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Very cool, controls are a bit awkward though.
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Snowden seems like a great guy with a good heart. It's a shame that he has been exiled to Moscow for embarrassing the government, but i'm happy he is alive and not in a jail cell.
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Mobile video games
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Software isn't high-risk for women though. Diversity thirsty companies are desperate to hire technical women with even a shred of competency. It's just not a cool thing to do though, women don't want to be geeks. There is mu
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"Cool kids" should not be taking 10k checks except as a favor, every investor they take on and have to maintain a relationship with is a potential distraction to the business. I'm lucky to have more than enough capital to ru
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This isn't realistic. Many business need outside capital, they just need it without the institutional baggage. For my own business i'm specifically looking for investors that are aligned with the companies goals first. And its p
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part of the problem is VC has developed a doctrine that is designed for investors, not companies. VCs should be focused on serving their companies, not their benefactors. But in todays world its just not the case. You hear founders talk a
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The problem is they will pop, and then come back. They are like a resilient strain of disease. Each time people lose faith in them they develop new ideas and arguments for why they are the future. They aren't the future, they are dee
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it's a bore, but maybe politically interesting for some
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blockchain is a concept. It can refer to the actual implementation seen in bitcoin, ethereum and others. Or it can refer more generally to the algorithmic backing of crypto-currencies.
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"Lifestyle business" is derogatory propaganda by the investor class, who wants you to think like them and make more money for them. Every business is a lifestyle business, after all you only have one life. Investors want you to
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At the heart of abrahamic religion is the idea that sinners will suffer God's wrath, in this life or the next. Which in turn gives righteous people the authority to punish sinners, because they are carrying out God's will.
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giving criminals rights is a politically toxic because of religious doctrine: the point of jail is not to learn, but to suffer. the idea is if you flagrantly disrespect god(aka the power structure of the society you live in), you must suff
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If that isn't evidence for capitalism being a joke I don't know what is. By all means go to college, get an education, all so vultures can use your brain to enrich themselves while paying the minimum. To say nothing of the financ
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9y ago
I think that token networks in general have potential. While its impressive that cryptotokens have proven to be a store of value, as they exist now don't offer any significant advantages to cash, except for black market transactions. W
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Your emotional reaction to the quote has nothing to do with what he's talking about. Hes not talking about censorship or one side winning. He's saying he was hoping political wisdom would be gained from the free exchange of idea
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Because its really weird and new to attribute high value to small amounts of data you transact over the internet to a distributed system. The cryptography and game theory needed to stop anti-social nodes(hackers and other entities) isn
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10y ago
For the core application of writing pixels to the board, I would of used a more efficient monolithic design with less points of failure. One big server could handle 333 pixels/s(their expected volume). Not sure that using cassandra and
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To me it seems a little over-engineered but it held up so props to them.
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Reddit has large radical left and radical right communities that are constantly fighting and overwhelm the site with political drama and propaganda. If they don't do something about it they are going to lose the users that come there
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"Dare I say, it has the scent of Jobs to it" he dared!
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Even animals on factory farms get fed.
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10y ago
Pretty sad that we treat caged animals better than people. And just like abusing a dog doesn't fix behavioral problems, prisons that punish without rehabilitation don't change people's ways.
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found the Jet investor
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You can only cash out 12.5%. 12 month non-compete for a small cash out is a pretty double edged deal.
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11y ago
I like chess, but watching paint dry is more exciting than live standard games.
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This is an idiotic wager. People are only pirating because they want to play the game. Of course some percentage them would of bought it if they couldn't easily get it for free. The marketing effect doesn't make up for thousands
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Chess and Go were fascinating games for AI because they appear so mathematically precise and calculation dependent you'd think computers would easily win like they would at an arithmetic contest. It's really a testament to human
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People that try to predict the future in ai are breathing hot air more often then not.
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"I think we all know" VR is a niche gimmick until proven otherwise. Outside the bubble of enthusiasts nobody is convinced people will attach a black box to their eyeballs to game.
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