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What exactly happened after the U.S. severed ties with Cuba? You make it sound like we lost something. They are still stuck in the 1960s, their economy is absolute garbage and the …

Absolutely not true. There is plenty of evidence time and time again from the top firms in this country try. Aviation and top R&D being stolen from Boeing, just in general corporat…

Copying isn’t cheating but they have spies in the top tech firms in this country. Everywhere in the world that’s cheating. Stealing confidential proprietary anything anywhere in th…

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I know your not trying to troll, statements of disbelief are very common about companies that are about to own an entire market with no real competition in sight. No one sees it ye…

> “Homeownership is a gerontopoly. Most housing wealth is held by older Americans.” So what? They worked hard for that, that is in fact how wealth works. You work hard for a long t…

I have at least two side projects and would love to get feedback from fellow UX/Product/Engineering people. This is super early stage stuff, I wouldn't even call it beta. I am not …

During world war 2, fan favorite companies like Mercedez Benz were building tanks for the Nazis. If there is a war today don’t you think the government will seize everything and we…

It’s not meaningless. Saying Blockchain is meaningless is like saying the web is meaningless or the internet is meaningless. Just because you either don’t understand it or you feel…

Mining this stuff is a funny thing, that is a devisive feature even in the crypto space. That being said, this isn’t the first time where mining has plummeted in profitability. Ear…

The real issue with all the pump and dump, fear of missing out, and all the other crazy “mooning” is that it is ruining this whole space. It is creating a reality that all the hate…

Sounds like maybe SOME ARM and SOME AMD are implicated, especially since the Android ARM CPUs appear to be fine...

>"A bitcoin is a number, and that number has no utility outside of its ability to be accepted by someone else. Unlike gold, the the minimum value of a bitcoin is zero— its value if…

I like your username, lol. You are right though and I am being a little sarcastic on purpose. People have argued that Gold has real intrinsic value which it does have its uses but …

Lots of stuff is used in electronics but it is not worth as much as gold.

“Rosenstreich at online trading firm Swissquote said bitcoin’s surge harks to the surprises of the U.K. referendum on European Union membership and President Trump’s election. “We …

You are 100% right about the folks who use this and many of the folks in the early days. It is a little lost today in all the bubble conversations, many of the ICO conversations, a…

>Also, it's pretty personal info: in the event that one or more of the ad buyers grouped into the list really was a private citizen with no affiliation to any government, is Facebo…

Martians popping our tires? In all seriousness its unclear to me how this could happen so quickly? The article does not really explain why they didn't think through this.

The papers are great, a lot of research has been done in this area despite the closed nature of .net prior to the recent open sourcing. Too tough to summarize in one comment but I …

That is a terrible thing and it highlights the wild west that is internet advertising right now. Much like TV ads, internet ads have to be responsible but there has to be a place f…

I know there will be a lot of heat on me fro HN users about ads but here goes anyway: Ads are pretty bad right now but the reality is that the internet without ads would not be a u…

When everyone screams about security and why we shouldn't be snooped on one of the biggest factors to consider is that inevitably someone who has access to this information will ab…