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by disown 6y ago
Sure, interested in how the problem they're solving may get them a pot of gold. Founders aren't motivated by the problem no more than athletes are motivated by the love of the game. Children are motivated in that manner. But not a
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by disown 6y ago
> Society needs to move forward. Yes it does. We need to fight against the anti-democratic and anti-free speech people rotting this country from the inside. > We have career health officials getting credible death threats due to wild
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by disown 6y ago
It isn't just Trump who gets special treatment. A lot of crazy people with blue check marks who get special privileges. After all, isn't that the kind of internet you want? Where certain people you agree with have privileges over
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by disown 6y ago
> Text based browser. lol. lol? > I hope all the OS developers are taking note. OS might be just a browser plugin in the future instead of the other way round. Maybe the promise of "thin clients" might be realized. Anything
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by disown 6y ago
It's been my experience that criticizing the nyt is the easiest way to get downvoted and flagged. So brace yourself. The most privileged propaganda company in the world.
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by disown 6y ago
> The author theorizes that this ban will inflame tensions, but I don't believe that's true. Look at Reddit's ban on toxic subreddits. They found that banning toxic subreddits reduced the toxicity in the website as a whole
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by disown 6y ago
> Shouldn't the republican party be worried? If the trend continues and a lot of companies move from California to Texas bringing along a lot of liberal employees with them, won't that tip the already narrowing margin towards t
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by disown 6y ago
Most of our deaths are preventable as we mostly die of excess - obesity related issues, smoking, drugs, etc.
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by disown 6y ago
Lesson 1: Don't get your financial information from news or social media. From tesla to bitcoin to anything really, it's amazing how wrong the news and social media have been. Just not too long ago, the news and social media was s
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by disown 6y ago
> It's easy to come onto HN and dismiss something like this. It's easy because the EU and european countries have a history of virtue signaling. Like how they are so great at recycling by sending their garbage to china. https:
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by disown 6y ago
Isn't the language almost extinct and the community almost wiped out? I remember reading a while back that there are only a few hundred speakers and as more canadians move into the area, the inuit community and language were being enda
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by disown 6y ago
How interesting. The title of the report itself is "false news". It's not the "truth" or "falsity" of the news that affects the speed of the spread, but the novelty. "We found that false news was more
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by disown 6y ago
> Are they unaware of how big an expense this would be for all of their insurers? Yes but they think the likelihood of such events happening is nil. If it did occur and they had to pay-out for all the electronics of all their customers,
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by disown 6y ago
I don't get why facebook would even forcibly tie oculus to facebook accounts. All they had to do was "encourage" oculus owners to use facebook via various dark patterns, network effect or incentives. I bet they could have got
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by disown 6y ago
If you are one of the lucky few to have made retirement money, then just retire and begin the rest of your life. If not, you gotta pay the bills somehow, so welcome to the rat race. Hope you enjoy your stay.
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by disown 6y ago
> The fact that SpaceX's President and COO is a woman seems to get surprisingly little publicity How much publicity do COOs of other companies get? Hardly none. Shotwell is all over media. She has given tons of interviews that are o
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by disown 6y ago
> Chinese regulations are designed to ensure that the domestic Chinese market is dominated by Chinese-owned companies. All regulations around the world are designed that way. All markets are national security issues and all major powers
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by disown 6y ago
and some fava beans.
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by disown 6y ago
It's not the GOP or DNC issue. Here is hillary clinton saying that biden should not concede if he lost. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwc0cJ409VQ Neither side was going to concede this election. If Trump had won, Bid
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by disown 6y ago
> shows that Youtube might be doing a good thing in this case. All youtube did was fan the flames of political division. Imagine after 2016, youtube decided to ban everyone accusing Trump of cheating. Do you think that would make the dem
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by disown 6y ago
> If Facebook, Google, Twitter, et al are not allowed to operate in China Isn't that because they refuse to ( or are not allowed to ) follow the rules/laws in china? > I see no reason why we should allow chinese social medi
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by disown 6y ago
Also, it's great/free advertising. The more stories of cyber threats out there, the better for your bottom line. Not saying that the cyber threat isn't real, it is real. Just saying the free publicity is great for these cyber
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by disown 6y ago
> The WEF is next May. If any "elite" has not received a vaccination by then, then they were not an elite. Any billionaire, cabinet minister or Fortune 100 CEO has enough clout to be near the front of the queue. Then why bother
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by disown 6y ago
Don't forget "And most men." Not only is it overtly racist, it's blatantly sexist too. It's amazing how that comment is not flagged and banned as hate speech or flamebait. But this is HN.
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by disown 6y ago
Not quite as TS Eliot was heavily influenced by Dante which shows in his poems/writings. Eliot considered Dante to be the greatest writer. So if there was any comparison Eliot would have been comfortable with, it would have been to Dan
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Uber seems to be selling bits and pieces of itself every year. Perhaps it is wise to raise cash and focus on its core business.
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It depends on who does the remembering.
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> Doesn't it make more sense for IP to cease with the author/artist's passing? No because it would be unfair to artists who die young. There should be a time frame. 20 years. One generation is long enough to make money off
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by disown 6y ago
I remember one of my math professors ranting about lotteries being an "idiot tax" and that you should never play them. Seems like he should have tried gaming the lottery instead of ranting against it.
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> Having the same conversation now rather than right in the heat of things is fine. Why? I don't think people should arbitrarily decide when other people should have the conversation. What if some people think it's never the ri

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