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Samsung accused of altering TV behavior to look better in benchmarks(pcgamer.com)
2 points by mrkramer 4y ago|0 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
It is fixed now. Funny enough the redesign is just taking YouTube livestream UI and using it for regular YouTube comments.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>You Have Only So Much Time. Are You Using It Right? No. Time is illusion; nobody can take you or give you time.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Where is Lina Khan now?
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Crypto market is just a fraction of housing market and stock market which are worth trillions. So investing in dumb crypto should't really hurt the economy. Crypto, ICOs and NFTs are like baseball cards; people buy them thinking they a
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Satoshi was NOT an excellent C++ programmer. I'm not a programmer but that is what Gavin Andresen said[1]; he said something like this "Satoshi was an excellent C++ programmer but he wasn't a cryptographer" and &quot
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Speaking of Bitcoin; Satoshi was an excellent C++ programmer but s/he wasn't quite good at creating GUI and "Crypto" consumer apps that's why s/he open sourced it and left it to the community to build upon it a
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$200B wiped off crypto market over the weekend(cnbc.com)
44 points by mrkramer 4y ago|9 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I had an idea to create commercial service for this; but I'm afraid it would cost me too much to transcribe videos. Short videos are not costly to transcribe but hours long videos are. At the end of the day I might do it because Moore&
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Decentralized payment processors are the solution e.g. Bitcoin.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I usually don't agree with The Economist but I agree with them on this one, people spend too much time indoor and that's why there is an epidemic of shortsightedness. I would actually call it pandemic because it is affecting all d
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Yea violence is. RIP all victims.
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SEC weighs crackdown on phony environmental and social justice funds(techcrunch.com)
16 points by mrkramer 4y ago|0 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I remember I got scared this might happen when Epic introduced 2FA for claiming free games[0]. FTC check Epic Games too. [0] https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/for-a-while-epic-games-store-will...
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by mrkramer 4y ago
That's called resignation. Yea you would do it if you respect your company and your users. Call in someone more mature.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Yea it is inevitable but the problem with Facebook is that it has billions in cash and that it has its family of apps which still can somewhat thrive without Facebook; for example WhatsApp so I think in the next decade we are going to witne
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I think in the future Facebook will become something like Google+ and Flickr or in another words the thing that nobody cares about. Web is changing and people are changing too and you can't expect people to stare at their Facebook News
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by mrkramer 4y ago
So Satoshi didn't know what he, she or they were doing? Ethereum has proof of stake algorithm and we shall see how will it work in the long term. Btw some people said me here on HN that PoS is the evolution of crypto coins but I think
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by mrkramer 4y ago
There is also a lot of waste when mining gold and other metals[1] but nobody cares because gold and other metals have value in conducting electricity and heat and they are used in number of industries and in electronics. Bitcoin is digital
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by mrkramer 4y ago
This guys are clueless; wasting billions investing in Crypto hoping that they will hit killer app but not realising Bitcoin itself is the killer app. Also they invested over $100M in Clubhouse just because it became popular at the time(Pand
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14 Ways To Misspell Google...That Still Take You To Google(thrillist.com)
1 points by mrkramer 4y ago|1 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Microsoft stole GUI concept from Apple and Apple stole it from Xerox. Good artists copy but great artists steal.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Mark getting excited about using a message to book a restaurant seems like a prime example of this. He was basically explaining chat bot/s without knowing it.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
They have their family of apps tied to Google e.g. Gmail, Google Maps, Google Translate, Google News etc. That could be a drawback if you wanted to switch to a new search engine.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
This is one of the experiments with Progressive Growing GAN (ProGAN) technology from Nvidia: NSFW: https://medium.com/@davidmack/what-i-learned-from-building-a...
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Google and Bing index web pages, but there are so many alternative forms of curated information we've created over the last decade and a lot of that information is in semi-public spaces like slack, discord, whatsapp, telegram, face
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>I have a hard time believing there is a significant percentage of 'normal' people who think Google is a paint point in their daily lives, and good luck to any company who tries to break the "just Google it" habit tha
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Google is good but it is not good enough because with their resources they can make it so much better.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>By most measures, Canada is more developed than the US. By what measures? Social benefits? I was speaking about industry and technology not about health care accessibility or whatever. By that criteria you can call Sweden more developed
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by mrkramer 4y ago
More ambitious people always move to more developed countries in a search of better life whether it means better education, better job opportunities(greater salary), better career path etc. Btw when somebody compares Canada to US I always r

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