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alvarosm

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    Comment #13013639

    Thank you for making the Internet a safe space! I don't know what the world would be like without the contributions of loyal zealots like you.

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    Comment #13005631

    Any SJW care to explain why I'm wrong instead of downvoting? thanks! this is a lot of fun :D

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    Comment #13005616

    No, no, he's advocating for a dreadful, sinister world where a bunch of high priests strip you of your freedom to decide how you conduct business... How much "discrimination" will …

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    Comment #13005514

    You realize you're advocating totalitarianism, right?

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    Comment #13005414

    This is how it should be: "Max Profit. The most profitable, since there are no constraints. But the two groups have different thresholds, meaning they are held to different standar…

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    Comment #13005340

    yeah this is all pretty ridiculous. Only they can talk about discriminating and say they're talking about "equality". It takes some serious twisting!

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    Comment #12986660

    Of course I did.

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    Comment #12979375

    ripping off the greedy fanboys is way cheaper and quicker

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    Comment #12979364

    Look around this thread's comments, they're all taken in

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    Comment #12979217

    At least I hope he got paid well for that idiotic tale...

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    Comment #12979178

    You need a ton of space and/or processing power for the zero-knowledge transactions. The anonymity isn't free! In practice Zcash/zcoin (different tradeoffs) are of no use to you un…

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    Comment #12946773

    Yeah, quite fishy. He even goes on to say Retail ~$735, Moissanite.net $399. That article is practically an ad.

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    Comment #12860375

    Satoshi's paper is very concise and the best introduction to Bitcoin (or the damn "blockchain technology" bullshit used to raise money for ridiculous startups, if you want to call …

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    Comment #12815054

    yeah I have two good words: mental illness. the guy is nuts

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    Comment #12786824

    Yeah, the main reason, assuming you're a "ML-based business", is you want to validate your market and not spend a ton of money creating something that's not profitable. Anyway, the…

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    Comment #12786813

    Pre-processing and alignment are going to be way off. Even if it wasn't, then you have (for face recognition itself) eigenfaces or fisherfaces (bad) or maybe LBP(maybe barely accep…

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    Comment #12659938

    They should have charged the idiot parents who gave him access to their bank account. But they did not only in order to save face and not be portrayed as an evil corporation by the…

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    Comment #12659917

    3. Use the press to make Google look evil. Fixed that for you ;)

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    Comment #12644456

    Right. I guessed and I guessed wrong. I've seen them do it so many times that I jumped the gun.

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    Comment #12644223

    The BBC will distort anything to prove their point: that socialism is great.

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    Comment #12644203

    The more truths you say, the more you'll be downvoted to oblivion by the socialist wannabes, SJW and so on. Allende was a fanatic, and that ridiculous James Bond control room for a…

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    Comment #12644141

    The EU is tanking thanks to socialism. Norway has oil to fund its pseudo-socialism. China is doing "well" since it ditched socialism.

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    Comment #12498259

    You can't focus on a task probably because they're all rubbish. The movie you're watching is rubbish, the website on your chrome only mildly interesting and HN the usual predictabl…

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    Comment #12282402

    I'm not thinking of corporations. Local govt, etc. The study was made by -surprise- a university in the state where olive oil is produced. Btw about ads there's nothing more effect…