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by x5n1 10y ago
Get rid of the corruption. The rest can stay.
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by x5n1 10y ago
Stories like the one below illustrate SEC concerns. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/business/dealbook/sec-and-...
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by x5n1 10y ago
See William Riker and Thomas Riker from Star Trek. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Riker William Thomas "Tom" Riker was a result of a transporter accident in 2361 that created two William Thomas Rik
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by x5n1 10y ago
If you have big data about all transactions occurring in real-time, along with socioeconomic factors on all the actors, it is not difficult to verify models and see how well the relationship between their dependent and independent variables
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by x5n1 10y ago
Well when your top engineers get paid 25k sure you can do it for a fraction of the cost. Why couldn't you. Indian military already has tons of tech that if they bring to the civil sector they could use to compete with whatever. The pro
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by x5n1 10y ago
Completely expected as soon as they took money. They are exactly what organic "success" stories online look like. Now they want some of reddit's traffic and so reddit is fighting back at first by embedding images directly on
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by x5n1 10y ago
I was speaking from experience.
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by x5n1 10y ago
Why should they pay more? People like value. Given two products they will always pay less. I think there is a small minority that pays premium for local, difference, culture, the masses want as much value as possible. Price is a significant
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by x5n1 10y ago
Yes freedom to choose what the sellers choose to sell which is determined by what is most profitable. Those things can include many things that are not in any way optimal from the perspective of the consumer. For instance fatty addictive fo
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by x5n1 10y ago
I think this is the biggest selling point of online merchants. People are so rushed for time, i.e. jobs take most of their day and leave them exhausted, they don't want to make unnecessary errands for things that they know they want. T
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by x5n1 10y ago
Chinese are much worse than the Americans, though born of the same cloth of Capitalism. Americans ideally rally under freedom, which means they will come fuck you up and then supply enough aid to keep you going and help you rebuild, I mean
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by x5n1 10y ago
So what. It's not as if the US government is fighting anyone with any real air capability. You could use Vietnam aircraft and still win against the threat.
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by x5n1 10y ago
They probably have their own labels. No one will benefit more than people who already have multi-millions, there will be a small marginal benefit to artists who don't have the means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
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by x5n1 10y ago
The hard part, as you describe it, is usually not the job of coders. It's the job of project managers. In lesser organization the coders are doing work that management is suppose to be doing, so they might be doing multiple roles which
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by x5n1 10y ago
Usually they use this as a recruiting tool.
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by x5n1 10y ago
So surprising for the gov to go after a billion dollar company. So surprising. But I think the politics in the US is breaking down a bit. In that petty self-interest is taking over and slowly creating a corrupt system. Happens to everyone g
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by x5n1 10y ago
> “It’s strange to have made something that hates you.” Welcome to the world of being a parent.
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by x5n1 10y ago
What I use to stream music off Amazon's S3. https://github.com/etopian/amazon-s3-music-player I have given up on the concept that any third party service can provide music streaming for any significant length of t
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by x5n1 10y ago
I loved the web in the early mid-2000s. Web 2.0 so many startups, so many ideas, so many failures. It was great. Lots more hope than what is out there right now.
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by x5n1 10y ago
I can't help but thinking this is a sort of religious thinking. Similar to concepts of heaven. The point of life to feel good on a daily basis. Not to be miserable because you will get to some metaphorical heaven and if you don't
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by x5n1 10y ago
http://www.biznews.com/undictated/2015/05/13/elon-musk-the-b... Elon Musk can be brutal with himself and then he has to convince other people to join him and those who want to experience brutality or kno
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by x5n1 10y ago
I like this critique of Capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Dimensional_Man Yes it's nice having cheap super cool toys. It's nicer having less work and being treated well. But when a social economy
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by x5n1 10y ago
At the end of the day say that you paid everyone the same amount of money regardless of whether they worked or did not. And there was no additional way to make money. Maybe there was an additional barter economy where you could work for thi
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by x5n1 10y ago
Do you know how much distrust governments have for other governments spying on individual citizens. None. None whatsoever. China does not care if the US is spying on Chinese individuals and the same goes for the US. It cares its corporate s
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by x5n1 10y ago
The damn patent system needs reform. Plain and simple. Make them short and unprofitable unless you are going to use them to do something useful.
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by x5n1 10y ago
You could always rent your fridge. It could be manufactured by the people who run your grocery store. That's probably where the fridge is headed.
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by x5n1 10y ago
many computers these days have lojack. which can do any of this stuff without a dedicated cpu. i have a dell that somehow magically had lojack turned on and you could call lojack and they could not turn it off. so... we're already owne
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by x5n1 10y ago
Law actually encourages this sort of behavior so people don't take things into their own hands or try to extort each other.
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by x5n1 10y ago
Facebook wants to tell insurers and corporations employees and customers who might be a suicide risk.
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by x5n1 10y ago
"Bill Gates is awaiting your reply."

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