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petraeus··on Lost so much $ on cryptocurenecy . what to do
You're best holding it and wait for it to pop again, theres suckers like you every minute
petraeus··on I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great
I never joined, feels even better
petraeus··on User succumbs to a seizure in virtual reality while other players can only watch
succumb only means failed to prevent it in no way means die, you literally need to add "die" into the sentence to indicate death

succumbed to fear <> die

succumbed to love <> die

etc

petraeus··on Game consoles are doing better than ever
Dont forget xbox live is a million times better than anything pc has
petraeus··on Ex-Google Employee's Memo Says Executives Shut Down Pro-Diversity Discussions
Pathetic attempt of another white hetro male trying to demonize diversity in a shallow and transparent attempt at retaining white privilege through the world.
petraeus··on James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google
thank you hacker news randoms for telling me what my opinion is on james danmore because with my finite and trivial amount of wisdom I cannot possibly be depended on to form my own thoughts of a classic white racist screaming about how oppressed white hetro males are in a social culture shaped by 1000 years of white dominance roll-eyes
petraeus··on James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google
You know what makes me even angrier, social injustice
petraeus··on Britain is, and was, deluded about its negotiating power with the EU
The difference here is between how children react and how grown ups react. In the grown up world your words along with the SPIRIT of their meaning underpins your actions. in this case all the parties agreed on splitting the costs, not retro actively changing the rules to suit themselves.
petraeus··on The Case for Not Being Born
Nothing he writes supports his "theory" that the universe would be better off without sentient life as this is the sole purpose of the universe to exist altogether, so in essence he wants the universe to cease to exist???

Anyways I completely disagree with his premise that life should not happen because of "bad things" in fact life happens not only in spite of but in fact did happen because of "bad things" like the first cell replication!!

petraeus··on Are EV certificates worth the paper they're written on?
Its more about professional pride than anything else. What I find abut EVs is the adoption is less based on a projected increase in sales and more on if the website developer thinks its cool to have.
petraeus··on 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser
Soon 1 Password will be a pay2win model, micro-transactions for filling in the password online. a second vault? that'll be 2.99 please
petraeus··on CIA created code to impersonate Kaspersky Lab: WikiLeaks
Good for them?
petraeus··on The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory
Bitcoin is only increasing in value because nobody wants to sell, and the small amount that is mined daily is not enough to satisfy the speculators.

In a world where bitcoin is actually use as currency, its value would crash into the ground.

petraeus··on Everyone will have 5 years to get their car off the road or sell it for scrap
I think people are relying too much on legislation to usher in this new utopia of self-driving

There will be no legislation outlawing the use of our current manually operated vehicles. Ever. To think that the whole of government would endorse such idiocy demonstrates how little one knows about bureaucracy.

petraeus··on Everyone will have 5 years to get their car off the road or sell it for scrap
haha no
petraeus··on Ray Kurzweil thinks we could start living forever by 2029
Though desktop PCs are still common for data storage, individuals primarily use portable devices for their computer-related tasks .. is patently fals, we are nowhere close to "using" our handheld devices for the majority of computer related tasks. Portable devices are in most cases used to consume media.
petraeus··on LA Times barred from Disney movies after report on corporate welfare
Am I the only one who DID forsee Donald Trump becoming president? He is the most accurate reflection of what America has become.
petraeus··on First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system
The is the best way to disguise a probe and the fact it came from above the elliptic might mean the aliens wanted to make sure it wouldnt collide with any natural bodies
petraeus··on The Mathematics of Inequality
And our goal should be to change this system.
petraeus··on A single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16M atoms
You just described a zero sum equation. If you have 10 and you take away 7 the other value must be 3.
petraeus··on Bitcoin Is Now Bigger Than Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley
Bitcoin is just another virtual assets, like .. paper gold. Its never going to be a currency. The whole model is flawed.
petraeus··on Trump’s Tough Talk on NAFTA Suggests Pact’s Demise Is Imminent
If its so effective how come he can't pass anything?
petraeus··on Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part
Imagine if your employer paid you on your cost rather than your value. Same concept.
petraeus··on Ask HN: Would you consider running SQL Server on Linux?
This. You always want to stay as close to standard as possible. Cowboy technology and too clever by a half solutions have no place in enterprise.
petraeus··on Ask HN: How technically hard was it for Twitter to move to 280 chars?
change the db field from varchar(140) to varchar(280)
petraeus··on Jim Rogers: The worst crash of our lifetime is coming
Hes not saying TAKE his money to china, hes GOING to china and hoping to MAKE money
petraeus··on Jim Rogers: The worst crash of our lifetime is coming
sell whenever you see your portfolio dip 1%

/s

no but really just leave it in a value index fund, hedge your bets by buying into foreign exposed funds

petraeus··on Jim Rogers: The worst crash of our lifetime is coming
The market will remain irrational longer than he will remain solvent (if in fact he is even playing the contrarian game)
petraeus··on Harvard Study Shows Apple Slows Down Old iPhones to Sell New Models
Relative the the newer models the older models will be slower ...
petraeus··on Is Trump mulling Peter Thiel for a top intelligence advisory post?
You're not in the minority bud, sorry to break the news to you but the majority of people are selfish assholes who think all the opportunity in their life is simply the outcome of a god given right and ignore the centuries of oppression and theft that has enabled them to reach such a social status.
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