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> Facebook collects on you when you interact with their systems I do not think this is true. What happens with my e-mail address when someone else signs up to Facebook and shares t…

I am in this Kafka-esque situation where I try to get an account deleted that is not even mine. I don't have and want a Facebook account, but Facebook does not agree. I few years b…

http://proceedings.mlr.press/v67/li17a.html is pretty good.

Scientists from fields that rely on data, like physics, often do well as data scientists. I myself like Information Science more than Data Science, but I do not care that much for …

But that's putting the cart before the horse. You need the ICO to get enough investment to build out your platform, when you have a fully functioning platform, who still needs inve…

See also this 1996 NSA paper "How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash", predating both Hashcash and Bit gold. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.80…

Nice quip. To stick with analogy: Some people in this thread are in the 70s, telling record companies to ignore the disco genre entirely, because it is a fad that can't last more t…

A slot machine is known to give a 200% ROI and allow a single pull each day. You play this slot machine every day for 500 days, until you notice it stops rewarding you. Then someon…

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/stratis/

Agreed, and there probably will be a year where nearly all coins tank. It would be foolish to invest all your profits back into the market, year after year. But should this stop yo…

I agree with: > The crypto market is still niche. There are stocks that make 100-1000% performance. But the stock market is "saturated" for representing assets, equities and compan…

ROI of creating an investment portfolio 1 year ago, and selling today: - All Bitcoin: ~500% - Mix of top market: ~2800% - All Strat: ~13500% Meanwhile, stock investors call 12% a g…

> why it took them this long There is no direct business value in banning users from your platform. In fact, doing so is a short-term net negative. This is also why Twitter was so …

While not quite planning, announcements do occur. Found a large number of accounts connected to the attackers from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Culwell_Center_attack when …

An example of what I was aiming at is to use ML methods like deep nets to detect early-onset diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness and at lea…

Sure there is! ML helps with medical diagnosis, cures, and treatment, ML helps automate services that are unavailable to third world countries, ML helps catch criminals, money laun…

Please, make it possible to directly report or ban automated DM messages from bots/apps.

There is probabilistic vs. deterministic cross-device tracking. Deterministic assigns a unique device identifier to each device and then uses more data to connect device IDs to an …

The end result for the customer is that the ad industry will switch to cross-device tracking for everyone. Right now, you had an option to opt-out, by setting cookies to block. You…

Maybe in the short term, longer term it is no trouble. ICOs are far from the main use case for Ethereum. Speculation is driven by the price not close to matching the price if/when …

From the article: > The incentive for holding OMGs, is to take part in the network validation process. We also see a long term value/appreciation in the OMG price as more and more …

HackerNews used to be all about cryptocurrencies. I think the original Satoshi paper was posted here soon after it was released. But about your cynicism-remark, this never changed.…

> No, don't worry, this isn't a bubble. Crypto is definitely a bubble. Perhaps one of the biggest bubbles to burst when this happens four to five years from now. > I need to start …