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by bduerst 4y ago
It was full names, brokerage numbers, and some account balances with trading activity. It's a financial sales list, which is incredibly valuable. If you don't agree, then watch the movie Glengarry Glen Ross .
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by bduerst 4y ago
I think most DDG fans would be thoroughly surprised DDG ever popped the hood or tried to verify their privacy claims, which is why I don't think DDG ever will. Better to elude to a nebulous definition of privacy rather than give specif
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by bduerst 4y ago
Proud Boys was started by one of the founders of Vice media too. That doesn't make them any less of a hate group or less shady.
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by bduerst 4y ago
Didn't Brave get caught inserting their own affiliate links into search results when you clicked on them?
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by bduerst 4y ago
They claim to have results from over "400 sources" but then don't list them.
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by bduerst 4y ago
Do they list their "sources"? It reads like they are saying a website = source, and the hyperlink for the sources is dead.
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by bduerst 4y ago
VCs are more like lemmings. They're beholden to funders who, while wanting to see ROI, also want to make sure they're not missing the next big thing. This FOMO competition means VCs are more likely to jump of a cliff once that fir
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by bduerst 4y ago
This is likely intentional though. Reddit's engagement model relies on new posts with which to comment on. Being able to easily find previous content means less reposting, and less opportunities to give users a place to engage. A st
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by bduerst 4y ago
Zero marginal content already exists with procedural generation (PG). The problem with PG is that it's all the same after a while - i.e. one of the chief complaints of No Man's Sky is that all the PG planets look the same after
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by bduerst 4y ago
AI-Dungeon is trained on previous played sessions, IIRC. It's pretty limited to generating any new outputs if players haven't previously fed it in (but I could be mistaken).
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by bduerst 4y ago
Right. Too many people are reading the offer literally. Musk wants to exit his Twitter position, and is using this offer to pump the price before he dumps stock, under the justification of "they rejected my painfully, obviously low of
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by bduerst 4y ago
Nah, the people who advocate that private platforms reserve the right to censor themselves tend to know what the 1st amendment means regarding government censorship.
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by bduerst 4y ago
Gab, Parler, Voat, et al are marketed as forums with lax moderation. The flavors of prejudice that they attract are the direct result of their function. Platforms that start to grow large without controls against hate and other bad actors
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by bduerst 4y ago
Yep, and throw in that humans are just bad at estimating statistics. Like the birthday paradox : If there are just 23 people in a room, then there's a 50% probability that two people share the same birthday.
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by bduerst 4y ago
Think of rETL as an on-demand data lake that doesn't actually store any data (for the most part). Yeah you can pull data and create snapshots to preserve views, but given the direction privacy and regulatory environments have been goin
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by bduerst 4y ago
>or you can spend a bit of time with ETL and rETL tools and develop a stack that isn't reliant on a bunch of third party silos This is the real future of 'unbundling'. I love reading this article because while it sets up t
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by bduerst 4y ago
Can a government be responsible for inflation? Yes. Is the government responsible for the inflation observed right now? That's a complex answer, of which current political adversaries of the executive branch leadership would love
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by bduerst 4y ago
Yep, oil is a textbook fungible resource and even if you only import <1%, any increases in global price are going to affect the remaining 99% of your costs. It will be interesting to see how energy companies respond to this though. Will
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by bduerst 4y ago
Which is why if you read the second part about my comment above, free markets are regulated. It's a no true scotsman to appeal to the purity of free market semantics when nobody else is using language limited to the literal definition
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by bduerst 4y ago
Markets are zero sum. Competition ensures that an inefficient business will lose out to efficient competitors. In most markets where efficiency is not achievable, then businesses are not entitled to exist. This is why things such as tax s
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by bduerst 4y ago
Businesses that cannot afford to retain talent and remain competitive deserve to not survive, in order to make room for more efficient organizations. This is a principle of the free market. Also as a principle, regulating said free markets
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by bduerst 4y ago
Yes, if HI becomes universal healthcare in the U.S., like most developed nations, then funding will be through a variety of means, inevitably involving income tax. That said, depending on the splits, it's much more probable that the co
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by bduerst 4y ago
Health insurance is a budgeted overhead variable cost assigned to employee expenses. It's true that should HI disappear, not all of the HI cost will be transferred to employee salaries, but it's definitely a non-zero amount.
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by bduerst 4y ago
One of the alternatives is to just close stores bc of excessive theft, like Walgreens and CVS are doing in the Bay Area. I'm not saying Target's implementation is justified, but surely there's a middle ground for scaling anti
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by bduerst 4y ago
We did the same thing back a few years ago, and were able to move about 95% of online shopping on Amazon Prime onto other platforms or local BnMs. There's still a few items that are really hard to find elsewhere though, but that was Am
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by bduerst 4y ago
I disagree. Unless Ebay has overhauled their reputation system recently, you will buy counterfeit/mislabeled goods from a merchant, and then either receive a bribe (as a partial return) to keep a five star rating or you have to open an
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by bduerst 4y ago
>small sellers are getting totally run over by design theft and aliexpress resellers Some friends and I were discussing this point recently: Etsy has become Ebay , sans the auction veneer. Truly frustrating that they can't implemen
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by bduerst 5y ago
>This feels like a no true scotsman. It's not though. Appealing to effeciency is not an appeal to purity, which is what a no-true scotsman is. A no true scotsman in this regard would be more along the lines of redefining advertisi
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by bduerst 5y ago
It also sounds like this person's startup is B2B, which has an entirely different set of advertising strategies than something consumer focused. Anything that involves clicks (display, search, social) are typically not the most effec
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by bduerst 5y ago
That's going to be conversational/NLP search. Curious to see how Andi plays out. The simplest explanation is the scene from from Wall-E with the captain of the ship discussing with the A.I. It will be fluently integrated in our ev

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