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by upupandup 4y ago
its amazing how low the bar is for some people to be entrusted with billions. while for the rest of us the bar is so much higher and trusted with far less. our world is run not based on merit, ideas, gumption but a closed group of people br
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by upupandup 4y ago
> years ago No longer the case obviously but more importantly, Apple studied themselves and found they were only saving 10% in costs? This makes no sense lol
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by upupandup 4y ago
They've already pulled this on Samsung but it has nowhere to go. Where else can it find tens of millions of young workers?
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by upupandup 4y ago
> hundreds of millions of people out of poverty This is false because majority of Chinese citizens do not make more than $1000 per year or something very low. The average GDP is something like $6000, which is far below its neighbours. E
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by upupandup 4y ago
The people complaining on Twitter that foreign cheap labour is being used are writing on devices that were produced by that same labour. Those very same people are the ones that are demanding that we bring those labour back but unwilling to
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by upupandup 4y ago
I use the volume key to turn down the music when other cars are around me at a stop. Then as I get away I turn the volume back up
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by upupandup 4y ago
I just don't understand A) how Coinbase got past YC vetting process B) continue to engage in serious violation of US security and trading laws C) a large portion of HN seems to downvote, flag, critical comments towards Brian Armstrong
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by upupandup 4y ago
you can already to this with 4g/lte dongles, a proxy seems overkill
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by upupandup 4y ago
Well if you ask people that specifically switched to Go, then all you are going to get is responses and anecdotes that meets your expectation. However, if you ask people that switched away from Go, then you will see responses that also matc
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by upupandup 4y ago
i call BS on this. It's not python's fault and the change in performance due to language itself is minimal.
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by upupandup 4y ago
why dont you let us know what you really intend to do here
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by upupandup 4y ago
In 5 years I expect text-to-porn to start replacing xvideos - we will surely see sequential image synthesis by then - we will surely see matching motion audio synthesis - we will surely see single image to 3D reconstruction - we will surely
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by upupandup 4y ago
Not only this but ppl simping Brian Armstrong at the height of Coinbase's stock price .... who didn't own any coinbase shares
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by upupandup 4y ago
Just got rejection letter from a16z and I feel that I dodged a bullet. US security laws is probably the least of his worries atm.
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by upupandup 4y ago
I remember talking to that guy who started watch simpsons online in 2009, 2010ish. He was sued to oblivion just because he linked to video hosts. A couple years later Megaupload was raided.
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by upupandup 4y ago
doesn't seem complicated to me when they bought bitcoin at ATH
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by upupandup 4y ago
No. There is no way they can compete with say Airbus's quality and build quality. If they think people are gonna trust their lives to a startup company kept afloat by current interest rates over Airbus, I got a bridge to sell you. If s
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by upupandup 4y ago
and guess what happened at that time too: capital suddenly got very expensive and companies went under. this is the worst possible time for launch and the name will be quite poetic
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by upupandup 4y ago
Japan has the highest income tax bracket, horrible working culture (confucian hierarchy, ijime, overtime expected to be norm), no mental health support and to top it off a non-competitive corporate taxation. All of my native Japanese engine
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by upupandup 4y ago
im afraid this short attention optimized dopamine manipulation system is going to be deterimental for our collective mental and cognitive capacity, especially with covid. in particular im fearful of the impact on young developing minds, thi
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by upupandup 4y ago
seems like cryptocurrency is the problem
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by upupandup 4y ago
but wouldn't the ability to auto-generate blackmail material mean the value of blackmail would fall? Just from a supply and demand perspective, it makes sense to me why a deepfaked kompromat would put serious discount on such materia
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by upupandup 4y ago
This is already a thing in the kpop fake porn industry. I don't know how Patreon/Onlfans are allowing this to happen, I mean it's a travesty that highly suggestive lyrics and stripper dance moves in scantily clad kpop idols a
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by upupandup 4y ago
> porn/violence would be pretty terrifying. uh have you seen American/European mainstream pornography? it's already pretty violent (ex. face slapping, choking, kicking, extreme bdsm). I just don't see why this stuff
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by upupandup 4y ago
Why is it that sexual content is so frowned upon in this space? If it's a content publishing platform I would understand that advertisers don't want that, but this is literally dictating people what is bad and good. I just don&#x2
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by upupandup 4y ago
I have no clue what you just wrote here lol and that is exactly my point.
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by upupandup 4y ago
My friend wants to know when she can use this to generate porn, are we close?
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by upupandup 4y ago
Great for startups who dont need to worry about the codebase in 10 years. Not so for medium to large companies who are going to be stuck with a rube goldberg machine in 10 years.
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by upupandup 4y ago
Please refrain from making cynical comments like this. It goes against HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by upupandup 4y ago
ha! I was gonna mention that movie here but I don't know what to make of this. This professor seems legitimately convinced its possible but who will believe him?

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