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by jakubp 8y ago
FWIW, in Poland some banks started using 2FA (many different types) several years before Google or any other site I know of.
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by jakubp 8y ago
I'm not right here? Where is that? Why do you restrict this conversation to one imagined location as if the same thing wasn't happening in multiple countries simultaneously? I am right here in Poland and I tell you, the things you
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by jakubp 8y ago
No, it's not. There are surely lots of "kids", which I'm guessing includes teenagers, but there's also a high percentage of people aged 20-40 or even more who follow those "influencers" much the same way.
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by jakubp 8y ago
Nope. Alcohol, drugs, watching sports, these things are really odd and really stupid in my view and yet it's not kids who drive the sales the most.
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by jakubp 8y ago
I won't speak for HN, but here's a tongue in cheek summary of my experience with R. I write a script. It doesn't work. I don't know why. I look at the error message, and then google for 30 minutes to understand what it r
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by jakubp 8y ago
Ok. What if Amazon customer buys a kindle ebook on Amazon.com and then reads it on iOS Kindle app? I don't imagine Apple gets a cut in that scenario, do they? A comment here said that Valve was open to disabling buying in the app and t
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by jakubp 8y ago
Is there Amazon Kindle app for iOS? If there is, isn't it the exact same type of app as Steam Link? Access your content library, buy more content. If Apple lets Amazon do this (presumably because Amazon is too big to ignore) and won&#x
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by jakubp 8y ago
What specific data about the person is traded alongside their location history in the... schemes that you describe? (name? Some govt ID number? Phone number? Address? ....)
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by jakubp 8y ago
If you judge by reactions of a large number of parents across the world, "Parent Effectiveness Training" book (and training!) seems like a great resource. Interestingly, his approach to parenting has applications in daily life wit
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by jakubp 9y ago
Their perception could be non linear, much like our perception of light intensity. Or it might be adjusted automatically to a higher value, dimming the earth's field but making power lines "bright" but not blinding. What a co
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by jakubp 9y ago
Midomi is fantastic. We made a game out of it: you'd pick a song a try to sing it to Midomi (not hum). If it guesses what you are singing, you score. Note this is for amateurs and for drinking parties :) it doesnt have a lot in the cat
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by jakubp 9y ago
Please don't use "lighter" and "darker" colors to signal importance. The contrast on these is invariably too low for most displays, and people miss that cue completely. What's lighter for you has the exact same
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by jakubp 9y ago
Quotes from @searchliaison: "Today we're launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites." "Ultimately, Google Images is a way for people to discover information in cases where browsing
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by jakubp 9y ago
This suggests Twitter is somewhat antifragile wrt controversy and events, perhaps more so than other media.
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by jakubp 9y ago
Not in city centers on busy multilane inrersections, at least not in my country. We arent talking about riding a bike in a park or in the suburbs. And kids cause a lot of traffic accidents as well, regardless of their mode of transportation
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by jakubp 9y ago
Wow... Children can also drive cars, ride motorbikes, fly planes, perform surgery. That doesn't mean it's in society's best interest to let them without some training or examination beforehand. The difficulty in riding a bike
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by jakubp 9y ago
I'm not sure where this presumption is used, but I much prefer the general idea of falsifiability ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability ), where you make a hypothesis and then try to disprove it. If you can
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by jakubp 9y ago
It should be the basic assumption that other vertebrates do feel pain unless proven otherwise. Same with thoughts, consciousness, etc. It's similar to frequently repeated claims that only humans are conscious, but dogs, cats, cows, h
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by jakubp 9y ago
Thanks for clarification, it was precisely my point: layman won't understand true detail but they won't care, because the sense of interest in those articles comes from other 'rewards' (more emotional).
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by jakubp 9y ago
I wouldn't call a man who cheats close friends/partners and treats others badly a great man.
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by jakubp 9y ago
I didn't mean to condescend. And while I am convinced online article won't inspire anyone to study a field as arcane and useless to most people as math, I was simply extending on parent's observation: a lot of content out the
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by jakubp 9y ago
Then it means they are for the layman. Layman isn't after understanding, but curiosity, wonder, anger, whatever fuels his emotional needs at the moment.
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by jakubp 9y ago
Maybe. But that would mean people with lower standards replace people with higher standards. I don't think it's the right direction.
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by jakubp 9y ago
But people already in that city can't vote with their wallets to stop the immigration.
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by jakubp 9y ago
To the author of this writeup: thank you, this is a phenomenal story with compelling visuals. Oftentimes I prefer HN comment thread to the original, but in this case I am impressed by high quality analysis of the original :)
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by jakubp 9y ago
Or perhaps the author of the article is doing armchair philosophy, whereas Elon Musk is the supposedly too optimistic doer who actually builds incredible stuff. (In the sense that Nassim Taleb distinguishes people who talk a lot and people
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by jakubp 9y ago
In my experience, the difficulty to sort-of understand written foreign language is _nothing_ compared to learning to understand spoken language.
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by jakubp 9y ago
It was a safe violation of grammar rules. Don't be so principled.
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by jakubp 9y ago
Search, actually, hidden within the browser, aka 'navigational queries'. Significant portion of all search queries are just that.
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by jakubp 9y ago
Now that you wrote it, I feel like I was idealizing the online potential by thinking "you can get online to the right people", but that only helps if you can then meet them in person. Otherwise it's just online contact, which

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