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by theprop 9y ago
Try this: imagine the government put up a fence in front of everyone's house and they let poor people in fine, but charged rich people to get in through the fence. That's the basic idea for ISPs...they want to charge Google, Fac
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by theprop 9y ago
Has anyone used this to build a Sarcasm bot? I desperately need this to handle all my Twitter & Facebook replies.
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by theprop 9y ago
Sorry it's Death Watch!! My fault!! Some sort of a slip! It's a bit slow as a film, but well-done and engaging. Harvey Keitel and Max von Sydow are in it. The director is Bertrand Tavernier.
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by theprop 9y ago
I feel this could be useful as a kind of underground super-highway for some cities i.e. I need to get from one end of the city to the other end without stopping somewhere in between. Tunnels can get built today as opposed to drones or flyi
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by theprop 9y ago
It looks like this is likely a temporary cease & desist in order to get court authorization for their "broader warrantless surveillance program" while they figure out how to get those "bundled messages" into a separa
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by theprop 9y ago
Interesting. Sidenote: a 30+ year old film Death Wish (about a woman who's dying young and how her life becomes a reality tv show) predicted AI-written novels.
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by theprop 9y ago
This is interesting because I thought that Durov after selling VK invested the proceeds into FB?! I don't know that the decline of usage of Facebook means Facebook is necessarily in decline (though I agree with the anecdotal notes abou
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by theprop 9y ago
During back-to-back flights of 23 hours, are the pilots able to sleep for any significant amount of time? How often are they asked to take the marathon flights? More details would be helpful...it's not clear if this is a new norm from
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by theprop 9y ago
Amazon is making life difficult for the USPS as well...forced them to work on Sundays. They definitely have leverage. That said, most everyone at USPS is probably quite happy that Amazon is helping their business thrive when it had been
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by theprop 9y ago
Super!! Bringing the Wooly Mammoth and more extinct animals is next :-D!
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by theprop 9y ago
Yes, fun read...BUT do not read this if you're an entrepreneur!! Do not try to "fake" or "trick" your users with your product!!
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by theprop 9y ago
I'm also highly, highly SKEPTICAL of these findings. I've known MANY people really scarred from divorce. I've NEVER met anyone similarly scarred from being fired. I think long-term unemployment could have more traumatic eff
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by theprop 9y ago
This is to get a high performance ready app out. You could probably get an app out faster in PHP or Meteor or other prototyping framework.
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by theprop 9y ago
While rising rents in SF/Bay Area are due to more & richer tech people, overall costs are declining thanks to tech companies. The cost and reliability of taxis is much much better with Uber than it was previously. The cost of man
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by theprop 9y ago
The funny thing is that this will likely lead to a lot more significant losses in online privacy. The ISPs will now extort money from Google/YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, and Amazon...at least two of whom will need to track users more i
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by theprop 9y ago
Why isn't this called "Protecting the Internet for Patriots"?
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by theprop 9y ago
If United's fare is more than 20% lower than the otherwise lowest fare, I'd probably risk it...but until there's a big change in management, I wouldn't feel good about it.
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by theprop 9y ago
I suggested a decade ago that Net Neutrality rules could be foregone, but one important caveat is needed, that no charges to consumers or producers be levied in respect to violating net neutrality i.e. a producer can't pay to have thei
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by theprop 9y ago
New theory: they were a Hominid people (but not Homo Sapien or human) that came to America to escape marauding communities of humans attacking them.
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by theprop 9y ago
Fantastic!! I feel that one feels most alive when you're involved in some struggle. And if you've really achieved a high level of excellence in your field...may be the right time to trying something new! Michael Jordan tried ba
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by theprop 9y ago
Is this more than an SMTP server? Those are services designed to send emails as an API service for many different parties. Is that what "Postal" is? Or is it a another SMTP server like Postflix or something? It's not at a
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by theprop 9y ago
Actually, to see how well DeepMind has mastered certain video games with minimal instructions, AI already can look in certain cases superhuman. What EVERYONE is missing, though, is that enhanced human intelligence is inevitable. And will b
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by theprop 9y ago
This is probably the single best way to reduce rape in India as well. I remember in one Indian tv serial episode, the plot was a woman who refused to marry a man (in a village) until he got indoor plumbing in the house so she didn't h
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by theprop 9y ago
Well, married may be a bit far out... What about just a week later so we know if they were even getting along in person? And how their expectations and understanding upon meeting each other changed?
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by theprop 9y ago
Wait. What happened to Jonathan and Leonor? Did thy get married? (Just as I was getting into the story...poof...ended :-( )
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by theprop 9y ago
Similar models have had a hard time in the U.S. Your website design could be a bit better. The cars at the bottom all look very fake...just 13k pounds for a barely used BMW sportscar??? Makes me think it's dodgy.
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by theprop 9y ago
One of the most important determiners of whether you're happy and satisfied in your job is your commute time. Happiness, job satisfaction and longevity at your job decrease significantly as your commute time extends more than 20 minut
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by theprop 9y ago
TL:DR --> mostly email advice. Keep emails short. To the point. "no need to respond" is powerful. Follow up on whatever you say you will. Offer something before you ask for something.
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by theprop 9y ago
Do not say you're too busy to exercise. Your productivity is much higher when you exercise. Do not say you're too old to exercise. The older you are, the more crucial it is. Get in the habit. Start with even just 2 intense
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by theprop 9y ago
Nice idea! Definitely add a list of languages on the home page. Also try to remove the sign up. I'm actually pretty intrigued obviously by the service, but not sufficiently to sign up (hence I haven't signed up!). I'd add

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