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by fchollet 13y ago
> 1) Lobbyists costs a lot of money. The amount Facebook spent on WhatsApp is equivalent to fifty times the lobbying revenues of the top 10 DC lobbying firms combined. Then again, the amount FB spent on WhatsApp is twice the cost of th
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As a non-american, can anybody explain to me how "lobbying", defined as "spending money to 'influence' public representatives in the favor of a private entity", differs from the old-school concept of "corr
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You forgot the biggest takeaway: 0) Don't work for Goldman Sachs. Dance with the sharks, and they'll bite your arm off eventually.
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In my experience, producing things you care about, and doing so in a way that allows you to express yourself, is what gives meaning and purpose to your life, and what allows you to define who you are. Often, it does not qualify as "wor
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by fchollet 13y ago
No, it is factually true. JC on Twitter: "I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. The cyberspace we want for VR will be at this scale." https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status&#x2
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The "scale" JC is referring to is not hardware production. It's the virtual reality. Millions of people interacting in real time in a virtual universe in which they are actually present . Think of it as similar to the scalin
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Important to note: - they still need 1000 labeled samples per identity - their network can only handle 4000 distinct identities (at 97.25% accuracy) at a time It's still a very worrying development for online and offline privacy.
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It matches your face to your name with 97.25% accuracy, assuming that they have at least 1000 labeled photos of you to start with.
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There are not that many people named Satoshi Nakamoto, a few hundreds, and we have the complete list. A number of journalists (most lately NYT's Hiroko Tabuchi) have looked into these people, and found no match (if you ignore Dorian, w
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The blogger who suggested this hypothesis a few months ago has a new post, with a stylometric analysis of the writings of some cryptocurrency people: http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/occams-razor-
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by fchollet 13y ago
Collectively agreeing on what is "true" is not an easy problem. The crowdsourced fact-checking of Wikipedia is probably what is the closest to what you are looking for.
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Nick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto, the Inventor of Bitcoin(blog.sethroberts.net)
29 points by fchollet 13y ago|38 comments
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We're talking about Newsweek here. Remember the "Heaven is real!" cover? ( https://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2012/10/heaven-real-doctors-expe... ) Remember "The Fall of France"? ( http:/
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We're talking about a man who doesn't have the Internet at his home (but uses public library computers), a home who writes this kind of email ( http://i.imgur.com/DB4oq5s.png ), a man with no previous experience wit
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The Collapse of High-Tech is Killing the Economy(marketwatch.com)
4 points by fchollet 13y ago|1 comments
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It is remarkable that there was no such denial when Nick Szabo was widely outed as a likely Satoshi in tech blogs and the press a few months ago: http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamo...
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Interestingly, it seems Satoshi just spoke out to state that he is not Dorian Nakamoto: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...
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Textbook case of repulsively inane "journalism". Newsweek senior writer Leah McGrath Goodman was assigned the task to write a juicy story by outing the Bitcoin inventor. Here's how she went about it, as a diligent professiona
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This is obviously not the Satoshi they were looking for. The Newsweek article reads like a ridiculous pageviews grab, sloppy with facts and extremely disrespectful for Dorian Nakamoto. The foundation of why the journo thought he was Satoshi
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Isn't the entire point of Barbie dolls to represent a ridiculously unrealistic ideal? In the same way that boys' action figures are impossibly muscular, and superheroes have super-strength/superpowers. When making a toy, the
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Sad story. Reading the headline, I thought (like probably many others) that it would be about Mark Karpeles, who is also 28. Hopefully it doesn't end that way for him.
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The second scenario (lost access to 2nd tier of cold storage) seems the most likely. It is also compatible with Mark's statement that the coins are "technically speaking [...] not 'lost' just yet, just temporarily unava
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So do you still have all your savings in BTC?
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OP makes some really smart points, but I can't shake the feeling that they're living in some kind of alternate reality fundamentally different from mine. Yes, if most people around you are very smart, or very wealthy, then intelli
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Disney to launch its own startup accelerator(variety.com)
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I attempted to short TWTR today before the earnings, as a big gap down was absolutely predictable. I couldn't: my broker didn't have any shares. It's a security that is very difficult to borrow, due to extremely high short in
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The author of the 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper was identified through textual analysis of his writing. JK Rowling was also identified as the author of a pseudonymously published novel using the same methods. One important step towards real anony
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It seems that Google has now gone full Singularist. They jumped the shark when they hired Kurzweil.
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400M USD would be 1k USD per monthly US visitor. [1] [1] https://www.quantcast.com/quora.com
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I always thought that the messaging asymmetry on dating sites was purely a reflection of the real-world asymmetry of dating, where females will almost never initiate a flirt sequence themselves. The universal expectation is that it is the r

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