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by Mahn 8y ago
> that's not the demographic anyone wants as far as I know On the contrary, that's the demographic everyone wants, older people have more money to spend. Of course, having only this demographic is not great long term, since t
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by Mahn 8y ago
I've noticed this as well. It seems that when you are under stress several muscles in your body tense involuntarily, particularly in your back and your neck. It's very subtle, you don't really realize that your muscles are t
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by Mahn 8y ago
I think the creativity and imagination required to solve this kind of problems is not really within current AI reach yet. The ability to take existing ideas and combine them in unique ways to come up with something new is very powerful, and
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by Mahn 8y ago
I never knew I wanted a "smart" fridge, but a fridge that can detect food going off sounds incredible. Sign me up if this is feasible.
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by Mahn 8y ago
Depends on your expectations. You can live comfortably as a skilled software engineer in Europe, but you won't be able to build a nest to retire comfortably in 20 years.
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by Mahn 8y ago
It really does not scale. Charging users after a certain threshold of messages is a silly idea. Can you imagine if Facebook charged after a certain number of status updates and photos shared? It's not that it doesn't make as much
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by Mahn 8y ago
> Acton said he tried to push Facebook towards an alternative, less privacy hostile business model for WhatsApp — suggesting a metered-user model such as by charging a tenth of a penny after a certain large number of free messages were
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by Mahn 8y ago
Comments on blog posts are usually close to useless, because the community cannot moderate/curate itself pretty effectively. HN and Reddit are far better tools for feedback.
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by Mahn 8y ago
> "It's not the technology that matters, it's the strategy". I don't think that's right. A big talking point that comes up over and over with Instagram was how well-built the app was. Yet that wouldn't
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by Mahn 8y ago
Yep, to put it in perspective this kind of money in Europe is pretty much a VP/CEO level of salary for a medium size company. Or just about enough to cover ramen and rent in Silicon Valley I imagine.
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by Mahn 8y ago
I think at its core this is basically it. We can argue all day about the differences in culture and mindset, but the most significant advantage the USA has that the EU cannot effectively replicate (yet) is the access to a large, homogeneous
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by Mahn 8y ago
You are getting downvoted, but it's true, as an European it's appalling to see Europe constantly sabotaging itself when it comes to tech.
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by Mahn 8y ago
Any sort of legislation is problematic if the people responsible for legislating do not understand that which is being legislated.
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by Mahn 8y ago
I think you are severely underestimating the current state of VR. It's still an enthusiasts market, to be sure, but it's well past the gimmick point, there are real applications, real content, and real consumer grade hardware out
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by Mahn 8y ago
> To help you take your first step into spatial computing, we’re going to hand deliver the device to your doorstep and personally get you set up. Someone has read Paul Graham's "Do things that don't scale" essay :)
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by Mahn 8y ago
So basically, it sounds like the main advantage of the Magic Leap compared to HoloLens or existing VR headsets is likely the perceived resolution.
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by Mahn 8y ago
It's worth noting that, while fascinating, CRISPR is not yet a solved problem, as the technique in its current iteration can apparently introduce random mutations and damage [1]. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles&#x2F
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by Mahn 8y ago
The real answer is that you need to get your product noticed by having spectacular growth. If you have that, no one will care what your background or connections are.
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by Mahn 8y ago
> What I'm more upset about is people spending obscene fortunes on Farmville, World of Warcraft gold, Candy Crush EleventeenNinenty4 Now With Extra Bedazzle, Fortnight etc. Energy, agriculture, medical, space are often neglected in
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by Mahn 8y ago
It'd better be.
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by Mahn 8y ago
> lots of teams working on lots of products, and if some of them don't pan out, that's OK Basically the modern tech titan mantra. The only company out of the big 5 that isn't doing this is Apple.
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Alternative splicing (Genetics)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Mahn 8y ago|0 comments
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by Mahn 8y ago
Ok, but if you keep digging, eventually you are going to stumble into the concept of the dream itself, and then the question then becomes what properties and qualities of the process of dreaming gave birth to a red flower in the mind. I wil
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by Mahn 8y ago
We can only speculate, but in my mind, to "be" the one that observes does not preclude from there being something in my brain that observes, which in turn, unconsciously, becomes part of what I call my identity and self. At the en
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by Mahn 8y ago
> is there something inside the cats brain that is doing the observing? Or is it just a computing device that operates on a continuous input-processing-output loop that learns from previous loops? The big question is, is there a differen
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by Mahn 8y ago
Consciousness must arise out of something, and that something ought to have qualities than can be studied.
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by Mahn 8y ago
There's no evidence that we cannot reduce self-awareness to an algorithm.
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Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US(alexa.com)
1361 points by Mahn 8y ago|584 comments
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by Mahn 8y ago
Since when has more regulation translated in more entrepreneurship?
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by Mahn 8y ago
What if my startup does not require tricky or infelicitous shit with your personal data, but due to strict regulation I now require to hire a full time lawyer just to redact the company terms and keep up with regulations, and since my compa

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