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These seem a bit similar to some of the services offered by Disroot.org? They're also leveraging open source software such as NextCloud in providing related services. I'm curious of how you are paying for initial hosting costs, es
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7y ago
People were racing to add those social media buttons linked to Facebook back in the days and now they're scrambling to remove them. It's just funny how this works.
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I believe the common value of being a generalist comes from the fact that you might be less prone to being biased or locked in a tunnel vision when evaluating a situation, since generalists would typically have a more complete world view un
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That's an interesting take on the quality issues of these recent films. It's true that you sort of have to dumb down your content if you aim to make it popular for a wider population. If the movie plots require a bit of thinking o
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You reminded me of "the scene" back in the old days where movie groups like Centropy and many others were releasing latest films on FTP servers which were typically running on 100Mbps dedicated connections, gigabit lines were quit
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Nobody has mentioned the real problem is that most Hollywood movies these days are recycled garbage. People are probably going to switch from Netflix over to Disney+ once it is launched. Once Netflix is gone, Disney+ would then jack up its
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This is probably the best strategy. One obviously cannot stop them monitoring you since there are just so many different surveillance techniques nowadays. Therefore the best way to deal with it is by constantly throwing garbage and useless
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When majority of the public cannot perceive any real benefits from a product and yet it's still being pushed and marketed heavily, it just does not make a lot of sense and really goes against all business principles as the goals are ob
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"For Amazon, the appeal is obvious: Adding millions of new users to its services and gaining access to data like their voice-based wish lists and Alexa-powered shopping habits..." It's okay folks. There are no privacy concern
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Influencers with million of followers are no longer where the money is because their audiences have been desensitized towards those ads and messages, and they have learned to completely tune it out. Micro-influencers are where the actions t
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Indeed. Many people fail to grasp that in the grand scheme of things, this is unlikely to change anything. Google has always been at the center of the tech industry. Some of its services are not only important to the public and vital for th
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I'm not sure if I understood you correctly as there are multiple ways one can short Bitcoin at the moment if they wish to. But in the end I think we all need to remember that any theory presented by anyone here would only serve as a hy
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Because traditionally short positions carry more risks. You would only keep short positions for a long period of time if you have enormous amount of capital to sustain it. Short selling strategies and derivatives were often utilized to arti
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Exactly! BTC futures or derivatives were precisely the tools that were used. With Bitcoin derivatives, essentially you don't even need to own any Bitcoin at the present to trade since it's a future contract. BTC price reached its
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I have little doubt BTC price is being manipulated. Its price was kept very low for the longest time so some very powerful organizations such as Bakkt (backed by the same people behind NYSE) could accumulate most of its market supply. At th
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That's why they have been doing these clinical trial studies on real patients in helping them to treat their PTSD. Last I read the results have been very positive and it is now currently at Phase 3. The negative stories we often heard
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It's difficult enough to coordinate a group of 200 people under normal circumstances, being able to climb to the top of Everest by every single person is nothing short of a miracle!
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Initially I thought it was just another Gameboy imitation, but a crank? Wow, that would add a whole new dimension to it. At this stage of the gaming industry when everybody keeps making very similar games and products, any unconventional cr
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Uber is screwed. They clearly stated in their SEC filing that the possibility of deploying full autonomous cars will significantly impact their future earnings.
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It's interesting that Cook mentioned the danger of how today algorithms keep pushing for preexisting beliefs. One of the risks with AI is the over-relying on analytical data. When a desirable pattern is discovered, it often leads to fu
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More and more people will just move away from city once these tech are deployed on a bigger scale. Life is too short to be subjected to this type of bullshit.
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I love how the introductory video gives you a big picture of different ways the math can be applied to real life scenarios. I wish they did this more frequently at school. Often the students did not understand at the beginning how all these
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Through the game of tennis, I quickly learned that in order to achieve a state of equilibrium or balance, everything must be in moderation. When you hit a tennis ball, it's always a trade off between power and precision. You cannot gai
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I know a couple of friends who worked at the major banks. They all started out as contractors. I remember one guy told me during their first year that all they did was browsing Reddit at work. He was a close friend and didn't want me t
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These solutions are touching only the technical aspects and I believe most experts probably know exactly what to do, but that doesn't mean they can actually do it simply because its execution depends largely on politics. We can have on
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I believe laziness in this situation should be defined as having adequate alone time to process your thoughts, rather than always being busy doing something all the time. People whose work involves mainly analytical thinking tasks are often
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For those who need to take a driving test, it's always best to try schedule it for the earliest morning time slot. The examiners typically don't want to start off their day by being a prick and fail someone.
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"I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy
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Once my phone is rebooted or ran out of battery, Signal would stop notifying me of any new messages unless I manually launch the app, sometimes I even had to tap on each individual conversation to check for new messages. I agree with some
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Viettel, the military owned mobile network in Vietnam, has chosen Ericsson as their main partner to build 5G network. It is expected to launch next year and potentially with unlimited data as well.
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