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Yes. You can always get a roommate and split the cost.

+1 - I see this around me all the time.

If Brexit succeeds then other countries will plan a leave of their own. That's the reason for all these punitive measures the EU is putting on the UK.

Innovation must stand up to the test of time, but history teaches us that large empires and political unions generally don't. Even the US might be having trouble one day.

And what happens when people start discussing politics and advertisers don't like it?

The Barney song ("I love you") was used by the CIA as an interrogation technique. Here's an article about the practice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_psychological_opera...

But it's still terribly fragile and Brexit risks the whole thing collapsing. Not necessarily an innovation if it won't stand up to time.

Ugh, federal job guarantees don't work. Nothing in life is gauranteed.

Poor documentation seems to be a Google culture thing. I suspect that's why godoc is literally just source code comments wrapped in HTML.

> In the future, I predict the newspapers will be naked propagandists. If they judge that some thing someone says or does is going to be bad for their party, they will just ignore it outright or lie about it.

You're not getting this. Today this is a great description of the status quo.

I'm a big fan of rotating keys monthly just to force automation. Maybe that's the answer?

The other way to look at it is that HN comments are indistinguishable from GPT-3 generated sentences. Hell, even a standard Markov chain would suffice.

If the artists don't know or don't care, then neither should end users.

I mean people don't need to go gather primary sources as much if every important event has thousands of smartphone cameras at the scene.

This is why I'm convinced independent journalists are the future. Fact finding itself is a shrinking part of the job. Fact checking the monunental amount of data out there is increasingly important. As such, the need for these megacorp publishers is going away.

Edit: Just look at the BLM movement. Lots of people believe these are peaceful civil disobedience and lots of people believe they're communist race riots. Right now, the question is basically "who do you want to believe?" I don't claim to have an answer but I just hope that the right ideas will win in an open space with small creators.

Sounds like work needs to be more flexible. There's enough people without kids to cover those earlier hours.

Homework has the extrinsic motivation of getting detention when it's not finished.

Eh... in some parts of the US there is still a stigma against being LGBT. Grindr being foreign owned means opening up the possibility of people (who aren't ready to come out) being blackmailed. And that's clearly a national security threat and different from wanting data profiles on everyone.

I don't think the index is the challenge. Anyone with enough machines and gigabits can index a big enough portion of "the web". The real difficult part is ranking and understanding web pages themselves.

Google already does this. It's an NP hard problem for sure.

Thanks for the suggestion. A Chrome Extension was my solution for this.

I have an MVP and real userbase which I spent time growing. Now I have a platform to experiment with the grander idea here.

That being said, I'm not willing to link to this yet because it's tied to my public persona and not yet my full time job.

This is me. I always thought it was some kind of undiagnosed ADHD, ngl.

Well, I've been building algorithms which explain _why_ something was surfaced, not just being a black box. Everything is controllable from data sources, ranking/filtering weights and a feedback mechanism to tweak this.

As for monetisation, I've thought about this a lot - and I don't think the time wasting is needed to create a good product. Google Search certainly isn't fueled by dopamine hits, and from an ads standpoint, our users are saying exactly what they want to see every morning.

I'm trying to build something which tackles this problem. The idea would be delegating the decision of what you consume to an algorithm (that you can control), and you'll be delivered a subset of news/content daily.

Basically a giant filter through which you consume the firehouse of FB/reddit.

Although it works for me, I've no idea how practical this is on a wider scale. Would you use something like that?