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by endofcapital 8y ago
This guy just said yesterday that Hezbollah is in Venezuela, so reality doesn't seem to matter much anymore. Who knows?
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by endofcapital 8y ago
So access to (large amounts of) capital becomes a highly politicized, US-centric proposition. Imagine if you could control the backbone of a global information network and access to capital in the 21st century. Better than aircraft carriers
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by endofcapital 8y ago
The whole reason I got into freelancing was to take 3-6 months off a year. Lighten up people, you're gonna be dead soon and absolutely nobody is going to care about how many times you committed to github.
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by endofcapital 8y ago
While I don't think there is anything wrong with this, the larger pattern of endlessly reacting to whatever content media decides to cover and banning it isn't exactly a good long term strategy.
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by endofcapital 8y ago
This is a thing? What?
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Facebook Turns 15(nytimes.com)
2 points by endofcapital 8y ago|0 comments
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by endofcapital 8y ago
I first developed a web page in 1997. First got paid to do it in 1998. Innovated a lot of the DHTML/AJAX/SPA techniques before anyone else knew that was even possible, way before that first AJAX article was written. Not sure how t
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by endofcapital 8y ago
I remember visiting Haiti in the 80s/90s and being blown away by how the entire tropical forest was just completely clear cut. The border line with Dominica is striking, it's dense forest then just... nothing.
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The Welfare Effects of Social Media [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
66 points by endofcapital 8y ago|30 comments
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by endofcapital 8y ago
I didn't think the web could get any more terrible than it is today, but if everyone starts adding ML to all the tracking/targeting/adware systems then that seems to be a new deeper level of hell.
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by endofcapital 8y ago
I've been looking for other analytics solutions that aren't creepy, your timing is great. Looks promising!
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by endofcapital 8y ago
Yes you're spot on, even if this morning every single employee working at Google is highly ethical and working towards bettering humanity, it's still not going to be true tomorrow. The phrase in the article that really popped out
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by endofcapital 8y ago
Sure, maybe, but one fact doesn't really relate to the other. The fact remains that they just spent $10B on share buybacks, and they are now laying off thousands and closing a few factories because they want to save $6B. Even if they w
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by endofcapital 8y ago
Not at all. Read the article, GM themselves said they needed to free up cash after all the recent share buybacks. "GM has said the job cuts and plant closings will free up $6 billion in cash, but the automaker has spent $10.6 billion s
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by endofcapital 8y ago
Our tooling has improved rapidly in the past few years, and we're now at a point where a handful of all powerful executives can aggregate vast swaths of human activity into a single number that they then get to sit there and start fidd
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Over 60, and Crushed by Student Loan Debt(wsj.com)
4 points by endofcapital 8y ago|0 comments
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by endofcapital 8y ago
The only social networking I do anymore is twitter. The list of the thousand people I follow is so intimate, I feel like just flipping through that would reveal everything about me and be a huge violation of privacy. But even on this platfo
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by endofcapital 8y ago
This case has been going on so long it's funny to think about how differently I used to perceive both Oracle and Google back when it started.
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by endofcapital 8y ago
I'm not sure which class at business school is teaching everyone that "If you can get away with it do it! Have zero shame!" because it's probably time to remove that one from the Harvard curriculum.
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Amazon's facial-analysis tool showed gender and race bias, says study(engadget.com)
6 points by endofcapital 8y ago|0 comments
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by endofcapital 8y ago
A few weeks back I got a weird fan biopic of Himmler created by some account with the SS logo in their picture recommended to me after watching a video on some obscure DNS features. I reported it but it's still there. Google is beyond
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by endofcapital 8y ago
Yeah, that exact scenario has happened to me twice. I like to glance at the rearview if I'm the last car in line to avoid some drunk ramming me, and it definitely saved my life once. Once I just saw someone coming in a little too hot a
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by endofcapital 8y ago
Sort of looks like two rocks mashed together, but without quite enough mass to really round out. I'm sure that's totally wrong but still neat to see.
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by endofcapital 8y ago
How about all three? Instead of everyone just picking their favorite platform for dubious reasons and blindly adhering to that corp maybe we should just bust them all up at once in one swoop, whether they are on your "team" or not
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by endofcapital 8y ago
Insta/Facebook is the most obvious split. Maybe break it out into regions or countries? They have way too much power, have to take some sort of steps.
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by endofcapital 8y ago
It seems, from the outside, that Google has quickly pivoted over the past 5? years from an innovative tech company to an entrenched, political operation trying to preserve status quos and revenue streams. Is that naive impression off base o
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by endofcapital 8y ago
I've been driving in intense blizzards and ice and steep bad roads of Colorado for 20 years now. Still never had an accident or even gone off the road. That's the standard. Anything less and I'm completely uninterested, becau
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by endofcapital 8y ago
The way this is written reminds me why I try to never interact with security people in any social or professional situation, ever. When is the insufferably arrogant techno mage trope going to die?