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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Cab drivers is just one small segment. That is a very good point to consider and even we, as a collective hivemind, on the HN don't pay enough attention to the problem of extreme rate at which jobs will diminish in the future. Start-up
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
So why is it bad for Hailo to do private cab hire booking?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Who is that "you" that is supposedly don't give a shit? What's even more important, the tech disruption is coming to the vast range of industries and many jobs will be obsolete much sooner than most expect.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Growing food was a major source of social connection in the same way uranium mines were. Preparing food was a major source of such "quality time" as peeling, flaying, cooking and serving food for a large family. Quality time, inde
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I really, really think we need a new breed of 'venture socialists' for the lack of better term that will optimize investment BOTH for potential returns and social good.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Concerning "wantonly killed others", look at this link, the concept has completely changed the way I judge behavior of others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Not really. When one thinks about ethics, one should take into account the existence of teleological ethics or consequentialism where "right" and "wrong" depends on the outcomes of the action. As far as a person isn&#x27
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
You are actually only somewhat right. While arbitrage is forbidden, placing AdWords ads on the pages that have value and purpose other than serving ads and simultaneously buying AdWords traffic is legitimate.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
So Snowden is basically Marcus Yallow from "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow. Great book even if it is young adult sci-fi.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
You certainly don't provide any information supporting your argument that society will be more oppressive and controlling. Postmodernist views like yours are certainly in vogue today, but paradigm shifts happen and postmodernism will y
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Yeah, I am constantly surprised at the apparent lack of mathematical thinking about returns on effort in start-ups. The risks of the startup going down without IPO or buyout are extremely high, long hours, equity will be diluted, founders w
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
"Police officers... provide a valuable and concrete service to the community". Ha-ha. Sad laughter. Some police officers contribute immensely to the society. Others, and many of them, take from society to satisfy their personal so
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Come on, personal opinion? Can one really doubt that governments are not working for the benefit of 99%? I don't think so.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Sure, but that may have been just a local peak. "e-sports 2.0" will hit really big, at the scale of social networks. We just need a killer game for the post-pc era.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
If confirmed, this would definitely be a smart decision. Twitch will be extremely important in ecosystem development as e-sports break in the mainstream worldwide. Lots of engaged eyeballs. Google near monopoly on online video market bugs m
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Yeah, it is confusing, because "very large development budget" is extremely ambiguous.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Consider that Mozilla is a non-profit that relies very much on the community goodwill, while Dropbox is a full-blown for-profit corporation that cares first and foremost about maximizing revenues.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
The point is that politicians are so entrenched in the establishment that the conflict of interest in inevitable.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Hypocritical much? Why do you speak for the whole HN? The community clearly does care as evidenced by a number of comments about Rice in this thread.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Look up the story of Mamdouh Habib. It's really sad, he was tortured physically and mentally, labeled a terrorist and was released without charges by the USG after 4 years in detention.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
You can use this API to get a boilerplate non-response full of hypocritical "commitment" about user privacy.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Not for me. All I care about this announcement is the hooks that Mamdouh Habib was hanged on while he was tortured in Egypt, sent there by the CIA. And one of the Dropbox board members was an ardent supporter of this and other despicable pr
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Huh, even if you are sarcastic, it still makes sense.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
What did you switch to after abandoning Rails? I consider the tooling and rails ecosystem to be the best for small, agile projects and I'm really interested in the alternatives.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Well, isn't it time to change the philosophical underpinnings of the Anglo-American sphere of influence to something more relevant in the XXI century?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Enlightenment philosophy was quite thoroughly criticized by postmodernist thinkers like Foucault who showed that enlightenment was used as a tool and enabler of oppression. Your statements support that criticism. Moreover, I am not convince
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
>Every nation has the sovereign right to kill people in other nations. It's a fundamental precept of sovereignty. Citation please?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Do you imply a conflict of interest? If you do, please state it explicitly. Your criticism as it stands doesn't add to the discussion and one could say that your writing style is really awful, too. Sidebar is not an unusual place to pl
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Salvage their reputation? Are you talking about that inappropriate behavior by one of the cofounders incident? Because if you are, consider that you may be significantly overestimating its influence on the elusive "tech circles".
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
The mechanism of instinct has emerged from the evolutionary process to provide a survival and reproduction advantage over others. Instinct most certainly is an advantage for species (may be just random path-dependent mutation), not for the

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