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by yakitori 9y ago
Hasn't it been established that most chips have backdoors? I remember reading an article about that HN a while back. That's why china, russia, etc are trying to develop their native cpus. Also, isn't this why sensitive US age
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by yakitori 9y ago
There isn't any depth to the ripple price. If I created 1 trillion digital yakitori coins and I got my father to buy 1 yakitori coin for $10, I am theoretically worth about $10 trillion. "Theoretically". Will journalist at cn
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Selling all $10,000,000 of shares kinda reveals that fig leaf for what it is: giving himself the shares was never about aligning his incentives with shareholders - he just wanted the cash. And the low tax burden. The capital gains tax
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by yakitori 9y ago
Smart. INTC is at a 15+ year high in a huge bull market. Just makes sense to shave some off.
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by yakitori 9y ago
> You know how FAANG are the only companies actually doing really well on the stock market these days? Only? No. They've done better than most but all major stocks are up. We are in a mega stock boom at the moment. > It’s because
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by yakitori 9y ago
> that does not mean peering at each other through the alienating window of a mobile phone screen. Says who? You are falling into the trap every old person does. Thinking their youth was great and that society is going to crumble since y
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Loopholes exist, because language is imprecise and imperfect. That's one way for loopholes to exist. Another way is for companies to pay/lobby politicians to write loopholes into tax laws. > Laws have loopholes like code h
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by yakitori 9y ago
I'm a bit biased since I'm an american software developer, but how is the h1b program any good for americans? If the government/companies' complaint is that we don't have enough home grown talent, then what incentiv
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by yakitori 9y ago
Rather than focusing on poverty, I wonder if we should be focusing on wealth disparity/inequality instead. It seems like reduction of poverty is being used to distract from and even justify the increased wealth inequality. Reducing pov
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by yakitori 9y ago
Rather than the size of the community, I'd really prefer if we had more distributed and decentralized communities. The pendulum has swung markedly from distributed to centralized communities in the last decade. Would be nice if it fina
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by yakitori 9y ago
Wow. Well said. It's so true. If the resolutions were so important to you, you wouldn't have waited for a specific date to start.
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Does anyone know how the extraction cost of shale compare to the declining cost of solar? The solar market is so tiny it doesn't matter in the energy discussion. Despite what you read from the cheerleaders ( paid or unpaid ) on so
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by yakitori 9y ago
Because one is dealing with abstract theory with specific rules vs engineering in the real world. One exists in the world of abstraction while the other lives in the real world. Might as well ask why we can have a perfect circle in math whi
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by yakitori 9y ago
> The latter has been inflated to near-eternity by corporate lobbying whereas patents still, in practice, have a limited lifetime which itself also hasn't really grown over the years. It's because there is no incentive for larg
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by yakitori 9y ago
And? So switch one form of escapism for another? We could all benefit from less social media, less articles ( like this one from qz ), less news and less books. But what's the point of this clickbait? You could "escape" and r
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by yakitori 9y ago
> It's different in that newspapers create the content that they publish themselves. This isn't true. A significant portion of newspaper content is derived from the wire services ( AP, Reuters, etc ). And of course the advertis
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by yakitori 9y ago
Or from the other angle, imagine how many fossils aren't being discovered because so much of the world is underdeveloped. In the west, many of our discoveries came from people digging things up to build condos, pipelines, malls, etc.
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by yakitori 9y ago
This is why we all should be skeptical of the media ( traditional and social ) as public skepticism is the only thing preventing mass hysteria. If the public were a tad bit more skeptical and didn't believe everything they read in news
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Two things can obviously be true at the same time: that "police officers"† are improperly keyed up as if they're shock troops preparing for a battle Agreed. People with agendas seem to try to twist this into an either-or
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by yakitori 9y ago
> OT: I don't get social networks. Your comment indicates you understand it very well. > No thanks and this is why I prefer interest-driven platforms such as HN. What interest drives HN? HN is no different than FB. Except instead
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Don't know why this isn't higher Because most people on HN and the moderators support censorship. Especially on social media and the internet. So far they've been successful in taking down silly accounts like milo and so
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by yakitori 9y ago
> There is no way Facebook can satisfy the competing demands of different political factions and their own users so the more they capitulate to political demands the more users they will drive away and the more radical the demands on the
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by yakitori 9y ago
No kidding. And the media is attacking social media at the behest of both governments.
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Facebook and social networks have absolutely no moderation. Do you prefer moderated fake news?
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by yakitori 9y ago
> All of those operations people should be immediately trained in cybersecurity and deployed literally anywhere in the country. As someone with background in "cybersecurity". Most "cybersecurity" is automated now. Als
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by yakitori 9y ago
As someone here has already mentioned, it's more likely due more tech and indian tech especially moving towards clouds for the derivative cost savings ( less manpower ). This happened in the US as well. Lots of IT positions got cut as
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by yakitori 9y ago
The best advice when learning math or anything is to "solve the smaller problem". Try to break the problem down into smaller pieces and work from there. Trying to understand something complex as a whole can be daunting and intimid
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by yakitori 9y ago
> It also casts some new light on the "Russian bots are taking over" establishment meltdown. To be fair, "russia" spent $100K on facebook ads and won the election for Trump. /s If you pay attention, it's obv
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by yakitori 9y ago
The media's portrayal of sweden/scandinavia is certainly different from my experience talking to swedes. Maybe the older swedes are doing fine, but the younger generation all seem to want to leave as soon as they can to britain an