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by brilliantcode 9y ago
As an AMD fanboy I'm delighted to hear it but saddened that this isn't going to make a dent against Intel. AMD has been two steps backward for every step forward for the past decade.
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
who would actually support yelp sales extorting small buinesses? wtf HN?
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
Oh there is a clear us vs them mentality here. I was surprised to see transphobic comments go unremoved. Negative comments criticizing YC backed ventures or saying Peter Thiel is gay is heavily censored through downvotes. let's not for
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
Unfuckingbelievable. If you google Eric Sperber, you can see that youtube show up in first page results. I wonder how in hell is Yelp not giving a fuck? They even tried to take down the video but that guy was smart enough to upload a backup
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
It perplexes me that they can get away with this. This is shaking down mom & pops businesses.
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
This seems like a bad PR move. Now there's serious questions about the validity of the claims. I've never heard of Nomx but this really should not be how you should introduce your product by claiming it's safe and you should
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
The laws, ethics, morality were all constructed by people who disregarded them and was able to build massive fortunes and influence before they invented the gun with force. Except we don't have kings anymore but hundreds of thousands f
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how gullible people are with all these questionable "crypto" coins being traded on Poloniex. Price is manipulated but because these don't fall under SEC's turf it's being looked the other
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
looks like the millionaires of HN don't like hearing this haha!
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
How is your friend taking the news? I can't imagine the level of sadness at the thought of your own biological birth mother giving you up like that. Freud says they go through their whole life trying to avoid abandonment. I'd imag
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
It seems like Luxury stores are on the rise and doing great but all these retail shops aimed at the general public in malls is struggling. In my humble opinion, it's a sign of the increasing wealth transfer from the poor to the rich. T
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
It's behind a paywall but take these public short position declaration with a grain of salt - it serves them and their financial positions when it gets media exposure.
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
Putin, in case anyone had trouble with the article's implied message.
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
Fair enough. But this year is the perfect recipe. Trump, China, EU etc.... Read Antifragile book
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
So smart money is leaving startup/VC/SV...it'd be interesting to see who's been swimming naked all these years when the bubble bursts this Fall edit: oooh, definitely a touchy subject around here ;)
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4009799-lending-club-online...
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
I'm curious how why you need to initialize a local server? Does that run inside the browser?
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
Remember LendingClub which was a money lending business that touted it's machine learning KYC & AML process would automate the overhead but what happened was it just let a ton of people with non existent credit to grab money...that
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
> Wow, so that's effectively opening up new easy to get credit vehicles for unsophisticated investors. How could that go wrong? This is the hallmark of modern day capitalism. By issuing loans knowing full well they will never pay ba
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
Modern day feudalism except the shareholders collectively represents the master controlling the workers through the CEO. It makes sense why a massive payout would be valuable in contrast to the billions of dollars in unlimited upside reward
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
Well, if Tesla was a Japanese company and people died, ritual suicide would be the one of two possible options. The other is dishonor.
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
The one where you build and market something but then it turns out to be something less than expectations. Ethic issues arise when the expectation is that the occupants will live and then your product falling short on those critical constra
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
wow...this is pretty scary. Imagine if the video didn't have the friendly European accent and patches of green. Imagine if that was a real life scenario and the greens were a hazard. I wonder if there are more such videos that show Tes
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
> Killing a few extra people today to bring self driving cars to market faster could actually save more lives in total. I have much more respect for Tesla for shipping something. There's no evidence to suggest that is the case. If a
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
Amazon is basically creating an ecosystem for subscription based businesses where they hold all the customers hostage in return for a piece of your action.
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
I'm saying a modified Korean alphabet to distinguish tonality of vowels with the pinyin four sounds.
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
One crazy idea I had to make Chinese less complex is to use the Korean alphabet while retaining some common Chinese characters that the Korean alphabet cannot reproduce in terms of sound. You could even use accents to indicate the specific
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
what if the "grey" traffic came from residential IP addresses using a normally distributed range of user agents? How would you reliable distinguish them from regular traffic?
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
One can a lot from this list, this is super valuable for my needs!
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by brilliantcode 9y ago
HN is on fire today. Zecco and now Theranos. I'm getting the feeling that we are going to see more and more stories like this in the near future. Theranos running fake tests is just another example of the type of charlatans enabled by

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