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by hooande 5y ago
people generally serve the majority of a federal sentence. serving 75% of sentenced time is much more common than 50%
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by hooande 5y ago
this old thread is so hn. lots of discussion about famous names on the board, mentions of threats to privacy and discussion of the website ui. medman77 did crush it with actual technical analysis, among others. now I want to go back and se
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by hooande 5y ago
Do you think it's easier for people to raise money in the blood testing space now after this very high profile fraud? I've heard people say that it makes things much more difficult. Also, Holmes's lies sucked up a ton of fund
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by hooande 5y ago
do you have a link to a source or more discussion on this?
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by hooande 5y ago
Many people are working very hard on solving these problems. Holmes simply claimed to have solved them all with one machine. They never had any idea of how to actually do that, never even tried. It wasn't like "If we use this new
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by hooande 5y ago
No. It's one thing to say "My company is going to change the world" or "I am the best president of all time". It's different to repeatedly make a claim that is verifiably untrue, like "I have perfected col
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by hooande 5y ago
Not sure how you're differentiating "seo spam content farm" from "website"
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by hooande 5y ago
What are some search categories that are so dominated by spam that they are unusable? I'll start: "how to rent a car" [0] [0] worth noting that I personally get somewhat reasonable results for this, with a 3rd result from ner
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by hooande 5y ago
Re-invest it in your business. Hire someone to help with SEO and SEM. Hire someone to write content like a blog. Find someone to manage your social media, moderate a discord and build community around your product. Spend (more) money on ads
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by hooande 5y ago
I'm surprised to see so many other commenters in this same situation. Thanks for posting this, and I hope things work out for the best
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by hooande 5y ago
if you can't see the transactions, aren't you trusting a 3rd party that can? further, none of this is "obvious"
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by hooande 5y ago
The remittances industry seems to have doubled since 2017. crypto has done nothing in ten years in terms of disruption https://www.statista.com/outlook/dmo/fintech/digital-payment...
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by hooande 5y ago
if it's opaque to analysis, what's the point in using a blockchain? why not just a central database?
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by hooande 5y ago
The concept of "collecting royalties" requires a legal infrastructure backed by a state's monopoly on force. Nothing about web3, as I understand it, will require someone to pay me in money that I can spend. People can still c
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by hooande 5y ago
Space X is a bad, fan boy example. my life is greatly improved by the internet, by ubiquitous electricity, satellite communications, etc. the current form of many of these things was driven by a type of capitalism that is inseparable from i
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by hooande 5y ago
Most money made by open source developers comes in the form of donations. Those have no obligation attached by definition. If a developer doesn't do what the community wants, the donations could stop coming. Or not. If they don't
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by hooande 5y ago
this name is too much. there's a difference between cute and vulgar. no star
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by hooande 5y ago
scanned your home page, have no idea what this is or how it can help me
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by hooande 5y ago
> Enough money to survive on ramen for a few months and build a demo. Get feedback from users and iterate over and over. This is indeed the original idea behind YCombinator. That was a very long time ago. Things have changed, both with t
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by hooande 5y ago
so NFTs are Candy Crush lollipops, but not attached to a particular game?
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by hooande 5y ago
Your assumptions about the term "bullshit jobs", as mentioned in the article, are completely wrong. You should read about Graeber's work, it's interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Job
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by hooande 5y ago
is the day to day usage of bitcoin currently increasing in proportion to coin price? it seems entirely possible that the price could get very high solely as a speculative investment. in which case, you would still need additional investment
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by hooande 5y ago
ooh, I can answer this one. It seems abundantly clear that the premise of the article is that many people don't believe that African civilizations in that time period could have built walls or drainage channels like this. It was little
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by hooande 5y ago
an MBA involves a lot of case studies. that's breaking down what happened with a given business over a period of time in some detail. at least back in my day, MBA programs had a lot of reading and writing them look up some examples of
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by hooande 5y ago
This list is a great starting point. I have enough judgement to discern between books that are worth my time and books that aren't. Personally, I'm going to scan these titles and look up things that I don't recognize on Amazo
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by hooande 5y ago
group think exists because the average person has the average opinions. the more people that are in a sample, the more that sample's thinking will skew toward the average. if you don't like group think, avoid popular websites like
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by hooande 5y ago
I agree with what you're saying. But I think there is a certain level of risk where the "average person" can experience negative effects. Society, by definition, is comprised of average people. Until something is likely affec
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by hooande 5y ago
I don't see this problem of trust evidencing itself anywhere in my daily life. I do not commonly consider that my bank will become corrupt and take my money, or that the county land manager will take my property because of nepotism. 90
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by hooande 5y ago
Such pedantry. The Treasury is still accountable for federally backed loans. And you still can't discharge them like you can other loans. Private loans were included in this later, for market purposes as I understand. The government do
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by hooande 5y ago
Currently only about 10% of student loans come from private institutions. I'm not sure if I want the government saying "You can't have a loan to study X because you won't make enough money". I'm not sure it&#x2

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