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by qubax 8y ago
> Sitting down and actually grasping a full book is becoming a rare skill Nope. People are more literate today than 70 years ago. People are better educated today and have more schooling. On average, more people have read a full book tha
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by qubax 8y ago
Hard to tell whether this is a news article or an ad for the featured company. Also, tech has been in real estate for a very long time. Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, etc were supposedly "disrupting and revolutionizing" real estate befor
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by qubax 8y ago
The previous right to be forgotten was limited to only search engines operating in the EU. Meaning, google didn't have to remove the data itself, just the entry to the link in the index. GDPR is far more onerous in that it applies to a
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by qubax 8y ago
Just a question. I saw this thread more than a day ago. "32 points by prostoalex 1 day ago | past | web | 32 comments" https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wsj.com How come it's on the front page with &quot
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by qubax 8y ago
The point of capitalism is to consolidate power around capital rather than a monarch, political party, government, nation or voting group. It's why capitalism can work in a democracy (US), communism (China) or monarchy (british empire)
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by qubax 8y ago
> Theoretical computer science isn't science, it's maths, just like theoretical physics. Yes. Theoretical physics is theoretical. But physics is not. Computer science is purely theoretical. It's math. Adding a theoretical
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by qubax 8y ago
The problem with "studies/research" today is that most of it cannot reproduced, not that it went nowhere. It's not really a matter of "cleaning up" the research to make it "positive". In other words,
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by qubax 8y ago
It isn't a science period. Computer science is mathematics, not science. Alonzo Church and Alan Turing ( the fathers of computer science ) were mathematicians. Algorithms is a mathematical/logical concept.
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by qubax 8y ago
> you will see a metro area that was and still is being shaped by race. In NYC, a major example is Robert Moses' Cross Bronx Expressway which "conveniently" cut through large swathes of minority neighborhoods. But it'
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by qubax 8y ago
I'm so sick of the self-righteous moralizing and bullshit by the tech elites and the news companies that help push that narrative. Brian Acton didn't create whatsapp to "do good". Facebook wasn't created to "do
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by qubax 8y ago
> Why not? Because it's important ( national security level important ). > Korea and China dominate the manufacturing part, why should search be any different? Korea and China dominate the manufacturing part of search? What does
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by qubax 8y ago
"Social science". The term science has been appropriated by so many pseudosciences that it has lost any meaning. Because real science has such a good reputation, all the academic frauds have decided to link their field to science
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by qubax 8y ago
> China will not allow a foreign company to compete against its home grown search engines, so why bother? No. China will let a foreign company compete against its home grown search engines under its own terms. There's no way we&#x27
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by qubax 8y ago
> On Android I use Firefox with [1] and [2] for YouTube; the former lets me turn the screen off without letting YouTube know that the screen is turned off. The problem is even if the screen is off, youtube still sends the video data to
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by qubax 8y ago
Recent? There have been spurts of uproars about google ( and tech/social media ) for a while now, nationally and internationally. After obama won in 2008 and 2012, there was conservative/republican backlash against tech/socia
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by qubax 8y ago
Yeah blockchain seems like overkill here. But the world of corporatism is just as susceptible to fads like every other subculture. It's like execs are desperate to force blockchain on every problem because it's the hip new thing.
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by qubax 8y ago
GM should name their next model "The Abyss" - "when you stare at it, it stares back at you". Seems like so much of the tech/business ecosystem is now centered around spying on you. Your OS, amazon's echo, socia
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by qubax 8y ago
> I'm cruious, who imposes that fine The executive branch can ( via executive order, treasury sanctions, etc ) and of course congress can. > and how do they enforce payment? By threat of financial collapse. > Can the US Govern
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by qubax 8y ago
Except if it is a too-big-to-fail bank and there is systematic risk, the taxpayers will have to bail it out. A bank that controls half a nation's banking is systematic. The government will bail it out. If things get bad, the EU/EC
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by qubax 8y ago
> By constantly playing on the offensive, they've put Facebook and Twitter on a constantly defensive posture worried about being called out as having 'liberal bias'. Jack Dorsey and Zuckerburg said their company had libera
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by qubax 8y ago
> Since when does the government get to police ideological speech, or complain about "bias"? It's the standard in most of the world. In parts of europe, you could go to jail for political speech and the media is tightly co
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by qubax 8y ago
Yeah, that number seemed low to me as well. I always assumed there would be more rodents in a city than humans. Odd to see that there are a million more humans than rodents in barcelona.
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by qubax 8y ago
So "clear browsing history" ( from all time ) really doesn't do what it says anymore? It doesn't even clear youtube history? Wowsa. If google is this bad, I wonder what microsoft is really storing. I wonder what ISPs are
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by qubax 8y ago
This type of stuff happened a lot during the dotcom bust. It seemed like good times would last forever. People would get hired with great salary, options, benefits, etc and fly across the country to start their new jobs only to find the bus
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by qubax 8y ago
It is normal and expected for the executives though. Somehow, even in the worst bankruptcies or closures, they always seem to end up with golden parachutes. Must be luck.
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by qubax 8y ago
> Once you reach a certain size you can continue to squash competition through sheer momentum. Not momentum. FB and Google lost their momentum a long time ago. What they have is power and market share. What google, facebook, etc are doin
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by qubax 8y ago
> I've always adapted a policy of using my real name as a moniker on social sites. That's a terrible policy. Anyone can create a username as you then and post offensive things and you'd be screwed.
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> This is stuff everyone learned in the 90s bubble. This is stuff every generation learns during every major recession. During the boom times, when business is good, the company treats its employees well and everyone thinks the company w
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by qubax 8y ago
> That's a broad brush to paint with; companies are just a group of people, not some inhuman construct. Companies are a group of people hired to make money for shareholders. They owe loyalty to shareholders, not their workers. It&#x
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by qubax 8y ago
Of course. It's common sense. As the rest of the world gets more industrialized, wealthier and better educated, it's inevitable the awards will be less concentrated in one place. It's keep spreading out as time goes on. It&#x

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