identity_zero

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by identity_zero 7y ago
Lol. Bring it on.
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by identity_zero 7y ago
The only way the US can win is by moving past the culture wars and returning to an accelerating society. Other Western countries have already given up (Germany, Italy, and Portugal have sided with China by signing up for the Belt and Road a
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by identity_zero 7y ago
I agree, they only copy. But hey, the police state in Xinjiang is really helping them push their development of AI.
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by identity_zero 7y ago
Isn't the "millions of miles of free data" the edge cases? Yes, they're not literally streaming back everything but they have millions of miles with people driving auto-pilot and sending back a significant amount of edge
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by identity_zero 7y ago
So, if the audience was far-left/Communist it would be okay? Because that seems to be what Facebook is trying to do.
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by identity_zero 8y ago
The Bitcoin community ironically supports MMT in order to accelerate the decline of traditional financial institutions. I can't believe people take MMT seriously.
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by identity_zero 8y ago
It's this type of state intervention into internet companies that I worry about. We'll have lost something special when we give the US or the EU to dictate what we can or can not see on the internet.
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by identity_zero 8y ago
In parts of the developing world, Facebook is used sort of like Craigslist to connect buyers and sellers, with the prospective client's friends list acting as a reputation system. Instead of this person to person bartering system, the
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by identity_zero 8y ago
The best movies I saw this year were Bohemian Rhapsody (Critics: 61%, Audience: 87%) and Alita: Battle Angel (Critics: 60%, Audience: 94%). Maybe Rotten Tomatoes should be looking into how their critics are reviewing movies instead of banni
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by identity_zero 8y ago
It's easy to blame tech. I'm someone who is borderline Millenial/Gen Z and I'm actually finding myself, both internally and externally, through the use of Twitter. Still very alone at times, think Mr. Robot, but I'v
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by identity_zero 8y ago
There's also a "Plot Against Steve Bannon" but that won't be written on BuzzFeed because he supports the other side. Both are political strategists and one should expect "plots against" them. Not news. Just clo
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by identity_zero 8y ago
This is proper "hacker news" right here
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by identity_zero 8y ago
Ripple is not decentralized. I don't know enough about Stellar to answer. Bitcoin is software and can easily implement these features but the community is divided and can't reach consensus on anything. Lightning Network as layer t
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by identity_zero 8y ago
Let the superficial bad news divert investor interest so that the IPO is cheap.
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by identity_zero 8y ago
A lot of people also don't want regulation...
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by identity_zero 8y ago
That just means there's a tip functionality.
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by identity_zero 8y ago
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia I'm only a quarter of the way through but it's already giving me vast amounts of insight into the roots of western civilization. It's also equipping me with mental models to analyze modernity