amznthrowaway4

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by amznthrowaway4 7y ago
BTC has always had more in common with rare gemstones like Taaffeite than currencies or even metals. No practical value, no industrial value, no means to materially change the rate of production, nothing special at all except that it is rar
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by amznthrowaway4 7y ago
AWS has a collection of tools which make it easier to detect and avoid accidental spend, and which make it easier to optimize purposeful spend. These aren't controversial, even though they reduce revenue, because they improve the custo
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by amznthrowaway4 7y ago
If PG actually meant a single word of his essay, he'd fire Dan Gackle and he'd radically change how HN moderation works. But, as per usual, Paul Graham is full of shit. He is interested in challenging other people, but he is absol
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by amznthrowaway4 7y ago
This is an outrage. Only private companies like Google, Facebook, LexisNexis, Experian, Equifax, Corelogic, Nielsen, Acxiom, Datalogix, Epsilon, Spokeo, Radaris, ID Analytics, eBureau, Intelius, PeekYou, Rapleaf, and Recorded Future should
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by amznthrowaway4 7y ago
The algorithms that ban Muslim terrorist propaganda also routinely ban non-terrorist Muslim content. They have essentially the exact same failure modes as anti-Nazi algorithms that also ban some politicians. Why are you tolerant of these p
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by amznthrowaway4 7y ago
Does your opinion change when referring to white American terrorists? (nazis, white nationalists, other groups that incite domestic terror) Or is your support of these limits scoped specifically to anti-western muslim terrorists?
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by amznthrowaway4 7y ago
Are you opposed to social media companies removing / hiding / reducing the reach of anti-western and terrorist propaganda? Do you think ISIS and Al Qaeda should have broader reach?
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by amznthrowaway4 7y ago
There are literally several thousand people who work on marketplace fraud and quality issues. It's a huge concern.
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by amznthrowaway4 7y ago
Your video card would be shipped in that fashion if the product was certified SIOC (Ships In Own Container); wherein the seller certifies that their packaging is adequate to ship to the customer with only cosmetic damage to the packaging. F
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by amznthrowaway4 7y ago
What team did those people work for?