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_jtrig
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Comment #15461351
.. God?
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Comment #15459880
"Intranet has real promise, but Is anyone buying domains on the Internet for anything other than speculation?"
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Comment #15459868
Seems like you read too many articles, and not enough white papers.
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Comment #15387416
The bitcoin network leverages electricity/computing costs as a way to ensure competitive decentralized security. It's driving electrical/computational consumption efficiency but it…
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Comment #15152999
I agree Blue Apron is equally ridiculous and I totally agree that Juicero marketed to the wrong crowd. Juicero was too visible in high-standard markets and thus became an easy targ…
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Comment #15152859
You could say that same about Soylent as it's simply a Pediasure/Ensure marketed towards hipster 20-somethings. People love drawing the conclusion that superior marketing/design eq…
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Comment #15075417
Reminds me of an old tweet I made several years ago: "The internet will do to society, what highways did to the landscape" We see cheap fast food establishments scattered everywher…
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Comment #14908093
This is why I fully expect the digital dark age to become reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age
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Comment #14887237
I've had this same problem on many websites lately and it's because they require Flash. Soundcloud and Glassdoor to name a couple. Sad state of the current web.
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Comment #14814879
You don't understand how currency functions and you certainly don't understand how bitcoin operates. I'll leave you to consoling yourself.
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Comment #14791631
The entire point of Cryptocurrency is to step away from institutional trust, not dive head-first into it. Bitcoin succeeds as a scarce and sovereign wealth management tool but once…
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Comment #14775112
Soundcloud is a digital discovery platform mostly. And a centralized free library that artists can release music on. It solves many problems for small-time artists and underground …
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Comment #14775090
Does no one remember Jurassic Park?
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Comment #14772020
Eating whole fruit is unbelievably more healthy, cheaper, and simple than the convoluted process this product serves. The time spent setting up this machine, throwing away the bags…
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Comment #14747095
As far as your question about taking drugs/supplements to increase cognitive function, I can say with certainty any positive effect in the short term will eventually fall to long t…
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Comment #14698794
Your argument sounds similar to those who opposed the civil rights movement.
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Comment #14690400
Good. Feelings need to be hurt. People need to be uncomfortable. Mud slinging is necessary to get people to give a shit and do something .
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Comment #14591536
If the human experience hasn't ended, that means it is changing. And if it changes, then so too will the utility of art. The more people cry "art is dead", the greater the impendin…
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Comment #14562754
I'm not sure of the fix, here. 1. We need a currency which supply and distribution of isn't under the control of corruptible humans. 2. We need to teach humans how to manage their …
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Comment #14562705
They were. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/wells-fargo-corporate...
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Comment #14558580
This is a problem everywhere not just in Slack.. politics, forums, social media etc
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Comment #14548374
So teams can only be stacked financially and not talent-wise?
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Comment #14548348
I really really really want to use DuckDuckGo.com but the search results are probably 10% as helpful as Google. As a developer it's nearly impossible to find a really specific answ…
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Comment #14548308
There's nothing stopping you from using your own speech recognition software once someone makes an open-source platform/database for it. It's a step in the right direction.
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Comment #14546823
Why not just wipe the comp/reinstall the browser? Seems easier and safer. Also get them on ublock so they cant click dangerous ads..