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hedvig | 4 years ago | on: What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?

Yeah but reading about it but also being able to communicate about it on the largest network (the one in question too) are 2 separate phenomena. No one can go on there right now and say I'm deleting my account, who's with me?

hedvig | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?

And the glyph rendering is offloaded to the gpu, which as any good development team should know, is much faster.

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: 23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M

And what percentage of your net-worth and/or your insurers bearance would you be willing to commit to the yearly treatment they'll come up with (not a cure)?

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Black Tide in Brazil

Lift the sanctions.

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Black Tide in Brazil

The Carwash Judge Moro who Bolsonaro appointed as anti-corruption czar turned out to have rigged the whole operation in colluding with other justices - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/alleged-le...

Very similar to the US and elsewhere where the right act in bad-faith to take over democratic processes.

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Nearly 1 in 5 Millennial Renters Expect to Rent Forever in Some Metros

If enough like-minded individuals disagree with you, we will force the change.

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

Terrible analogy.

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: The MLM Epidemic in 13 Maps

I don't get this common mindset here that people should just be left to the wolves. It's disgusting

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub

>found to harbor ill gotten gains

Ah yeah like they were on the hook for laundering Mexican drug cartel money?

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues

If we didn't use mathematics in science, what else could we have used?

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence

Fusion John, we need you in fusion research. It's only 10 years away

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'

>operating with microseconds of latency.

What are the numbers if you know, of the speed or rate at which plasma can destabilize?

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'

Any specific good material that I could read more on this?

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Tech and Liberty

Or the Architect's speech in the Matrix correct? Where he reveals that the One is an accepted anomaly accounted for in the system.

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)

What does velocity of money indicate?

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Apple Commits $2.5B to Ease California Housing Crunch

> Supply and Demand is nice in theory, but really, pricing is more a game of "ask the maximum amount you can get away with".

Most relevant point, well said. Is there any academic term for this?

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space

>assuming that a civilization is still on an increasing curve of propulsion system velocity

I think this is the error

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: Will Tesla and Google Kill the German Car?

Agile for car production?

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: U of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k per year

Okay - can anyone actually cite me even a class, let alone a degree, that has the word wicker baskets in them? If not, stop using this straw-man term.

hedvig | 6 years ago | on: American business schools are reinventing the MBA

> de facto, restricted to graduates of the top-N (3 or 7 or whatever) MBA programs.

Isn't this a problem?