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by GuiA 8y ago
You know how building wider roads doesn’t improve commute times, as it simply encourages people to drive more? It’s that, but with bytes and bandwidth instead of cars and lanes. That's the core insight. Higher availability of resourc
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Why Modern Computers Struggle to Match the Input Latency of an Apple IIe (2017)(extremetech.com)
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by GuiA 8y ago
Looking at tech, designers have held very little power historically. Examples are few and far between, with Apple being the most notable outlier. Old Apple did not change the status quo much - it was a golden child for less than a decade af
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by GuiA 8y ago
We are in a design bubble (we have been for a few years now). There are way more designers than there is meaningful design work to do, and they need to justify their existence and paycheck. Hence all your favorite companies doing complete,
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by GuiA 8y ago
> Its one of the best marketing coups in recent history and I'd love to see more analysis on how it was pulled off Steward Butterfield pushed private beta invites to his well connected Silicon Valley social media friends, who then
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by GuiA 8y ago
Indeed. I taught myself how to juggle recently, because I am fairly clumsy and thought this was something I’d never be able to do, but I wanted to see how far I’d go. For a month or so, I’d spend 10 minutes a day doing various throwing&#x2F
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China employs two million microblog monitors(bbc.com)
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>I doubt Chinese or Korean CEOs spend as much time on 'identity politics' flavored 'diversity hiring' as a CEO would in SF There are many responses to that statement, but one of the most notable ones is that there a
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by GuiA 8y ago
Why do you assume this isn’t a real job (ie paid the rent and fed their family) for the people who worked on it? And why do you assume that the people who worked on it have access to what you consider a “real job”?
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by GuiA 8y ago
The economic historian in this interview has interesting things to say: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/28/why-t... China and Europe are different in many ways, but one is
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by GuiA 8y ago
> at various periods during world history, China has been one of the richest and educated countries in the world. Do you have any further reading on this? It doesn't strike me as too crazy of a statement - but I'd be very int
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Mohism(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by GuiA 8y ago|1 comments
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by GuiA 8y ago
Did you perhaps mean to link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology) ?
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by GuiA 8y ago
Hervé Bazin , a French writer, proposed a few more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation#"Love_point"_and_s...
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Matnsāz – an Urdu Keyboard, and public initiative for better Urdu software(zeerak.net)
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by GuiA 8y ago
That is a nuance that a lot of people are missing. Nicotine is highly addictive, but in itself does not kill you (at the amounts smokers/vapers are intaking it). What kills you is the delivery mechanism. We have plenty of data for how
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by GuiA 8y ago
Flying a drone legally should require a license, much like operating a ham radio does. This would ensure that all drone operators have basic knowledge of what is expected of them (such as “don’t fly a drone over a wildfire”), and make it st
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In Memory of Jesse Helms and the Condom on His House (2008)(poz.com)
123 points by GuiA 8y ago|53 comments
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This paragraph is deliberately left vague - a Rorschach test of sorts. I am not quite sure what he is referring to exactly. I do know that my local bookstore has much more books from authors who are gay, trans, black, Asian, etc than it did
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Railway Spine(en.wikipedia.org)
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by GuiA 8y ago
This is very important. I once worked for the CEO of a startup who told me that he was hesitant to hire women because if they got pregnant “it’d totally screw us over”.
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by GuiA 8y ago
Your argument could apply to all media that exist: “I don’t like $MEDIUM being used this way. Well I don’t like $MEDIUM at all, but it seems dishonest and dangerous to use $MEDIUM as a canvas for fake interactions” where $MEDIUM can be TV,
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by GuiA 8y ago
This is an interesting new medium, built on the foundations laid by a number of media that came before it - social networking, reality tv, soap operas, etc. As always, McLuhan’s 4 questions are helpful in thinking about it: - What does the
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by GuiA 8y ago
Don’t worry, every parent before you has felt the same way :)
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by GuiA 8y ago
The scientific method is the most important tool that humanity has ever developed, without question. That being said, the belief that the scientific method can build up arbitrarily accurate models of any observable phenomena is without foun
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by GuiA 8y ago
From the first paragraph of the article: The news was spotted by PetaPixel on the camera giant’s Japanese support forum.
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by GuiA 8y ago
I still shoot black and white medium format, and spend about 10 hours a week in a darkroom. It’s hard to compare spending 2 hours on a print vs 2 hours on a shot in Lightroom - they’re very different processes. That being said, the reason w
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by GuiA 8y ago
Very few homeless people were born homeless. If the stream is unlimited, where are they coming from?
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Flight has been evolved independently 4 times, gliding much more - how does that square with the principle of parsimony? (ie, if we hadn’t discovered pterosaurs yet, we could make the argument that flight evolved 3 times and probably not mo
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by GuiA 8y ago
It would certainly be a fantastic discovery, but would it be that surprising? The amount of knowledge we can infer from the fossil record is infinitesimal compared to all that actually happened; and while going from 0 instances of an event

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