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by throwaway66666 7y ago
You are correct. There are many cases where fundraising for successful companies is needed. From liquidity, to gathering funds to fuel new ventures. Acquiring competitors, etc. My assumption was that troubled ones also need it. So we should
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Unprofitable companies are the only ones that really benefit from IPOs. An IPO is basically a way for the company to raise money, but tis time straight from the public. Usually when it gets harder and harder for them to attract private inve
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
> For instance, we say “users want control over their privacy,” but what people really want is some subset of: > To avoid embarrassment > To avoid persecution > … sometimes for doing illegal and wrong things > To keep from ha
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Thought experiment. If we assume that "alien intelligence is here" in some form like UFO sightings, why not also assume they are on the internet? I believe someone would learn so much more about us from reading wikipedia, than fly
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
They were planning on using an exploit to crash the browser... Did I misunderstand? EDIT: yes I did. Thanks for making me go back and read carefully rather than jumping to conclusions.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
EDIT: I misunderstood the article. Nothing to see here.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Now imagine being an angsty teenager looking for harry potter erotic fanfic and stumbling onto the NSA's director tumblr. They 're onto us, you 'll think in a flash of paranoia. As if a swat team is in your house.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Horrible... I thought they were doing fantastic. Everyone loved Cozmo. Superb reviews, insanely good marketing. Claimed they sold 1 million robots. 100m in revenue. What went wrong?
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Ha, sadly no! Whereas it's unacceptable for let's say an airplane to use euler, or a modern video game camera engine... Most animation software used by artists/animators uses euler angles, and in order to deal with gimbal loc
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
I am quite surprised at how the wheels have turned. I remember a year ago I was interviewing people and each single candidate listed SASS as a skill, and almost everyone during the interview claimed its their preferred method of working. (m
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Despite this being a cool feat. It sounds so close to the source material (down to parts of the songs being a lofi 1-1 copy paste), that I don't see a real point of it for even existing. (except "omg death metal neural nets lol&qu
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
> What I find most sad is that most of the people on HN will rail against how evil Google is (or any other company) yet happily use their Open Source code and not complain that they're benefiting from what they claim to despise. &qu
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Interesting question. I would assume yes. There should be enough data for things like sustain pedal and velocity dynamics. Music people can be "crazy" and add a lot of detail in their work. It is pretty common to find midi renditi
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
It's midi. It's meant to be notation, not a realistic composition. I suppose the background "machine gun" piano notes would be a bassy synth combined with 90s electronic music drums. So please do not focus that much on t
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Got it, thanks for your comment. Makes sense.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
I 've stopped using google because of AMP. Only google can sabotage google at this point, and I think this is how it will happen if they keep going this way.
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
Barrack Obama pardoned Manning on his last day in office. If Assange's only crime is assisting Manning, and Manning's sentence has been commuted by the very President of the United States and is now free, why are we on a hunt for
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
Many places in the world are like that, I 've travelled to most european countries by car, and I can't name a single city that doesn't have 2-way 1-lane roads. Actually I am curious what europeans honestly think of the self d
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I am sorry, I am not buying this. You entered a 2 year contract with a person that you 've never met. That lives already there but only your name is on the lease. And who is around 20 years old but does plastic surgery to look like a t
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
That's cute. But did you consider hiring a stranger from craigslist to slap you everytime you access facebook? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4661940 Or perhaps testing websites... drunk? I love and loath these a
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
"Mike from Triplebyte here" is the new "Here in my garage with my new lamborghini". (referring to the way-too-common reddit ads with the goofy looking guy, and to Tai Lopez's cringey "here in my garage" se
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
So it's a bit like tinder with arbitrary notions and not just I like you. Pretty cool idea actually. (I didn't mean the tinder comment negatively, I also think Tinder is a fantastic idea)
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I grew up in Greece, where we go to a second school (private classes), after the main (public) school. And they both assign you homework. We are talking, 7 hours of public school + 3 hours of 'private' school (we call it 'the
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
And here I am still writing asmjs by hand. Do we know if that's fully deprecated or are there any plans to keep it fast and loved like wasm?
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
It is probably the nicest phone ever in regards to size/screen/weight. I wish they would give it a hardware bump too to keep it competitive.
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I love how they are giving cows grazing grass as an analogy leading to the possible explanation of the quantum effects. Of course, as cows are lazy to climb hills, atoms are also lazy to climb the invisible hills so they roll back to the va
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
Think of cats and belly rubs. Now that's a mind war! Kitty lays on the floor showing you it's belly, you pet it two-three times, suddenly claws are out and you 're screaming for help! Learn to read when claws are close, and y
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I have spent quite sometime with Vive, Rift and PSVR. (rift, psvr at home, vive at my office) PSVR is unironically the hope for VR right now, even though it has by far the lowest quality. It has some very good games (Astrobot, Wipeout, RE7,
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
People are not freaking out because Page gave away 150M to huge benefactor and innovator, but because "Page gave away $150000000 to a sexual harassment perpetrator!!!". In this light, doesn't it look bad? My opinion is that R
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
Before reading the article and before seeing your comment, I was chatting with my partner about the 737 Max, advising her to be wary. And lo and behold... You are definitely not alone in this. However, and to play a bit devil's advocat

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