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Dune by David Lynch. A true masterpiece.

Any one can suggest a good alternative to privacy.com for EU residents?

Just make it an all you can eat plafond.

I know I am worth ~50$ a year to the Ad business. I'll gladly pay $60 a year for access to content. That $60 gets redistributed to content providers based on the share of my viewership they get.

Basically, cut the middle man (ad companies in this case).

How does Pandas compare to R's Tidyverse?

Tidyverse was super easy to pick up, and I can do almost anything I want with. Why would I want to switch to Panda?

Has anyone tired the python tydiverse port? How does it compare to the original?

Surely you would get used to it and then it would stop being difficult to read.

Can we stop with argumentative and ultimately pointless comparison between the US and China.

For me what's astounding is:

"Lastly, nothing is transmitted from the individuals device to the receiving server over HTTPS — all in plaintext via HTTP — and updates are unsigned. This means all the data the app collects is transmitted to the unknown entity on the receiving end in a way that allows someone with a trivial amount of technical knowledge to intercept and potentially manipulate" [0]

Is there any reason besides incompetence why the apps developers would do this?

[0] https://www.opentech.fund/news/app-targeting-uyghur-populati...

Edited: formatting

Tech giants must pay for work of artists and journalists which they use Small and micro platforms excluded from directive’s scope Hyperlinks, “accompanied by “individual words” can be shared freely Journalists must get a share of any copyright-related remuneration obtained by their publishing house

Doesn't sound so bad...

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR...

For Chinese hanzi, some people also use a stroke input method. You are presented with ~10 possible strokes that make up all hanzi, and by selecting them in the correct order you can write a character.

Drone deliveries are real. They are happening in China right now.

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/06/09/how-e-commerce...

Rwanda too, with Zipline.

I work as a consultant and I find that for “problem solving” in person communication with colleagues and clients is fundamental.

When I’m working on a model I just put my headphones and I know people will disturb me only if they really need to. Which is fine, I’m here to help in the first place.

Any reason not to use Firefox's own password sync? It's been working fine for me so far.

It is important to remember that your manager's and your own goals may not be alligned. In other words, managers may not have your best interests at heart. Always have to look out for yourself.

Thank you

And myspace had 75m monthly active users at its peak.

This really does look like a bad comparison.

Maybe you could adjust for total internet users then and now but I doubt that would make a difference.

Edit: (dubious) source:

https://startupbros.com/myspace-the-rise-fall-and-rise-again...

A social credi score will be more accurate in predicting credit worthiness. It has economic value.

Can you explain how VCs are a pipe for Fed money?

and eight men control half the world’s wealth.

This is wrong. Eight men control as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the world's population.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/w...

What's wrong with naming a startup Bodega?

I didn't down vote you,but just skimming through your article, #9 seems false.

Blood is not affected by magnetic fields, it seems to me. https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-blood-attracted-to-a-magnet-s...

Thanks, it didn't occur to me that I could search the archives.

This seems like a good thread to ask this.

I'm about to move to China. What vpn set up is best?

I use and android phone and Mac laptop.

Thanks..

My point is that a well rounded education probably makes for a smarter person. If all you do is code or solve calculus your world view might end up being rather narrow.

No thread would be complete without someone taking offense at something...

I should think most great scientists had a good appreciation of the arts.

The issue with the ebola articles is that they all omitted to say how all experts agreed that there was no risk of epidemic.

"Regardless of the dramatic drop in crime over the last 30 years, more than half the population believes crime is worse than it was in years past."

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise." - Socrates

This argument keeps popping up. To confirm it we would need a control group. It is likely that even before social media people believed the state of affairs worse than it actually was. Maybe people are more prone to believe that our condition is deteriorating rather than improving.

It's absurd. I went through all their website and still don't know what they do.