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The article says they are removing specific targeting options. However, Lookalike Audiences will, of course, continue to be fully supported. Advertisers get effectively the same targeting, but with improved plausible deniability for Faceboo
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The biggest chunk was excluding their net loss in investments in other companies. However, "adjusted earnings" is a PR number it doesn't have any particular financial meaning. If Uber wanted to make the case that they are mov
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Uber posted an adjusted Q3 profit of $8M. However, they posted an actual Q3 loss of $2.4B. On an adjusted basis I look just like George Clooney.
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This was not a hack. This is the equivocation that is at the heart of smart contracts. The promise of smart contracts is that "the code is the law". There is no need for trust, courts, or intermediaries. Of course his only works i
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> how me one retailer that doesn’t do this. The thing is, Amazon claims they are not a retailer, but rather a neutral marketplace matching buyer and seller. Tat's why they claim they should not be held responsible for false advertis
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This feels like the writer made a great pitch, but could not actually deliver the goods. Come on. Equating influencers to philosophers? Equating the search for truth with deciding which influencers to follow? No. Just no. The answer to the
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> What is your strongest contrarian opinion? That it is pointless to ask that question on HN or any social site because actual contrarian opinions will be downvoted and hidden. The most popular "edgy" opinions will be voted as
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I'm going to tilt at this windmill because it's important and illustrative of the incredibly poor quality of the financial news media. No money "flows into" or "flows out of" the stock market or the bond market
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The word "prove" used to also encompass the meaning of "challenge" or "put to the test". It still retains that archaic meaning in the phrase you mentioned and terms like "proving grounds". Edit: And l
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> Put another way: battery tech is Tesla's core business It absolutely is not. Almost all Tesla's battery IP rests on Panasonic IP. Panasonic has been a leader in this space for 40+ years. That's why when Tesla "open-
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"democratize" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. The word you are looking for is "mass-market" or perhaps "sell to small business".
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It's hard to say. There is much more clarity about what makes good reporting software or task management software or spec management software. I guess good PM software should be more than the sum of its parts. Using a bunch of best-of-
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I think the fundamental problem with project management software is poorly defined scope. There are features that involve project and portfolio-level reporting, forecasting, task assignment, feature definition, change-request management, te
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I getting pretty close to "just stay off of my lawn" age. But I gotta say, I love GenZ!
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That's very interesting. I take the exact opposite approach. I start by reading wide surveys and overviews and then dig deep (both original works and commentary) into areas and writers the resonate with me personally. Some of my deeper
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What you are describing is basically selling a binary call option not a loan. Binary options are fairly popular among retail traders, and are generally sold rather than bought by institutional firms. So it might be hard to find someone to t
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> It’s played on my mind many times over the years, how do you help someone in that scenario? Acceptance? If he's clean, groomed, not bothering people, and OK with is life as it is, maybe there is room for him in society. I think a
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Thirty years latter, and the same baby is still swimming after that dollar.
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That's the one! Thank you for posting the link and the lessons learned. That looks like a great article. In the 90s it took a (very friendly) FOIA request, a $5 processing fee, and three weeks to get my hands on that handbook.
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The real value of studying outdated development methodologies is that it teaches you how to think about new problems. It will almost never give you a plug-and-play answer for a problem you are facing, but it will give you a new a useful way
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Popular belief, and This paper, imply that the three-body problem is unsolvable. The authors mention Poincaré's work demonstrating this. However, they don't mention Sundman's work in the early 1900's proving that the n-b
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It's certainly good that it's down, but if you overlay the charts of the US and China, you can see that post-2000, the US reduction in CO2 is mirrored by a Chinese increase. It's unclear how much of the US reduction is due to
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I've been running an interview podcast called Disrupting Japan for the last seven years or so. I interview Japanese startup founders in English. Four things I do with every guest 1) Do real research. Read any other interviews this pers
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The headline here is pretty misleading. There is no Bitcoin economy here and the libertarians didn't build the economy that does exists. TLDR; A group of bitcoin enthusiasts convinced 20 local business to accept "some form of&quo
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For some reason, this does not seem work in real life. It honestly seems like the vocal racists and bigots have a fundamental need to piss people off. If you go lurk on Gab, Parler, Rumble, etc you'll notice that a lot of the wind is t
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I know what you mean. I used to be a gamer, but kind of drifted away from it in my 20's. I just didn't have the time. But I don't think gaming quite fits the "when I became a man, I put away childish things" feel th
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The problem is that you don't know how that data is used and who is using it. Let's say your brother is feeling depressed, you are naturally concerned, and do research on treating depression and suicide prevention and ask for advi
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I'm old enough to have seen this happen in real time and continue to be puzzled and amused by it. I think the author is trying way too had to make this trend sound more important than it is, and I think the connection to the election o
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"Test your backups" is very good advice, but it will do almost noting to protect you against ransom attacks. A ransom attack works because one of the first things attackers do when they gain entry to the system is locate and encry
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> 7) why not using material that Life developed during 4 billion years. mushrooms are promising for instance. You can't just leave that there! Mushrooms as a building material? I really hope you were not joking, because that sounds

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