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by imron 9y ago
And yet every other week there's another news outlet publishing tweets from "Julian Assange" that aren't actually from Julian Assange (here's one from last week [0]), because twitter refuses to verify him and the pe
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by imron 9y ago
There's plenty of empty real-estate in China. Maybe not whole cities, but plenty of empty (or mostly empty) buildings that were built years ago.
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by imron 9y ago
The verified system isn't about luring people to the site, it's about making sure certain accounts can't be impersonated. The problem is that Twitter doesn't verify consistently, but it's is still an important featu
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by imron 9y ago
Alternatively, if you consumed a gallon of baijiu in one sitting, it would likely be the end of your life.
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by imron 9y ago
> and also why it doesn't make sense anymore. Why doesn't it make sense anymore?
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by imron 9y ago
That Julian Assange isn't verified yet is an absolute joke. Whatever else you think about him, he is still a person of significant influence in the world, and there are dozens of fake accounts pretending to be his that regularly fool n
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by imron 9y ago
> What are they doing that Bitcoin and Ethereum can't do? Processing over 1/4-million transactions per second.
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by imron 9y ago
> But basketball has a surprising advantage in potential players in that China is mad about basketball. You ignore all the players in China that are mad about Soccer.
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by imron 9y ago
Many people (myself included) would agree with what he says.
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by imron 9y ago
Take something like the Rubin Report [0], which is reasonably family friendly but that covers socially/politically controversial topics and/or speakers. Not too long ago, a large amount of their back catalog was demonetized. It&#
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by imron 9y ago
It's not a family friendliness issue causing this, it's an 'advertiser friendliness' one. Anytime an ad was shown on a slightly controversial video, an internet outrage mob would descend on the advertiser saying how dare
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by imron 9y ago
Something like Patreon where people pay for premium content would work. They could set something up so creators could mark videos as premium, and then people have to pay a certain amount to watch. Google already has the payments side of thi
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by imron 9y ago
> how fast YouTube responds to this somewhat mild criticism Fast? People have been complaining about this for ages.
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by imron 9y ago
If you get out first.
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by imron 9y ago
I could have started mining Bitcoin back when you could mine them on a desktop PC, but never did. I think I'll try my hand at Chia farming until I have 1,000 or so on the off chance it hits $7,000 one day too.
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by imron 9y ago
To the moon!
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by imron 9y ago
> how could Snapchat possibly be threatening to the Chinese government? Any messaging system that the Chinese government isn't able to assert control over and have access to gets banned.
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by imron 9y ago
> It's still a simple thing for one person to handle in a couple of days. I don't disagree, I just think it's more effort than the 'regular function with about 30 lines of code' you first mentioned.
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by imron 9y ago
> How did you count 30? Counting paths from the first node to the "NO" node rather than just counting total edges leading to the "NO" node. Many of the conditions you mentioned are themselves determined based on vario
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by imron 9y ago
> If you count the situations that lead to "No" you'll realize that all the "No" cases can be easily checked for, I think you might be under-counting the "No" cases. I counted at least 30 (and then stop
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by imron 9y ago
> I think the constraint of 140 characters leads to more thoughtful, creative expression No, it leads to long tweet storms.
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by imron 9y ago
> My favorite part of the books. Mine too! I also understand why it was cut, but it really ruined the movies for me.
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by imron 9y ago
> given the Peter Jackson movies pretty much did justice to the books? (I'm assuming they did from the fan following. I never read the books) They left out the "Scouring of the Shire" which was one of the key chapters of t
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by imron 9y ago
If for nothing else that he now gets bragging rights over Linux
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by imron 9y ago
Over flat design? Yes.
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by imron 9y ago
> You're here because we don't support your browser Mobile safari.
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by imron 9y ago
There are two similar sayings that spring to mind: 一分钱，一分货 which means you get the equivalent in goods of what you pay in price, and 好货不便宜，便宜无好货 which means good products aren't cheap and cheap products aren't good.
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by imron 9y ago
> For a generation of kids like me the definitive story of X-Men wasn't the comics or the movies, it was this TV show I can still hum the theme song.
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by imron 9y ago
What I Learned from Losing $200M - of other people's money.
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by imron 9y ago
This is actually a very timely article. I think I might start using sqlite as a datastore for one of my personal projects.

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