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by forthefuture 9y ago
I'd only add that it's another way to manufacture hope for people who have been left behind by how unbelievable most religions are. I've been trying for years (and will continue trying) to switch my parents hope for an afterl
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by forthefuture 9y ago
I never really got into it. To me it's the same as alcohol, I'm happy not to have a taste for them.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
> Europe’s leading digital banking app. Instant spending alerts, free money transfers and global fee-free spendi... It's the first line of text after the header.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
People are retroactively upset that they didn't do this during our election.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
I'd definitely prefer this to ads in a world where phone software and hardware improved energy capacity and efficiency at a faster rate than applications bloat. I don't think we've reached that point yet. An iPhone doesn&#x27
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by forthefuture 9y ago
> If there had been no computers, the service representative would have successfully completed the transaction since there would have been no discrepancy. If you replace a computer with a piece of paper with a different name on the accou
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by forthefuture 9y ago
You are misunderstanding. The computer only helps everyone it works for. It doesn't hurt the people it doesn't work for. The worst case is that you get handled by people because the computer didn't work, which is the same as
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by forthefuture 9y ago
This was one of the weirdest things about driving across the country from the East to West coast. At some point I passed a sign that just said "Z".
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by forthefuture 9y ago
Are those numbers ball parked or just for example? The average car loan has a 4% interest rate[1], and the average bank gives a paltry 0.06% interest rate[2]. I agree that if you can make a higher return investment than the rate on your deb
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by forthefuture 9y ago
The best case scenario for Bitcoin is reaching a consistent price for the rest of its lifetime. That scenario means there's no reason to "invest" in it because ideally it would never change in value. Only people trying to cas
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by forthefuture 9y ago
And a great thing about Japanese is they have smiley faces built in ツ。
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by forthefuture 9y ago
Can someone explain to a layman how a company losing $600M every 3 months, with $6B remaining of $12B raised (50% loss over 8 years) is "worth" $62B?
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by forthefuture 9y ago
If the EFF really wants to support free speech they could host the Daily Stormer and see what happens to their donations. It seems duplicitous to force someone else to bear the cost of facilitating toxicity.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
Flagged just means an overwhelming number of people don't want to keep seeing stories like this. It's only attached to the individual thread, not to your account, so no worries.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
...and every one of the dozen missile defense systems between NK and here fails.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
The point is not that 150 lines is better than 100, it's that two people with the same job do not have the same productivity. Measure productivity by whatever metric you want, it's impossible for two people to do the exact same (a
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by forthefuture 9y ago
The article says that the reason for lower fertility rates are people waiting to have kids later. Lower individual fertility from age only happens as you trend toward 40, so there's nothing teenagers and 20 year olds should be planning
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by forthefuture 9y ago
It costs money to host video. The volume of advertising you sell supports your costs, with a fraction going to the content creators. Using information you gather increases how much advertising you can sell. The more advertising you sell the
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by forthefuture 9y ago
Please forgive me for being crass, but it's so stressful to have to watch a 45 minute video just to not have someone lie to me about it tomorrow.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
The problem is that there's a ton of value created by the information the services collect. Delivering more value to advertisers allows more video creators to make their livings. If you started your own site there's absolutely no
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by forthefuture 9y ago
I use hckrnews myself and don't see this happening. Would you mind identifying which threads you think have been incorrectly flagged?
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by forthefuture 9y ago
That topic flag is called reddit.com/r/politics. We are already choosing to come here instead of there.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
The flagging isn't a rogue algorithm. It's the majority of the sites users saying they don't want to keep seeing the same two toxic viewpoints throwing shit at each other.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
From what I understand of the last 15 years, IPOs are now for cashing out when you've manufactured a solid enough filing to convince normal people that you're worth what the 10 VCs who gave you money say you're worth. No comp
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by forthefuture 9y ago
This sentiment is how normal people feel about all cryptocurrency.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
> If I bothered asking you whether X would be accepted onto your platform, and you said yes, I would find it pretty amateuristic to then come back (once an integration has been made) and ask "why exactly should we let you onto our p
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by forthefuture 9y ago
Capitalism is like a competition that when you win you don't ever get to play again.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
If you read the last image in the article, Twitter's security team already responded (within 2 days) that because this wasn't reproducible, there was nothing they could do to attempt to fix it.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
Hard to imagine paying $2 million for a plane and shitting in a bucket behind a curtain.
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by forthefuture 9y ago
How confident are you that you know everything that everyone at Uber is working on? It is understandable for this to happen if there's any kind of machine learning deciding prices, it doesn't have to be designed discrimination to

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