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Dune by David Lynch. A true masterpiece.

Any one can suggest a good alternative to privacy.com for EU residents?

Just make it an all you can eat plafond. I know I am worth ~50$ a year to the Ad business. I'll gladly pay $60 a year for access to content. That $60 gets redistributed to content …

How does Pandas compare to R's Tidyverse? Tidyverse was super easy to pick up, and I can do almost anything I want with. Why would I want to switch to Panda? Has anyone tired the p…

Surely you would get used to it and then it would stop being difficult to read.

Can we stop with argumentative and ultimately pointless comparison between the US and China. For me what's astounding is: "Lastly, nothing is transmitted from the individuals devic…

Tech giants must pay for work of artists and journalists which they use Small and micro platforms excluded from directive’s scope Hyperlinks, “accompanied by “individual words” can…

For Chinese hanzi, some people also use a stroke input method. You are presented with ~10 possible strokes that make up all hanzi, and by selecting them in the correct order you ca…

Drone deliveries are real. They are happening in China right now. https://www.economist.com/business/2018/06/09/how-e-commerce... Rwanda too, with Zipline.

I work as a consultant and I find that for “problem solving” in person communication with colleagues and clients is fundamental. When I’m working on a model I just put my headphone…

China recently surpassed the US in volume of VC deal. But I read very little about all these deals on Hacker News or elsewhere. Do you have sources you recommend? Both English lang…

Any reason not to use Firefox's own password sync? It's been working fine for me so far.

It is important to remember that your manager's and your own goals may not be alligned. In other words, managers may not have your best interests at heart. Always have to look out …

Thank you

Looking in particular for SQL and RStudio courses, but would be interesting to know where the best materials overall are these days, free or otherwise. I was pretty underwhelmed by…

And myspace had 75m monthly active users at its peak. This really does look like a bad comparison. Maybe you could adjust for total internet users then and now but I doubt that wou…

A social credi score will be more accurate in predicting credit worthiness. It has economic value.

Can you explain how VCs are a pipe for Fed money?

>and eight men control half the world’s wealth. This is wrong. Eight men control as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the world's population. https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve…

What's wrong with naming a startup Bodega?

I didn't down vote you,but just skimming through your article, #9 seems false. Blood is not affected by magnetic fields, it seems to me. https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-blood-attrac…

Thanks, it didn't occur to me that I could search the archives.