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by flunhat 9y ago
What a terribly un-nuanced and simplistic view of freedom of speech. I do not support the government punishing anyone for the views they espouse. I do, however, support the right of private companies to regulate their private platforms, as
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by flunhat 9y ago
> You have no way of knowing whether _they_ really espouse the ethnic cleansing of you and yours If they're Nazis, make Hitler salutes, and fly flags with swastikas on them, of course I do! That's practically the point of ideo
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by flunhat 9y ago
Photos of James Alex Fields before he drove his car through the crowd have him among the Vanguard America group, which (according to Wikipedia) is an American white nationalist group. His high school friends and teacher also say that he had
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by flunhat 9y ago
This isn't that hard - Airbnb has the right to ban Nazis from its platform. It has the right to ban anyone it wants to from its platform, with the exception of protected classes laid out in law, because it is a private company. I reall
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by flunhat 9y ago
Nazis, as a matter of written ideology, espouse ethnic cleansing. African Americans do not. I cannot believe I am having this debate, and on HN of all places. Has the world gone insane?
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by flunhat 9y ago
Oh, come off it. You're creating a strawman - there's plenty of room for political debate around specific issues. And I don't think people who didn't vote for HRC are Nazis are anything like that. You know what I think?
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by flunhat 9y ago
What about "I am free not to rent my property to those who want me killed and my kind ethnically cleansed"?
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by flunhat 9y ago
Repeat after me: private companies can regulate their platforms as they see fit, as long as they do not discriminate using the following criteria (which are enshrined in law): Race Color Religion National origin Age Sex Pregnancy Citizenshi
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by flunhat 9y ago
The Turing test is hardly a new measure - it's been around for ~70 years and hasn't been passed yet. But otherwise I agree with what you said - this is just my personal measure of when we'll be in society-shaking territory.
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I will consider an A.I. truly intelligent when it passes the Turing test with flying colors. And as a native English speaker, too (not just barely passing by posing as a 13 year old Ukrainian boy with a poor grasp of English, which is wha
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by flunhat 9y ago
I think I found the video: https://youtu.be/550X5OZVk7Y?t=58m30s
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by flunhat 9y ago
Cryptocurrencies may be decentralized, but their key people are not. Take ICOs, for example. If ICOs continue on their current path - selling tokens to U.S. citizens that pass the Howey Test [1] - the feds will crack down on the largest and
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by flunhat 9y ago
Take this with a grain of salt, but I heard that some new hires at Snapchat were getting $400k+ in equity, so that might be one of the reasons why it's so high.
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by flunhat 9y ago
Can you, in one sentence, explain what Tezos is? Something of the form: Uber - Order a taxi with your phone Facebook - Connect with your friends online Google - Find stuff on the internet Wikipedia - An encyclopedia that anyone can edit Ama
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by flunhat 9y ago
I've found this video from 2011 to be kind of interesting in terms of illuminating how his history as an entrepreneur has shaped his attitude running Uber today (TL;DR - he failed and got screwed over a lot). https://www.you
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Companies Rush to Develop ‘Utterly Transformative’ Gene Therapies(nytimes.com)
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by flunhat 9y ago
As I understand it, they're a new way of raising money (as Fred Wilson put it, "disrupting Silicon Valley"). Normally, you sell of portions of your company to investors in exchange for funding. You get money to run your busin
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by flunhat 9y ago
Sure, but in theory I can change passwords and maintain separate credentials for my banking-related needs. Short of auditing the Solidity contract code myself, there's nothing I can do to protect myself from the hacks themselves becaus
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by flunhat 9y ago
Agreed, and the massive hacks and losses will continue as long as smart contracts are written in Solidity.
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Difference being that a poorly written web app amounts to some leaked passwords and email addresses. A poorly written smart contract that handles real money, on the other hand...
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If expressions in OCaml (and why they're awesome)(amargo.io)
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by flunhat 9y ago
IMO the best part about OCaml is that it's just so fun to write code in. The type system is a million times more expressive and elegant than anything the world of Java/C# offers and more rigorous to boot. And unlike Haskell, you
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by flunhat 9y ago
If I'm reading the article correctly, it says that the phthalates in mac and cheese are in the cheese mix, not the plastic packaging.
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by flunhat 9y ago
I don't follow what you're saying?
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by flunhat 9y ago
Every time I read an article like this, I'm reminded of Michael Pollan's writings on food. His advice, even though I read it years and years ago, has stood the test of time for me: > Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. http
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by flunhat 9y ago
> Their market share will certainly be reduced for ground transportation And that alone will be enough. You're right that gas/diesel will never be completely replaced, but it seems that it doesn't need to be in order to
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Instagram is one, I'm sure there's others [1]. [1] https://engineering.instagram.com/web-service-efficiency-at-...
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They've come a long way from their Show HN 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 From a demo hacked together over a few months (written in Python, IIRC) and posted on HN to an IPO. Pretty cool, honest
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by flunhat 9y ago
I really like your front-end design - it looks crisp and fun at the same time. Did you outsource that or did you do the design yourself? Every time I try designing a front end for one of my web apps, it just looks like a generic Bootstrap p
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by flunhat 9y ago
> While there is a market for those txns the reality is that most adopters, and they recognize themselves as early ones, today, buy bitcoin as an inflation hedge. That's my point - bitcoin is most useful for those who wish to engage

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