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by borgia 12y ago
I read this piece when @Nero posted it on Twitter recently. I generally find his content and that of Allum Bokhari to be pretty on point with regards to the current narrative being slung at the IT industry. The rest of Breitbart is disappoi
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by borgia 12y ago
I agree with the basic sentiment expressed here. I don't currently have a TV subscription but am looking into getting one to watch the local news, HBO and some basketball and hockey. The current streaming services don't seem to be
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by borgia 12y ago
>This was an engineering leadership class at MIT. The advise specifically was first an anecdote about working in Japan and going out to get piss-drunk on sale after work and then a generalization of that to drinking as a means to network
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by borgia 12y ago
> Conversely, what would happen if someone took pictures of cars going in / out of NSA/CIA/FBI facilities on a regular basis and posted them online? I would imagine that person's life would be made very difficult. Eve
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by borgia 12y ago
>Independent activists who want to use the suffix and pledge to blog can pay as little as $10 a year. >But if a person wants to preemptively block their name, that will cost $200 a year. So you can buy a domain name on which to be cri
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by borgia 12y ago
First time I've seen this. Really enjoyed some of the sample applications of it also, so thanks lisper.
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by borgia 12y ago
Can you expand on that? What was the class? Was this advice issued or was it something you came to realise yourself? Pure curiosity.
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by borgia 12y ago
There seems to be some demand here to warp HN into some bastardized version of Reddit? The vast majority of submissions that hit the front page cannot be explicitly linked to one company, or a product, which would indicate that the vast maj
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by borgia 12y ago
>The National Front will be part of the government in France. Is that what we should strive for? Yes. People should be free to elect whoever they want to represent them. I'm not a National Front supporter, but they clearly have supp
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by borgia 12y ago
>The U.S. is getting scarier by the day, folks. It really is. The facade of democracy is very quickly being peeled back to reveal something utterly terrifying. The response from the people has been the most disappointing and depressing t
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by borgia 12y ago
It looks like they put it up around 6am and it was covered over around noon. I hope, for the sake of the work that went into the piece, that it isn't destroyed.
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by borgia 12y ago
It has already been covered over with tarp and the letting removed[1]. It's a wonderful piece of work with excellent sentiment behind it. Unfortunately it doesn't suit the government and mainstream media narrative, so I'm sur
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by borgia 12y ago
>That was hard to watch. I agree. I had to turn it off and come back to it. The level of ignorance from that random public sampling was utterly terrifying. I cannot imagine what kind of bubble those people are living in that they have se
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by borgia 12y ago
I'll be approaching 60 in 30 years. At that point I would like to be out of the tech industry at least 20 years. I love technology, I love creating things and working with others to create cool things, but I'm sick of everything s
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by borgia 12y ago
I'll pay for good content - and I do with WSJ, Nat Geo and more - but I'm sure as hell not going to disable my adblocker any time soon. I'm sick of marketing and marketers. They bombard us 24/7 on every medium they can.
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by borgia 12y ago
With regards to understanding, we have a reasonable understanding of why cancer cells do what they do. Why diseases spread. Why HIV is so hard to deal with, etc. but we still don't accept what these things do, and we seek to eradicate
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by borgia 12y ago
>(and we will have a hard time arguing why it does not deserve) We won't be capable of arguing with it by its very nature. It will be superintelligent. It could forecast our arguments before they've even entered our heads and h
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by borgia 12y ago
>stop the leading reason to create it: the profit-led economy. Well, that's merely one reason. Military superiority would be another. Advanced surveillance would be another. There's probably more but those are two glaring ones
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by borgia 12y ago
I'm enthralled by the philosophical aspects of AI/AGI development at the moment. Particularly interesting is the reaction from laypeople, such as those on Reddit, to technology leaders expressing their worry over the future of AI.
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by borgia 12y ago
I fell into a habit of wasting significant amounts of time reading HN and Reddit. I found that I drastically cut back when I installed Mind The Time for Firefox[1]. Seeing the sheer amount of time I was spending on various sites brought abo
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by borgia 12y ago
Study after study, dataset after dataset, have shown marijuana to be a less dangerous drug than alcohol. It is also a less socially destructive drug. We've also seen that better access to drugs leads to a lowering in overall drug use.
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by borgia 12y ago
>At what point going forward of no growth would you admit it has peaked? I don't think you're going to get such an admission from the average, invested, Bitcoin enthusiast any time soon. You're entirely correct in your pos
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by borgia 12y ago
Very nice mmastrac, well done.
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by borgia 12y ago
Yeah, it looks as though Tesla did their part to alert traders / algorithms that this was something to be ignored. If they've handrolled site scrapers to pull in their news then they've only themselves to blame.
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by borgia 12y ago
To those saying don't learn angular, which frameworks would you suggest instead?
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by borgia 12y ago
>Do you think the people who think that creative works should be free are in the majority or are they just the loudest? I think they're in the majority. They may not shout about it, but I think in terms of music consumption in this
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by borgia 12y ago
I'm not defending Tidal, I personally think it's a cringe-worthy joke at best and I hope the worst for it. It's the attitude that was on display regarding it though and it's the same attitude seen previously when Spotify
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by borgia 12y ago
Fair play to them for providing the service and here's hoping it leads to further exposure of corruption and wrongdoing. The next step, however, is getting people to actually act on the information that comes out which is appearing to
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by borgia 12y ago
Very reasonable all in all, and it's pretty clear that he's damn tired of people's antics with regards to using his work without license and then going on the defensive about it when caught. Some people's sense of entitl
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by borgia 12y ago
That article had many words but didn't really say much on the topic, nevermind the questions it posed. Why do things go viral? I don't know, it appears to be somewhat random or luck based though. Why one cat's face can become

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