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Job streaming, personalized
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Just because they let you do it doesn't mean they want you to do it. Consent is not about whether or not you can get away with it. It's about ensuring that the other person also wants it.
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Excerpt from the current Hacker News top 30: 2. China's Shenzhou 11 blasts off on space station mission (101 points, 3h ago) 7. Quantum computers: 10-fold boost in stability achieved (63 points, 4h ago) 30. Peter Thiel, YC, and hard de
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Software written well can work that way on Android, but not on iOS which force-suspends your process and sockets all the time. The only exceptions are granted unilaterally by Apple and the chance of them allowing server-like behavior on iPh
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Intuitively, I would bet that radicals of all stripes are more prone to anxiety than the so-called moderates. In order to push for invasive solutions that are widely frowned upon by the rest of the populace (therefore treating your social s
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Because Macbook Pros are known for hassle-free Linux support?
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Lean Startup is also based on consistency, except that what you do is not defining the kind of task as such. What you do is to keep learning, listen to your users and push the company into directions according to those insights. That's
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It seems that the constraint "Can't be bought", or "Can't be bought to be shut down", is an important one and fundamentally incompatible with the goals of a VC-funded startup. That's also why Twitter faile
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Because with great power comes great responsibility, and companies like to cherry-pick only one out of two. It's in the interest of society that when something becomes mainstream enough to be considered "infrastructure" - som
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You can't change it from one day to another, but Apple has all the power to add Vulkan as alternative interface to the same hardware, in addition to the Metal API. They can do this at any time, now or in the future, without inflicting
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I could still get excited about a new phone that sends less data to advertising companies, or that supports a wider range of open standards than the previous one, or that exposes more of its internal tech for developers to use or improve. P
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> There is bigger problem than index funds and it's closet indexing. Many portfolio managers that claim to be active investors secretly follow their benchmark index without exactly replicating it. This is fraudulent behavior. As lon
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Using a specific company's Technology, in today's socially networked world, is a choice that you impose onto your friends, family and fellow citizens. I send you an email to your Gmail account, Google reads it. You choose to use A
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I think it would greatly help if people who vote were required to demonstrate that they understand the underlying facts to some degree. In addition to making sure everyone has the means to freely access and learn these facts. Once you know
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I think it would be worth (re?)considering what should meaningfully constitute citizenship. Allegiance to your monarch? Participating in communities? Bringing your country's hono(u)r and values everywhere you go? Committing to a certai
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There's a theory that after war, the people want to make it never happen again. Then they get older and die, and the fourth or so generation lacks all of that experience or motivation, and so someone is bound to start a war because peo
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People come up with all kinds of stuff they'd like to see, all the time. It's just that, for the most part, those ideas are not: * feasible for current mainstream tech * compatible with manufacturer's business models * forwar
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I try to avoid emergency exit seats because they take away the storage space underneath the seat in the front. I'd rather have provisions, laptop, pen, book(s), tissues etc. available without fetching them from overhead storage, and sa
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Which is why I like layered approaches like IPFS that separate the merkle-tree layer (hashed content) from the naming layer (IPNS, DNS, Namecoin, etc.). There are definitely valid uses of blockchain tech but requiring it as central part of
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There's no benefit from making the GPL into something like the LGPL or MIT/BSD. If you prefer those licenses, they're already available to be used instead. The GPL stands for a specific kind of freedom and should continue to
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As a cyclist, I avoid these mandatory-turn mazes like the plague. It's just as confusing as it is for cars, unless you put dedicated bike lanes in many of the streets - which of course isn't going to happen because, you know, they
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^^^ Misspelled Toronto as Tortono, so a simple search missed it. Here's the greppable version :)
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I was a bit disappointed when I discovered that "su" doesn't stand for superuser but for the rather bland "set uid".
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Not the OP, but I think that accountability issues need to be solved mainly by more transparency. Open data for all government activities. Let them provide source data, calculations, meeting minutes, donor lists, office visits, everything t
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Disappointing that out of 8 hires there's only a single woman, and of course she was hired for a role that's less deep-researchy than the other new guys.
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> On the other hand it is a little tragedy that English with it's ambiguous spelling and pronunciation become the lingua franca of the day. *English with its ambiguous spelling On the other hand, Mandarin is hardly an improvement wh
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G+ and Wave didn't stick. They're giving up on those already. Federated/decentralized is not in Google's own interest, they make their money off of collecting data and controlling both the servers/clients makes that
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It may be worth pointing out that as of right now, CAD $125K is only USD $96.5K, while USD $125K is CAD $162K. There are probably a number of other factors offsetting the exchange rate, but with a family income of >$150K in Canada you&#x
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In all honesty, I think the messed-up banking system in North America distorts people's expectations. How is it a thing that in order to buy a laptop online, I am limited to: * credit cards, which are only available from for-profit com
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The new ThinkPad 13 might be worth a consideration if you're not set on a top screen or aluminum case.

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