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by mfoy_ 9y ago
And how, exactly, does one embark upon an endeavour such as owning real estate, starting a business, buying stocks, acquiring education, or starting a family? For almost every single person, the main source of their wealth will be their c
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I'll be in the market for a new phone in the next year, and I've got to say I can see the appeal, but the price tag is pretty high. For me, the major features are the look-to-unlock and water resistant features. Whether those ar
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I never said they would be worth trying to live by. I said they were interesting.
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Enjoyed this much better than the actual linked article. I love Lawrence's take on the thirteen. While I don't agree with them all in their entirety, he makes some really deep, visceral, and compelling points about the human exp
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That's.... kind of hilariously self-aware.
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You're entitled to your opinion, but this is a tech news aggregator, so...
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The interests of the people are more or less aligned with Sidedwalk Lab's interests. So you're not wrong, but you miss your mark a little bit. You're generally right though, that any publicly-traded company has primarily it
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Well I think table top RPGs by necessity have to more closely meet in the middle on the luck vs resource management spectrum, but "normal" board games are where the differences really get highlighted. Risk is a traditional "A
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You're "rebuttal" is equally, if not more so, absurd than any claim made in the article. You're calling democracy into question as your first argument for letting Google do this? REALLY? Then you ask for research, as e
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As an avid boardgamer, I've noticed there's a big difference between American and European board games (and probably also table top RPG frameworks) in the sense that the American tendency is to favour luck and hail Mary rolls to s
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Another fun "like" side effect is when Facebook rebroadcasts likes. This can be kinda funny / morbid when someone who has passed away (but has not had their Facebook profile memorialized) "likes" some random brand..
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> Many North American cities are trying to get people to bicycle - yeah - that's retrograde ! and good. We don't need tech for that. When there are no bike lanes it's a problem.
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Or Black Mirror style with "freemium-subsidized condominiums". Imagine cheaper condos that you have to watch commercials every couple minutes, and of course they know if you're closing your eyes or not looking (think iPhone X
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To put it in painfully simple terms, just because the "hacker's code" contains Cyrillic, it doesn't mean Putin was behind it. As a layman, "fourth-party collection" sounds a lot like "false flag" to m
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Just because I hate getting down-voted with no replies, I figured I'd break it down for you. >Who says "cancer doctor"? I thought they were called oncologists. Honestly, so what? Besides, he uses the term oncologist freque
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It sounds silly, but that makes a lot of sense. Lots of tips for me to take away from this thread. :)
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I think that answers your question. He's just drawing a more familiar parallel.
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Oh, I guess that's what Nas sampled for "The World Is Yours".
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No... you're missing the point entirely The store is Spotify. The brands are artists. If I buy brand A, the store gets a cut, and brand A gets a cut. Brand B gets nothing. With Spotify, if I listen to Repartee, Justin Bieber is still g
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That's why Spotify takes its cut, no? Comparing listening to different artists to funding multiple agencies with tax dollars isn't a valid comparison. It's like saying that when I buy my favourite brand of ice cream at the st
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That's not the context of this discussion. Refer to the parent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417291 The context is the word "algorithm".
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A fair chunk would go to Bieber, almost nothing would go to the band you listened to exclusively. It's because Spotify pools all the subscription money earmarked for artists into one great pool then divvies it up based on number of p
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I can't speak as to the other platforms, but spotify's revenue sharing model really sucks for small artists. For example, if someone signs up for Spotify to listen to exclusively songs by one artist, that artist is not getting t
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Well, I thought this was going to be about JB screwing over a writer... so at least it wasn't that. Pretty low numbers though. I wonder what Spotify would have looked like if it were on the list...
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No, that really is the definition of an algorithm. Algorithms and computers are NOT inextricably linked. Just because software often uses algorithms to define behaviour, doesn't mean algorithms cannot mean other things.
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An "algorithm" is simply a way to do a thing based on a set of rules to be followed... of course it's ambiguous. Getting scared of anything that generic is silly. Might as well fear the outside because anything can happen o
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Seconded. FOMO is silly. Thousands of opportunities are passing everyone by every day, it's just part of life. Very few people tread the golden path, so to speak. So just live your life and try to have some fun long the way. :)
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Discworld just could not be adapted to the screen... you'd lose the puns, the outrageous descriptions and the hilarity of it all. I mean... maybe if it was stylistically something like A Series of Unfortunate Events with the over-the-t
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The study seems to indicate that reading is more effective / engaging. My gut tells me that film and television is to reading as a snack is to a meal.
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No. People weren't "farming" them before laws cracked down on it. Laws cracked down on it precisely because of how people were going about getting ivory. Besides, we're not aiming for pure population count... imagine

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