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by s17n 9y ago
1. True 2. Wealth isn't a fixed pie, but power is (also, real estate). 3. In fact, happiness correlates more strongly with relative income than absolute income. As an aside, I think that multigenerational wealth is particularly corrosi
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by s17n 9y ago
Because the industry is deliberately creating addictive products that happen to be detrimental to the health of the people who use them. Facebook is the biggest offender but any time you hear the term "engagement", that's pr
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by s17n 9y ago
That's great but what is really needed is litigation/legislation.
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by s17n 9y ago
Tl;dr: they took an ad for Hired.com and made it into an article. There's no methodology or data reported.
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by s17n 9y ago
The real challenge here is extracting valuable information - if you just dump the sensor data to disk you will consume the world's storage capacity with a handful of cars.
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by s17n 9y ago
Correct.
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by s17n 9y ago
I don't really care about people dying but I would gladly eliminate human operated vehicles if it meant that speed limits and traffic were a thing of the past.
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by s17n 9y ago
This is a change to how Chrome deals with sites that use onScroll. In their current state, most of these are broken as far as I'm concerned. Chrome's changes will partially fix a lot of these sites, at the cost of breaking some
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by s17n 9y ago
> I genuinely don't understand this hostile statement. Why do you complain that a website isn't functional in pure html in 2017? Because sites that rely on javascript typically have terrible performance and broken UI, and add i
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by s17n 9y ago
> As a user, I certainly do not care about “being part of moving the web forward aggressively”. Why should I? I like my stuff working, not broken. Actually, I do want to be part of websites being faster, and I don't care about the f
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by s17n 9y ago
This allows developers to use new api calls and have their apps work on old devices, it doesn't let google break existing apis without breaking apps. They aren't like recompiling the whole play store against every new google play
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by s17n 9y ago
They made a ML model to identify twitter bots. To get their training data, they identified 100 accounts that appeared to be bots, and then assumed that all their followers were also bots. They used verified accounts as their sample of non-
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by s17n 9y ago
Also, gift cards are almost always denominated in terms of an actual currency.
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by s17n 9y ago
1. Gift cards are dumb 2. If "the gift cards of the future" was the pitch for tokens, nobody would pay them any attention.
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by s17n 9y ago
Is there a market for shorting tokens because if so I want some of that action.
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by s17n 9y ago
I don't follow "influencers" so the ig stories I see are just my friends. Snapchat on the other hand has the "featured" section, not that I ever watch that stuff.
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by s17n 9y ago
There are reasons to write off the entire concept, though. Tokens are a stupid idea - universality is the whole point of currency. And it's pretty obvious that everybody who is promoting an ICO is doing it cause it's easy money
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by s17n 9y ago
It was probably an unstaffed 20% project all along.
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by s17n 9y ago
I realize that "dystopian" is in the original title but it's pretty clickbaity.
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by s17n 9y ago
Google is definitely interested in "paid businesses". What they aren't interested in is businesses under a billion* dollars. *Made up and likely exaggerated number
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by s17n 9y ago
Charging money or showing ads is not a sufficient condition - a better statement is, if it's not profitable, it's not going to stick around long (with exceptions for products that are strategically important to profitable corporat
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by s17n 9y ago
You mean a company like ITA, for example?
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by s17n 9y ago
Really? I thought that Gini is equally applicable to any type of underlying curve.
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What I'm saying is that the user probably shouldn't have any keys at all, because they will end up losing their money to a phishing scam or something.
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by s17n 9y ago
I'm talking about browsing HN - nothing getting posted here is equivalent to War and Peace. If a particular link doesn't work because of javascript, I can just go on to the next one.
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by s17n 9y ago
It's not a technical problem, it's an institutional problem - really multisig is probably worse than just having the bank hold the keys, as it makes it possible for users to lose their money by doing something stupid with their ke
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by s17n 9y ago
It's not a "problem with bitcoin" per se, it just means that bitcoin will have to be supported by banks in the same way that cash is - your assets are kept in an account that the bank is responsible for and you only hold a sm
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by s17n 9y ago
Uh huh tell me more about these "things" that you "do". If there's a web app that I want to use, I whitelist it for js. For general browsing, I keep it off. Ironically, this works fine for the same reason that payw
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by s17n 9y ago
> This decentralized nature of the bitcoin network is not without consequences—the main one being that if you screw up, it’s your own damn problem. This is going to be a deal-breaker for most people. For mass adoption, you'll need
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by s17n 9y ago
Wouldn't gini be better than either of those?

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