abalone

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by abalone 8y ago
> I get some judgy looks on the playground for studiously ignoring my kid and letting her play for three hours... If you are watching your child for three hours on the playground then it is obvious you either do not have a regular job
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by abalone 8y ago
We don’t have a yard, my kids can’t cook eggs while I’m getting ready, and pillow forts get old. Maybe there is another solution to improving online educational content than shaming parents who find mornings “hard”.
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by abalone 8y ago
Yeah, my oldest is actually brilliant and has learned many advanced things from YT educational videos way ahead of the curve. It's a powerful tool for self-directed education.. and also for junky toddler crack. The problem is these con
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by abalone 8y ago
I know, I'm a shitty parent, and I'm solely responsible for my kids being exposed to shitty things in the world. I should throw out their iPads and read books to them constantly (more than the 20m/day I do every single day af
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by abalone 8y ago
My kids watch this stuff constantly and it's just too much and too random to vet it all. I'm putting a lot of trust in YouTube Kids to filter it to quality content. That trust was shaken the other day when they said "daddy di
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Uber, Lyft cars clog SF streets, study says(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by abalone 8y ago|0 comments
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by abalone 8y ago
> How do server-side only things will happen then? By calling a service from JavaScript. What you're probably getting at is, how do I dynamically generate web pages? That's different. As a web developer you're probably u
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by abalone 8y ago
This is a gross misrepresentation of fair use doctrine. Fair use requires a "transformation" of the work. It does not permit reproducing a work in its entirety without permission just so you can have a discussion about it.
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by abalone 8y ago
But Bloomberg is reporting thousands of affected devices and Apple/Amazon have said they've already done extensive investigations and are totally denying it. That means they both would certainly have to be lying. And there's
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by abalone 8y ago
You mean major major reports like Iraq WMDs?[1] Yeah, the press never gets major stories sourced from government sources wrong. > Why would Apple disclose that millions of their products could be hacked and you’ve lost all your privacy.
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by abalone 8y ago
> But I think we are now beyond the point where we could say "major tech companies would never lie together with the US security apparatus on a matter of public importance". They would, if they think it's worth it. This
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by abalone 8y ago
We need to talk more about the energy consumption of these farms. They are marketing themselves with "green" branding but.. they are indoors and use artificial light. One study found hydroponics use 7X more energy: "At this p
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by abalone 8y ago
By far the biggest factor is the over $130B of aid the U.S. has provided to Israel which directly nurtured the high technology industry.[1] This is also true for the U.S. itself; Silicon Valley is largely a creation of Pentagon investment (
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by abalone 8y ago
For us mere mortals following along... I don't necessarily understand what you guys just debated about the impact of options pools but I did grok this from the spreadsheets: In the new model, Founder stake goes 48.8% -> 49.6%, a mod
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by abalone 8y ago
One thing google sheets has going for it is a limit of 2M cells per workbook. Airtable’s is surprisingly small. Free plan is just 1,200 records.
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by abalone 8y ago
> They found that when a user gives Facebook a phone number for two-factor authentication or in order to receive alerts about new log-ins to a user’s account, that phone number became targetable by an advertiser within a couple of weeks
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by abalone 8y ago
That still doesn't explain margins though. Competing processors keep pace with fraud-fighting tech as well. For large customers, processing is still a commodity service and they have a lot of negotiating power to call up Stripe and dem
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by abalone 8y ago
This is an invalid comparison. WhatsApp is an OTT messaging service. You're comparing it to carrier internet and voice service. It would be more valid to compare it to carrier text messaging fees, which was the arbitrage opportunity th
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by abalone 8y ago
> The challenge is $1/month is probably too pricey for most of their user base. The only reason WhatsApp exists is that international carriers were charging higher fees for text messaging while offering lower data rates, creating
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by abalone 8y ago
Sorry I meant gave up after burning bridges. Their plan was always to bail before monetization kicked in and be able to say they had nothing to do with it. But you don't get a $19B valuation from Facebook for a text messaging arbitrage
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by abalone 8y ago
You left out the part where he expected and tried to get the $850M but FB’s lawyers pushed back and he settled after burning bridges. $50M is 0.7% of his net worth last I checked (maybe it’s changed). Look, I’m glad they’re not still at Fac
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by abalone 8y ago
Come. On. You don’t get to that kind of valuation with a basically free product without ad targeting. An accelerated vesting clause is not an assurance. If they wanted assurances they could have made it a condition of the deal, ok? They d
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by abalone 8y ago
Totally. In terms of handling it, there was a French horror film "Inside" which is very good but involves attacking a pregnant woman. After having kids I found I just couldn't stomach it, which was a change. Same for Sicario&
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by abalone 8y ago
Not about your research, but any thoughts on SFUSD's assignment algorithm? I ask because it was also designed in consultation with MIT (in part) and also is an example of a very thoughtfully designed school district algorithm[1] that h
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by abalone 8y ago
Something like this just happened in the San Francisco school district. As of last month they decided to undo a key piece of an Ivy League authored school assignment algorithm and there's talk of scrapping the whole thing.[1] If you kn
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by abalone 8y ago
It’s obviously satire. Opens with “It took a little while, but we're glad to see corporations brave enough to prioritize protecting their Trump tax cuts over solutions to homelessness. Whew!” Looking forward to your legal analysis of S
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by abalone 8y ago
Except what it's saying is true, which makes it kind of hard to constitute libel, and as you note it's "obviously not run by them" and "clearly" satire.
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Stripe donates $19,999 to “No on Prop C”, avoiding ethics disclosures(noplansf.com)
31 points by abalone 8y ago|17 comments
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by abalone 8y ago
That is pure unresearched wishful thinking. They would fly helicopters up to farmers on a field who would look up at them in confusion and do nothing. Then they'd turn on a siren and when the farmers scattered they shot them all down f
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by abalone 8y ago
> There are a lot of My Lai's and William Calley's in other countries throughout history. But far fewer Hugh Thompson's and to me that's the 'real' America. There were a lot of My Lai’s in Vietnam . Bigge

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