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by laser 9y ago
Does Facebook do anything beyond capitalization correction?
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by laser 9y ago
I knew it!! :P
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by laser 9y ago
Have they made a special exception for themselves? They don't even appear to be indexed yet? https://www.google.com/search?q=google+ai&oq=google+ai&aqs=c...
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by laser 9y ago
Is it just me, or are the author's ears slightly pointed?
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by laser 9y ago
Scoble's statement: https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/1015528797164465... The post others are linking to from a few days ago seems to be referencing Rackspace, as UploadVR has not lost its CEO.
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by laser 9y ago
What are you thinking? They call it the Noun Project, but they seem to cover verbs pretty well from the few examples I tried. Ex. "Bat" https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=bat&i=660766 "Swim"
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by laser 9y ago
Who lost the most marks when cheating was stopped? Those of lower socio-economic status. Because those of such status generally engage in higher rates of criminal behavior [1], why is this presumed to be surprising? It seems to me that the
188.
by laser 9y ago
I generally agree with your sentiment, but just to give another perspective I thought I should point out that there's a significant difference between those that can afford to travel to Europe and hail a ride from a "professionall
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by laser 9y ago
Hmmm, that hasn't been my experience: http://www.phoenixframework.org/
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by laser 10y ago
Because a individuals earning income from the corporation will already pay taxes too. The taxes on the corporation are essentially a double-tax.
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by laser 10y ago
Seems to me like a pretty severe underestimation of augmented reality. Even the most basic feature of simulating multiple, large monitors in one's visual field is enough to push it into the mainstream– at least among creative professio
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by laser 10y ago
There's an asymmetry you're not recognizing. Focusing on a subgroup is a niche, while focusing on the majority while excluding a subgroup is discriminatory. Which even then, might be okay, were it not for the history of oppressiv
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by laser 10y ago
In the first paragraph, "Meanwhile, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposed a bill yesterday to allow free government-prepped returns."
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by laser 10y ago
And beyond that– to potentially many live people that the recipient is able to positively impact.
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by laser 10y ago
Great article, thanks.
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by laser 10y ago
Their revenue numbers must look absolutely insane, even if they're not actually profitable. I spend more money through instacart right now than any other software, and maybe all other software I use, combined.
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by laser 10y ago
80% means they could be profitable if they chose to, but it would harm their growth. They're instead incentivized to raise to fuel growth given how inexpensive private money is.
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by laser 10y ago
"amid findings that rider fares only cover roughly 40 percent of a ride, with the remainder subsidized by venture capitalists", Hard for me to make it past the first and second paragraph where false premise is laid. Addressed this
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by laser 10y ago
Like a department or agency of government? In the US the SSA may be a good contender.
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by laser 10y ago
Like a government?
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by laser 10y ago
"Uber passengers were paying only 41% of the actual cost of their trips; Uber was using these massive subsidies to undercut the fares and provide more capacity than the competitors who had to cover 100% of their costs out of passenger
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by laser 10y ago
That's disappointing... I thought he might've donated it to legal funds for people who got screwed over by banks or something of the like.
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by laser 10y ago
Does Tesla not pay well by industry standards, or is that when comparing them to software companies? Seems like they work their employees very hard, though, so maybe they lose out on talent– on the other hand there was a time when Apple wor
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by laser 10y ago
I think the counter-argument would go something like "Tesla is a technology company like Apple, leading to superior product design and user experience due to more talented people and a high level of vertical integration. Thus, in the a
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by laser 10y ago
This was on HN recently, but I really enjoyed Robin Wieruch's react tutorial in which you build a HN like app: https://github.com/rwieruch/the-road-to-learn-react
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by laser 10y ago
Says they're intended at 1100 kilometers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_constellation On a straight shot with no switching time that's up and back in 7.3ms.
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by laser 10y ago
Money is a tool in a hacker's kit like any other. If you don't recognize the importance of useful tools you aren't a hacker ;)
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by laser 10y ago
Completely unrelated to the article: Why do sites (like this one) increasingly do some hacky javascript-based non-native-scrolling that makes the UX shit? Is this just because I'm on desktop and it's actually well-suited for mobil
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by laser 10y ago
Just a heads up the the crystal language link is mis-routed in the readme.
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by laser 10y ago
Hate to nitpick, but how is "Regie eventually settled for $25,000 — after attorney fees were taken out, roughly equivalent to a year’s middle-class income in the Philippines." factual if the GDP per capita of the Philippines is ~$

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