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by vectorpush 9y ago
I think you're correct to point out the inaccuracies of the image, however I disagree with the cavalier use of the term "fake news" to describe arbitrary instances of false or misleading information. The problem of "fake
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by vectorpush 9y ago
Well, Theranos and Etherium are met with frequent criticism on this board with good reason, but the issue isn't about losing out on an investment - which is obviously a risk with any company and clearly not applicable in the case of Ub
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by vectorpush 9y ago
I think HN just has a low tolerance for willful incompetence, especially when charging gigantic fees to the consumer. As has been pointed out by other articles, despite many warning signs that this festival would be impossible to pull off a
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> It says something about the platforms integrity And? I don't have a stake in the integrity of twitter or any other private business. If I don't like the product, I don't use it, same as any other business. Frankly, my
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> Just because something has no cultural value doesn't stop someone, int he country, from having the right to say it. Nobody is denying them that right. You don't have a right to a twitter account. If someone won't allow
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> Human life is the most advanced creation of evolution Arguable. It depends on how you define advanced. There are many organisms that live longer, are more numerous and can survive in more extreme environments than humans. It is also
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by vectorpush 9y ago
> The most successful companies all use whiteboard interviews Not much evidence to demonstrate that this is a significant contributing factor in their success. The five companies listed are pioneering behemoths that transcend the bound
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> There is no need to wire money anymore. In the US bitcoins can be purchased instantly with a credit card via Coinbase, as easy as signing up for Paypal. The caveats being a 3.75% surcharge and the fact that many of the big banks will
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I get that this article is satire, but I think the deepest (perhaps) unintentional insight presented by the author's veiled criticism is that the justification for using these tools is presented as "it's 2017" and not as
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by vectorpush 10y ago
No. It's definitely 41%. Look at page 6 of your link The earliest that machines will be able to simulate learning and every other aspect of human intelligence: Within 10 years 6 5% Between 11 and 25 years 3 2%
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Consider that 41% of those surveyed conclude that machines will never be able to "simulate learning and every other aspect of human intelligence". The next 41% conclude it is possible within an unbounded "more than 50 years
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> Healthy humans are sexual ones In the appropriate context, of which the workplace is not one. There are other places where individuals make an effort to curtail sexual discussion (church, the dinner table, around small children, with
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Can we just avoid sexual conversations at work? That's a pretty simple rule that negates all the complexities of determining what type of sexual discussion is and isn't sexual harassment. I've sometimes heard the argument tha
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Perhaps adding a way for users to tag a story as left or right leaning (or even more descriptive tags like anti-union, pro-life, anti-regulatory etc) might also provide some insight to your classifiers. How an individual classifies a story
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Well, the tagline on their front page does read "We don't assume you're stupid.". I'm not calling you stupid, I think everyone has failed to backup something important at one point or another, just saying that the s
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by vectorpush 10y ago
To start with, CS students are not the masses. In addition to that, some CS students at some schools are exposed to the linux command line, and even less are exposed to linux desktop environments because most CS students have grown up u
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Nothing killed the Linux desktop. At the end of the day, it all comes down to the fact that the masses only have two options: Windows or Mac. People become set in their ways using a particular system either at home or work and there is basi
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Try Trump antichrist - 447k Trump anti-christ - 1.7mil Obama Hitler - 27mil I think the takeaway is that stringing a couple terms together in google gives us little in the way of political insight.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Almost everyone here seems to be discussing the economic challenges of UBI, but so far I haven't seen much mention of the political challenges. UBI is a completely unworkable concept in the U.S.A and likely many European countries as w
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> again, the use case I made up is not important. And to argue the use case would be missing the point. This is precisely the point. Blockchains are met with negativity because enthusiasts keep trying to evangelize their merits withou
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by vectorpush 10y ago
This post is a quintessential example of why blockchain discussions are met with negativity. Your response to criticism is to castigate the critics as unimaginative and averse to "out group" technologies rather than counter the cr
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by vectorpush 10y ago
And thousands of them lose their money due to bugs or simple mistakes. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/search?q=lost+wallet+help&r...
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Blockchain evangelists promise the world and deliver nothing except hype and political grandstanding in return. When we discuss the cryptocurrency concept, specifically bitcoin, I think reasonable people can agree that blockchain technolog
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Fair enough, but I've heard similar reasoning espoused from other vim users who were reluctant to transition away from arrow keys. Perhaps you might find the productivity dip worth it in the long run, but I am not unsympathetic to the
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Yeah, I'm not a numpad user myself, but I never really noticed the hands off-center issue, my brain seems to adapt without much distraction.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I am no longer a Mac user, but might I suggest remapping the escape key to another, it really saves a ton of time. Personally I use "hh", which makes some vim users cringe, but let me tell you, it's so much faster than esca
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Yeah, 17" is pretty much a prerequisite for me as far as laptops go. I was in the market for a laptop a few years back and considered the MBP but I ended up going with the 17" Asus Zenbook and have been very pleased with it. I&#x2
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I would say Srinivasan is particularly egregious. Regardless of how you feel about bitcoin, and even among many bitcoin enthusiasts, the economics of the 21 bitcoin computer were clearly absurd from the outset, yet Srinivasan still manage
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by vectorpush 10y ago
For those who rely on tabs, one great advantage of relying on the multiplexer instead is that your "tabs" live within the terminal, so when you ssh into your session, the machine has all your "tabs" ready and waiting ins
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by vectorpush 10y ago
In a tmux workflow, you're generally not spawning that many new terminal windows, instead you ^a+c to spawn a new tty within tmux.

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