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by simplecomplex 8y ago
> country has the right to determine what kind of immigrants it prefers Yeah, obviously. You prefer we discriminate based on college education. Why? Don’t people without masters degrees deserve equal treatment? Equal opportunity? > Th
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This is discrimination, and nothing to celebrate. People without degrees deserve equal treatment. People who want to work lower-paid jobs deserve equal treatment.
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This is a sad day for the USA, as we move further from the principles that made us great. This is discrimination, and nothing to celebrate. People without degrees deserve equal treatment. People who want to work lower-paid jobs deserve equ
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Yeah these questions scream “only 20 year old naive idealists need apply” The obituary question is so insincere and disingenuous.
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Change.org sells the list of signatures for petitions (who signed what petition).
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All the more reason we should be replacing the whole grid with it.
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We already have enough land to power the entire US with solar. The future is renewables not pushing the can down the road with Nuclear, ignoring all of its negative externalities. Bill Gates doesn’t need government to build solar either.
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
We have 5 articles referencing Facebook on the front page. It’s gotten out of hand. HN is dominated by whining about Facebook lately. None of these articles have substance.
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Break the law? They aren’t slaves. Fuck the law. Nobody is going to jail for quitting their job.
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Would it be possible to create a system that’s backwards compatible but costs something reasonable?
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Small newsrooms have been replaced by Reddit, blogs, and a nexus of updates from Facebook, mailing lists, and instant messaging. News isn’t just what gets printed on paper. There’s nothing about printing information on paper that somehow ma
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Define AI. Define intelligence. Kurzwiel's prediction are nonscientific and unfalsifiable. AGI is unscientific. He really likes making predictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwe...
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It had already been attacked and was full of international guests. In the capital city. 4-5 guys should not be able to take complete control of the hotel with no heavy weaponry. That means security is deficient or non-existent.
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Turns out 4-5 guys with AK's and some grenades took over an international hotel in central Kabul and killed 40+ people. What's the excuse for the hotel not having any security?
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What’s the downside? If someone is fired giving the company anything for free is throwing money away. I had a boss at a startup let me know I was being let go with two weeks notice. I immediately asked for $20k or else I would walk out wi
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Let’s not allow tweetstorms about personal drama on HN. What’s the point of policing the comments with an iron fist if the links are a free-for-all!? It’s such a weird dichotomy to be hellbanning people for being snarky while every day the
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
That shouldn't be necessary. I don't have to host my own email servers to use my own domain. I've changed email providers 4 times and kept the same email address. I've changed web hosts dozens of times, and kept the same
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Has identity been dealt with? I have a domain, and I want my identity to be tied to my domain, regardless of which mastadon server I’m using. I don’t want someone else in control of my identity. I don’t want to lose my followers. It’d be id
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
This looks like a deliberate attempt at cloning iOS’s aesthetic. The demo does work well!
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Who was the designer? What’s the license/copyright situation?
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It’s not a good thing if you like seeing software devs get paid :)
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An election is not civil unrest.
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The author says he switched because of “Then came 2018, with its stunning revelations and outrages by Facebook, Apple, Google, and others. With privacy and free speech—in short, digital autonomy—deeply under threat” Comparing Facebook, Micr
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Programming is a means, not an end.
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AFAIK all the information they sell is already available on the public web.
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They monetize by selling ad placement. Advertisers get to choose who sees the ad based on segmenting the audience with user data. In no way does Facebook or Google package private data and sell it. Which is exactly what “sells user data” is
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> I'd say data is more valuable than oil. None of the social network companies sell user data. They sell ad placement, and use user data to target the ad audience. Selling ads is not selling data. When I think of selling data I thin
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Because rebranding is one of the sacred corporate cargo cults, and brand agencies need new customers.
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In other words, artificial intelligence isn’t intelligent at all.
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Malthus was wrong! Spectacularly so. Is the title a joke? > If technology is everywhere, the tech sector no longer exists Funny, because tech is everywhere and the tech sector is the biggest it has been in history.

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