DanielGee

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by DanielGee 8y ago
> Thanks, I removed fake news because I've the feeling that in US it is used by right-wing people It's a term used by both the left and the right. By politicians and the media. > In the doubt I changed the wording. I did not
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by DanielGee 8y ago
> Treat them with the same respect you would like to be shown when people are unhappy with you. Why do you think everyone deserves respect? I prefer the brutal honesty of the internet rather than the fake civility you advocate for. It cu
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Especially considering medicine has a long history of being co-opted by money. There was a time when doctors were paid to push cigarettes by cigarette companies. https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/throwback-thursday
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by DanielGee 8y ago
The most "un-celebrity"? I'd say carter is the most "celebrity" ex-president we've had in a long time. He has used his celebrity to advocate for his charities ( habitat for humanity for example ) and for human
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Great wars make great generals. People aren't great in and of themselves. They are great within an environment. So everyone is a "victim" of externalities.
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by DanielGee 8y ago
No. This is as silly as vegans saying animals deserve the same rights as humans because we are animals too. Does that mean we have to prosecute a lion that kills a wildebeest? Or what happens when my dog kills a rodent or a cat kills a bird
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by DanielGee 8y ago
What about HN's addiction to news about facebook? I thought after a year of relentless facebook spam, we were past this. Now the top two posts are about facebook. We have to kick this habit.
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Saladin, Tamerlane, almost an endless list of greater military leaders than napoleon. People who actually won and built empires. I'd even put george washington and Vo Nguyen Giap above napoleon. The a
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by DanielGee 8y ago
> Nothing fundamental is stopping us from creating a synthetic one. Ethical considerations are preventing us or at the very least limiting the speed of development. But mostly our lack of knowledge of the brain was what stopped us. Now
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Sigh. Here they go alternating from AI is a "super genius threat" to "it isn't that smart". Maybe an objective, honest and non-clickbait "Current State of AI" would mean they wouldn't have to swing fr
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by DanielGee 8y ago
I'm well aware of the theory. I used to subscribe to it myself when I was younger. I won't go into why reduce population wouldn't affect farm yields since back then, farming was a very physical endeavor requiring many people.
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Black death didn't kill feudalism ( even if we could come to a consensus on what feudalism is ). The societal structure wasn't affected by the black death. Feudalism died as european monarchs and elites got wealthy and used that w
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Why is the assumption always that AMZN, GOOG and MSFT doesn't want censorship? Especially when they have taken to censorship like duck to water. Why is the assumption that when given a "binary choice", entities like China, EU
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Cybersecurity is something that I feel is best self-taught. Set up a small network at home. Go crazy with nmap. Set up a few VMs. Go crazy with gdb or windbg. The best way to learn is to break things. If you have an old application or game
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by DanielGee 8y ago
> Also, yet another reason why America's gun laws are stupid. She wouldn't have shot herself in England. The highest suicide rates exist in countries without gun rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o
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by DanielGee 8y ago
> That's only your opinion of what it means '[to be] bloomberg'. No. It's a matter of fact. He works for bloomberg. He gets paid by bloomberg. Hence it is bloomberg. Now if it was an non-bloomberg employee wrote an op
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by DanielGee 8y ago
He's a bloomberg opinion writer. He is a bloomberg staff member. So it is bloomberg. There are people who highly regard matt levine. But there are also plenty of people who have a low opinion of him. Not sure why you attacked the guy f
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Or water pumps. Imagine no water to drink or flush the toilet above the 10th floor.
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Simply put, options are an option to buy shares at a specified price sometime in the future. For example, a company can give you options to purchase X amount of shares at a ridiculously cheap price ( like $0.0005 per share ). Many startups
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Sure they do. If FB stuck to legal-based censorship then they wouldn't need to ban atheist or gay rights content because those content are legal in the US. But if they swing to moral-based censorship, then those countries can appeal to
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Companies exist to make money. I think the tech community's biggest mistake was assuming that tech companies are moral agents. Of course tech companies ( "do no evil" ) had a hand in misleading us. But tech companies are no d
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by DanielGee 8y ago
> The whole concept of "community standards" for a worldwide communication channel strikes me as newspeak for centralized moral policing. This is a classic case of the race to the lowest common denominator. When the "commu
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by DanielGee 8y ago
Isn't this the same thing with colleges? Most of the rise in tuition costs goes to administration rather then education.
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by DanielGee 8y ago
> This sounds like the infrastructure version of the 'financial bubble' prediction that crops up every other year. My favorite is the yearly "end of china" report by gordon chang. I remember the guy talking about chin
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by DanielGee 8y ago
I guess I was precocious then. My hate began at 25.