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by zjaffee 9y ago
Search for it? Also you can "tell the algorithm" that you want to see less Kylie Jenner (I did that, and I've started to enjoy the kind of content that's been popping up).
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by zjaffee 9y ago
This already exists, and is in many ways a form of communism. Take a look at kibutz's in israel.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
The productivity in certain aspects of construction and many government services has in fact gone down in recent years. Sure society wide, we have seen massive productivity gains, and unionization with the only purpose of capturing these ga
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Taxes imposed on import do not hurt solar, as much as they will help the American solar industry. Tons of American solar companies have nearly been brought to bankruptcy because china is massively subsidizing the export of solar panels. Thi
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by zjaffee 9y ago
My personal issue with unions is I've seen the way my family members work places have acted through the fact that collective bargaining has given them the ability to leverage things such as years served as a way to dictate many aspects
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Jane Jacobs, one of the historical thought leaders behind modern urban planning, discusses in her book (The Life and Death of American Cities) how thriving neighborhoods have a mix of cheap old real estate and expensive new real estate. The
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Much of this is the result of high retail rental prices where there are no vacancy taxes to push property companies to rent out their units. The key issue here is that in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, the term on most retail leases is
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by zjaffee 9y ago
5k and growing by orders of magnitude, where it's likely the case that Visa is continuously reducing their energy usage.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Apple wants to create competition for the components they need to drive down prices throughout the supply chain. Most of their investments relate to this from camera tech to oled screens.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Payment processors traditionally would convert to USD right away, where the % they charged for the processing included the risk they held for having to hold the coins for the time it took to convert. I know back when there was the "bit
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Except moneygram has a huge place in the history of cryptocurrency, where as kodak doesn't even come close. If you purchased bitcoin in 2013 there was a very good chance that you transferred cash using moneygram from a local CVS or Wal
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by zjaffee 9y ago
As someone who had access to M, initially my friends and I mostly just asked it to do all kinds of obscure things, which at scale would be very difficult (and I imagine most users would enjoy actually using it for as well for the sake of en
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by zjaffee 9y ago
This is also magnified by the fact that they have buying power in a way Netflix does not. Netflix has had to product a ton of their own content to retain users, I'm increasingly considering leaving Netflix in favor of Hulu simply becau
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by zjaffee 9y ago
I once found a page that was falsely representing the FBI and they refused to take it down...
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Yes, this forum. This forum makes it marginally easier for their companies to get recognition and hire employees. Additionally, if you look at the really successful companies that have come out of the program, they were all funded by YC whe
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Not just curtailed, they aren't allowed to participate in prop trading at all as per the dodd frank legislation.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
I think a big part of this, at least when compared to google, is Siri's issues with language understanding rather than converting the audio to text. Google is much better at picking up on contextual details simply because they have suc
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by zjaffee 9y ago
It wasn't the need for people to take taxis where the regulation stemmed from. It was because cities didn't want their streets to be overly congested by private vehicles (where at least in manhattan, uber has made far worse).
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by zjaffee 9y ago
The fact that you're being downvoted shines very poorly on the HN community as a whole.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Sure, but the point is that they aren't retained, and in turn, leave young people in a position where they won't be blackmailed as adults for the shitty things they said as a teenager on platforms they thought were safe.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
The original definition of a marathon involves running from Athens to Marathon in Greece, and when your average person thinks of a marathon, they think of the street races that happen all around the world. Marathon running isn't necess
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by zjaffee 9y ago
This isn't necessarily true, snapchat deletes all of the physical messages sent within 30 days.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
5G networks could very well change that. Right now people rely on LAN, however it's very possible that with the growth of 5G people will just use over the air internet rather than having their own setups everywhere they go.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Probably still pretty robust, much of the open sourcing that happens, especially these days, is companies open sourcing aspects of their infrastructure. People then use the fact that they built a platform that became popular to start their
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Part of this though is because software was historically built for windows in a way that it isn't anymore. Even at tech companies, where the majority of employees are using macbooks, you'll often see people in the finance departme
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by zjaffee 9y ago
I would assume that this would ultimately help google and facebook, they will be able to afford to pay for fast lanes while also making deals where their services are faster than new comers.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
It's odd that they didn't try to purchase soundhound then. The company has more evolved tech, and also has voice recognition services beyond just music through houndify.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
The other option is being a 501c3/6 foundation whose purpose is to support the particular software project, and then companies will donate to said foundation.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
I believe when exercism came out it's primary goal was to help you get ramped up in a new language, however I'm uncertain if that's still the case.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
So much of product, especially beverage marketing is positioning yourself as being a part of a certain community, it's very possible their open source contributions are simply an extension of that.

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