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by b1n 4y ago
I really enjoyed scrolling through more than half the article before finding the answer. """ Part of it seems to be the lifestyle choices that smarter people tend to make: namely, that they smoke at much lower rates. Similarl
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by b1n 4y ago
How does better.com make money? what is their business model? The site says they charge zero commissions & lender fees - does this just apply to the loan recipient? maybe it's just commission from the lenders?
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by b1n 4y ago
This is an idea whose time has come.
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by b1n 4y ago
So, next time your bank gets hacked and loses all your money.... Do you consider complaining "elitism"? Sorry if i've misunderstood your point.
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by b1n 4y ago
Check out Veloren - open source Breath of the Wild / Minecraft inspired game - amazing quality for such a new project. https://veloren.net/
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by b1n 5y ago
I've been thinking of a new way to use my email... - Only use one email address: hi@example.com - Always add a filter: hi+hn@example.com - Send all emails without a filter to SPAM Since it's not a common strategy, it is much more
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by b1n 5y ago
New GUIX user here. I've found the documentation to be good and the "zealots" seem very friendly - maybe take another look.
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by b1n 5y ago
This website makes my laptops fans go crazy (on firefox).
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by b1n 5y ago
I think I see what you're getting at [1]. I think that in this case the image is effective as a counter to the argument being presented in the campaign. - It shows that there are other categories of people who have legitimate reasons t
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by b1n 5y ago
Interesting algorithm HN has for ordering comments.
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by b1n 5y ago
I agree that any good PR firm could use the meme to its advantage. I put about a 10% probability that the slogan was chosen because it is so bad and easily subverted. A backlash to a backlash is worth a few extra days of free coverage. RE:
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by b1n 5y ago
They've spent lots of money on an expensive PR firm from the old school, and what they came up with is "No Place To Hide". This can be easily undone with the following meme... 1. Take whatever advert they create with the tag
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by b1n 5y ago
I'm about half way through this, and I honestly can't tell whether it's satire or not. If real, this could be the "The Room" [1] of pitches. Just waiting for it to turn into a Lord of the Flies type situation. [1]
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by b1n 5y ago
Identity that solves Zooko's Triangle, Censorship Resistant Storage, P2P/Decentralization (separate from blockchain), alternative funding models for all kinds of SaaS and Open Source projects. Look it up yourself, or don't.
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by b1n 5y ago
There are real things happening in web 3.0, they are just being obscured by layers and layers of bullshit, scams and other fuckery. Once all that has crashed and everyone has lost all their money there will still be real and interesting tec
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by b1n 5y ago
Just noticed how bad the color choice is on that chart. The lightest red (pink) is actually "Unlikely to ban".
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by b1n 5y ago
> "When the battle over Huawei began, over 5G, I saw a map of the world, and it was a map of the world according to whether countries were allowing Huawei in or not, and I said to one of my young colleagues, "Oh, that's th
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by b1n 5y ago
My PinePhone runs significantly faster than my Librem 5, on account of my Librem 5 not existing - even after being part of the original kickstarter-esq funding.
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by b1n 5y ago
Thanks, I was just about to ask.
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by b1n 5y ago
My understanding is that Open Source means just that - The source is open for inspection. It doesn't immediately imply that the source is open for free usage by all.
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Ask HN: Which open source license can I use to forbids GPT-3 model training?
6 points by b1n 5y ago|15 comments
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Tell HN: UK NHS will share patient data with 3rd parties; opt-out by 23rd June
8 points by b1n 5y ago|0 comments
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by b1n 14y ago
Wasn't MegaUpload popularity due to streaming video content? Doesn't the encryption make video streaming impossible in the way it was being done before (i.e. to a large psudononymous userbase)?
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by b1n 14y ago
Someone in a previous HN post suggested that companies sometimes release limited stock in the first run so that they can then get a 'high demand' PR boost for the second. Could this be what is happening here?
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by b1n 14y ago
Fair point.
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by b1n 14y ago
A lot of peoples lives aren't boring. They're busy: - Dying of an infectious disease - Working to get enough money just to survive - Starving to death - Living in fear of violence I think you're doing well as a person if you can count your
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by b1n 14y ago
I last used SU a year or so ago and the quality of results was pretty abysmal. Lots of spam/low quality content farmed articles and the odd gem. SU was a useful alternative to Search, but there are now plenty of other (social/content discov
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Underground Gambling on When Cancer Patients Will Die Exposed(chinasmack.com)
1 points by b1n 14y ago|0 comments
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by b1n 14y ago
Creating a sub network of approved bitcoins who's ownership/lineage could be verified. Perhaps by forcing companies to register their wallet addresses and the details of anyone buying through their bank using a credit card (this is assuming
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by b1n 14y ago
As all transactions are public, what would stop a government creating a blacklist of bitcoin transactions? Permanently banning legitimate businesses and bitcoin exchanges/banks from accepting coins from 'tainted' wallets that have received

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