This is incredibly common. I installed an analytics package on my personal heroku account for a side project and received an email on my enterprise email account from their sales department.
My personal heroku account uses my personal email address, eg. [email protected], but my enterprise account uses my full name, eg. [email protected].
There's a sneaky CRM tool floating around that is connecting the dots on people.
I think one way to define math is “the collection of symbols we use to precisely explain natural phenomena”.
I can say “that rose is very pink” and that is accurate enough for most people. But if I want to know how much pink there is in the rose, I need a better descriptor than “very”.
So in that sense, Math is made up. It’s just the language we use to describe stuff when spoken/literary languages are imprecise.
But it also isn’t made up because there are objective justified truths behind its symbols. Aliens would probably have the same concepts, they’d just use different symbols.
It'll be interesting to read his thoughts about Company of Heroes, should he ever get to that game. The developers naively implemented the Nazis, Allies, and the Soviets as historically faithful as they could - which made the Nazis incredibly overpowered.
Mailers can’t risk getting blocked. Misinformation often looks like spam and needs to spread quickly in order to work. The people behind this type of media don’t care if they get blocked after the messages go out, they’ve already done their damage and can move on to the next service.
I did this for a while, the problem is that there's really no such thing as a high-quality USB switch. They are all garbage and mess with USB devices in some way (at least at the consumer level).
In philosophy, this is called the “Newton’s flaming laser sword problem”.
Did Newton have a flaming laser sword?
Sure, he could have had one. But we have no evidence today of that, so for the context of our discussion, let’s ignore it.
And this is where spiritually collides with Newton’s flaming laser sword. But I want to believe that newton had a flaming sword, therefore I want the discussion to be about how this laser sword influenced his writings.
>... combat sequences through procedurally generated towers and buildings, chained together by crafted plot events.
There's a fantastic game out right now called Hades from Supergiant Games (of Bastion fame, this one could comfortably be called "Bastion 2.0") which does this roguelite-action-rpg genre very well. Highly recommended, checkout the trailer from the recent update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNrt43epkG0
/r/ConsumeProduct was antisemtic? I never saw that in the posts of theirs that made the front page. It was always memes about over-consumption, they might make fun of disposable make-up wipes for example ("And when you're done, just throw it away!" cue gallery yelling in a robotic voice: CONSUME PRODUCT).
Genuinely curious what the link to antisemitism is. Is the thought that consumerism = big business, and big business = "the jews"?
Edit: I made this comment early in the thread, before others started to weigh in on why this subreddit was banned. I'm willing to engage in a discussion if you reply instead of downvote.
The message this sends to girls is that if you’re pretty, this is the easiest way to make a lot of money. It damages the work of people who have spent decades trying to get women to be valued for things other than their bodies.
Dollar cost average is your best bet since things are uncertain right now and you, as a retail investor, don't have up-to-date information and can't act very quickly.
Your best investments are things that people can't say "no" to; infrastructure and utilities. Banks, railways, power companies, mining companies, and shipping are all things that reasonably hold their value no matter the economic circumstances.
You could take a gamble on a pharmaceutical outfit, but if these companies are chasing a corona virus vaccine, they will probably take on a lot of debt to achieve it, which may bite them later.
Just to add to this comment; It's one thing for software developers in the government or a large "essential" corporation like a bank or telecom company to unionize. Those places get toxic because the work has to be done and gets very political because of the sheer number of people's lives they affect. I understand the labour issues around working for those organizations.
But kickstarter? You mean the funding apparatus for indie games and gimmicky consumer products? That's where you want to unionize?
I think you should put on your sales hat. I know you said that you are the "coder" and your partner is the sales person, but I think you should start selling and supporting them. Trying cold calling and cold emailing. Use some money for a marketing push.
Use the stress of your short runway to push you to sell. Every conversation you have with potential customers should be about how you can get them to pay. Talk past their requests for features or whatever, something like "This is a great feature that we are working on for you and if you sign up for a year's service, we'll discount you until the feature is delivered".
You don't understand how fickle technology is and how fickle users are. It's a browser plugin, it takes 2 seconds to uninstall. This entire company could disappear in a flash if something about the plugin ecosystem changes, or if e-commerce habits change to be more mobile oriented. They have absolutely 0 stickiness. Most of their users probably installed the plugin during their initial marketing push and have forgotten to turn it off.
Are you serious? Israel has the US Government by the balls. The first thing the Republicans did when Trump got elected was to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. They didn't even skip a beat, it was one of the first things they did (Speaking of that, we just had a federal election in Canada, where one of the primary election promises from our right-wing party was to move the Canadian embassy to Jerusalem... strange... Thankfully they didn't get elected).
I fully expect that NSO will be allowed to act with impunity. If anyone in the US government tries to stop them, AIPAC would pull all their campaign funding from the Repubs or Dems (whichever party's lackey did it) and they'd never get elected again.
Neumann is definitely unconventional, but I don’t see how being a bit eccentric can lead to this. I’d put Musk and Thiel in the “weirdo techies” group along with Neumann, and both of their businesses are thriving.
SoftBank was just running a pump’n’dump; Pump up the company for an IPO, dump it on the market to realize the losses. Luckily, people are starting to catch on to these schemes from tech companies.
What I’m wondering is, what would we see if we analyzed Snapchat or Twitter with the same lense? Snapchat is basically dead now, yet it IPO’d at $24 billion. Once Trump is done, Twitter will die down too, and everyone will be left wondering, is this thing really worth $31 billion?
> According to Xu, more than 100 martial artists looking to avenge Wei challenged him in the aftermath of the fight. Xu took out a pencil and paper, ranked his challengers in order of priority, and set about in earnest on his now-famous quest to “fight fakes” (“fake” and “battle” are homophones in Mandarin). As of this writing, Xu has fought 17 of those challengers in public matches. He has defeated them all.
This is straight out of an episode of Letterkenny, where one of the guys proves that he’s the best fighter in the town. Hilarious episode, can’t believe it actually happens in real life. Season 1, episode 2 if you’re curious.
My personal heroku account uses my personal email address, eg. [email protected], but my enterprise account uses my full name, eg. [email protected].
There's a sneaky CRM tool floating around that is connecting the dots on people.