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by sprafa 7y ago
Also sort of the reason why the Spanish have tapas (Wikipedia lists it as one of the possible founding myths) - the King ordered drinks could not be served without food
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by sprafa 7y ago
The screen is very competitive, comparable screens in the audiovisual industry regularly go for 10,000$ or more. The screen actually looks like a bargain tbh knowing about HDR 4K screens im not even sure there’s anything in the same ballpar
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by sprafa 8y ago
I don’t see a huge difference. Social marginalisation is indeed huge here in Britain.
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by sprafa 8y ago
The risk is social, the profit is private. Same as 2008. The entire sector needs to be completely rethought of, and regulated aggressively if they are to provide any public good.
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by sprafa 8y ago
They should’ve obliged to allow for data portability with other social networks. There is no reason they can hold onto your friends list as a hostage. If you could move to other social networks and interop with their messenger and feed (how
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by sprafa 9y ago
there's plenty of evidence that globalism has not worked out for substantial parts of the population in most developed countries.
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by sprafa 9y ago
Also of note - how closely related opioids are to poverty and desperation. From reading recent studies, economy in the US is halving - on one side are people desperately fighting for their lives agaisnt an unstoppable force of wild capitali
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by sprafa 9y ago
Your articles are mildly helpful. However it's also possible that ML has new insights into this technology or that they have developed new tech whose patent is still under consideration? What if you're right and these particular p
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by sprafa 9y ago
Interesting! Could you share the memory course? I often feel like I have similar issues with my thinking, and I find it hard to focus. Willing to explore any avenue that would make it easier for me to focus.
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by sprafa 9y ago
Both the Keynesian and the Austrian models have been shown to be flawed and incomplete understandings (from what I understand of it). They can explain some things, but they break down, and in those breakdowns we had crises - keynesian think
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by sprafa 9y ago
It seems like it was one of the dumbest decisions in history. Had they kept the first admnistrator, Jay Garner, who wanted to have elections in 90 days, you might have had everything Bush stated he wanted - a democratic country in the Middl
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by sprafa 9y ago
Steve probably had a strong inclination towards narcisism. There's not much you can do there. If you read about his behaviour at this time and at later times from the Isaacson biography, he was clearly not a great person to be around a
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by sprafa 9y ago
one word: gold no reason it stores value outside of the fact that we all agree that it does, and we all accept it for curreny. Bitcoin is at that point. It's turning into digital gold. I agree with the original commenter. Looking at Bi
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by sprafa 9y ago
From memory (an Economist artible that I cba to find right now) an economic study found that the ideal copyright limitation to actually stimulate authors to produce protected work was somewhere around - 25 years. We are now at 75 after deat
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by sprafa 9y ago
Jesus, there's no comparison there. Really, you think the EU is planning to build a firewall?
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by sprafa 9y ago
Feel like I struggle with exactly this - I had to get fired to get my attitude to change and I'm still working hard at it. Would definitely benefit from mentorship.
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Ask HN: What are the best-designed news sites?
1 points by sprafa 9y ago|1 comments
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by sprafa 9y ago
Far (far) better UX and onboarding, and the free tier. I've only worked in one place that payed for Slack. It's easy to underestimate how much UX matters, but it does, as long as the user has a say in the matter. Otherwise we&#x27
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by sprafa 9y ago
Cook is Bill Gates, not Ballmer. He's a genius level CEO who compromises on design and user experience while advancing the company in the right direction - well enough and fast enough that he crushes the competition.
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Ask HN: Could information warfare make the web and democracy incompatible?
1 points by sprafa 9y ago|0 comments
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by sprafa 9y ago
rock paper shotgun used to be amazing, but a lot of the early staff left to make their own games I think
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by sprafa 9y ago
You can get so close to that line without crossing it though, plus policing 300 million users is hard enough. The problem is that both extreme fascism and communism might actually be a very tempting response to everyday problems to a lot of
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by sprafa 9y ago
No he wants to leave the standard entirely. He just wants to be unlisted from something which has changed his life and he thinks, not for the better. I don't see a reason why he shouldn't be allowed to do that.
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by sprafa 9y ago
Freely given can have a lot of interpretations. I would say that Uber is buying network effects using VC money by depressing prices for the goods they are selling. In the end though car transportation will probably be as profitable of a bus
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by sprafa 9y ago
Markets control almost everything. How would governments not interfere in the market ? Would you not grant IP, considering IP is clearly a form of protectionism ?
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by sprafa 9y ago
They might say that but wouldn't the case be that they're not serving Harley because they can't get the proprietary screwheads for it? In the case of games, the issue might've been IP and fair use. "Not art enough&q
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by sprafa 9y ago
it's relatively popular.
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by sprafa 9y ago
Intellectual Property, DRM and holding my data hostage agaisnt my will are all forms of protectionism, and if you were to remove that, how much would Uber be worth? They have the software and "network effects", but without their d
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by sprafa 9y ago
hey man, do you guys have a template email I can send so I can get my own data out of Tinder?
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by sprafa 9y ago
Big difference, he's not trying to leave Yelp.

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