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by tribune 8y ago
This makes sense given how often they'd fail. When I log in it takes me one attempt. When someone is using stolen credentials they might have to make hundreds of attempts before actually logging in.
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by tribune 8y ago
As a member of the relatively hip 20-something social set in New York, I can say with confidence that Instagram is "where it's at" with this group. The introduction of stories and other Snapchat-like features has dramatically
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by tribune 8y ago
I wish everyone would give up on the "increases collaboration" thing and just admit that open-plan offices are about shoving as many people as possible into a given space
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Break up Google(apps.bostonglobe.com)
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by tribune 8y ago
Psychedelics show promise for some mental health conditions (like depression and addiction), but no one would advocate giving a bunch of LSD to someone teetering on the edge of schizophrenia... It's about focusing on the right diseases
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by tribune 8y ago
External testicles are interesting because they do seem like pretty terrible "design" by evolution. However, as any man can tell you, the pain associated with getting hit in these all-important reproductive organs is so severe tha
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by tribune 8y ago
Plus Amazon is Amazon. They've essentially been saying to investors for years "sure, we could make more money for YOU, or give YOU dividends, but WE can do better with your money than YOU could." It's worked, of course,
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by tribune 8y ago
...oh. Forgive me for not reading my own link too thoroughly. Maybe it's not so universal then!
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by tribune 8y ago
A human universal! http://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html
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by tribune 8y ago
This is only tangentially related to the article, but... I'm all for preventing nuclear proliferation, but how long do we realistically think we can maintain a world order where only a few states have nuclear weapons? This technology h
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by tribune 8y ago
I'm not advocating running an "experiment" at the level of an entire society, if that's what you mean. That "experiment" would be the first actual implementation of UBI, if it ever happens.
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by tribune 8y ago
Any UBI study that doesn't include everyone in a society is not studying "universal" basic income at all. It's just giving some people money. It would be very surprising if this didn't yield positive outcomes for th
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by tribune 8y ago
It's a different equilibrium though, where tourists are paying daily rates instead of locals paying monthly
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by tribune 8y ago
According to [1], there are 2,146,892 occupied rental apartments in NYC. So this works out to an average of $287 per rental per year. Hardly "piss in the wind". [1] - https://www.nakedapartments.com/guides/nyc
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by tribune 8y ago
I don't think it means the immediate time before 2008, but rather the generally prosperous post-WWII era
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by tribune 8y ago
How did they manage to steal coins if they didn't get a valid cert? Did people logging into MyEtherWallet just ignore the invalid cert warnings and log in anyway?
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by tribune 8y ago
The fact that this conspiracy was likely real lends importance to Hamilton's self-sacrifice in the famous duel. There were two possible outcomes of the fight. 1) Hamilton kills Burr, eliminating him, or 2) Burr (the sitting Vice Presid
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by tribune 9y ago
The market had already set the cost of a private ride long before Uber: cabs. Uber has taken a huge market share by subsidizing their passengers with investor money, undercutting the cost of traditional cabs. One could argue that Uber is mo
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by tribune 9y ago
It went beyond just "reverse engineering", I didn't really phrase that right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Controversies
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by tribune 9y ago
The speed at which this has happened was essentially a gift from Western companies and governments either asleep or deliberately ignorant at the wheel. It seems incredibly short-sighted to have sold a hard-earned technological edge for a qu
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by tribune 9y ago
Wealth inequality seems a meaningless measure to apply in retrospect to societies which had no material wealth. Even if these groups were materially egalitarian (i.e. everyone is poor by modern standards), I doubt that there was real equali
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by tribune 9y ago
"People don't buy products, they buy better versions of themselves." $500/month is a lot of money for a chair at a noisy table. On the other hand, $500/month is easier to stomach if it comes with the feeling of bein
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by tribune 9y ago
Google (and especially Facebook) are reaching a point a where they need these next billion, and the billions after that if there's anyone left, to grow their businesses. I would wonder about the financial value of these new users to th
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by tribune 9y ago
Google is on a mission to own every corner of everything related to the Internet. Email sucks, but I'll keep my boring old email in lieu of Google shoving more targeted advertising in my face, thank you very much.
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by tribune 9y ago
At the start of the video they introduced themselves as Lauren Lyons: Flight Reliability Engineer and Michael Hammersley: Materials Engineer. All rocket scientists it seems
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by tribune 9y ago
The eternal human obsession with death explains our intense interest in the experiences that come as close to it as possible. I also think it's obvious that, even if death "feels like" something, these experiences are probabl
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by tribune 9y ago
The point of cryptocurrencies is to rediscover everything we already know about money, the hard way
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by tribune 9y ago
Thiel may not be a saint, but it's hard to have any sympathy for Gawker after the Hulk Hogan scandal and their myriad other nefarious behaviors...
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by tribune 9y ago
Totally agree. The biggest gain aside from novelty would be increased speed/avoiding traffic, but if that's going to double or triple the cost of a trip, I'm sure most people would chose to sit in traffic.
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by tribune 9y ago
Freakonomics did an interesting episode on this http://freakonomics.com/podcast/payday-loans/

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