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shdhon After 38,000 layoffs, Wall Street wakes up to 'peak car'

> ...they closely track the cost of gas.

Could you post a source backing your claim?

shdhon Deposit of rare-earth minerals off Japan could supply world for centuries (2018)

Problem is China artificially deflating the price of their metals when other facilities do come online, forcing those newly opened operations to shut down.

shdhon Trump declares emergency over IT threats

Huawei has set a historical precedent of being a bad actor in regards to corporate espionage. How outlandish is it to think that they would also be participating in national espionage for the Chinese government?

shdhon China’s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific

Mutually assured destruction.

The initial attack likely never takes place.

shdhon Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2019 Results

Human's aren't 100% either

shdhon How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers

The cost was probably less than the profit in this outcome for each of the companies.

shdhon U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks

The addiction extends beyond age

shdhon U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks

Insert "dark pattern expert"

shdhon Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9%

Its going to be an up hill battle for Fuchsia

shdhon Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas

I bet the deleted profile posts countered some of these points

shdhon Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile

Why did you assume it's expensive to obtain drivers?

shdhon RSS Is Better Than Twitter

RSS is a feed of subscribable information in a programmably ingestible format.

Imagine formatting your feed however you want, without distracting side content. A use case is using RSS for YouTube subscriptions instead of the horrible subscription page experience.

Many publications do not post full articles, but instead summaries or excerpts.

The HN RSS feed is simply a link to the original article and comments.

shdhon Facebook 'mistakenly deleted' years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts

Image sanitization. Why? Maybe political aspirations or deprecating old opinions.

shdhon The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain

What kinds of social deterioration have you observed?

shdhon Marketing the myth of serotonin, the ‘happy chemical’ (2015)

Modern medicine is all about ignoring root causes and prescribing to mask symptoms.

shdhon Key Greenland glacier growing again after shrinking for years, Nasa study shows

>While this is “good news” on a temporary basis, this is bad news on the long term because it tells scientists that ocean temperature is a bigger player in glacier retreats and advances than previously thought, said NASA climate scientist Josh Willis, a study co-author. Over the decades the water has been and will be warming from man-made climate change, he said, noting that about 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases goes into the oceans.

>“In the long run we’ll probably have to raise our predictions of sea level rise again,” Willis said.

shdhon More Than 90% of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies

Plastics and pesticides

shdhon The cortex is a neural network of neural networks

Essentially saying the brain is a system of systems

shdhon D-Wave 2000Q hands-on: Steep learning curve for quantum computing

Didn't realize Geordie Rose had been hopping around so much.

shdhon Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls

I've met foreign exchange students from China that believed the control of free information online was a good thing.

shdhon Daydreaming about the future instead of doing work today

Many of your project links are dead.

shdhon Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository