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by awb 4y ago
> To be honest, I don't understand what "they develop faster" means either. Maybe there’s a better way of phrasing it, but I mean the rate of change is faster when you’re younger. A 10yo will have very different preference
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by awb 4y ago
I could understand smaller age ranges for younger folks because they’re developing at a more rapid pace. For example 30-40 age range would group together people with relatively similar life experiences, but a 10-20 age range would not.
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by awb 4y ago
Totally agree, but how would you go about categorizing ideas into those that are worthy of equivalency and those that aren’t? Seems easy enough for fringe conspiracy theories but harder as you get into the realm of well sourced but bad idea
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by awb 4y ago
> In his function as head administrator of the Executive Branch, he's an employee. In his function as the winner of a presidential election, however, he's the anointed representative for a majority of US voters (more or less, b
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by awb 4y ago
> That is far from the only source of Twitter revenue. Yes, but he's claiming the $8/mo is to "keep paying the bills", so why focus on that small revenue stream and then pay a huge fine? > Also, I'm about 99.9
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by awb 4y ago
> I would be upset if they were adding this shit to Biden's personal account I'm not sure if it's codified anywhere, but I don't think a sitting US President is afforded the luxury of a personal life while in office,
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by awb 4y ago
Most of Musk's net worth is held in stock. You can sell stock, but then you have to pay taxes and relinquish ownership rights that those stocks grant. So he might have had to sell ~$20B in stock to pay that extra $13B.
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by awb 4y ago
1 month is $55M in fines at that rate. 300k verified users paying $8/month is $2.4M. If he's making a big deal about bringing in single digit millions per month to "pay the bills", you'd think he'd care about d
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by awb 4y ago
3,700 employees @ $500/day would be $1.85M / day. Ouch.
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by awb 4y ago
> it’s seeking a range of relief, including compensatory damages (including wages owed), as well as declaratory relief, pre- and post-judgment interest, plus other attorneys’ fees and costs. So, the penalty is paying workers the wages t
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by awb 4y ago
Those are the words, but here's the resulting context. The author is a public defender tasked with finding the best possible resolution to impossible cases. In one case they uttered those 11 words after an unsuspectedly harsh sentence,
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by awb 4y ago
Can’t wait for the future presentation: “How Robb Oat uses Robb Oat to build Robb Oat”
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by awb 4y ago
It's swapping one bubble for another. From the recent tweets it looks like Musk has a clear vision he wants implemented and isn't really looking to add a lot of diverse opinions to his thought process. He has more FU money than an
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by awb 4y ago
> because they use ill defined terms All definitions are ill-defined if you're willing to question the words in the definition. Maybe the point of philosophy is to uncover the weaknesses in our understanding of the word, rather than
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by awb 4y ago
Yeah, I guess if you resonate with overly simplified or impractical ideas, then that's probably a bigger problem with the listener rather than the speaker.
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by awb 4y ago
Complex ideas like freedom and free speech are often presented in simplified messaging like: "Protect our freedom" or "I'm a free speech absolutist". But underneath the slogans are many levels of complexity and pers
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Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1B(reuters.com)
13 points by awb 4y ago|10 comments
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by awb 4y ago
$20 -> $8 -> $5 I don't think the price point was a major issue. It's the idea of paying a company when you produce the content that doesn't seem right to some some folks. You're still being tracked and targeted. Y
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by awb 4y ago
I always wanted that feature too in RTS games. But, I think the build up to the exciting parts might be part of the excitement. If it was just non-stop action, it might be overwhelming. Plus, there's no reason why the entire game could
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Wordcraft Writers Workshop(wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com)
2 points by awb 4y ago|0 comments
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by awb 4y ago
What’s funny is he’s arguing that moderation should be based on behavior, not content. And that you could identify spam if it was written in Loren Ipsum. If this thread and self-referential Tweeting was written in Loren Ipsum, it would defi
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Ask HN: LinkedIn Spam Increase?
2 points by awb 4y ago|1 comments
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by awb 4y ago
What would you rather have on your resume, Tesla or IBM?
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by awb 4y ago
This threat is interesting. I wonder what the minimum number is of top Twitter accounts that would have to leave for the platform to lose an unrecoverable amount of its daily impressions. For example, out of the top 100 twitter accounts ( h
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by awb 4y ago
I think anyone can, because later he mentions: > There will be a secondary tag below the name for someone who is a public figure, which is already the case for politicians https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/158
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by awb 4y ago
If you can create a new account, pay $8 for a checkmark and run a viral promotion (or scam), it's certainly profitable. Before you couldn't trust non-checkmarks. Now you can't trust any account.
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by awb 4y ago
From someone who’s done a lot of sales, I agree with this. If they dodge the question, asking something direct like: “how many figures are we talking about, 5, 6, 7?” can help. Most of the time sales folks don’t want to quote you a ballpark
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by awb 4y ago
> In the cat thought experiment, the "box" needs to be conceived of as something that totally isolates you from the cat. No "quantum influences" travel across it. Is that true? I’ve seen references to observed macro s
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by awb 4y ago
Sounds like the Metaverse. Shouting is only 1 form of communication though. Newspapers and pamphlets have been around for centuries and travel farther and last longer than human generated sound waves. So your proposal kind of simulates pre-
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by awb 4y ago
HN has a heavy moderation policy. Things like gossip and rants are removed. It works for a small, niche network, but not for a global one.

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