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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
But eye tracking is a huge problem in itself, and, to my knowledge, it's not solved at all. I type this as I sit in front of my "15 notebook, and I need barely move my eyes to see the whole screen. I think that figuring out where
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
If you still need to point to right area of the screen using trackpad or mouse, and can only perform the click event with your mind, I can't see how is that useful.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Yes, this surprises me too, since telegram accounts are tied to SIM cards, and my best guess was that it's not easy to get a bunch of SIM's in Iran. But for some reason, Iran bots are considered the cheapest ones out there...
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>Basically, any attempt would go about as well as someone walking into the middle east and trying to set up a secular dictatorship in the style of the USSR. Maybe I'm not getting your point, but Assad regime is secular dictatorship,
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
yeah, interesting tidbit about Iran and telegram is that russian telegram channels who monetize themselves with ads can easily buy tens of 10k's of fake iran followers to boost their 'social capital'. And since telegram does
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
What bothers me is that one can easily enter the realm of complete and total paranoia and disregard every opinion he does not like as a 'foreign state propaganda', be that Russia, China, Iran or some other country. Removing 5K acc
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Again, idk, but I would not consider 5-9 thousands of fake accounts 'a large quantity of propaganda assets'. You can probably buy that amount of accounts for 10K, or 50K USD, or some similar sum. Chump change for a state actor, an
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
idk man... "Twitter accounts claiming to be located in Iran and throughout the Middle East pushed out many thousands of tweets under a handful of hashtags, such as #HardRevenge and #DeathToAmerica", well, Iran has population of 81
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>there’s a ton of shitty jobs out there, and those shitty jobs are most vulnerable to outsourcing, automation, made obsolete, etc Shitty jobs are not must vulnerable, quite opposite in fact. Automating some 400K/year quant job at he
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Someone being in debt means that someone has an obligation on said debt, so "savings glut" means "debt glut",tautologically.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>Hong Kong isn't hurting I read some opinions about HK protests, and they were saying, basically, that HK youth has no chance to buy an apartment and live a good middle class life, hence the revolt. This is something that is not cap
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
No, I just find it amusing that Masha Gessen is praising some person, who, if relocated to USA while keeping his political views intact, will instantly become alt-right monster and God knows what else (see Covington kids case). Funny how th
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Yes, I'am quoting Bryan MacDonald, sorry if it wasn't clear. And since I speak russian, I can attest that his tweet is factually correct.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
The problem here is Gessen uses Zhukov's words to bash Donald Trump, but neglects to mention that Zhukov is a right-winger who supports Trump, and the Tea Party. He's also anti-feminist & new yorker readers would feel differen
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
tl;dr - some folks were posting clickbait links to FB, driving audience to their websites which were choke full of ads. so, basically, doing what every publisher is doing. Oh,and far-right message was about supporting Israel. Which is, well
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
it's not convinient to fully disable charging at home, a lot of folks will revolt. and if you have people charging their cars at night, you always have a chance of swapping a worn out battery for a good one.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
problem is, batteries tend to degrade with time, and it's obviously not fair if you will change your worn out battery for an almost new one and only pay for a single charge.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
idk man? I explicitly specified the country and time frame? From what I know, if we talk about USA in 1985-1990 (and not USSR in 1935), there were no genocide, no mass poverty or concentration camps. Just education and housing were affordab
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
I think my argument boils down to realism. In a country of 300M people, you will never, ever get rid of some injustice and tragedy. You will always have some rapes, some orphans, people wrongfully jailed, stuff like that. That's just a
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Late 80's and early 90's as a teenager? Look, you can visit live gigs of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Shotgun Messiah, Bad Religion and such, make some modest money and buy a couple of SF properties? What's not to like about that?
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>They might've just lost their jobs, ended up late on rent, or going without medicine, but they were "only just detained." Yes, and again, how many people default on their student debts each year? Probably x100 times more
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
From 2007 through 2017. 1511 people, or 151 person per year. And they were just detained, not shot dead or sent to gulags forever. Now, honest question, no sarcasm. ~100 people die EACH DAY in car crashes in USA. 25 people die annually due
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>WeWork deflated more than any company in HISTORY. Cisco went from 77$ per share in 2000 to $10 per share in 2002, while being public (so the value was much more real than WeWork, you could hit the 'sell' button to make it real
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>MAYBE you can feel some emotion for the investors whose money was essentially stolen, by a scam artist? Honestly, I think investors were quite aware of what kind of business WeWork is. They were hoping to dump the whole hot mess to publ
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Yeah, that's funny to watch as an original submitter. 30 upvotes and 3 comments in 50 minutes. Seems like people have very little to say about the whole... incident. Other than point out that twitter security practices are not good for
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
This is a very interesting point, which in fact plays in defense of original article. Bob Hoffmann, very influential figure in advertising ( http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/ ) likes to point out that there were not that many
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US: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on users(apnews.com)
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Hey Jesse, I spent 6 years working in ad-tech, and I was researching the incrementality effect of ads, selection bias and stuff like that for last 3 years. I want to let you know that your article is good. Online advertising is not a bubble
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>It's the same in online marketing, you often target people who are searching for say a pair of shoes. This is funny, because on HN you often see complaints about online advertising being horrifically bad because "it suggests m
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>I like seeing community-based, high density housing with shared kitchens and bathrooms In soviet russia, kommunalki host you ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_apartment )

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