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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
I like Mozilla's the most. It's most human-like and thus, easiest to understand
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
This is just a ploy to ensure that George RR Martin doesn't stop writing once the original WordStar stops working!
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
As with everything else that Stripe does, these books are beautifully designed as well. For me, their design has to be their differentiating factor.
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
Look at everyone in these replies pretending to be race blind. If this kid was Asian, you'd just go "eh, Asian prodigies" and not give it any further attention.
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
Mozart was writing symphonies by this age. Prodigies exist in every field. Is there a geographical bias in your skepticism? Would you be as skeptical if this kid was from Norway or Sweden or Austria?
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
Not knocking this effort, but why are all decentralized, open social networks that hope to compete against Facebook and Instagram so...dull? Their marketing is all the same wholesomeness and positive messaging. There's no "rebelli
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
Google Drive lost some of my files due to syncing errors early on. Dropbox didn't. Google Drive might have improved since (and I do use Google Apps for email and documents), but I haven't been able to forget that experience and tr
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
The idea that venture-backed startups are going to "democratize" finance and wretch it from the hands of big banks is ridiculous.
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
I would be really interested in an Apple designed car, not exactly an Apple created self-driving tech suite. I trust Apple's design far more than I trust Apple's hard tech chops, especially when it comes to processing massive amou
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
I've always wondered what percentage of people use coffee for stimulation, and what percentage use it simply to induce the first bowel movement
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
When I was slightly younger (I'm 29 right now), I must have tried most nootropics imaginable, including microdosing LSD (slightly pleasant) and modafinil (worthless). I was looking for that "magic bullet" that would make me m
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
It's an unequal relationship. Free trade would mean that Google and Amazon and Ford get a level playing field in China as well. But that's not the case.
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
The mainstream media has become a terrible place for any sort of rational discussion. They're too busy criticizing Trump to analyze the impact of these moves. I have zero love for the man, but it's clear that the US has the upper
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
The upside is that we can still edit them all anytime :)
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
True. When I was starting out, I was tasked with editing the Wikipedia page of one of our clients to add more information. Wasn't anything sinister; the company just wanted to ensure the page had up to date information. When I ventured
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
Story of the year for me. Just goes to show what we can accomplish together. Hopefully it will go as a +1 in our ledger if the fate of our species is ever decided
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
You really have to love Wikipedia. It's barely a week old and you already have a page with so many references and detailed information. Thank you, all the anonymous contributors.
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
In India, Flipkart is often criticized for "copying" Amazon's idea (not that "sell stuff online" was revolutionary to begin with). But the thing is, Flipkart entered the Indian market before Amazon. As a consumer, I
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
> Businesses live and die by cash flow. What if cash flows instantly 24/7? Business payments are delayed not because there is an underlying fault in the payment systems (wire transfers are nearly instantaneous, at least within the c
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
Not really. Liquidity is a major problem. Properties sit n the market for years sometimes (as my dad's) before finding a buyer at supposed market valuation (which, in my view, is highly inflated)
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
> Politicians spend the money to fund campaigns, but also on handing out favours, jobs and cash to constituents. “It’s sort of an unholy nexus,” as Raghuram Rajan put it to me during his tenure as head of India’s central bank. “Poor publ
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
If the developing world switched over to a high meat diet as the developed world, it would be an environmental catastrophe
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
The thing is, the people you mentioned in Bangalore didn't even have access to water 50 years ago. India is a great example because the country has progressed on all metrics so much in the last few decades. You don't recognize it
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
Even more absurd is their confidence that they can leash up hyper-masculine private security contractors - the men who hold the guns and kill for a living.
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
> making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind This almost sounds like a parody
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
It's so strange to hear this perennial talk of the apocalypse when factually, we've never lived in a more prosperous, healthier, and better connected world. Maybe these wealthy people know more than I do, but I've just seen l
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
Man I love this. Very neat! Kind of like markdown for calendaring. If you wrap this up in a more 'fashionable' ux, you'd have a big hit I'd love to just upload a text file with my entire plans for the week.
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Ask HN: What happened to modern computing?
14 points by throwawayqdhd 8y ago|4 comments
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
> Right now even if these people are able to connect, working out how to actually pay each other is very awkward I'm one of those people. Paying me is honestly pretty damn trivial and a solved problem. Heck, I've hired people
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by throwawayqdhd 8y ago
Another problem I have with crypto is how elitist it all is, especially for an instrument with rather libertarian, even anarchist roots. Mining BTC requires exceptional investment, which basically makes it feasible only for the rich. Unders

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