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by saas_co_de 9y ago
This article seems to be premised on the idea that Facebook's problems are caused by its designers, not its investors and the regulatory environment that it exists in. The problems with FB are not a failure of design or engineering but
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> Awesome. Now what does all that mean in English? Singularity any day now
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
Of course. Monaco and Switzerland have nothing compared to the US. They are tiny. They have a high level of wealth per capita but an insignificant level of absolute wealth.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
The thing is that Twitter can detect bots very easily. They choose not to because they are desperate to keep their numbers up.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
Spoken by someone who has lived in both places. America is vastly more wealthy than any European country and the standard of living is higher at all levels of society. Europe is fine if you have lots of money but it would be hell to be lowe
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
Quite the opposite. Electrical vehicles benefit from high oil prices so eliminating regulations that would reduce demand for oil (thus reducing prices) would reduce demand for EVs. Increasing demand for oil and increasing oil prices will in
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
Technology improved over time but that had nothing to do with environmental regulations. If you want an even comparison pick a random European car and a random American car and see which one you would rather drive. The European car will lik
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> Does anyone know why the consumer electronics industry is ignoring Kodi? They don't have a business model and product that is designed to spy on their customers, which makes them a turd in the toilet bowl.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> very thing that caused Google to remove Kodi from search results in the first place The irony is that Google has made far more money off of "piracy" than Kodi. The sad thing is that a certain select set of companies gets spec
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
If you compare the thousands of years where deflationary currencies were working well to the modern Era I think most would prefer an inflationary currency.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
Costco is the epitome of a rich guy discount. If you can afford a small membership fee and have some reasonable financial planning skills and live in the suburbs you get a discount on everything. Just one example of many.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
They are as likely to go to Mars as Elon musk so at least they are in rare company
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
I don't think that is necessarily true. Whatever rain falls evaporates again. If you increase the amount of rain in one place then evaporation also increases. You have increased the capacity of the water cycle at least in a local area.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
It's usually the opposite. More affluent people usually pay less for the same goods and services. If they didn't they would cease to be more affluent.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> torpedoing whatever rent-seeking strategy Oracle had originally devised They will get damages for everything that has already happened if they win, which is more than zero, so they do have a clear profit motive. Oracle gains nothing by
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> Very unlike social platforms a social media platform that can be used to organize and manipulate hundreds of millions of people globally is far more dangerous than any airplane.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
How about blame the driver behind the wheel who was hired to drive the car and was 100% responsible for everything that happened? Funny how the pile on is targeted at Uber and the tech, when this is a test vehicle with a human driver who wa
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
It was sponsored by sessions so I would guess yes
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> none of his reporting has ever been called into question In 2013, Ackerman was forced to take down one of his Wired stories on what he claimed was a "North Korean propaganda video", after it was revealed the film was a satire
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> Broad restrictions on prostitution and adult services were wanted by conservatives I severely doubt that conservatives want anything of the sort. What they do want is for internet companies to take responsibility for keeping kids off t
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
This was a free choice made by a private corporation. Surely they are exercising their rights here? No?
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> Start by legalizing prostitution and removing the black market That would be to rational thing to do, but people aren't rational and they don't actually want solutions.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
People are using Craigslist and Backpage to advertise sex trafficking victims for sale and using other internet services to engage in the communications to coordinate those sales and sometimes even to process the payments for those sales. S
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
The best way to fight fascism is with censorship ... obviously.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
Yeah, I am sure The Daily Beast got this story because they are such a well respected journalistic outlet. More like nobody at the NYT or WP willing to tarnish their reputation with this crap. Which is pretty bad given what they will publis
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
Interesting question is if the LIDAR was not being used because of the settlement with Google and agreement not to use any of the contested tech.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
The other missing part is that it is the human driver who is responsible. This is a test vehicle and their job is to be ready to take over at any time as if they are driving. It seems unlikely that the Police will find any fault because the
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
100% true. > I don’t think this way of working has hurt my career progression I am sure it has helped.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> One thing I think IBM has failed to grasp about POWER architecture is how to get people to use it. I don't think IBM cares about people using it, especially people who can't afford $1000 dollars. They are only interested in h
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
That is correct but the parent claimed they did not occur at all, which is false.

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