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I'd only add that it's another way to manufacture hope for people who have been left behind by how unbelievable most religions are.

I've been trying for years (and will continue trying) to switch my parents hope for an afterlife with a hope that cryo will work. There is definitely no afterlife, but cryo might eventually work. That's how I see most of these "living forever" positions. It's just a more intellectual hope to have, where you at least break reality into possible and impossible before choosing something to believe.

I never really got into it.

To me it's the same as alcohol, I'm happy not to have a taste for them.

> Europe’s leading digital banking app. Instant spending alerts, free money transfers and global fee-free spendi...

It's the first line of text after the header.

People are retroactively upset that they didn't do this during our election.

I'd definitely prefer this to ads in a world where phone software and hardware improved energy capacity and efficiency at a faster rate than applications bloat.

I don't think we've reached that point yet. An iPhone doesn't last a single day if you use it the whole time, it would barely last for hours mining constantly.

> If there had been no computers, the service representative would have successfully completed the transaction since there would have been no discrepancy.

If you replace a computer with a piece of paper with a different name on the account, it doesn't make it any easier for a service representative to override.

This isn't a computer problem. It has always been inconvenient to change your name.

You are misunderstanding. The computer only helps everyone it works for. It doesn't hurt the people it doesn't work for.

The worst case is that you get handled by people because the computer didn't work, which is the same as if there were no computers.

We might not be optimized for human intervention into these processes, but that's because at the scale we operate at (hundreds of millions of users) it is physically impossible to provide human to human service for everyone.

This was one of the weirdest things about driving across the country from the East to West coast. At some point I passed a sign that just said "Z".

Are those numbers ball parked or just for example?

The average car loan has a 4% interest rate[1], and the average bank gives a paltry 0.06% interest rate[2].

I agree that if you can make a higher return investment than the rate on your debt, that's certainly profitable. I just disagree that it can be done so passively, at least today.

[1] https://www.valuepenguin.com/auto-loans/average-auto-loan-in...

[2] https://www.valuepenguin.com/banking/average-bank-interest-r...

The best case scenario for Bitcoin is reaching a consistent price for the rest of its lifetime. That scenario means there's no reason to "invest" in it because ideally it would never change in value.

Only people trying to cash out need people buying in. If you were really invested in the long term you'd rather people not buy in so you can buy more at a lower price.

Bitcoin also has fees. The only reason the fees are lower than credit cards are because people in China can afford to burn electricity at a loss just to turn their Chinese money into anything else.

You still have to pay taxes on the capital gains. And you can't pay taxes in Bitcoin.

And a great thing about Japanese is they have smiley faces built in ツ。

Can someone explain to a layman how a company losing $600M every 3 months, with $6B remaining of $12B raised (50% loss over 8 years) is "worth" $62B?

If the EFF really wants to support free speech they could host the Daily Stormer and see what happens to their donations.

It seems duplicitous to force someone else to bear the cost of facilitating toxicity.

Flagged just means an overwhelming number of people don't want to keep seeing stories like this.

It's only attached to the individual thread, not to your account, so no worries.

...and every one of the dozen missile defense systems between NK and here fails.

The point is not that 150 lines is better than 100, it's that two people with the same job do not have the same productivity.

Measure productivity by whatever metric you want, it's impossible for two people to do the exact same (amount / value) work.

The only way to prove salaries are just is for every single person to have a different salary.

The article says that the reason for lower fertility rates are people waiting to have kids later.

Lower individual fertility from age only happens as you trend toward 40, so there's nothing teenagers and 20 year olds should be planning outside of "maybe have kids at 30".

It costs money to host video. The volume of advertising you sell supports your costs, with a fraction going to the content creators. Using information you gather increases how much advertising you can sell. The more advertising you sell the more money everyone gets.

Having a low cost infrastructure for video streaming and good advertising deals is not a monopoly, it's an investment.

Please forgive me for being crass, but it's so stressful to have to watch a 45 minute video just to not have someone lie to me about it tomorrow.

The problem is that there's a ton of value created by the information the services collect. Delivering more value to advertisers allows more video creators to make their livings.

If you started your own site there's absolutely no way you could be profitable competing on both hosting costs and payout to creators.

I use hckrnews myself and don't see this happening. Would you mind identifying which threads you think have been incorrectly flagged?

That topic flag is called reddit.com/r/politics. We are already choosing to come here instead of there.

The flagging isn't a rogue algorithm.

It's the majority of the sites users saying they don't want to keep seeing the same two toxic viewpoints throwing shit at each other.

From what I understand of the last 15 years, IPOs are now for cashing out when you've manufactured a solid enough filing to convince normal people that you're worth what the 10 VCs who gave you money say you're worth.

No company IPOs if they don't absolutely have to. It's like conceding that you can't make enough profit privately to recoup your investment on any kind of reasonable timescale.

This sentiment is how normal people feel about all cryptocurrency.

> If I bothered asking you whether X would be accepted onto your platform, and you said yes, I would find it pretty amateuristic to then come back (once an integration has been made) and ask "why exactly should we let you onto our platform"?

The difference between this and what actually happened is that the Company has no way of knowing if something is novel or not before it exists. When asked if someone could start building something they said sure. When asked if what he/she built was good enough they said no. These are not inconsistent.

It's such a weird sense of entitlement that because OP spent time on something he/she deserves to be rewarded. The company very obviously expected something that wasn't exactly the same as the thing that already exists. When that was not what they got, they responded understandably.

Capitalism is like a competition that when you win you don't ever get to play again.

If you read the last image in the article, Twitter's security team already responded (within 2 days) that because this wasn't reproducible, there was nothing they could do to attempt to fix it.

Hard to imagine paying $2 million for a plane and shitting in a bucket behind a curtain.

How confident are you that you know everything that everyone at Uber is working on?

It is understandable for this to happen if there's any kind of machine learning deciding prices, it doesn't have to be designed discrimination to exist in this form.