zombieprocesses

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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
Is this an ad? News? What are we supposed to do with this submission? How did this make it to the frontpage?
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> Why would the elites try to reign in social media? To better control it? > I'd want them revealing all the intimate details of their life, so I can better manipulate them with targted advertising. Yes. As long as they control t
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> For some reason I'd not considered HN compromised, but considering the nature of Ycombinator and their investments, it's probably safe to assume that all my activity here is 'out in the open'. If you aren't pay
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> like every single company ever? That was my point. > Unlike Facebook that deliverily hides or obfuscates the fact that its customers are really the product How did they hide it? It was their business model. The one they copied from
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
That's my thinking as well. Regulations help the incumbent, not the up-and-coming.
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
... arstechnica, HN, Reddit, newspapers, tv, etc.
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
The same could be said of arstechnica, HN, news and most of media. They are selling "customers" to their advertisers. Also, not sure where Tim Cook has any room to talk. By most measures, Apple is just as bad or worse than faceboo
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> So I wanna completely focused on mastering the language Read the C# language specs. I think you can find it in doc format on microsoft's site. https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-S.
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
Also, will the deletions be logical or physical. Will they be shallow or deep? Keep in mind that there are many types of "deletion". Logical deletions would be just marking the user/comment as deleted ( updating a column in a
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> Am I the only person that has a healthy relationship with social media? You are confusing a propaganda campaign against social media with actual news. Also keep in mind that the author of the Op-Ed was pushing a book he was writing. Bi
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
"When trained to paint celebrity faces, the agent is capable of capturing the main traits of the face, such as shape, tone and hair style, much like a street artist would when painting a portrait with a limited number of brush strokes:
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
Is this an advertisement? Because it reads like one. Postgresql and most mature database systems already have topN/offset/paging solutions. Also, what's the point of aggregating JSONB data? If you need to calculate topN, why
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> Actual propaganda is used to propel an agenda, ideology or belief system. Yes. What do you think #deleteFacebook is? We don't really have news anymore. We have agenda. Foxnews has an agenda. CNN has an agenda. The entire media has
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> It would be enough for me if it declined into the confused and nonelastic state Microsoft was in around the times of Vista. That was enough for Android to appear and take over, forcing a paradigm shift. What? Android and Vista are on t
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> It also seems like leasing a 1.1M asset for 36k/year is poor retirement planning. 3.2% pre tax won’t ler you live that well. Maybe he was betting on the price of taxi medallions to increase considerably. > Putting a million int
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> So a news organization can be a part-time propagandist then? Of course. > In other words they are only producing propaganda when the story contain unflattering details about a subject? No. They can be producing propaganda when they
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
Wikibooks has a very basic intro to category theory/haskell. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> Facebook never gave me anything of value in exchange for constantly monitoring and profilingmy behavior online. Then don't use it. I don't use it. It's not that difficult. > In contrast, Google provides me with a very
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> Facebook employees actively working to help scammers get billions of dollars out of uneducated poor users. Despicable. Welcome to the wonderful world of advertising. You think bloomberg is any different. The news/tv show kids soda
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> I'm more disturbed by your labeling something as "propaganda" simply because you yourself didn't feel it merited reporting on. There is a world of difference between objective reporting and biased propaganda. I hate
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
This is getting annoying. Is anyone else sick and tired of the FB related propaganda? 6 out of the top 30 stories are FB related. It was like that yesterday. The day before. Usually the mods are very good about getting rid of the clutter bu
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
Facebook isn't losing money. They are one of the most profitable companies in the world. Changes in market cap != losing money. https://www.statista.com/statistics/277229/facebooks-annual-... They made nearly
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
Almost every company is spying on you online. Including CNN and hacker news. The question is why is everyone picking on FB? In china or russia, Xi or Putin orders the institutions to attack so and so and the media/government hounds an
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
If you get drunk, maybe. But having a glass of wine isn't going to affect your sleep. Also, this is about falling asleep quickly, not the quality of sleep. I fall asleep within seconds.
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
That's financial news every day. They make up nonsense to associate with stock/market movements. Last week, it was FB being down because of issues. Nevermind the entire market was down. And if the dow is down .05% for the day, the
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
Good to see the redheaded step child of the BSD world finally getting the limelight. FreeBSD gets all the attention, while OpenBSD gets all the praise.
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies Check out the HN thread where self-purported
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
This works for me. Half an hour before I go to bed, I have a glass of wine or a shot of whisky while browsing the web or watching youtube/netflix/etc. Boom, it's lights out as soon as my head hits the pillow. An added benefit
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
What's even more shocking is google's PR team here claiming that google is working to "improve" the world. It's so disgusting and tacky.
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by zombieprocesses 8y ago
> (Most of) Rest of the world sees it as a safety issue and is happy to give away their firearms. Because we should aim to be more like china, russia, europe, middle east, africa, etc. No thanks. You guys can have your tyranny. We'l

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