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by sidthekid 11y ago
This must be what heaven feels like!
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by sidthekid 11y ago
Really nice. I had built something similar in Python and matplotlib [ https://github.com/sidthekidder/kmeans-visualize/blob/master... ]. Of course your implementation is 100x, and I gained a better understand
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by sidthekid 11y ago
Free Basics has other services apart from just facebook. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internet-org/examples Change at a fundamental level is a good long-term goal, but do you want to make people wait 5-15
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by sidthekid 11y ago
It is somewhat similar because the long-term effects were malicious/not known in the short term. But its not exactly the same because anyone can switch internet carriers at any time (nobody gets medically tied to Free Basics). 'Fa
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by sidthekid 11y ago
There are people who do not have access even to the walled gardens of 25 years ago. This link is a response by Facebook to criticisms of Free Basics - https://info.internet.org/en/response-to-free-basics-opponen... I d
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by sidthekid 11y ago
"... by throwing in short-sighted plans, you are preventing the Government and the market from thinking up plans for giving permanent access to the full Internet for these poor." I am on the fence on whether to support Free Basics
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by sidthekid 11y ago
I would pay $1 for a service that matches my skill level to various open source project issues on github and gives me an intro to make a PR for them. This service once stable and dependable could be sold to Comp Science depts of universitie
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by sidthekid 11y ago
Maybe the IEEE 802.11p standard would be used for this purpose.
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by sidthekid 11y ago
Would this be usable by those who normally wear contact lenses?
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The Tesla Model X(wired.com)
2 points by sidthekid 11y ago|0 comments
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by sidthekid 11y ago
Plenty of interesting ideas given by the author. I wonder how likely it is that someone at Amazon reads this and starts a similar effort.
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Kindle – The Sleeping Social Network(medium.com)
10 points by sidthekid 11y ago|2 comments
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by sidthekid 11y ago
Can't a simple solution be: websites detect if their ads are being blocked (by iOS9 or whatever) and blur their content until the user disables the adblock?