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by yannyu 10y ago
Yeah, fair. The article editorializes and seems to advocate for more culpability on the people delivering the services. Which feels a little short-sighted, since poor people wouldn't necessarily be any better off if they didn't ha
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by yannyu 10y ago
I don't think anyone necessarily expects that less money = more options, but I don't think people realize how many options you lose as you get poorer. The way that people talk about poverty, people seem to think that being poor is
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by yannyu 10y ago
That's a pretty poor way of expressing the idea of the article. The point the article is making is that poor people often have their backs against the wall as far as the number of choices they have in food, housing, jobs, location, etc
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by yannyu 10y ago
For context, the full quote from the article is: “Trump is the Silicon Valley candidate in every way except that the ideology is flipped,” said Sam Altman, a prominent technology leader, chief executive of Y Combinator and a major Hillary C
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by yannyu 10y ago
But wouldn't it bother those same people to think they're working for a Megacorp instead? Maybe I have a dim view of law enforcement, but wouldn't I also not want to work for Ares Macrotechnology?
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by yannyu 10y ago
>I'd like to think this is the wrong side of history, and that smart people should put their self-worth in acting in ways that optimize the benefit for all stakeholders. However, many political science theories predict just the oppo
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by yannyu 10y ago
Wouldn't sound + image just be a video? So, YouTube or something similar?
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by yannyu 10y ago
This article reads like a fear-mongering hit piece rather than even remotely unbiased journalism. It's unfortunate because I think the author does have some detailed knowledge on governmental regulations of self-driving cars as well as
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by yannyu 10y ago
Shoot, my mistake. Thanks! Too bad I can't correct it. For those wondering, the joke is at 1m28s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8BtHZWGB8c#t=1m28s
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by yannyu 10y ago
I was going to link to the original comic on picturesforsadchildren.com, but ended up refreshing myself on exactly what happened to John. It's unfortunate that the whole thing ended in such a bizarre way, but hopefully she's happy
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by yannyu 10y ago
For those who are as confused as me, Chris Rock's joke is that Bill Gates would kill himself if he had as much money as Oprah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81p65CBg5G4 I spent far too long wondering why Chris Rock k
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by yannyu 10y ago
Mis-pricing your offerings, high or low, can ruin your chances in a market. There shouldn't be any particular connection between a company's pricing strategy and philanthropy, especially for a company selling something that isn&#x
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by yannyu 10y ago
Because business isn't generally done in Cantonese. It's a common story that families that historically spoke Cantonese are now teaching their Mandarin alongside or instead of Cantonese because Mandarin is more useful in the profe
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by yannyu 10y ago
Last I checked, most cameras can't see through walls. "Something in the way? No problem. A pair of MIT researchers wrote in 2013 that they could use a router to detect the number of humans in a room and identify some basic arm ges
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by yannyu 10y ago
It's unfortunate he used those exact words, but you're also leaving out the greater context: "A good product will sell itself without spending the billions on marketing. It’s so amazing that a startup that has not even spe
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by yannyu 10y ago
I was nearly tackled for jaywalking across an empty traffic light intersection at 3am in Shinjuku. It ended up being a 3 hour ordeal that involved 15 cops and a quick police car ride to my train locker. Worth noting were the 10 obvious fore
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by yannyu 10y ago
It's possible that HB doesn't want to be liable for the conversion of BTC to USD, and therefore the two parties are unable to come to an agreement as to how the royalties and compensation works for BTC sales. In the absence of an
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by yannyu 10y ago
It's possible that some readers of the article will interpret the phrase that way. For people with a less nuanced understanding of natural selection it suggests that evolution is a directed effort towards certain ends, as though turtle
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by yannyu 10y ago
The suit has nothing to do with employee wages. From the article: On Friday, Judge Theresa B. Doyle of Superior Court in King County, in Washington State, ruled that Dan’s brother, Lucas, had failed to prove his claims that Dan had overpaid
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by yannyu 10y ago
I don't think most people on HN think "luck" happens by pure chance. "Luck" is most often used to describe why 5% of startups make it, and why the other 95% fail despite the same level of intelligence and effort of
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by yannyu 10y ago
I don't think any of my coworkers have cell phone area codes from the city where we work. Area codes in my age group (25-40 years old) are usually a prestige indicator of where you're from, rather than where you currently live.
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by yannyu 10y ago
I used a Cherry Red keyboard in an office for a while. It was pretty noticeable for most people around me. The benchmark for keyboard loudness in my experience is the standard apple laptop keyboard noise or the standard apple USB keyboard n
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by yannyu 10y ago
If you're listening to music or white noise over the headphones, that'll do just as well as active noise cancellation for a lot of normal office noise. I can drown out most things with a good pair of rubber in-ear headphones and a
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by yannyu 10y ago
Is there any purpose to this article besides complaining about the keyboard preferences of other people? Some people like the way certain things look or feel, and they pay money for it. I agree that having a "hacker keyboard" prob
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by yannyu 11y ago
Discord is a bit like Slack but focused on voice chat for the gaming community. It has voice rooms that work as you describe. https://discordapp.com/
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by yannyu 11y ago
Whose idea was it to have the 2 initial pie graphs switch colors? It makes it look like there's some sort of inverse relationship between pirating and purchasing on a given platform, when in fact it's roughly the same proportion o
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by yannyu 11y ago
There is Patreon, which could function similarly to what you're talking about.
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Anything that Go has to go through as a result of AlphaGo, Chess has already gone through with Stockfish and its predecessors (such as Deep Blue, though I realize it's not exactly the same). Is there a particular reason why a chess com
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by yannyu 11y ago
Looking back into when Slack really took off, it took off primarily because development teams were adopting it internally, and then in many cases evangelizing it enough to get organization wide adoption. To emphasize the point, developers w
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by yannyu 11y ago
Slightly irrelevant, but why Taiwanese? Since when has Taiwan been considered non-respecting of copyright and patents? I'm sure it's just an off-hand comment, but it still seems oddly specific since there are fewer Taiwanese speak

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