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lesss365··on After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Cryptocurrency Investors
Signals were given. The RSI and stochastic RSI both gave loud signals that a reversal was going to take place when it did.
lesss365··on Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
It's used by companies to not only communicate, but also used by management level employees to pry on conversations/gossip. Personally know of a well known company where a group of managers used Slack for snooping on those they manage(d), and subsequently fired those they found criticizing them/higher-ups.

Not saying that this is surely what makes it valuable, but could see a management team deciding to use it as a means of improving productivity, where they could take logs and tie them into a system for gauging sentiment. Not saying it's right at all, but could see the value others could see in that

lesss365··on What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
Funny, this is RISD's infamous application requirement.
lesss365··on Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Interim Report
It's a term blatantly used for censorship and blanket discrediting of sources of information, whether credible or not. It's popularity began with the Clinton campaign and was quickly adopted by GOP candidates

Edit: By "it" I mean "fake news"

lesss365··on Can They Make Government Jobs as Cool as Google and Goldman?
When NYC gov upgrades from Windows 2008, and a way too cumbersome and outdated CMS for their sites, then we'll know they're taking the steps towards maybe not "cool", but towards bearable systems/workflows to deal with, and as a result making them more attractive as an employer
lesss365··on A new digital divide: Young people who can’t use keyboards
About two years ago, while carrying out user testing at Hunter College on a prototype for their site redesign/build (yet to be implemented due to bureaucracy...), we observed several test users default to tapping on the laptop screen to navigate. For that round the test users were students, and the ones who defaulted to tapping were of a younger age. Even after making the initial realization that the screen didn't have touch capabilities, every few moments they would still touch the screen in an attempt to tap navigation elements or to scroll a page.

Personally, it was kind of a shock to witness, especially seeing that it was safe to assume that there was less than a 10 year difference in our ages. It got me thinking about a near future possibility of keyboardless computers, and the dread of writing code without one. Though it's unlikely, it struck the fear of god in me haha

lesss365··on Say Hello to Full Employment
Also a correlation between low unemployment and past recessions. It's looking pretty grim...
lesss365··on Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
Find a cheap laptop on craigslist, thinkpad or chromebook would be good.

Write a selenium script to automate applying for jobs.

Find a spot with wifi and run the script.

lesss365··on A guide to building a fast electric skateboard at home
Your "bike mode" point is one I hadn't thought of, and I find interesting.

For the record, I don't hate on longboards in any way. My point was that it seems that eboards take away from the actual skating experience. It's not a matter of doing tricks and such, but more about the act of skating. The balance of body with the board against the force your body exerts, the feeling of the momentum gained by said force, the ground feel between you and the board in combination with the pushing foot with ground, and the control and freedom that comes with it. My feeling is that electric skateboards take away from the feeling that comes with skating, which is what makes the experience for most who do. But from observation it also seems to handicap some (not all), seeing that many appear to be off balance and unable to really control their electric boards when needing to come to full/immediate stops.

But again I do like your counter point of it being a mode of transportation that's like a bike in terms of speed and energy costs, but allows for the rider the convenience of picking up and moving along

lesss365··on NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
Clapper was Director of National Intelligence, head of all American intelligence agencies. He may not have been in the NSA, but he definitely had the responsibility of oversight.
lesss365··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Psychological manipulation vs instruments for killing

No win either way.

lesss365··on A guide to building a fast electric skateboard at home
Lifelong skater here. Learn to actually skate. Electric board riders look like dufuses. Seen quite a few in NYC. Their stances are always way off and unbalanced, seen many who couldn't stop manually, and it goes against/disallows for most of the reasons for having a skateboard. You can't get true ground/board feel while carving, its weight and form prevents execution of flip tricks, it takes away trial and error learning when it comes to learning how to skate because you're not actually skating, etc etc etc.

Tired of writing, the main things I wanted to point out are that electric board drivers look like assholes and eletric skateboards are retarded. It's as simple as that. Stop using these things and learn to skate

lesss365··on Russian trolls hit Reddit, too
This.
lesss365··on Russian trolls hit Reddit, too
It's hardly mentioned in many popular political forums, and when it is mentioned the user posting gets overran with claims of being a Russian agent, or that it's a conspiracy
lesss365··on Russian trolls hit Reddit, too
/r/politics flipped right after the DNC convention. Filled quickly with rabid pro-Hillary accounts, and any voice critical of her candidacy was quickly silenced with a flood of down votes and horribly formulated arguments and claims
lesss365··on Hungary's Euroskeptic leader Orban claims victory
Unfortunately, his win was expected
lesss365··on MIT AGI: Boston Dynamics [video]
Weren't they getting funds from DARPA?
lesss365··on Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired
True that the Republicans usually increase defense/IC spending, but the Democrats support them just as much. Feinstein is almost always pro IC operations. Clinton pushed for US involvement in Libya and Syria, and in a speech before the Democratic Convention was sabre rattling at China. Clinton also, according to Seymour Hersh, was aware of CIA gun running operations out of the US consulate in Benghazi. Obama's support for DoD/IC activities should be common knowledge.

Not making a partisan argument, as I don't affiliate with either party, just stating that both sides exhibit support for DoD/IC activities and both were likely to support equal, if not increased, levels of spending on them

lesss365··on Coinbase Index Fund
Not if limit orders are placed on Coinbase's GDAX exchange
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