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by nooron 7y ago
What leads you to think that a deflationary currency should be the sole basis for an economy?
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by nooron 7y ago
Working in elections I am very skeptical of this. The reason is that electoral systems support the transition of power by creating a publicly trusted mechanism to measure support. People have to believe their votes are being accurately tabu
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by nooron 7y ago
I have no idea. I meant my comment in jest— this episode is likely to end in a movie about We— since there’s no evidence MS had heard of WeWork as early as 2010.
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by nooron 7y ago
The penultimate slide (132/133) of the Softbank Vision Fund deck from 6/25/2010 is just the words "We (movie)". This now sounds prophetic. If you're curious, you can see the whole strange deck here: https:&#x2
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by nooron 7y ago
Thanks dang, sorry about that. You’re right.
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by nooron 7y ago
Heroin has killed people I know. I still don’t think separating and caging families is moral.
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by nooron 7y ago
I moved to the Bay in the summer of 2013 to work for a YC company. I read Dhalgren every night then. The way he weaves technology into the story is so different from other science fiction: incredibly light on exposition and origin, heavy em
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by nooron 7y ago
Yes, and the shops are required to post to a website called Leads Online.
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by nooron 7y ago
Fair question, yes it does. We've pivoted quite a bit so where we landed has nothing to do with optimizing ads for campaigns, even though it's where we started. What we sell now is much closer to "Slack for political and nonp
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by nooron 7y ago
thanks for listening, inflatableDodo! I'm glad I was able to share my perspective with you.
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by nooron 7y ago
I think that very few people who buy ads in politics believe CA's model works. I think Russians could figure out that race was divisive in the US because they've known that and their propaganda has long centered on American racism
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by nooron 7y ago
They don't have a good track record. They have good marketing. It is very hard to demonstrate (or disprove) efficaciousness in online persuasion, and as a result, it is easy to take credit for client victories. It is a great chain of b
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by nooron 7y ago
also, for your edit, I'd stand by my claim. SCL might have been running ads (I have no idea if they did), and those ads could've made a small but important difference. But I don't believe that the software CA claims to have b
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by nooron 7y ago
Big talk, no walk. They didn't succeed in building a piece of software that would allow more economical targeting than Facebook already has with its custom audience system. If they helped win, which I would be intensely skeptical of, i
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by nooron 7y ago
Hey, this prediction is interesting, but not resonant with my experience as someone who works in this. Cambridge Analytica's impact on 2016 is significantly overstated. In fact, I would feel confident saying their impact was zero. The
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by nooron 8y ago
I’ve been using Portal Spaces a couple weeks. The shared whiteboard excites me a lot. We’ve been able to cast Real Time Boards to it, to have focused conversations during our engineering retrospectives and planning meetings.
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A digital revolution is reshaping Democratic campaigns(techcrunch.com)
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by nooron 8y ago
Ann Arbor?
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by nooron 8y ago
But how common is it actually to pretend to be a gender you are not for something like this? Displaying yourself as trans brings huge social opprobrium in most places. I can’t imagine anyone I know pretending to be a trans woman to get a jo
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by nooron 9y ago
Think about the impact this would have on interest rates. Closest thing I can imagine would be this: http://www.standupeconomist.com/pdf/misc/interstellar.pdf
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Bank fees are stagnant, but concentrating(blog.pawnguru.com)
2 points by nooron 9y ago|0 comments
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by nooron 9y ago
The NRA has its own social network where users must perform certain tasks before the user can post or comment. You have to tweet at your legislator or share things to your personal Facebook in order to show fealty to the community, in order
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by nooron 9y ago
I got my first job out of college through HN at a YC startup. I am still in startups several years later and will be for a long time, hopefully. I am very grateful for the opportunities I've found and cultivated from it.
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by nooron 9y ago
Don't know if you're being sarcastic. Advocating for more diverse teachers doesn't seem insane to me. I am male and think that my school experience was bettered by having a larger than normal number of male teachers. We shoul
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by nooron 9y ago
Yes! All those pesky foreign Germans and Jews, using STEM as a backdoor to get into our society. What do any of them do? Math? Some nonsense about atoms? Those foreigners are very different from us and will never assimilate, and they certai
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by nooron 9y ago
Have we experienced high-profile auditors, accountants and other "independent third parties" in the financial industry lying, prevaricating, or even acting in bad faith in recent memory? http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
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by nooron 9y ago
I got offered a job there. Then another HR employee called and said wait, they needed to find out my SAT/ACT scores before they could actually offer me the job. I had most of a master's degree at that point. I still got the offer,
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by nooron 9y ago
Want to prove them wrong, monochromatic? I'm listening.
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by nooron 9y ago
Monochromatic signaling their boundless virtue as usual, with low effort comments. See how your comment is also meant to signal virtue to people who use the phrase virtue signaling? The real question is: what harm has been done to you by Ap
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by nooron 9y ago
I didn't say they were good stores of wealth. I said people use them as stores of wealth. I making a descriptive claim, and you are making a normative one.

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