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roarktoohey

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roarktoohey··on Ask HN: How does one identify markets and their sizes?
If it is established market, look at public companies and their financial statements. If not, you have to infer from "reasonable" assumptions.

Ideally, the question would have more specifics to warrant a better answer.

roarktoohey··on Weaponising Information: Enter an Age of Unbridled Hyperconnectivity
wouldn't the world be better if data was open and easily accessible on everyone?

new morals would develop around reality rather than the fake image we are able to project. with constant surveillance i hope we enter into a more honest world.

roarktoohey··on Weaponising Information: Enter an Age of Unbridled Hyperconnectivity
<<no reason besides curiosity.>>

What's wrong about this?

roarktoohey··on Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sales from a few customers
Is there?
roarktoohey··on Why Some Cultures Frown on Smiling (2016)
The ease with which you smile might have a genetic component.

:Confirmation Bias Engaged: People with bigger mouths tend to smile more than those with smaller mouths. :Confirmation Bias Disengaged:

roarktoohey··on Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining cryptocurrencies
https://blockchain.info/pools

It’s not as decentralized as he/they hoped??

roarktoohey··on A student loan collector must halt collections
Flip side is paper documentation is poor UX.
roarktoohey··on Ask HN: Please critique my personal digital security strategy
all your base are belong to us
roarktoohey··on Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic
Write blog post about it and submit it?
roarktoohey··on Ask HN: Quotes that made a difference in your life?
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

roarktoohey··on You can't dig upwards
For the brilliant the starting point won't matter. For the average getting to results fast will.

Too many people have mental blocks of "programming is too hard". That is, until they see 2+2 or print 'hello world' and it just works.

Far more average people out there than brilliant, let's focus on those and let the geniuses fend for themselves, i'm sure they'll do fine.

roarktoohey··on I quit: Miseries of an Uber driver
"Also, considering the company’s huge profits, Uber owes it to the little guys doing their driving to provide much better software..."

Is it typical for reporters to confuse profits with revenue? None of the decks I've seen show profits, I've always assumed that my rides are subsidized by VC money.

roarktoohey··on The Difference Between Funny and LOL
"Interesting" visualizations. Could someone without an understanding of lol and funny create this? Visualizations, in this context, show what you already knew to be true. How well can it be used to find something new, instead of novel?
roarktoohey··on The overlooked issue of Windows 8
Try http://spectacleapp.com/. Works well for me.
roarktoohey··on Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
I would love to come, just to listen and learn.
roarktoohey··on How Benjamin Franklin Got His First Fifty Customers
Full auto biography can be found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/148/pg148.html
roarktoohey··on The College-Cost Calamity
Indentured servitude is a pesky problem that keeps resurfacing in various forms though modern history.
roarktoohey··on Looking At The World Through Twitter Data
It would be cool, possibly profitable, to see stock symbols and their price change mapped vs. mentions of the ticker (like IBM).
roarktoohey··on What makes one appear smarter and more sociable?
What would be interesting to see is the likely decline in intelligence as the user base increases.