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by _audakel 10y ago
The FBI and other government institutions often ask for the help of the tech industry, and act like they want to build bridges but actions like this show a double standard. They are like your annoying needy friend. Always asking you for stu
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Going out on a tangent - Would California be more successful leaving the US as an independent country? As things stand, California is currently the eighth largest economy in the world on their own. 17 of the top 30 U.S. tech companies are i
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by _audakel 10y ago
Going out on a tangent - Would California be more successful as an independent country rather than as a state of the US? As things stand, California is currently the eighth largest economy in the world on their own. 17 of the top 30 U.S. te
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by _audakel 10y ago
Must read take on Thiel's vendetta proxy lawsuit and the collateral damage that will follow in its precedence
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You Won’t Be Able to Sue the Next Gawker(medium.com)
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Real-world aimbot: The $17,000 rifle with a Linux-powered scope(extremetech.com)
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Meet SAM: The Automated Bricklaying Robot(youtube.com)
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by _audakel 10y ago
To bad hn has a no topic downvote policy (only comment downvote) but thank you for pointing out what alot of people got caught up in / missed - this article relies on shock value of a single image (hardly a graph) and is devoid of anal
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> Maybe we should regulate the media Donald Trump revokes Washington Post press credentials http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/13/media/donald-trump-washingto... but i totaly agree with you. Much o
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It could be classified as a red herring. But I think he is trying to point out that the potential deaths a regulation will prevent does not correlate well with how much media coverage it receives.
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Does gun violence primary stem from mental-health issues or from easy access to firearms?
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"All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked." – Goering, at the Nuremberg trials, on how to control a population There were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, accor
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by _audakel 10y ago
Beign at either extreme, moving too fast or moving too slow, is problematic. A related field to medical is the Space + Rocket industry. Heavily regulated and if you make a mistake people die. For much of the lifetime of the industry, NASA w
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1 - Theranos should have been more transparent, but what startup doesn't stretch the truth or even leave out data on occasion? It is a fine line between lying and hustling. Startups can often talk about something that doesn't exis
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Ideas such as "membership benifits" and "Americans pay more to Americans" seems to create an us vs. them mentality and imply that the us party receive govnt benifits. The idea that country A receives befits over country
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Foreign workers (fw) who work for less $ than the Domestic worker (dw) drive down wages. In this case fw is benefited by making more than they would in native country, while dw makes less than the old rate. Paying old rate generally means d
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How do you define "fair" in fair market wage? If foreign talent = domestic talent and foreign wage = domestic wage; is there a compelling reason to hire foreign? And if being hired = increase worker happiness, than equal pay will
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> disposable foreign workers are brought over to get exploited "exploited" is a matter of perspective. To an onlooker who has lived their whole life in a first world country, seeing people work for $x - (less-significantlyLess
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recurrent neural network wrote this short film... :( we are #replaceable(arstechnica.com)
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You could have the tesla self park / pick up feature. It drops you off and then Flys off some here where there is much space. Then you just call it back when you ready to leave.
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by _audakel 10y ago
> It shows the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all the cash the highway patrol seizes. If your cash is seized the police will go ahead and keep the full amount less the 7.7%
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Narcissism-why-its-so-rampant-in-politics(psychologytoday.com)
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I think it is yet another point showing how broken our immigration / vIsa program is. This sort of blackmarket style operation would never have existed in the first place if the talanted non US (calling them aliens seems dehumanizing a
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by _audakel 10y ago
Is it a bad thing that Google plays a more involved role? They have on numerous occasions lent their technical expertise to improve horibly broke aspects of the federal govt (Healthcare.Gov is an example) . If they can improve the technical
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I'm not sure how this is very different than Goldman saches both hiring former members of the SEC and having many of its employees go on to fill top financial regulatory positions in government. People are not up in arms about that. I
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Thats all is based on if he is somehow still involved with the technical details enough to figure it out. Most likely whoever put it in won't be talking about it to him.
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good, but long >And my hypothesis, stated plainly, is that if you’re part of the Blue Tribe, then your outgroup isn’t al-Qaeda, or Muslims, or blacks, or gays, or transpeople, or Jews, or atheists – it’s the Red Tribe.
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by _audakel 10y ago
It sounds like more of an ASD symptom. Having routines and being unable to break them. I have mild ASD and often wear the same clothes/copies of the same stupid free startup tshirt for no real reason other than subconsciously I hate c
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by _audakel 10y ago
thank you! fda is a leading cause of death in US in my opinion; from killing off inovation that would prevent death. I worked at a medical startup that was bought by JNJ, it was high end surgery technolgy. We made the first gen of our produ
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as outlandish as this sounds, I could see it totally working

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