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by wintom 8y ago
What exactly happened after the U.S. severed ties with Cuba? You make it sound like we lost something. They are still stuck in the 1960s, their economy is absolute garbage and the people are dirt poor, they lost multiple generations of oppo
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by wintom 8y ago
Absolutely not true. There is plenty of evidence time and time again from the top firms in this country try. Aviation and top R&D being stolen from Boeing, just in general corporate espionage is rampant just Google it. The kicking out o
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by wintom 8y ago
Copying isn’t cheating but they have spies in the top tech firms in this country. Everywhere in the world that’s cheating. Stealing confidential proprietary anything anywhere in the modern world will send you to jail, whose sending China to
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by wintom 8y ago
I am reading a lot of comments like this. Guys, so what? You think middle America gives a shit your high tech biz is getting hit? The fact that everyone is building all of this out of China is a terrible sign. The fact that China has grown
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by wintom 8y ago
I know your not trying to troll, statements of disbelief are very common about companies that are about to own an entire market with no real competition in sight. No one sees it yet but these guys are about to own office space and how that
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Ask HN: Any places for early products, alpha stage, to get users and feedback?
2 points by wintom 8y ago|1 comments
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by wintom 8y ago
During world war 2, fan favorite companies like Mercedez Benz were building tanks for the Nazis. If there is a war today don’t you think the government will seize everything and we will all be working for them? This is different in some way
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by wintom 9y ago
It’s not meaningless. Saying Blockchain is meaningless is like saying the web is meaningless or the internet is meaningless. Just because you either don’t understand it or you feel it’s too broad does not make it meaningless. Blockchain is
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by wintom 9y ago
Mining this stuff is a funny thing, that is a devisive feature even in the crypto space. That being said, this isn’t the first time where mining has plummeted in profitability. Early last year similar articles started popping up and in fact
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by wintom 9y ago
The real issue with all the pump and dump, fear of missing out, and all the other crazy “mooning” is that it is ruining this whole space. It is creating a reality that all the haters of cryptocurrency have been talking about for a while. In
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by wintom 9y ago
Sounds like maybe SOME ARM and SOME AMD are implicated, especially since the Android ARM CPUs appear to be fine...
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by wintom 9y ago
>"A bitcoin is a number, and that number has no utility outside of its ability to be accepted by someone else. Unlike gold, the the minimum value of a bitcoin is zero— its value if everyone stops believing it works. This is one reas
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by wintom 9y ago
I like your username, lol. You are right though and I am being a little sarcastic on purpose. People have argued that Gold has real intrinsic value which it does have its uses but no more or no less than any other important precious metal w
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by wintom 9y ago
Lots of stuff is used in electronics but it is not worth as much as gold.
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by wintom 9y ago
“Rosenstreich at online trading firm Swissquote said bitcoin’s surge harks to the surprises of the U.K. referendum on European Union membership and President Trump’s election. “We have underestimated the populist movements,” he said. “There
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by wintom 9y ago
You are 100% right about the folks who use this and many of the folks in the early days. It is a little lost today in all the bubble conversations, many of the ICO conversations, and people are generally debating what is the value of this s
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A simple overlooked property of cryptocurrency(hackernoon.com)
8 points by wintom 9y ago|2 comments
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by wintom 9y ago
>Also, it's pretty personal info: in the event that one or more of the ad buyers grouped into the list really was a private citizen with no affiliation to any government, is Facebook in the right to publicize who they are and which
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Building an MVP that does not suck(medium.com)
4 points by wintom 9y ago|0 comments
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by wintom 9y ago
Martians popping our tires? In all seriousness its unclear to me how this could happen so quickly? The article does not really explain why they didn't think through this.
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by wintom 10y ago
The papers are great, a lot of research has been done in this area despite the closed nature of .net prior to the recent open sourcing. Too tough to summarize in one comment but I want to add a few things for anyone thinking of checking the
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by wintom 10y ago
That is a terrible thing and it highlights the wild west that is internet advertising right now. Much like TV ads, internet ads have to be responsible but there has to be a place for them or dont be surprised when this sort of thing happens
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by wintom 10y ago
I know there will be a lot of heat on me fro HN users about ads but here goes anyway: Ads are pretty bad right now but the reality is that the internet without ads would not be a useful internet. Half of the tools and the things you use all
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by wintom 10y ago
When everyone screams about security and why we shouldn't be snooped on one of the biggest factors to consider is that inevitably someone who has access to this information will abuse their power. It's just human nature. The argum
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by wintom 10y ago
In the post you mentioned that >>"In those tasks training from scratch with this model architecture does not do as well as some other techniques we're researching, but it serves as a baseline." Can you elaborate a littl
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by wintom 11y ago
Lol, Excellent point. I was going to say, although full stack is pretty loose, it isn't that loose. Full stack means you can touch front end code, backend code, and you can design a table or two or dump a few things into a NoSql Db for
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by wintom 11y ago
Your first paragraph about Google having great UX, one button one form. That was built by engineers not by designers or by UX guys who do "research". So my argument stands. The best UI/UX is the type that gets out of your way
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by wintom 11y ago
Listen man the best UI and UX comes from not having the stuff get in your way. Once could argue that the best UI/UX is UI and UX that gets out of your way, that is UI that is none at all. If we could interface with our machines without
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by wintom 11y ago
My point is today, more than ever, engineers are essential. Design is not and the article misses that point and is using design as a gauge for a companies health. That's not accurate, anyway that's my opinion. Also it's not j
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by wintom 11y ago
I couldn't disagree more sir. Microsoft just started giving a shit about design with all the flat stuff and clearly it's failing harder than ever. They should focus on engineering and solving hard engineering problems more than ev

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