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This article, while probably true an accurate, seems designed to make SBF the fall guy by portraying him as a uniquely bad actor in the crypto space. In reality, the crypto space i…

What an embarrassing article to publish. I can't believe someone was paid for writing this many words about this particular topic. Regardless of if you agree with his politics, the…

Fitting that in a world where all the same old labor fights that were settled in the past are happening again that someone would un-ironically invent a new form of indentured servi…

The man truly is his own worst enemy. Seemed clear that something was up with him when he called that cave diver a "pedo" for no apparent reason. I hope that being held accountable…

> "Private by design" Lol It's me, the company that hoards your personal data and just got hacked in a huge way, please put a camera in your house that I control which I _swear_ wo…

Best news from them in months. I wish Instagram would do the same. The "smart" ordering of tweets and photos just makes my experience with both the apps worse.

I didn't downvote you :(

> Some analysis is better than no analysis. I don't agree with that. Doing some analysis on a limited and possibly skewed data set can lull you into a false sense of understanding.…

This idea always struck me as fairly misguided. It of course makes sense to try to muster evidence and data when making decisions but it's not some sort of panacea. The book The Ty…

He doesn't seem to have done well on a lot of these predictions. These are slated to happen in the early 2000s: > Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in diff…

Szilard features prominently in Richard Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." Definitely worth the read if you have an interest in early nuclear science. Really filled in a lot …

Really great visualization here, kudos to the author. Really makes is clear what's going on. Made me think that things like this could be useful in textbooks as well if they were m…

I suspect this will be a fairly regular story in the next few months/years. Self-driving tech seems to be a lot further off than people think so a lot of companies that were former…

If you believe that a company whose whole purpose is to use data on you to sell ads won't use data on you that it collects to sell ads then I have a bridge to sell you. Funny that …

Was really hoping that "No Reservations" was the Anthony Bourdain show rather than the movie. Somehow I don't think so though.

Amazon really has to take this back to the drawing board. ~5% accuracy is pretty terrible...

I think that's the most important message of the book. It's not enough to sympathize with the Lorax, you have to do something about it if you want it to be any different.

Funny how they needed to make the story serious by applying machine learning to determine exactly which type of monkey the Lorax was based on. One would think that just looking at …

> The FAA rubber-stamped those measures Friday. Not sure what this line is supposed to mean. Is he referring to them approving them without knowing what they are? I'm glad for the …

Read "Ev Williams" and thought of "Evan Williams" the bourbon and was like I don't see how the maker of a cheap alcohol is going to help fix the internet.

Until people start going to jail for their illegal activity rather than just paying out nominal fines I wouldn't expect their behavior to change. This is at least the 3rd major fin…

As the internet hippo said: "Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting 'Better things aren't possible.'"

Shocking news that a company aiming to put a microphone in every house is also working on how to analyze all the voice information it can gather.

I haven't had much luck using Instacart at all. At my last job we would order normal sized bottled water for our office fairly regularly and 9/10 times they would bring the tiny bo…

Best endorsement of GDPR they could possibly make. Everyone knows Facebook collects more data than most people probably want so it follows that a privacy law they don't want to rol…