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by bosswipe 7y ago
How is that 42 year old ‘849 patent not expired?
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Is airbnb still a significant portion of YC's portfolio or did they cash out? If airbnb crash and burns would it impact YC negatively?
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by bosswipe 7y ago
TLDR; the Assange grand jury was dismissed today so Manning is ordered released but she still owes the coeercive fines which amount to $256,000.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
In response to a massive crisis is the perfect time to spend without worrying about debt. What doesn't make sense are the trillion dollar deficits over the last few years of a booming economy to pay for Trump's tax cuts.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Republicans are mostly just proposing their solution for everything, tax cuts. So it's the same debate we always have, tax cuts vs direct assistance.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
I know several people that would have not been able to reach adulthood 100 years ago but have now reproduced and have passed on their diseases to their offspring. There is no doubt that natural selection in humans is much weaker now then in
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Singer has been a Republican party mega-donor for a long time, and the non-Trump Republican party is pretty much dead at this point. Singer was anti-Trump during the election but has come around since then, he bent the knee here for example
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Paul Singer, the CEO of Elliot, is extremely partisan and is a top donor to the Republican Party. Seen in this light these moves have caused fear that they are an attack on Twitter to turn it into a right-wing propaganda channel. For exampl
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Bolivia's GDP has more than doubled in that time period.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
TBD is fine for web apps, but not for software that you have to maintain multiple versions in the wild at the same time or when the release cycle takes several weeks.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
> and reduce their ecological impact I wonder if this is true. Rural living is less efficient per capita then cities. The distributed electricity and water and transportation are less efficient and they have a physically larger impact on
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by bosswipe 7y ago
You claim that they're lying because their sweeteners behave like sugar inside the body. But they didn't claim that their products don't behave like sugar, they only claimed that they don't contain sugar, which is true.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
There's a difference between something you personally experience and a general trait of all humans.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
I see, I wouldn't call it lying then. "Not sugar" does not imply "does not behave like sugar".
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Can you explain what you mean?
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by bosswipe 7y ago
The grey area is if data gleaned from a photo is also under copyright. Clearview could analyze public photos and store facial data from them without storing the photos themselves.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Do you give up copyright when you upload photos to Facebook or LinkedIn?
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by bosswipe 7y ago
A bit off topic but Iran is mostly only under American and Israeli sanctions at this point after Trump unilaterally pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal. The rest of the world can trade with Iran though many companies are still unwilling due
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by bosswipe 7y ago
The evidence is pretty strong when you look at the data, https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/blog_...
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Everybody gains from the wealth created by something like a city park, whether they contribute or not. So there's a game theoretic problem that prevents reaching the wealth maxima without public collaboration. For example you might end
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by bosswipe 7y ago
You are expressing a common early-morning person condescending attitude towards night-owls.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Well yeah it's much better for the company, especially since that 401k match is a fraction of what they used to put into pensions. More then anything it shows the decreasing power of labor.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
iPhone 8 is your best bet.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
> other specialists can't fairly easily recognize as broken and exploit Is there any supporting evidence for this claim? If I took an AES library and changed the order of some inner loop wouldn't it require extensive statistica
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by bosswipe 7y ago
If you reply to someone's tweet then mostly the people who follow both accounts will see the reply, in addition Twitter's algorithms will opaquely decide whether to show the reply to your other followers. If you want to ensure tha
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by bosswipe 7y ago
$1 million/year without working is very rich. You could definitely have multiple houses and full time assistants. I have two houses and part-time assistants at an income of $300k. And most of my time is dedicated to work at someone els
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Verisign has a business contract with ICANN to operate as a registry for .com. The contract has a bunch of legalese clauses which can be interpreted in a bunch of ways. They all encourage treating names as property because it makes them alo
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by bosswipe 7y ago
He doesn't own shit. DNS is a centralized database entrusted to a non profit to serve the good of the internet.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Honest question, you don't see a danger to our system of checks and balances if the executive gets to block impeachment investigations?
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by bosswipe 7y ago
"willing to participate" in this case means responding to a lawful subpoena and testifying truthfully.

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