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by odbol_ 10y ago
I mean, my doctor usually just types my symptoms into Google anyway...
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Exactly. If you're interviewing for a startup and you don't know what funding round they're on or how much runway they have, you're setting yourself up to get screwed.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
We live in a world of Privacy Theater. Everyone is always complaining about "their privacy" as if they still have any, and it's kind of amusing. Your phone's microphone can be turned on remotely and listen to what you sa
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Welcome to Hacker News; you must be new here
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by odbol_ 10y ago
The URL isn't encrypted though, is it? Since there's no dynamic content on the page, they already know exactly what you're looking at.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
There's already been studies on how Google can manipulate elections just by reordering search results, or how Facebook can alter your mood by tweaking what goes into your news feed. It's not hard to imagine how bad things could ge
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by odbol_ 10y ago
I think the First Things First manifesto is a good start: http://firstthingsfirst2014.org
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by odbol_ 10y ago
IPFS already has a peer-to-peer chat room that can share messages, files, and streaming videos without a central server . This means users have a way to share content without worrying that it could fall into the wrong hands or be censored
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by odbol_ 10y ago
It's kind of silly how he says "everyone needs to know about this; it's so important" and then the first example he preceded by saying that mobile phone screens basically can't tell the difference and don't mat
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Pushbullet nails it. Bonus: it works with your non-Apple devices too!
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by odbol_ 10y ago
When I was on Shark Tank our pitch took a little over an hour. Granted we had a complicated audio requirements that took a while to set up, but the pitch lasted a long time. The beginning 1-minute pitch is memorized, but everything after th
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Yeah it's a pretty bad sign for your company when even the founder is like "this kinda sucks, I'm going to a better company that actually makes money."
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by odbol_ 10y ago
> I have yet to see any add that is of any value what so ever from the main site. Do you ever see value in _any_ ads from _any_ site? I very rarely do, but apparently it works because the whole internet is run on ads.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Maybe it should be a public service though. Would be nice to see IPFS tackle this in a distributed, uncensorable manner, or maybe some kind of Torrent-based Twitter.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
HN's privilege is showing pretty badly here in these comments. Seem to be completely oblivious to the oppressive squalor that most the world lives in, only thinking about which high-paying cushy job they should take to "change the
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Seriously. Can someone please downvote this whole post? Is this the caliber of content we now have on the front page of HN?
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by odbol_ 10y ago
If anyone thinks that startups aren't _all about_ sales, they are in for a rude awakening. The truth is, your idea/technology doesn't actually have much to do with the success of a startup. It's all about how much money
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by odbol_ 10y ago
IPFS
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by odbol_ 10y ago
This is why you use their web interface and don't install any of their hackware on your devices.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Lots of people getting mad at Dropbox for this, which is fine, but should we not also get mad at Apple for making their "security" system so easy to circumvent? Being an app developer that was bitten in the ass by the new "se
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Just look at how Bernie Sanders pushed Hillary to adopt more liberal/socialist policies just because so many voters supported him.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Heck, I just want him to get into the debates. Having only two parties debate things they care about without a third voice means most of the TV-watching American public won't ever realize that there are better alternatives.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Considering that old people are more likely to vote for Trump or Hillary, yes it is. CNN doesn't even include ages 18-34 on their polls anymore because those people are trying to vote for actual sane 3rd party candidates.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Haha for me it's the opposite. My password never works in Dropbox. I think it's because they don't support spaces in passwords, but they don't tell you when you change your password. They just accept the change and the
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Comparing MPG between cars and trucks is not appropriate. It should be weight per mile per gallon or something accounting for the massive amount of supplies the truck is carrying.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
HN is terrible on mobile. Their column sizes are just slightly too big for my screen (not adaptive), so I have to scroll to read the last word of every line. And on desktop, it just expands to the whole page width, even through everyone k
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by odbol_ 10y ago
All that in-depth explanation, and he forgot the first rule of data visualization: always label your axis! This should have been at the top, but was buried at the bottom of the article: "The left side of the 2D representation represent
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by odbol_ 10y ago
aka vote brigading
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by odbol_ 10y ago
This only affects landlines, right? A smartphone tells you who you're connected to.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
> First, there's no mechanistic reason to think they would be dangerous. That's like saying "there's no reason to think peanuts would be dangerous" since humans eat them all the time. And yet, they are deadly to

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