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by jpadkins 13y ago
> I really don't get how abuse of a feature is grounds to remove a feature. If you do the right thing for your users first, this is what you do. You put user needs over developer needs.
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and then a new internet will rise up for the free minds. The old one will become a government controlled 'walled garden' mirroring meatspace.
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can you give an example of the death of net neutrality in the US? Like it actually happening. Not a court case that rules on a hypothetical. Also, can you cite a time when the internet did not prioritize traffic?
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The link was on google's homepage from Friday to Saturday.
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the only important finite resources in the information age are smart people's time and energy. And even energy will be infinite given enough smart people's time.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
Ironically, these anti-Google bay area protesters are starting to sound a lot like conservative anti-immigration talking points. * We don't want your kind in our neighborhood. * We don't want our culture changed. * Your mere prese
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by jpadkins 13y ago
Which did better for "communities and the under-privileged", Socialist North Korea or Capitalist South Korea? What about comparing under-privileged from 1917 to 1988 in USA vs. Russia? Do you have any counter-examples?
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or you could just go to settings and disable image loading.
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when gmail will be as quaint as a model-T
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they dont have to even edit the image. they can just put a tracking id in the image metadata.
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Right, but is the mfging and installation costs of the 90m blade vs. the structure of the same size? I see this as a cost optimization, not a way to get more energy from the same source.
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Foxconn already has 20k robots in production roles http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043026/foxconn-to-speed-up-r... Google is actually not in the lead (yet).
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Then why do central banks still hold tons of gold?
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The gold reserve act of 1935[1] devalued the currency by 40% and outlawed the private possession of gold. I am not sure how you can say the period 1913-1972 to be under the gold standard when the US government could set the exchange rate to
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I contend that creating debt money and giving it to tier 1 banks has a much larger wealth transfer effect than deflationary currency. My evidence is the wealth equality gap increasing from 1972 - current. Inflation does not impact all peop
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which gold standard recession was greater in impact than the great depression? > Bank runs, panics...have been virtually eliminated by the introduction of fiat currency. How many financial institutions failed in 2007 - 2008? How much pan
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by jpadkins 13y ago
So you are saying we should judge fiat currency in the US from 1972 and on? Well, explain how fiat currency is better for the median income family? Standard of living, wages, purchasing power, debt load, etc have all been terrible for the
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by jpadkins 13y ago
one of those posts got me started on bitcoin. I mined like ~30 BTC off my laptop GPU and then forgot about them. Thanks HN!
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citation? Since fiat in the US, we have the two worst economic crashes (great depression and great recession). Under gold standard, recessions were more common and smaller in impact. To my layman eyes, it looks like we are just smaller,
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> deflationary, which would be economically disastrous Citation of deflation caused by an increase in productivity or population has caused an economic disaster? I've searched and came up empty. Thanks in advance if you find somethi
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by jpadkins 13y ago
We will start with the oceans.. http://www.seasteading.org/ And we will gladly conduct free trade with the rest of the world. But I don't think that means we have to accept the status quo in governance or social syste
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I think that is the main takeaway from this article: models are useless for gaining consensus because anyone can tweak assumptions or input variables and come up with their own conclusion. I think Climate Change and Securitized Credit cris
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But now, the key part of Line’s massive revenue growth now is in gaming. The games part of Line’s business now makes up 60 percent of their revenue, followed by stickers, which make up another 20 percent of their sales. Then there are spons
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by jpadkins 13y ago
you make good points but I think you are over-simplifying great marketing companies down to companies that spend a lot on advertising. Going back to the stanford example, great marketing companies understand user problems and design product
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> I don't know why everyone is hating on Snapchat. What is the possible business models? Just because something is popular doesn't mean it is a good business. No one has figured out how to effectively monetize chat going all
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actually, finding product-market fit is adding value to society. Imagine a world where there is all of this wonderful technology, but no one knows it exists or it is not applied to their problems. I think both companies are valuable and gre
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publishing to optical media is very expensive. PS and Xbox have lower fees for publishing to their download service (rumors that Xbox live arcade is going to free)
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Yes, as a build target: http://unity3d.com/unity/multiplatform The IDE does not run on linux, just mac and windows.
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could possibly be 'paid contributors' from MS funded marketing agencies (scroogled campaign). Paying for social media influence is a real thing.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
I use it. Love it.

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