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by w1ntermute 9y ago
Analysis of the article by former uBeam VP of Engineering Paul Reynolds: > In all this time, have reporters still not learned to press on the key questions? "How much power is being received?", "How much is being sent?&quo
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
A minute fraction of kids will use the ability to install downloaded software to flourish. The vast majority of children will just download games, malware, and porn. Society should be more honest with itself about the simple reality that th
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
There's no need for search at all - when you find the article on its regular site, just edit the domain to end with '.sci-hub.io' For example, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/339/6121/819
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
The companies would love to work with the local governments, but there's not much you can do in the face of NIMBY obstructionism. This article does a great job of covering the challenges in fixing this problem and who's at fault:
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/349155/how-often-do...
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Tanium’s Family Empire Is in Crisis(bloomberg.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> I've met Mormons who have asked me where I am from and not only know where that country is but spoke to me in my NATIVE tougue. I was very impressed. That's because they send missionaries all over the world to convert people
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Amazing Disgrace: How Trump Hijacked the Religious Right(newrepublic.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> And do you think that having this ...more human approach..when selling/buying ads is obsolete? No, it can still be done, if you're in a niche for which it doesn't make sense to have a more automated approach (either beca
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> What puzzles me is this: how do the republicans, either under Trump or any of their predecessors get people to consistently vote against their interests? Because they are voting based on tribalism. Trump signaled that he was a member o
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
I'm not "attacking the working class" - after all, they've already moved to where the opportunities are, and are working . The problem is those who don't have jobs and refuse to move to where the jobs are. Then the
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Did you read his post, or just the title? > That's why I've started working on an ad network for mobile apps...
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Do contract work and let others deal with monetization. The problem with creating a mobile ad network is that you're competing with Facebook and Google[0,1]: > • Facebook and Google have the most inventory and are still growing in t
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> imagine for a second someone telling you that 'you should just move from where you are because where you were born isn't good enough' Sounds to me like how this country was created. Are rural Americans so weak that they
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> It's lack of opportunity. What is your answer to that? Tesla isn't opening up a factory in New Hampshire anytime soon. In generations past, Americans picked up and moved to where the opportunity was, rather than staying put.
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
There's probably ethically dubious activity happening in most startups. YC in particular explicitly encourages "naughtiness"[0]. 0: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html (scroll down to part 4)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
The perils of teledildonics.
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Snap just lost a key ad exec weeks before its IPO(businessinsider.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
This is such a pernicious problem because (1) people are very susceptible to wishful thinking and (2) there's no mechanism for self-correction when the misinformed don't know (or refuse to accept) that they're misinformed.
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Meet the rightwing power players lurking beneath Silicon Valley's liberal facade(theguardian.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> A flight which does not start or end in the USA rarely has the need to fly over it. Europe/Asia - Central America would and not much else -- and there are very few such direct flights, mostly only to Mexico City. How about Canada
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Look up one of the lists from 10 years ago. How many of the people listed are still relevant?
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Immigrants in Tech Wonder If Trump Will Make Their Problems Worse(buzzfeed.com)
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One Reason School Segregation Persists: White parents want it that way(slate.com)
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Second Theranos Lab Failed U.S. Inspection(wsj.com)
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Samsung shows constitutional monarchies can work(bloomberg.com)
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Early layoffs and closures in 2017 suggest a rocky year ahead for tech industry(venturebeat.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
The reason housing is expensive regardless of technological advances is because it's a people problem, not a technological problem. The people who would benefit the most from cheaper urban housing are not in a position to vote for the
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Write the posts on a self-hosted site, then syndicate them to Medium and share those links on social media. Another option is to use a custom domain with Medium[0]. That way, if Medium goes out of business, you could just set up a self-host
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
That depends on how you define the beginning of the company. For example, Zuckerberg had built quite a few different "social" websites before building Thefacebook. Jobs and Woz had been building circuit boards and other electronic

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