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Peter Thiel: You Are Not a Lottery Ticket [video](youtube.com)
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The right to disconnect(newatlas.com)
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by a_d 8y ago
The first version of some astonishingly successful businesses were quite simple. Including and certainly not limited to: AirBnB, Groupon, Facebook, Zenefits, ZenPayroll (now Gusto), YouTube, Twitter etc were quite simple. Ironically, their
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by a_d 8y ago
What you say may be true for almost all the products, unless when the product is 'money' itself. Something worth considering. Easy access to low-cost loans creates the illusion of affordability and exacerbates over-consumption (ov
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by a_d 8y ago
>”But here’s where it fails” The answer in the article is: “Products that aren’t daily, but still hugely valuable” — like a Payroll system, LinkedIn etc. (there are many!). And...yes, these businesses should not have DAU/MAU as thei
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by a_d 8y ago
>”funding consists of €12 million in equity and a new €25 million debt facility. Building an inventory of new tech products to rent is quite capital insensitive, after all.“ > “if Grover’s subscription model becomes compelling enough,
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by a_d 8y ago
Kip Thorne here [1] agrees with one aspect of Bohm’s philosophy (not Physics) —- he posits that theories that explain nature’s laws with more and more precision are like Matryoshka Dolls (Greeks->Newton->Einstein->String Theory-&gt
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by a_d 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this comment! I wonder if part of the govt’s interest comes after discovery (-ies) of backdoors in US and China based processors — a national security motivation to develop indigenous manufacturing. Congrats to this team.
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by a_d 8y ago
Good thought experiment. Assuming all nukes are destroyed and we achieve zero-state. From that point onward it would be hard for a rogue state/agency to develop a weapon. Because the supply-chain monitoring, which is already quite adva
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by a_d 8y ago
The article’s final paragraph: >”Every robot rebel has its benevolent counterpart, such as C-3PO in the Star Wars franchise or the android child David in Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Both kinds of stories, t
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by a_d 8y ago
Maybe we come at it from a different side: what/which manmade things can cause end of the world? (I know only 2: climate change and nukes)
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by a_d 8y ago
Really interesting bit of history. Thanks for sharing. (I remember Pirates! — what a great game that was. Vividly remember the opening graphics on my friend’s new 486 with a 16-bit VGA card. It looked stunning.)
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by a_d 8y ago
Article makes the point that the symbol commonly used for peace, originally was a logo for nuclear disarmament. Well, the common-use meaning is not that far apart :) A nuke-free Earth would be one of the biggest, if not the biggest cont
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by a_d 8y ago
You may be right. I just don’t know why the old style pc games died. I just attempted one possible explanation —- For sure there is more to it. it just seems to me that LucasArts (adventure games like Monkey Island), MicroProse, Sierra, Wes
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by a_d 8y ago
Wow. Had no idea that Sid Meier was connected to this game. His Railroad Tycoon (esp RT2) is one of the greatest "business simulations" of all time!
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by a_d 8y ago
>Also, manuals in XX century were great. They were often decent books by themselves, full of information and lore. Somehow, this concept was abandoned around 2000 +/- couple years Very interesting point. I wonder why did this happen
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by a_d 8y ago
>This was far & away one of my most cherished games. Hmmm...going by this thread, I am really surprised that there are so many of us who like this game. This is quite cool actually! :)
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by a_d 8y ago
The original manual was about 200 pages! I can’t find it anywhere online. It goes into tons of other things — like the construction of this plane and dogfighting tactics (even though this plane isn’t designed for it) :)
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by a_d 8y ago
>It was probably the most I read when I was 14 True for me too. I remember that game. Reading the manuals for all the Jane's and Microprose's games, and taking them very seriously, was definitely a childhood highlight. Btw, I f
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by a_d 8y ago
One of the closest experiences to flying this thing came in 1991, in the form of "F-117A Stealth Fighter" PC game, made by MicroProse. It was a masterpiece for its time in terms of the detailed console one had to learn to fly this
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by a_d 8y ago
Yes. Roast beef sandwiches, Potato salad and soup :)
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by a_d 8y ago
Mel Brooks features in two Joseph Heller (of Catch-22 fame) books: No laughing matter and From Coney Island to here. It is amazing to read about how Mario Puzo (of The Godfather), Mel Brooks, Joseph Heller, Speed Vogel spent their evenings
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by a_d 8y ago
“how the memory contents of a NTM are initialized may be a defining factor in the success of a NTM implementation” Does it mean that one can expect better explainability in the future from these models?
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by a_d 8y ago
I am amazed how much truth there is in these paragraphs, esp for B2B cos.
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by a_d 8y ago
Any suggestions on good sources: Where can I learn more about it? (Thanks for the comment. Very curious to learn more.)
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by a_d 8y ago
This is a very easy list of things they want you to do: 1. Contact the nationwide credit-reporting agencies as soon as possible to 2. Add fraud alert 3. Place a “security freeze” on your credit account: with experian, trans union, equifax 4
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by a_d 8y ago
If someone were to figure out the exact mechanics of this, then this could become universal basic income. I have thought a lot about what trapped intangible value all of us have, such that ‘if’ there was a market for it, we could get paid.
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by a_d 8y ago
There a lot of great points on this thread. We need more distinction between contextual and non-contextual advice. If one is ‘at the board’ working through a problem — then a hint or solution, moves the problem forward. On the other hand, i
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Boldly Go Where No Startup Has Gone Before: The American Dream of Home Ownership(linkedin.com)
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Naval Ravikant: The capital play behind blockchain and cryptocurrency(goldmansachs.com)
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