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by billiam 7y ago
who cares? Why is this at all surprising or interesting?
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FaceApp selves have a message for you(nytimes.com)
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by billiam 7y ago
Based on what evidence? Or just your "feeling?"
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by billiam 8y ago
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...." And they are sending us their best too.
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by billiam 8y ago
I'd like to see a real discussion among the readership of this news site about the kind of companies people want to build. Do you want to create a great place to work and grow that builds value that scales smoothly, or a unicorn that m
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by billiam 8y ago
1. The Linux kernel is the most successful software project in history. 2. This is not the same as saying that it can continue to be so successful as it takes over the universe. 3. Most people including his detractors would say Linus&#x27
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by billiam 8y ago
Sorry, I too know many LDS members and really love the SLC area and all the other incredible things in the state. While I like lots of things about the LDS community, the society there has many of the problems of Western states with lots of
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by billiam 8y ago
Best part of all is that Web Extensions API is totally based on the Chrome extension API so it should be easy! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
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by billiam 8y ago
That this could be true makes me very sad.
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by billiam 9y ago
I really don’t get your point. Bikeshedding on what to call it makes it seem like the actions of the company, the Bond villains behind it, and Facebook are just fine. FB’s actions show that they knew CA was not just pushing the envelope of
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by billiam 9y ago
My first thought: maybe we will live longer because of less cancer from those charged particles? Our nuclear subs are helping us live longer! My second thought: those particles are essential for mutagenesis, which is a primary driver of evo
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by billiam 9y ago
Guess what rural areas don't have? Traffic. I love the way that Musk hacks the American economy, government subsidies, value system, marketing engine, and the capacity of the public to fall for bullshit, because that is how truly new t
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by billiam 9y ago
This estimate is a bit out of date, if you look at the swag in the original article from 2001. But it's on the order of what it would cost. Well worth it. We should prioritize this important work.
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by billiam 10y ago
True enough: everything went to hell when they started putting the original Homer's writing down on animal skins.
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by billiam 10y ago
When will the Bond villains that run the largest tech companies realize that they can't own the Internet? Zuckerberg, your algorithms turned half my relatives into crazy Trump supporters that don't talk to the other half, is that
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by billiam 10y ago
Russia and China absolutely kick our butts in all these education categories, yet each in its own way is halfway down the road to a being a benighted, ignorant post-modern totalitarian state. Making us better at reading graphs and interpret
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by billiam 10y ago
Nah, it is mostly traffic to manage the computing activity of large enterprises, not directly related to what we consider the Internet.
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by billiam 10y ago
Great footnoted history....I will reference this when younger developers ask me the "WTF messaging" question, which happens a couple of times a year. I suspect it will be useful for many years to come.
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by billiam 10y ago
And then should correlate that with handgun ownership!
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by billiam 10y ago
I am not saying it is right (it isn't) but this is what the FBI does: they try to intimidate bad people and innocent people alike, skirting the edge of the law or outright violating it.
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by billiam 10y ago
Here, this guy. Thiel isn't qualified. He knows nothing about running a real business, just investing in them. He knows nothing about economic policy. And clearly he knows nothing about governance.
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by billiam 10y ago
This is some kind of creepy Randian thinking. The idea that playing developer-type leverage games make you "free" is a laughable fiction. Trump always called himself the King of Debt, and he owes many people, bigly. The banks wer
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by billiam 10y ago
Uh, the fantasy world your dad described is not the real world. Cows are one thing, they are too big to lose except perhaps in India, but do you have any idea what environmental damage is being done by feral pigs that were "let free t
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by billiam 10y ago
Kinda looks like this guy, who appears to responsible for at least a decent portion of the examples in the WaPo story, is a run of the mill scammer who has already been caught: http://structuredsettlements.typepad.com/struct
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by billiam 10y ago
This. It's a CDN based on Google replacing the thicket of tracking companies.
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by billiam 10y ago
You people are hilarious. Hey, YC, I've got a great idea for a startup in the incredibly hot cert/encryption space. The team is world class and in place. The product is shipping and customers are doubling every 6 months. $8 millio
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by billiam 10y ago
Brian has been talking about how much he hates Java, its programming model, event loop, and everything else about it for many years, to anyone who will listen. Tastefully chosen for the augmented reality, self-organizing, and real-time use
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by billiam 10y ago
Sorry, I call BS on this. I know a good bit about the semi-secret history here. I worked at Motorola before and during the launch of the first iPhone and also knew some of the people on the original iPhone product team. While it is true tha
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by billiam 10y ago
As someone who attentively listened to the podcasts but became increasingly frustrated by their sensationalism, I was most interested in the story of the one person never interviewed, the victim. Is it really such a shock to most of you tha
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by billiam 10y ago
Second to last nail in the coffin. Yay. Sometimes the interests of hundreds of millions of people can in fact outweigh the interests of two corporations. With so many things about our society under attack, this is good news. attack,

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