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by bllguo 9y ago
what? What use is a "counter-example"? This is simply a bizarre response. The claim is that GDP is only an approximate measure. Why? It fails in certain cases. A humorous example of such a case is provided. I don't see how yo
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by bllguo 9y ago
Yeah I want to throw expletives at him. Luckily just a city councilman. The guy doesn't even acknowledge there's a housing problem in his statements.
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by bllguo 9y ago
I see much less differentiating spotify from its competitors, than in the case of amazon/anyone else or apple/android. Objectively better.. maybe? Don't really see it, personally. But say that's true - what's stoppi
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by bllguo 9y ago
at least Lego is a reasonably healthy toy, right?
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by bllguo 9y ago
perhaps in a different game! Unfortunately, currently popular competitive video games all demand fast reactions and hand dexterity, and the strategy typically comes second to mechanics. For example in counterstrike you still need to be able
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by bllguo 9y ago
I haven't seen such an ugly website in a while. I'd give that much more weight than physical appearance
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by bllguo 9y ago
the key assumption would be that you were just going to use that electricity to mine BTC anyway, rendering the conversion issue moot said assumption also renders the article's point moot..
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by bllguo 9y ago
I like drastic, because what else is going to spur the powers that be to revamp how we approach identification? Something dramatic like this is almost necessary at this point. Equifax was huge and yet what reforms have we seen? Is anything
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by bllguo 9y ago
Wow, very interesting. Thanks for the comment. Maybe correcting the perception of people like me is the real challenge!
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by bllguo 9y ago
Wouldn't diversity be an issue in a place like Ohio? My perception of the Midwest is that it's much more homogeneous and less inviting of minorities than California. Consequently it might be hard to attract diverse talent to reloc
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by bllguo 9y ago
Well that assumes someone reads it. Unfortunately that seems pretty unlikely. I used to personalize stuff like that but I got worse results than when I just used a cookie-cutter template and mass fired. Anecdotal of course
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by bllguo 9y ago
There have been security issues with LastPass. When Firefox switched to webextensions and broke lastpass, I switched to bitwarden, on the recommendation of other HN users
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by bllguo 9y ago
I'm drawing a blank. When is it good nowadays?
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by bllguo 9y ago
In the US it's $20, with discounts to $10 (look for the upcoming Steam sale). I am not qualified to speak on legality but a cursory search suggests that the catan ports are technically not safe... still, there are many versions in the
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by bllguo 9y ago
I'd identify with this in the past, but now I'm coming to dislike this mindset. How do you effect change without extreme, dramatic examples or tone? It's all well and good to promote moderation and cooperation until you actua
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by bllguo 9y ago
Why did they solicit public feedback then? And why did they misrepresent public feedback and refuse to acknowledge that most people want net neutrality? Obviously they aren't beholden to what the public wants, but the latter is clearly
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by bllguo 9y ago
For sure, usually the algorithms aren't the interesting part, but rather how you frame the problem and most importantly what data you have. I wish I could say I was passionate about feature engineering. I enjoy where deep learning is h
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by bllguo 9y ago
Likely because it appeared here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15917430
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by bllguo 9y ago
Sure, I will concede that. Africa as a whole is not ahead. But there is financial innovation there to a degree that surprises a lot of people in the West - just meant to spread awareness of this
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by bllguo 9y ago
Hah, that was the most striking value in the entire list to me as well That's a good point, I got over being overwhelmed real quick once I started picking values. At that point I was more impressed at how many there were. I'm defi
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by bllguo 9y ago
I'm actually really surprised by this gushing review - I use the same stand at work, but I don't think too much of it. Could I ask you to elaborate? Just curious.
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by bllguo 9y ago
Very cool - I always have problems with asking interviewers questions in general. This is a unique and valuable niche imo. I'll definitely try to use this in a future interview. Enjoyed the fake questions as well - hope the newsletters
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by bllguo 9y ago
of course the average HN user won't relate to that. But anecdotally my mom gets by fine (somehow) with an old ipad. She can pay bills, check email, watch videos, browse sites - that's enough. So I can believe Phil here.
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by bllguo 9y ago
I've seen a lot of people on HN take a middle ground - that blockchain and crypto have real use cases, but that crypto is currently way overhyped. I think the key is that people can have a negative outlook on the financial characterist
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by bllguo 9y ago
More layers allowed us to explore exponentially more network architectures. And if you look at a lot of advances in deep learning, particularly in convnets, the architecture is actually key - as important or more than the weights themselves
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by bllguo 9y ago
Africa is actually more sophisticated than the US in many ways regarding fintech Anyway, this is a straw man. Who is saying cryptos are useless? People are saying that they are a bubble, that the valuations are irrational.
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by bllguo 9y ago
https://outline.com/kngJrL if you want to read the entire article
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by bllguo 9y ago
No, like GP said, all it takes is for some people to sell large amounts of BTC, and for other people to notice and panic. That's it. IMO you're really overthinking things. I suppose you're trying to guess why those first sell
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by bllguo 9y ago
I read a similar sentiment here: https://medium.com/@jamesjunghanns/my-0-00000173120-btc-a-pr... "I thought of how Henry Ford called his broker and instructed him to 'sell everything' when his doorman or
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by bllguo 9y ago
Yeah, this is incredibly misleading.

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