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by ydb 7y ago
I'm excited for the coming console generation, but I can't shake the feeling that it's all entirely pointless in 2019. There was a thread some days ago about the changes in hardware since the NES days, and how it's all b
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by ydb 7y ago
> However rationally I think there is a balance. There is a balance. I know this is Hacker News and we're all supposed to be progressive technical vanguards fighting against The Man, but genuine bad guys exist out there. And we ne
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by ydb 7y ago
Then why have this fuss about "Bernie Blindness" and the mainstream media supposedly suppressing his poll results? Seriously, just think for a minute; there's something else going on here. It's likely just Bernie Bros ma
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by ydb 7y ago
Agreed. Most of my friend group (women in their late 20s and early 30s) make this face and it just appalls me. I think Baudrillard's conception of simulacra & simulation [1] is the perfect vehicle for understanding the "uncann
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by ydb 7y ago
This is troubling. Religion and its traditional family values is integral to both social and economic survival in the 21st century. I hate to be a "doomer" but this is a bad sign for the society we live in.
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by ydb 7y ago
What is this supposed to tell me besides that Bernie is irrelevant to the mainstream and thus irrelevant to your average American? You guys seriously think this is some kind of conspiracy? Jeez, and I thought Democrats were above all that Q
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by ydb 7y ago
Good. Drinking, whether it's "craft" beer or tallboys of bottom-shelf gutrot, is unequivocally a disease. Hackers, do yourselves a favor and drink a glass of water instead of cracking open another cold one.
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by ydb 7y ago
> It's extremely useful to isolate people from the wider community, and if you do it properly it's not detectable. It definitely has its place Absolutely agreed -- consider the impact of Russian bots on the 2016 U.S. elections.
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by ydb 7y ago
Damn, so sounds like a MoviePass situation? VCs subsidizing transportation now instead of entertainment?
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by ydb 7y ago
Please. When can we be rid of the illusion that politics and business should be related at all? Before America entered WWII, it sold weapons and arms to countries on both sides . Yet MongoDB sells SAAS software services to ICE they're
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by ydb 7y ago
Excellent! Besides maybe Geoffrey Hinton, I can't think of a better person to represent A.I. to laymen. Say what you will about Wolfram and his personality, but the man is an icon of approachable and engaging science/math writing.
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by ydb 7y ago
Pfft. Talk about a canary in the coal mine. There are a million better uses for empty mine shafts... Beowulf cluster anyone??
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by ydb 7y ago
Recessions are good for business. Plain and simple. The media does their best to try and scare you into doing all sounds of bizarre and nonsensical things when the markets "crash." Really, if you employ basic facts and logic, the
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by ydb 7y ago
I'm not so sure... it's really hard to trust @jack after all he's done at Twitter. The guy is a perfect liberal centrist who doesn't understand the value of open markets and competition is a well-oiled economic machine.
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by ydb 7y ago
Every movement is an aspect of the market. That's what markets are if you took Econ 101 back in college. The market is everything; it's you, me, your dog, your neighbor's dog, and your neighbor's dog's chew toy. Tha
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by ydb 7y ago
That's a little disconcerting, given the massive size of India and its existing problems with wealth inequality. Can anybody from HN with first-hand experience in the startup ecosystem in India shed some light on this article?
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by ydb 7y ago
Is this a submarine[1] article? Honestly reads like CIA agitprop regarding UFOs and the like. I mean, he quite literally says in the subtitle: > should remind us that seeing shouldn't mean believing. It's clear to anyone who ha
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by ydb 7y ago
This is business as usual. More "quantum supremacy" is a measly PR tactic, mostly intended to frighten competitors. Just like the US and the USSR during the Cold War; say intimidating stuff in the open in order to manipulate the p
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by ydb 7y ago
Shit. I got this all the time with my ex. Combine that with gaslighting[1] and you have a recipe for corn-fed, all-American propaganda. If people repeat stuff back to you, make sure you repeat stuff back to them! Force feedback! Conglomerat
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by ydb 7y ago
Absolutely appalling. This is something that I've intuited happening for many years now, but couldn't quite find the words to describe. This phenomena is pervasive and, dare I say, integral to the functioning of capital in the 21s
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by ydb 7y ago
I think this is a truly brave and forward-thinking idea by the police department. We should not be risking the lives of doggos in the streets only for them to be violently assaulted by thugs. These animals deserve the utmost respect, and I
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by ydb 7y ago
Could have used this list while doing research for my Masters! However, I don't think I was as well-versed in emacs back then either, ha ha.
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by ydb 7y ago
Yes @jack yes! Hopefully more high-profile thought leaders will enter the public discourse to advise on more sane, privacy-respecting alternatives. I'm glad I was relieved of hating @jack at least momentarily. :')
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by ydb 7y ago
Neat neat neat!! Seriously would have killed for this back when my husband and I were designing & building our house. Why couldn't the tech disruption have come sooner? :)
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by ydb 7y ago
I think this is some serious Marxist agitprop. It is absolutely appalling that people think we ought to buy less as if that's what the problem is. The problem is not unethical consumption! The difficulty is not in alienating labor fr
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by ydb 7y ago
Brilliant suggestion. All my most proficient and excellent times while programming were among the purview of garbage collectors. They have assisted my career in more ways than any conference talk ever has. In fact, I'd say GC basically
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by ydb 7y ago
Fascinating, wholesome take on radical capital markets. Sometimes, as a liberal democrat, I am taken aback at just how much our economic system has given us. All this in spite of the dotcom crash or the '08 nuclear meltdown. As a woman
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by ydb 7y ago
This may be considered OT, but since we are on the subject of the " Super Rich " I'd just like to remark that I've never understood the cult of personality surrounding Beyonce. The people I know who like Beyonce, really
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by ydb 7y ago
Hey, that's a bit harsh don't you think? I mean, I enjoyed the writing, and if he's a fedora I may as well be a mustache and cigar myself! :)
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by ydb 7y ago
Not sure, ask the parent commenter. I was merely attempting a rebuttal to their remark.

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