic is demonstrated in the UK. Long story short the UK failed to regulate building materials, resulting in lots of buildings being clad with inappropriate materials (really long story). A building burned to the ground (Grenfell)
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by Traster 5y ago
Pro tip: When you're seeing something really unethical that could eventually rebound on you - write it down. Write down contemporaneously what happened and sign and date it. Much more reliable evidence.
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by Traster 5y ago
It's not a coincidence, London property is a great place for money laundering because of all the UK tax havens like BVI. If you want to launder money, one of the safest bets is a london property owned by a company in the british virgin
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by Traster 5y ago
The really obvious answer to this (and I'm not defending the corruption, the tory party and their continuous boys-club mentality is sickening) is that when you live in the country, you know enough to know that corruption is happening b
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by Traster 5y ago
Imagine the US was arming and funding the Kurdish in Syria to oppose the Assad regime. But instead of the Kurds they're funding the Irish Protestants and instead of the Assad regime it was the United Kingdom and instead of the US, it w
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by Traster 5y ago
I'm still struggling to see how NFTs gaurantee that the true owner of the original asset minted the NFT. It seems to me it's perfectly possible that I could mint an NFT of the same art work that Beeple minted. Or indeed Beeple cou
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by Traster 5y ago
It seems to me that hiring a head of growth would be entirely counter-productive. You're taking something that - if you really do care about it - should be a responsbility shared amongst almost the whole company, and centralizing it.
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by Traster 5y ago
It took me a couple of read-throughs of this to really see what he's trying to say about NFTs, and (having been skeptical elsewhere about NFTs) I kind of understand what he's saying. He thinks that everyone is obsessed with NFTs,
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by Traster 5y ago
Let me ask you, let's say that I get one of these artists to draw up a contract and sell me one of their peices of art. Do you think it will command the same value, more value or less value than the equivalent NFT associated with it? B
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by Traster 5y ago
What are you talking about NFTs are more personal? You can literally commission most artists to make you a personal peice. Most Patreons including regular Q&As, opportunities to make suggestions and all sorts of stuff. What exactly is t
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by Traster 5y ago
Why would the blockchain help you circumvent anti-money laundering laws? Do you think Nintendo are going to be less worried about a money laundering operation than Valve?
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by Traster 5y ago
Doesn't the gaming applicaiton seem to negate some of the core aspects of crypto-currencies - the decentralization. If you want a rare artifact in the Zelda-verse, why wouldn't you buy it from nintendo? And why would nintendo want
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by Traster 5y ago
I think people on HN react to NFTs perfectly resaonably and I don't think you make a good argument about their value for creatives. As far as I can see NFTs at the moment have done nothing for creatives getting paid. As you point out -
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by Traster 5y ago
I think this is kind of true, but also kind of not true. Programming, like all writing, is the physical manifestation of a much more complex mental process. By the time that I know what I want to write, the hardwork is done. In that way,
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by Traster 5y ago
It's important to think about this in an a la carte design, not one fixed solution for all use cases. Step 1: You give people the ability to put in soft limits - "Warn me when I hit 500", Step 2: You also give the ability to
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by Traster 5y ago
The thing that surprises me about the facial recognition news is that I was expecting it to be the other way around. For meta to outlaw it. The reason for the re-name is to separate Zuck and his new project from the toxic reputation that fa

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