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Re:ChatGPT Down and Out on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:16PM (#42395476)
Still ongoing...wow
Re:Privacy is the most important concept of our time on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:15PM (#24664762)
I recommend looking into Privacy as Contextual Integrity. Privacy is not about control. It's about appropriateness of information flows, not about private and public spaces.

If you're interested please read Nissenbaum's book on Privacy in Context.

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=8862

There is also an active community you can follow: https://twitter.com/privaci_way

Re:Recovering from Burnout and Depression on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:58AM (#14330716)
yes, a great advice but might not be a viable option for everyone.
Re:Recovering from Burnout and Depression on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:13PM (#14327490)
Very interesting and very nicely written! I was thinking about this myself lately (https://medium.com/@yansh/who-do-you-want-to-be-in-life-ca8f...)..

I think the advice to slow down, take a break, refocus is key to figuring things out, however, not everyone can afford to do so. It's a risk, and there is always a trade off. So I wouldn't frame the article as a guide, because it's different for everyone.

Re:A lot we know about pirates is not true, and a lot of what is true ... on Sunday May 07, 2017 @08:07PM (#14288407)
The_Buccaneers_of_America https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169961.The_Buccaneers_of...

An insightful, nevertheless, somewhat dullfull read.

Re:Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:14AM (#14032774)
Tim's vision for a Giant Global Graph (2007)

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215

and something we tried to do as well: http://yansh.github.io/articles/moana/

Re:Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA on Friday March 17, 2017 @03:35PM (#13897238)
thanks.
Re:Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA on Friday March 17, 2017 @12:52PM (#13895560)
Hi Michael, is it a good idea to apply to YC to find quality co-founders? or in other words what is the right way for a single founder to apply? thanks.
Re:Show HN: Ascii to SVG on Sunday October 02, 2016 @09:39AM (#12622263)
Great! Perfect complement for http://asciiflow.com

The Superinvestors of Graham-And-Doddsville by Warren Buffet, 1984

Posted by bholdr on Saturday September 17, 2016 @11:33PM
from the self-post dept.

http://www.tilsonfunds.com/superinvestors.html"Before we begin this examination, I would like you to imagine a national coin-flipping contest. Let's assume we get 225 million Americans up tomorrow morning and we ask them all to wager a dollar. They go out in the morning at sunrise, and they all call the flip of a coin. If they call correctly, they win a dollar from those who called wrong. Each...

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Re:Federal court rules that FBI can hack into a computer without a war... on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:37AM (#11984228)
The judge, Henry Morgan: "hacking is much more prevalent now than it was even nine years ago. Now, it seems unreasonable to think that a computer connected to the Web is immune from invasion."

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