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1zeeon The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness

That's a pretty general, sweeping claim to make without a source.

1zeeon Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?

>automatically generated with a bunch of python scripts

Can you expand on what you mean by this? Seems like straightforward design(s) that you can just keep printing over and over..

1zeeon I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me

What is "old enough"?

1zeeon Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed

Edgy, but most jobs in a capitalistic, efficiency-obsessed marketplace involve redistributing consumer demand.

1zeeon 'Moment of reckoning': US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports

just ban plastic bottles.... cans work just fine.

1zeeon Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics

I'm not going to defend Mormon beliefs, but I will play devil's advocate. Many Mormons view tithe as giving back to the community of which they're a part. And that community, they believe, will provide value to them, in turn. And generally, it does... as far as I can tell from the outside.

1zeeon Confessions of a location data exec

Ah, so you're an optimist

1zeeon Confessions of a location data exec

Can you elaborate on the analogy in the context of this thread?

1zeeon Cambridge University Launches Archive of Aerial Photos Going Back to 1945

I didn't know this... how can you access historical images in Google Earth?

1zeeon The Crispr Twins Had Their Brains Altered

> We need drugs, but it’s another thing to take normal people and muck with the DNA or chemistry to improve them

In a sense, don't drugs do exactly that sans the mucking with DNA?

1zeeon 20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience

>massive demographic the studios could exploit the Hell out of

who? readers of a novel?

1zeeon DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

Except advertisers and industries propped up by that model

1zeeon The Endgame for LinkedIn Is Coming

I respect your optimisim

1zeeon Google cans the Chromecast Audio

Just to clarify, that "Ok, Google" feature requires a Google Assistant device like a Home Mini (or your phone) as the Chromecast Audio has no microphone.

1zeeon Warby Parker built a 1,400-employee company by focusing on team culture

Insurance companies and Luxottica

1zeeon There's no such thing as a free watch (2017)

a relevant aside, the Reply All podcast episode on drop-shipping is a great listen

1zeeon Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

What is the "cultural concept of 'chess'" then, and according to whose culture?

1zeeon Priceline now worth $100B

You know people that would not recognize any of those brands?

1zeeon Not Hotdog App

awesome, what's your blog?

1zeeon Not Hotdog App

Can you explain to a noob how you wrote the Native module around TensorFlow? My main area of focus is in python, but I feel hindered when I think I'm ready to start developing for mobile apps. I'm looking into RN, but still not sure how that plays with TF and other python modules.

1zeeon New Study Challenges a Genetic Link to Stress, Depression

Completely anecdotal, but many of my friends that are of Asian descent have a tough time putting a finger on or grasping what depression is. It almost seems like it's not something that they have been wired to be able to feel or experience.

I was wondering if there was any research to back up that tendency....

1zeeon How 'dockless' cycles flooded China and are heading overseas

Docks make no sense in Copenhagen, where most everyone knows how to properly park their wheel-locked bikes in a non-intrusive way.

Also, most people have their own bikes.

1zeeon Uber Employees Use Secret Tools to Target Drivers and Undercut Competition

I'm just trying to picture a team that stares at God View and the Lyft app all day, triangulating and throwing subsidies at oblivious drivers all day.