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by pwaivers 9y ago
So... Can we buy the product?
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by pwaivers 9y ago
> Maduro created the currency to try to salvage his country’s failing economy, where inflation is estimated to spiral to 13,000 percent this year. That is a shocking statement. 1) I did not know Venezuela is in such a bad state. 2) I can
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Which leads to one of my favorite programming jokes: > There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
The renderings are amazing looking! It makes Jupiter looks like an evil planet.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Thank you for this answer. It makes a lot of sense. I suppose I was conflating blockchain technology with actual problems that it could solve. The same probably also applies to cryptocurrency.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
It seems blockchain technology and cryptocurrency are purposely absent from this list. Can we assume that YC is not interested in funding these types of startups?
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by pwaivers 9y ago
I really like the vision. When do you plan to have Doxa itself up an running?
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by pwaivers 9y ago
> "And so we wait to see what amount of death will be tolerable in America as the price of retaining prohibition. Is it 100,000 deaths a year? More? At what point does a medical emergency actually provoke a government response that
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by pwaivers 9y ago
> This Article argues that algorithmic entities — legal entities that have no human controllers... What is an example of one these entities? The abstract doesn't really explain what it means here.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
I agree with you. While it may look altruistic on the surface (providing free internet to the less fortunate), they are actually creating monopoly on Internet for all future users. They can easily cut out competition.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Facebook has actually done a lot of work to reach the "next billion users". See https://info.internet.org/en/impact/ . They want to make Facebook essentially a portal to the internet for people in poor c
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by pwaivers 9y ago
I have read about Dynamicland before and really like the idea of an interactive program/computer. However, I still do not understand what they are actually doing. For example this quote: > "Each one of these was made by a dif
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Can anyone access their website [1] or whitepaper [2]? It is incredibly scary that such a huge ICO can disappear from the internet. Imagine if another company that was raising $600 million just disappears from the web. [1] http:/&#x2F
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Yes! AriseBank blatantly lies in the first statement about FDIC-insured accounts. Here is another quote from the "correction": > This entity is totally separate from AriseBank and will operate separately from AriseBank. AriseB
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by pwaivers 9y ago
[1] Here is the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ), which worked on the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers. It is based in Washington, DC and works closely with news organizations in the US and around the world. [2]
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by pwaivers 9y ago
There are lots of great reporters in the USA with integrity. I am sad to see this general sentiment that quality journalism is dead.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Wow extremely interesting. Why are all of the graphs very cyclic?
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Would this fly in the United States? Is there a near-future where this will happen in the U.S. as well? I think it would not. Americans value their individuality too much. I think "trustworthiness" is not really a characteristi
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by pwaivers 9y ago
I wonder how difficult it would be to adapt this game to read the text adventure out loud and allow visually impaired kids to play it. The author here has done tremendous work into the mechanics of a text-based game, and I think it would b
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Can you expand on this?
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by pwaivers 9y ago
The pictures on the first page look exactly like what I expect graduate students and professors of Stats to look like.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
This is awesome! Such a cool tool
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by pwaivers 9y ago
I like the rules that lays out in this article. However, I don't see his argument against Writing Idiomatic Python. He cherry picked two methods that (correctly) could have been written better. However, this does not mean that all i
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Wow this is a really cool question and even better answers!
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by pwaivers 9y ago
There is only one academic who turned to sex work in this article right? Unless I missed some one else the article mentioned. This is a very specific example and paints with a broad paintbrush.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Is there any way to determine how much Amazon employees, contractors, and third-parties have paid in taxes? Even if Amazon only pays 1.4 billion itself, doesn't the company still contribute to government taxes paying employees and buy
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by pwaivers 9y ago
This was actually really fascinating to me. I loved to see all the words that are important : - nsfw - This one is hilarious. Of all the internet terms (e.g. AFAIK, AMA, LOL), this is the most used. - laiditontheline - Why is this importa
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/949/
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by pwaivers 9y ago
In general yes. The policy was passed and signed. The industry was ready to start using it, since we are only a week away from the planned start date. This was a concerted effort to block the policy, and therefore could be considered a &qu
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Being able to explain something in simple terms is actually REALLY difficult to do. It is a skill in itself. Someone can intuitively understand math very well, but lack the skill to explain it to someone else at all.

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