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by idrios 9y ago
You had a comment here complaining about 'carpet bombing with [citation needed]' and you deleted it, but I agree with you on this. Wikipedia posted a great article called "Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat.&quo
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by idrios 9y ago
I'd say instead of calling it the opposite of human connection, it's more like a fraction of what human connection is. It's just enough to quell the desire to meet up with people in real life, but it's not enough to make
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by idrios 9y ago
I know it's implied in your comment, but I hope that upon discovering someone was playing Netflix at home and not watching it, that the conclusion is still only "he was not at home while his Netflix is playing" and not "
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by idrios 9y ago
As an engineer, I still want someone with a law degree to be president. As much as I want to see some large, overhauling change for the public good like Interstate Highways under Eisenhower, I also concede that US law is extremely nuanced a
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by idrios 9y ago
Nothing you've said seems wrong to me, but the tone of how you write is too dismissive. > since there are other explanations (lifestyle habits, genetics, poverty) that would explain the difference, in whole or in part. This doesn&#x
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by idrios 9y ago
He's not saying it's financially better to play the lottery than to invest in stocks. I interpreted it more as 'poor people play the lottery because it gives them hope that things will change'. A lottery ticket is more o
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by idrios 9y ago
He's not wrong. In 2010 there were 6.93 billion people in the world. In 2015 there were 7.35 billion. By that calculation, 4.2 million people moved into the top 1% in the span of just 5 years!
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by idrios 9y ago
Immigration =/= breeding. High fertility rates usually mean: - People are having more children to provide manual labor. - People are getting together with each other because they don't have as many distractions from the modern wor
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by idrios 9y ago
Google Play itself is blocked in China. Have to download a Chinese app store or download apks directly
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by idrios 9y ago
If I'm not wrong, the message would disappear after the person deleted their Facebook so for people to see it the parent would have needed to stay on Facebook long enough for people to see it (which is an easy way to get sucked back in
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by idrios 9y ago
This was really interesting and I feel like I learned a bit more about how to deal with unreasonable people on the internet (and maybe recognize if I'm being unreasonable myself?) > ...even if there is a slim chance beliefs on the m
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by idrios 9y ago
The jump from sexism to racism made perfect sense to me, they're pretty analogous; an entire group of people has significant and pervasive adverse experiences over a part of their identity. ..We don't have a systematic cultural pr
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by idrios 9y ago
My own personal anecdote: I moved to San Jose last year and could not find an affordable place to live long term. I got incredibly lucky finding a place on craigslist for $600/mo but discovered one month later that it was because the l
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by idrios 10y ago
As I'm currently living in a hacker house in San Jose, I'm obligated to say that this is mostly true except that you make it sound shadier than I think it usually is. Mine is a 5 bedroom that fits 15 people (one of the 5 bedrooms
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by idrios 10y ago
Also from the article >Research by economists from Harvard and Berkeley found that fewer than 10 percent of people in the bottom fifth of the wealth distribution will make it into the top fifth. Poverty is an arbitrary threshold. Its def
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by idrios 10y ago
It's about social/economic mobility and inequality. Poverty is very relevant here
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by idrios 10y ago
> It is actually very important skill to avoid wasting time in disconnected from reality obscure academic bullshit, be it philosophy, physics or math. Do not follow other people's hallucinations. Have your own. This. So much this. I
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by idrios 10y ago
A lot like being a gambling addict. It really is gambling your time and energy. The difference is that at a Casino, all games are rigged so that your expected value over large number of iterations in any game is that you'll lose mone
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by idrios 10y ago
Low maintenance, easy to ignore, clear purpose. I can use it to stay connected with colleagues without seeing photos of their wedding or baby pictures. There's no wall where people can publicly write to me, I don't get notified wh
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by idrios 10y ago
I know that to some extent, Facebook saves data on me using private messages I've sent to friends. I know that Google Hangouts does too. Snapchat tells me that nobody has access to messages I've sent to friends except for me and m
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by idrios 10y ago
Would also recommend Whatsapp. But I like the transient nature of Snapchat. Hacker News is moderated but not censored in any sense that I worry about. With zero moderation you get pretty much just spambots. With bare minimum moderation you
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by idrios 10y ago
I agree with you. To continue your internet-as-a-physical-place analogue, Facebook is basically a mall where you are encouraged to hang out and intermittently enticed to buy things. -No porn on Facebook is the equivalent to no nudity allowe
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by idrios 10y ago
He's not saying if there are too many, he's saying if it happens too fast. If all of our cars became self-driving tomorrow, and the American Trucker Association's estimates are correct [1], then 3 million truck drivers will s
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by idrios 10y ago
I see nothing wrong with a man who feels remorse for assisting in the stripping of online privacy owning up to his mistakes. "As an internet entrepreneur myself, I feel partly responsible for a world in which private information can be
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by idrios 10y ago
> Especially since we've largely abandoned previous institutions True, though I think new institutions will come back. Things like Meetup groups seem to be gaining more traction--The groups are just slow to adoption because they&#x2
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by idrios 10y ago
From the article: "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions." Are you a secret CIA saboteur?
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by idrios 10y ago
Right? So many people are looking at company overhead as burdensome, but how are you going to cash in on the $1.5 million in value that you create if you don't have sales and marketing people to get your product out there? How do you e
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by idrios 10y ago
I agree with the parent comment of this. The bay area gets a lot of attention because it's the software capital of the world, and software has these crazy gross margins and rapid life cycles that allow companies to be born, experience
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by idrios 10y ago
Location: San Jose, Ca Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes (anywhere east/west coast or Canada) Skills and expertise: Biomedical Engineering, imaging physics (CT, MRI), image reconstruction Technologies: Matlab, Java, Pyth
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by idrios 10y ago
It's true. Imagine if Sam had written the opposite in his post, if he had said "No guys really, we're in a bubble." Listening investors stop investing in startups, making the bubble burst faster?

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