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thcsa··on Estonia is running its country like a tech company
>There is a law against asking people who interact with the state for data that it already has.

I find that very interesting. Could you provide a link?

thcsa··on Ask HN: Why does Paypal still exist?
I once saw a pdf which listed all the third parties that PayPal shares its information with. It was more than 30 pages.
thcsa··on Newton the Alchemist
Could you try to articulate that in a simpler way? Without proper punctuation this is hard to follow. Thank you.
thcsa··on Lyft’s IPO disclosure shows it’s not close to profitability
It's not the companies (and their earnings) who will pay back investors. Other bagholders will do that once they go public.
thcsa··on Apple Special Event [video]
Wrong. I shoot the photo, and can afterwards (or whenever I stumble upon the photo in my gallery) adjust the depth of field with a slider. Pretty similar to what they did in the presentation. I can even change the subject of focus.
thcsa··on Apple Special Event [video]
That's a smartphone.
thcsa··on Apple Special Event [video]
The Vivo Nex can do this too btw. It's a cool feature though.
thcsa··on Apple Special Event [video]
They presented the dynamic depth control with the words: "No other smartphone right now can do that".

Lie. I'm writing this comment on a Vivo Nex and I have been using this for months.

thcsa··on We can learn to be more creative
>High amount of intelligence has a negative corelation with creativity.

This has not been proven and I don't think this is the case. Here is a great post that highlights the faulty methodology of most studies that came to this conclusion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5088314

thcsa··on Why Does Sweden Have So Many Startups?
Austria also has a very good social safety net, free universities and subsidized childcare - and we have very few startups, because people just don't like to take risks here.
thcsa··on Project Jigsaw: Complete
For ARM, always use Oracle VM. It's around 15x faster for my application.
thcsa··on What have been the greatest intellectual achievements?
Comparing Kahnemann's work with Newton's is absurd.