Firebrand

You just gotta know your audience. Everyone has the fantasy of turning hearts and minds to your point of view with your words but eventually you come to the realization it’s just not worth the effort.

Quibi pivots to user generated content and becomes the comeback kid.

Mortality rate of like 0.5%, mostly targets asthmatics and old people. Pretty lame engineering if it did come from a lab.

Facebook is frequently the target of the traditional media because these outlets have been largely shut out in favor of conservative sites. Take a look at the most popular news posts for 6/19 and 6/24:

https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1275852495215042562

https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1274014164487294976

It seems like Facebook’s most active user base is conservative leaning.

Does Riot outsource their animation and music production? The cinematic and music videos they’ve been releasing every year are always amazing.

1MDB is the most bizarre scandals I’ve ever heard. A 27-year-old convinces the Prime Minister of Malaysia to let him manage country’s sovereign wealth fund, and then he proceeds to fritter almost $2 billion away throwing multi-million dollar parties and funding the Wolf of Wall Street. How did he get away with all of it for so long?

Mark reportedly lives in California, a two-party state. Wouldn’t he be running afoul of wiretapping laws, regardless if he’s recording criminals?

There's nothing more liberal in 2018 than worshipping at the altar of billion dollar banking institutions and web hosters for colluding to suppress the speech of people they disagree with.

Maybe Facebook should shut down the message board or limit the discussion to specific topics, at least.

Letting junior employees think their opinions matter is an enormous mistake.

So maybe I don’t understand because I’m a dumb-dumb lay person, but what does Stripe do differently from all the other payment processors that has given its rise and hype.

Is Stripe popular because its developer friendly? What makes it better than Apple Pay, PayPal, and Square? Normally, when I shop online, I’m usually given an option to type my credit card info or use my PayPal account. Where does Stripe fit into all of this?

>when I decided to go to MIT several of my high school classmates sneered that I'd chosen a "trade school" instead of a "real school".

What? Did you attend high school in the fifties?

The legalization of sports betting will probably have a secondary effect of resuscitating the newspaper industry. It will be a huge boon to a lot of industries, actually.

So I think Zuck's presidential campaign is officially toast at this point.

Now what?

>3. I’ve forgotten 95% of it.

>I majored in English Literature and minored in Communication Theory

Suddenly I’m less impressed with what he has to say...

How would you feel about mentoring non-technical people? Uber seems to be piloting an apprenticeship program for people from non-technical backgrounds:

https://eng.uber.com/engineer-apprentices/

I don’t really know why Uber is doing it, but I wonder if in-house apprenticeship programs are going to become more of thing now.

The ISS is way too high maintenance for a profitable business. Putting humans in space is too expensive.

Humans jut do not belong in space yet. Most science and astronomy missions can will continue to be performed through machinery and automation. The cancellation of all most of the other missions is a direct result from this focus. We are all very curious about what's out there, and the absolute better way to satiate this curiosity and to actually discover new things is with machine focused missions: rovers, landers, and specially telescopes.

Further study into the effects of space on humans for the purposes of leaving Earth due to some apocalypse is very exagerated as well. Even in a bad apocalyptic scenario, the resulting Earth would still be better to live in than any other planet or moon we currently can reach.

The pictures from back from Juno, New Horizons, the Mars rovers, and the Hubble continue to inspire the future generations, and earn support from the general populace already.

Must be investors pulling all their money out of stocks to put in crypto!

There’s only three parts of the economy where prices have consistently outpaced inflation: education, health care (including prescription drugs) and real estate over long periods of time.

These are all sectors in which public policy subsidizes demand and restricts supply.

Medical care is a commodity, and aren’t we all often faced with commodities we cannot afford?

People who cannot afford medical care have no right to demand it from anyone. Maybe someone will be empathetic enough to offer charity; friends and family may choose to band together and fund a sick person’s medical care. But even a poor person’s necessity does not change the fact that healthcare is a service and a good provided by a third party.

No matter how much some starving kid needs food, he doesn’t have a right to steal someone’s wallet or hold up the local convenience store to obtain it. If I were in that position, maybe I’d end up choosing to steal since it’s the least immoral choice under the circumstances, but that does not make it a moral choice, or suggest that I have not violated someone‘s rights in pursuing my own needs.

>But I also suspect that many students with little philosophy experience came away with the impression that this class represented what philosophy is, and that’s what disheartens me most.

Haven’t we all experienced a professor who was good in their field but couldn’t teach well, or was too much of a hardass?

Faculty ratings and ratemyprofessor are there for a reason.

It seems like you’re just complaining about not being able to have the same conversations with your co-workers that you could at a bar with your friend, after a beer or two.

Because somebody else has to clean up their splattered remains.

Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter usage are all down.

People are just spending less time on social media apps for some reasons these days.

https://www.similarweb.com/blog/social-media-usage

I used to not mind Peterson because he seemed to help out young males find some direction in their life, but then he found out arguing with transpeople about pronouns made him more money so he let himself be adopted by the far-right.

I present to you...BANANA COIN!:

https://i.imgur.com/4p7XFyd.jpg

Coinbase probably banned him.

Just don’t write any manifestos to your co-workers.

There are no repatriation taxes anymore. The new law did away with them.

I know tax isn't, like, simple, but it's not that complicated.

The crypto market keeps going further down because every day there’s hundreds of articles of "news" reports going with some some doomsday promoting theme. Just today some scientific report claiming bots were responsible for bitcoin's rise from $150-$1000, and now the media is taking advantage of everyone’s fear of a rising China by claiming the PRC will start freezing bank accounts, etc.

Everyone is being played. If you’ve been paying attention to the news for the past two years know how easy it is to put out fake news articles. You know that fake news has been used to alter perceptions and maybe mess with elections. This is no different. Dropping false news reports to mess with market prices to cause market swings for profit is straight out of the textbook.

There is quite a lot money at play, and you'd be naive to think that all the random articles popping up on HN today are intended to do anything other than instill further panic and sell-offs. Do yourself and everyone a favor, start spreading awareness of the fake news about crypto! I kinda like this community and I would hate HN to lose to what is an egregious and coordinated effort to induce panic and destroy the crypto market.

I thought Coinbase, and many other U.S. based exchanges, already blacklist addresses and ban accounts attempting to send money to them.