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by hooande 13y ago
We have significantly more privacy in the modern era than people did hundreds of years ago. Most of us live in cities large enough that no one will know that you've been to the doctor, what you bought from the butcher or who you spend
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by hooande 13y ago
This is a false equivalency. There would still be entrepreneurs if our top tax rate was twice as a high as it is now, or more. Everyone wants to get rich, and everyone believes that they need eleventy billion dollars in order to be happy. B
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by hooande 13y ago
Focusing on the richest can be more gratifying than focusing on the poorest. Everyone likes to hear stories about people with lots of money. It's aspirational in the "some day, that will be me" or "can you imagine?"
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by hooande 13y ago
A solution for the "too many tabs open" problem. Need a way to save my history in an organized and interactive manner, with a nice looking UI. Sort of like the old WebMynd ( http://webmynd.com ). I find that most of my t
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by hooande 13y ago
Great, simple concept. It might help a little if the tweet counts were normalized to control for the relative frequency of the terms. ie, people use the word "love" more often than "hopeless" in general. [1] I'm not
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I think this could be rephrased as "Charitable organizations aren't interesting enough to deserve my money." People, especially highly successful people, view charity as giving money away. Musk's inspirational projects s
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by hooande 13y ago
There's a new sheriff in town. Previously YC treated some of these things, especially "AI" (whatever that means) as third rails. They've funded an extremely broad range of companies, but if you go back and check their pa
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by hooande 13y ago
This is mind expanding. It makes me think of a system of ownership based on usage and care. Free bike, but if you don't use it or maintain it then it gets transferred to the next person. Only make toast one day a week? Then you get the
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by hooande 13y ago
Many people see Artificial General Intelligence as a panacea. The idea is, "We'll create artificially intelligent scientists who will solve all of our other problems for us!". I think that future generations will look back on
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by hooande 13y ago
These findings illustrate the difference between surveillance and a surveillance state . The GCHG and by relation the NSA had plenty of information about who visited or donated to Wikileaks, but did not act on any of that information [1]
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The problem is that religion is a package deal. Members of religious communities see and do a lot of good through the church. They raise money for charity, form close knit social groups and generally spend more time thinking about the good
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by hooande 13y ago
This is an amazingly low tech revolution. The primary weapons of the protestors are: smoke, flammable liquid, rocks, shields and giant slingshots. These tools could have been used in the Peloponeasian War as easily as in 2014. It really say
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by hooande 13y ago
I hope this becomes a bigger story than the original. I can't tell you how many times someone has thrown a junk science article in my face, thinking that the issue in question was now settled. A survey with a small sample size, outsize
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by hooande 13y ago
The NSA has committed no crimes. As an organization, they've acted within the bounds of the law and done exactly what they were supposed to do. This watchdog report is saying that the law is not in the interest of the people and it sho
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by hooande 13y ago
Andressen is making bitcoin out to be a decentralized paypal, when it was more intended to be a form of currency. It makes more sense as a long term investment or speculative bet than it does a way to transfer money from point A to point B.
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by hooande 13y ago
Automation bashing had become so boring. ”Us vs them” its a go to media cliche. Machines, automated or otherwise, are made to help us. We want every thing to be automated. The purpose of business and technology is to improve lives, not to e
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by hooande 13y ago
Following the logic of this post, you can't redistribute wealth , only money. ” The People” don't want to own companies, they want enough money to feed their families. The problem isn't that Bill Gates has a lot of money, it
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by hooande 13y ago
Watson could be described as a natural language search engine. This is no small thing. It's linguistic abilities were showcased on jeopardy, though it's wins might have had more to do with speed of processing and "buzzing in&
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by hooande 13y ago
It is a world where we purposefully place people in permanent poverty. Give them enough to survive but not climb out of their situation. This idea was addressed by some of the points raised in the article. Many of the homeless people ment
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by hooande 13y ago
What strikes me is how little was gained by both sides in this, and how futile their actions seem in hindsight. History probably would have ended up in a similar way if Hoover had not devoted so many resources to spying on Viet Nam protesto
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by hooande 13y ago
This article could be summarized as: "Things were better for working people when this country had strong unions." A response could be summarized as: "Times, they are a' changin'" * There are 50% more people in
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by hooande 13y ago
It's unfair to characterize people who disagree with you as being uninformed. A lot of people who don't like Snowden's actions know as much about the situation as you do. They've just drawn different conclusions. The gap
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by hooande 13y ago
A reputation can be a blessing or a curse. YCombinator has a great reputation as the best startup incubator and it's founders have sterling reputations as being the people you absolutely need to talk to if you're considering a tec
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by hooande 13y ago
There is no reason that human beings cannot live forever. Gompertz Law is not a law of physics, but a law of observation similar to Moore's Law. Medical and safety technology are also advancing exponentially. Barring a catastrophe that
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But what has really changed? The NSA is under pressure from the public, less so from the intelligence and defense communities. If anything Snowden has caused those areas of government to close ranks even tighter. There's nothing a lead
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There will be absolutely no consequences. It can be said unequivocally that the US government will not punish people for signing an online petition. Believe it or not, members of government like to see people getting involved in the politic
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by hooande 13y ago
How do you plan to deal with the "cold start" problem, not having enough information about the objects in the prediction? The majority of visitors will be viewing pages on a given site for the first time. In these cases there is a
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Don't blame the government. There is only one cause for market irrationality and inflation: human greed. The government has the job of trying to shape society. Deciding that home ownership is a good thing and giving people tax breaks i
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garrytan is one of the best people I have ever met. There are many different functions for evaluating "good person". Some look to kindness, compassion and trust. Raw intelligence or creativity. Wealth and influence. You name it, g
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by hooande 13y ago
I applaud the author of this post. I've seen a lot of people suffer with machine learning because they don't understand this basic concept. Taking MOOC classes and reading textbooks is a great way to learn, but they tend to focus

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