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by ckastner 8y ago
I have no practical experience with sensors but for those gained from a few university courses. In one course, we were re-assembling systems on a weekly basis, and the touch-screens we used would all return somewhat quirky offsets, so I had
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by ckastner 8y ago
According to the HN comment search below, nobody has ever accused Mayer of that either, so what is the point of your comment?
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by ckastner 8y ago
> I'm always irked by hns attitude towards women leaders. There so many comments trying to discredit her or trying to shame her for self promotion. HN demonstrably shows the same attitude towards male leaders as well. Elon Musk is
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by ckastner 8y ago
Even in this august forum, you will find that there are people who downvote data that they might find unpleasant. It happens far less frequently than in other places of the web, but I've seen it happen often enough with some of my comm
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by ckastner 8y ago
I hated Google Groups, the interface seemed so overengineered compared to the simplicity of Usenet. I believe you couldn't even view the (plaintext) posts with Javascript disabled. I have a suspicion that Stack Overflow's success
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by ckastner 8y ago
This was nonsense. thanks for correcting me.
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by ckastner 8y ago
> We didn't bank on the ability of idiots to connect too... The downside of this connecting is not "just" idiots, it's the creation of echo chambers in general. Pre-Facebook social circles only had the capability to
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Nothing in the MIT license says that you can [...] restrict licensing terms The MIT license explicitly grants the right to sublicense.
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by ckastner 8y ago
> get a digital card that they can use anywhere Apple Pay Apply Pay users: how broad is Apply Pay adoption? Is this a viable replacement for a VISA, Mastercard or AMEX? I'm intrigued by the privacy angle to this, seeing as VISA and
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by ckastner 8y ago
> This, and many other concepts based on "vetting" news assumes that the audience cares. Exactly. It's not as if there haven't been any high-quality news sources around; quite the contrary. But quality has steadily
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Convergent Evolution(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by ckastner 8y ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 8y ago
> For Germany it's around 14-15% Are you sure you don't mean total social security (of which health care is a subset) with that number. Because that's how it is here in Austria. The deduction for social security is signi
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by ckastner 8y ago
Because that's a direct consequence of the system their elected representatives have burdened them with? Edit: To be completely fair, that probably explains why they have to pay it, not why they should .
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by ckastner 8y ago
> I don't think Mark ever expected to handle that kind of money. It just sort of happened. That is probably true, and I wouldn't expect anyone to stand in the way of something that they had created and that developed such a m
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by ckastner 8y ago
> but I don’t believe imprisonment would serve any meaningful purpose Sure it would! It would serve as a deterrent. Some people shouldn't be handling hundreds of millions of USD. Karpeles' operation wasn't just unprofess
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by ckastner 8y ago
> In exactly what universe is 100-200B in Market Cap not the point? In a universe where you forfeit compensation because of misconduct. As a more extreme example: say it is agreed that a trader gets to keep 10% of the profits they make f
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by ckastner 8y ago
I think you misunderstood my point, which was that we're clearly seeing a massive global trend towards privacy and rights thereto. The GDPR is a manifestation of this trend, and has further sensitized consumers. Cambridge Analytics hap
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by ckastner 8y ago
> “California’s consumers should also be able to share in the wealth that is created from their data,” Newsom said from the State Capitol in Sacramento. This is such an odd sentence to read, post-GDPR, because it sounds as if consumers
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by ckastner 8y ago
My first upload will soon be 10 years ago. One thing that is definitely noticeable is that while creating a package is still by no means trivial, it has definitely become much, much easier. 10 years ago, you had a handful of very idiosyncra
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AMD: 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper in 2019(anandtech.com)
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> Our statistics that it didn't happen yet is not a proof that an "accident" (oh, sorry, it was an error!) can't very easily happen any moment now. Observing a pond exclusively frequented by white swans in the past
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by ckastner 8y ago
The history-repeating argument, when applied to astronomy: "so far, the Earth has revolved around the Sun". Just to show that the history-repeating argument can be made ad absurdum both ways. We have ample empirical evidence tha
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by ckastner 8y ago
> We’re always 10 years from total annihilation and destruction. You can worry your whole life (tons of people do) or go on with your life. The earth has dealt with far far far worse outcomes in the past and there’s no evidence that it’
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by ckastner 8y ago
...and after landing on that page, you have to click through to the privacy Dashboard, where you can supposedly opt-out of individual partners. I say "supposedly", because the first partner I clicked on led me to the "I'
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by ckastner 8y ago
The counterfeit and review manipulation issues have rendered Amazon unpleasant enough for me that buying local is something I've started to enjoy again. I trust the merchant to have performed some kind of vetting for merchandise sold o
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by ckastner 8y ago
Because to most people, stability of said property is just as important as possession of it.
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by ckastner 8y ago
> I would gladly trade all my gains for a world where governments have no control over the creation and regulation of money. In that world, there would also be nothing to stop anyone else from just taking your money by force and without
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by ckastner 8y ago
> This is a long way of asking: do you want cryptocurrency to succeed if you knew that you could not profit from it doing so? That is a brilliant question! Instead of all the endless bickering between crypto-fans and -haters reaching f
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by ckastner 8y ago
I see some of the merits of Twitter, but in general, I believe Twitter's net effect is a dramatic deevolution of conversation. We now have popular third-party services, such as Thread Reader App, just to make content readable again pos
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Jack: I also don’t feel good about how Twitter tends to incentivize outrage, fast takes, short term thinking, echo chambers, and fragmented conversation and consideration. Are they fixable? I believe we can do a lot to address. And li

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