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by slivym 9y ago
Well there's a lot to unpack there. But it's worth noting that there's an enormous difference between doing something like this in South Africa, and doing this in America. Of course the SECs view that any trading on US stocks
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I knew a guy who was a technical advisor to Intel Capital (worked at Intel). They're not there to diversify, they use capital to advance their existing business strategy in key markets. They often take stakes in companies that Intel ar
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Well I think there are two counter points: Uber already has a running business, so it's relatively easy for them to go to a bank and say 'Here's how much a fleet of cars cost, here are the running costs, would you finance us
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Seems like an incredibly long winded way of saying 'To go faster you either need to split up each instruction into lots of parts or increase the voltage for the transisters. We've split the instructions as much as we can, and powe
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It's not a constitutional right to have a bank lend you money to buy assault weapons. They're businesses, they can do what they like, they don't owe you anything. Side note, trying to connect publications you don't like
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Well firstly let's not disregard a proposal that could greatly diminish bad gun sales simply because it doesn't eliminate them completely. This mechanism is more than just stopping an individual sale. If a store sells a certain cl
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Your Walmart point is the same as his janitor point. In both instances what is causing huge inequality is that American businesses spend a huge amount of their time and effort finding 'efficiency' in finding ways to get jobs done
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I'm sorry, but this article just seems bizarre. It's not economically literate - it doesn't actually examine the cost of a house relative to earnings and access to mortgages. It doesn't make any attempt to quantify how m
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1. Banks colluding to fix Libor 2. Swap traders influencing their own banks Libor. 3. Banks fixing their Libor contribution to mis-represent the health of their business (possibly egged on by a government that doesn't want banks to fai
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That really doesn't change the argument surrounding piracy - the contention is that piracy doesn't displace sales. If that's true, it is literally not effecting whether everyone is paying their share. The people who pirated i
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>In a nutshell, FlightSimLabs installed a password dumper onto ALL users’ machines, whether they were pirates or not, but then only activated the password-stealing module when it determined that specific ‘pirate’ serial numbers had been
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This doesn't seem like it's a solution to the problem, it's just a different type of venue with the opposite problem. If I go in and grab a coffee and a crumpet they're not going to be very happy.
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What's really worrying about this to me, is how deep this goes. Hacker News is a relatiely well informed audience about this topic. We understand: * that the false positive rate is going to result in more legal material being taken do
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Not to mention that since people aren't actually conducting business exclusively in bitcoin they are forced to transfer back to fiat currency constantly which is a transaction that has all the same risks.
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Everyone is owed due process to some extent. But in this case, are we really bothered about a guy who isn't in the UK, has broken UK bail conditions, and is quite likely to have actively participated in attacks against some of the UK&#
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It really makes you wonder why there is no one in the organisation saying "This is a fantastic new product, with truly innovative work. Why did you feel the need to create an internal competitor to it rather than help make it better&qu
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This is just the same problem everyone has with everything. Tools are useful but you need good culture built around those tools. Slack is great for getting help, or discussing a topic in real time, especially when you're canvasing for
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Wow, this is a toxic website.
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It's nice, but I'm not sure it's a good idea. I've worked in companies that have had toxic cultures before and bringing young and inexperienced people into that situation was a really bad idea. This is a good idea for a
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Right but there's a mirror image problem, which is that you're working on Y, people need Y, your team is resourced for Y. So if you go off and do X, then why are they paying you to do Y? Let's cut the headcount on Y, and inve
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I find it interesting to see the external perspective of someone looking at FPGAs for this application since I'm an FPGA guy myself and know quite a lot about it. The price is a fair complaint but it's a bit misleading - actually
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Does anything think this goes beyond simple corporate politics? Moving from vertical to horizontal organisations, re-organised back to verticals, bringing in a strategy group, moving underperforming execs into 'strategic' departme
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This is kind of ridiculous. The purpose of reserves is not to send political messages. It's to provide a mechanism to manage monetary policy and it does that through buying back its liabilities. To do this effectively you must hold a s
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I don't understand how this holds true though, because to actually send someone money you need to actually... get them the money. A great counter-example of this is that the exchanges in Zimbabwe were trading at a 100% premium when you
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There are just so many issues with this it's almost laughable to be honest. Firstly, let's assume you basically need a big company to opensource their existing IP because opensource is no where near where Intel is today. So let&#x
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Well firstly, no cloud storage system works with 0 locally cached data. What Uber are essentially doing is deleting evidence covered by the warrant by deleting the local copies. The evidence may exist elsewhere, but that doesn't mean t
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I completely agree on your second point, obviously in the long run everything has to be for the company, but hands on the team is number 1. Particularly in larger organisations the only way to manage is to focus on your team and its sphere
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One thing you're missing is that this isn't just calling the police. The person in the article phoned the police and described an armed hostage situation. These calls aren't just 'X is committing a crime.' They desc
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Google's entire tradition of content moderation has been to have accounts with privileges and then add/remove those based on content produced. Google Preferred wasn't a set of videos you could advertise on, it was a set of c
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This seems like a defensive no brainer for youtube though. The classic cable business model is to get subscribers by financing top content that brings in viewers. If Disney opened a 'Mickey Tube' tomorrow with exlusive access to a

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