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by kreeben 5y ago
In 2008 there wasn't a need to click "install"? What OS were you on that provided Google Chrome seamlessly?
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by kreeben 5y ago
Isn't "Think Or Swim" already TD Ameritrade's Yahoo Finance killer? I'm not sure where there is a conflict of interest for a stock broker to supply analytics to their clients.
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by kreeben 5y ago
If you are flabbergasted by the fact Yahoo, and everyone else for that matter, thought it absolutely impossible to disrupt Google (except for perhaps a handful of hubris-riddled people at MS), please remember the general sentiment HN used t
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by kreeben 5y ago
Don't you know that all people must help all banks at all times or society will crumble? If I don't help my bank with the cost of holding my money then who will?
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by kreeben 5y ago
She's probably addressing her advertisers, not us, in order to ensure them that they have total freedom of expression of "facts about their wonderful products" in a world totally absent of vile critique. That YT is a safe hav
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by kreeben 5y ago
For me, ST is still the only editor in the world that works with really, really large files.
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by kreeben 6y ago
My thesis is MS will never go down this path, not because it isn't an excellent idea but because Excel has become inrefactorable.
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by kreeben 6y ago
"During trial we had so much success with our auto-opt-in mechanism (and grew so fond of being omnipotent) we've decided to make it a permanent feature."
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by kreeben 6y ago
He shows a little bit of humanity by engaging in a childish brawl with the notion of "friendly competitiveness" and comes off as "the good dad", to me.
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by kreeben 6y ago
I disagree. I didn't know about Wix until just now. After having read this I'm extremely positive towards their CEO, their service and, simply put, I like their style. While Wordpress is acting like a child, Vix comes off as the a
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by kreeben 6y ago
If enough retailers work in concert they start to resemble HF's. >> if enough gamblers stick to one ticker, they can break the market HF's, I assume, has had this power all along and they probably tried more than once to bre
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by kreeben 6y ago
>> think of the recent GME short squeeze but in reverse Reverse how? There are so many axis I don't know which to use as the basis of my flip. If you care to, please explain a bit more in detail.
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by kreeben 6y ago
Very curious why you threw Windows under the bus there. >> Google cloud provides protection from the actual privacy threats Even if everyone in the clinic uses the same credentials?
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by kreeben 6y ago
"any health data gathered as part of the feedback program will not be sold or used for Google ads" But not after the feedback program has finished? "The information will be encrypted" So that only Google can read it? &qu
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by kreeben 6y ago
>> There's probably a business here for someone who can make software which detects when AIs develop politically dangerous opinions so that they can be shut down. I don't believe so, because the "AI with dangerous opini
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by kreeben 6y ago
What is "door"?
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by kreeben 6y ago
They cared enough to send a cease & desist letter.
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by kreeben 6y ago
First rule of HN: don't astroturf. Second rule of HN: don't call out people who you think are astroturfing. Third rule: astroturf.
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by kreeben 6y ago
I like this human forum, I mean, forum.
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by kreeben 6y ago
To solve this problem we would need to first understand the human mind, how it stores data, how it does computation, and how it interacts with names. So we would need the same set of information that we would need for creating AGI. A soluti
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by kreeben 6y ago
Anything that shields me to some extent from the "grab money fast, before anyone notices we're fucking them over" companies out there is a champion, as far as I'm concerned.
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by kreeben 6y ago
>> It's going to break all 3rd party social layer providers Good. Disqus had it too easy. >> It also going to break [..] Good. They had it too easy. I'm absolutely loving the fact that my switch to Firefox is paying of
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by kreeben 6y ago
I used to dream vividly at night and while awake I was always the most calm and rational person in the room until a couple of years ago when I ran into financial (and love-related) problems and then struggled for years with extreme anxiety.
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by kreeben 6y ago
That's a beautiful sentence, especially in this here context, but it flew over my head. Would you care to expand?
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by kreeben 6y ago
I agree that the author has mislabeled "text". What are characters if not pictures? What is text if not a sequence of pictures? What's a picture if not a depiction of a concept? In a bag-of-words type of model, I see no diffe
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by kreeben 6y ago
I empathize with you. But I reject that it should fall upon Germany to learn English for your convenience or that the task of translating their texts should fall upon them. I guess I reacted (perhaps poorly) to GP's statement that Germ
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by kreeben 6y ago
Germany is fine with you not being able to ingest their documentation. If there is ever a need to do anything it would be the need for you to learn German and the need for anyone monolingual to learn a second language. The more balance in t
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by kreeben 6y ago
Is there a way for a non-British to view the other episodes? Adam Curtis is brilliant.
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by kreeben 6y ago
Targeting taxes directly towards specific companies seems overly aggressive. I hope they will find and implement more generic rules to achieve what it is they want to achieve which, if I'm not completely mistaken, is to protect me from
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by kreeben 6y ago
>> though I wish HN'ers were a little more compassionate to their fellow hackers The reason why HN'ers are not always kind to other HN'ers is, because HN is nothing more and nothing less than social media, albeit at its

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