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by borgia 11y ago
>I find it astonishing that what is basically a short message broadcast service can generate billions of dollars of revenue. Basically a short message service? That's naive. Twitter is a marketing platform with 300m people signed up
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by borgia 11y ago
>people want to work, and to feel valuable. Only because most others work and a person's value, or perceived value, is largely tied to them working, their work, etc. The perceived value comes from essentially not relying on others t
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by borgia 11y ago
If you look at the tab title for the page, it's the same as the title of the article here. I presume the in-article title has been changed since?
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by borgia 11y ago
Some would call this hipster pretentiousness. I wouldn't though. I think overall we're seeing a growing trend, or growing condition I believe would be more apt, where people are searching for substance at a time where the digital&
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by borgia 11y ago
Interestingly the title "Digital Refuseniks" actually appears as the title for the article if you check out the "Features and Analysis" list on the right hand side of the article's page. Screenshot: http:/&#x2
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by borgia 11y ago
Realistically though they merely have to show them a search algorithm.
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by borgia 11y ago
This is astonishingly stupid. It's also time to retire the word "troll", it has become so bastardized that its use shouldn't be taken at all seriously anymore.
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by borgia 11y ago
Things appear to have become so weird that letting your kids out to play has now gained its own label - "Free range parenting". Which is really sad. I grew up outdoors, climbing trees, riding my bike wherever I wanted, going to th
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by borgia 11y ago
I've visited the US many times. You've little to fear as a visitor. There are a great many reasons to visit the USA. With that being said, I haven't been back since the Snowden news broke and everything else that has follow
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by borgia 11y ago
>It is never too late to do something new. Absolutely. Our individual lives aren't even a blip on the radar of life as a whole on our planet, let alone our universe. We get a very short amount of time to live, even shorter to live w
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by borgia 11y ago
I had absolutely no idea that there were previously such restrictions. Registering as an arms dealer to export an algorithm?! Astonishing.
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by borgia 11y ago
Mastering something and merely learning competence in it are two different things though. I don't think the "Teach yourself X in Y" type books are claiming to be turning people into masters, similarly I'm sure many of th
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by borgia 11y ago
The mindset may not be a millennial thing but its prominence in modern society most certainly is. Where once the hate-fueled rhetoric these kinds spew all day and night would have been written off as the delusions of a bitter lunatic, socia
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by borgia 11y ago
>I think this movement will let off some steam and people will stop taking it seriously, but I don't think it is unfair to worry that they will take real positions of power in the future. They're very highly active, and in cont
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by borgia 11y ago
>This can lead to one side dominating the conversation despite being unpersuasive. There is no conversation. They don't converse with those holding conflicting opinions. In fact, with Twitter, they've built out the BlockBot to
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by borgia 11y ago
>You can chill out. I'm not trying to recruit you. Regardless of whether you did this intentionally or whether you just naively spouted this, it's a really shitty tactic to employ when conversing with people.
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by borgia 11y ago
>I don't feel safe discussing social-justice-related topics on accounts that can connect with my real-world persona Isn't it amazing that this is a thing, and you're certainly not alone in feeling this way, and yet people
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by borgia 11y ago
This piece belongs on HN as much as any of the pieces that spring up and are flag killed about feminism i.e. it doesn't. However, the fact that it is on HN and has received quite a bit of support let's me know I'm certainly n
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by borgia 11y ago
>The armchair historian and anthropologist in me wishes we had something like this for the corporations of the 1800s. What we do have from this time though are a huge number of private journals written/kept by very powerful and infl
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by borgia 11y ago
I am still absolutely struggling to see a popular use case for these applications. I would be interested to read about how those who financed/invested in these products, Meerkat in particular, came to the conclusion that it was worth a
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by borgia 11y ago
>a bump in pay will almost certainly help reduce costs associated with retention and retraining and may turn out to be a good business decision, not to mention the publicity. I was thinking about this when reading the article myself. It
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by borgia 11y ago
I've personally been pretty irked by the whole "EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN TO CODE ASAP" narrative being pushed basically everywhere recently, but I agree with you here. Sticking something like python onto the school curriculum wo
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by borgia 11y ago
Unless the person in question took the money and ran off to join a tribe in Africa or similar for the rest of their days, the point still stands.
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by borgia 11y ago
>Training in this industry is basically a lie told to children. It doesn't exist at startups and barely exists at corporates. Should it really though? As developers/testers/whatever position we occupy in the tech space, mo
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by borgia 11y ago
Not the person you're replying to but I'll answer anyway. The theory that the Charlie Hebdo attacks was a false flag attack was raised by Paul Craig Roberts of the Reagan administration.[1] I find it a pretty incredible claim, but
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by borgia 11y ago
Doesn't ship to Canada unfortunately.
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by borgia 11y ago
I suppose it's only natural that people are resorting to these when huge swathes of the American youth are being prescribed Adderall and similar and gaining a competitive edge with them over those who don't have access to them. I
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by borgia 11y ago
My team snagged tickets to the web summit in Dublin last year, not to present but just as attendees. We actually had a great time at it, got to see some good talks, some not so good, and met a huge amount of really cool and interesting peop
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by borgia 11y ago
I'm glad we're getting a better understanding of how much these variables contribute toward longevity and well-being. Now we just have to come up with a plan to deal with the challenges of people living far longer. I don't kn
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by borgia 11y ago
>That style of interaction does sound a lot easier to facilitate in an open-plan office. What about something in the middle i.e. small teams working in offices by themselves, who've sufficient privacy from the grand noise of a total

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