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by hopler 8y ago
There's a kernel of truth in there, but taken to its conclusion,Bezos is saying that days is irrelevant unless it's a cheaper way to collect anecdotes. I don't think he agrees with himself on that.
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by hopler 8y ago
NYTimes (and others) buys small journalism orgs/individuals that it likes. A small journalism outfit is like a startup that can get an exit via acquihire. Economy of scale is a law of nature.
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by hopler 8y ago
Similar article thoroughly discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11849621
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by hopler 8y ago
So if I have self-doubt, my self is not conscious?
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by hopler 8y ago
It's fine to say that science does not support the claim that animals have consciousness, as long as you also agree that science does not support the claim that humans have consciousness. I don't understand what you are saying abo
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by hopler 8y ago
But you can't target demos for users not in your contacts? That makes no sense.
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by hopler 8y ago
Based on commercial te in this thread, clearly these dealerships did something shady or bought a list from someone shady. If Facebook was concerned about user experience and ad quality, they would detect cases like this and block those adve
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by hopler 8y ago
Those complaints sound like CRUX issues not ReviewBoard. Looking at multiple branches is not in scope of ReviewBoard at all.
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by hopler 8y ago
"edoing the UI is on the to-do list, once the migration from Angular to Vue is done." Is what makes me uncomfortable about modern webdev. Valuable product work constantly deprioritized by migrations to new frameworks. Magpieing ha
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by hopler 8y ago
Git is distributed, not decentralized
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by hopler 8y ago
You believe that liberal arts college professors offer nothing of value?
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by hopler 8y ago
That's not just "marketing himself". That's a reputation earned over decades of buying companies and making the previous owners and managers into winners.
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by hopler 8y ago
Buffet also refused to invest in computer/Internet companies for many years because he knew he didn't understand them.
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by hopler 8y ago
You are ignoring the general population's and the industry's attitude toward computing metaphors and cartoons in the 1990s. What do you imagine is the exploitative profit motive of Clippy? Microsoft fido get more revenue when you
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by hopler 8y ago
As was a majority of the country, so that's unsurprising.
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by hopler 8y ago
China is not a free market. It is a state controlled market.
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by hopler 8y ago
Jailbait was tacky and creepy, but in line with what you have on Instagram. It pales in comparison to the virulent racism and sexism that still pervades the site (not confined to any subreddit)
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by hopler 8y ago
Binary Options aren't fake, they just sell an awful gambling product to dumb people. MMM what? 3M, or Mr Money Mustache's blog? What about Better Place? There wasn't just a startup that tried and failed and paid its insiders
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by hopler 8y ago
$3B is a failure now?
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by hopler 8y ago
#visits isn't what matters when judging competency, amount of revenue/spending for the quality is. How much revenue do they have? They have only less than 1% of the valuation of Google
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by hopler 8y ago
I don't understand how the pictures help. The core formula is compact, but that doesn't make it bad. A few sentences of explanation is great for people who haven't learned standard high-school-level math notation or who want
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by hopler 8y ago
You are stretching. Obviously pistols and electric shocks aren't recommended by the Bible. The incompatibility between technological progress and ancient gospel is a different problem, which is why there is a rift between modern &quot
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by hopler 8y ago
It's not transphobic to question whether a women-only organization should include transwomen. It's a legitimately hard question with no 100% correct answer. You have to deal with the possibility of people who identify as female ac
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by hopler 8y ago
Google may have a lead in real ML (AlphaGo etc) , bust for most economic use cases ML is snake oil, and snake oil is easy to clone.
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by hopler 8y ago
And Oracle, and IBM, and every company that doesn't pour every dollar of profit into growth marketing to continue redoubling down with investor money.
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by hopler 8y ago
Self hosting doesn't scale. There is very little reason for a good sysadmin to work for International Widgets Conglomerated when they can work for a cloud provider instead, building larger scale solutions more efficiently for higher pa
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by hopler 8y ago
Maybe not, but Sundar Google or Satya Microsoft or Joe Rackspace can make their best offer.
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by hopler 8y ago
And for the other thousands of homeless people who aren't a haircut away from a programming job, what do you recommend?
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by hopler 8y ago
And we should ignore the plight of starving and dying people until those systems magically appear here?
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by hopler 8y ago
How do you help someone who does believe they need help? And what gives you any right to do so?

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