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by ahussain 10y ago
I'm curious, on a scale of 1-10 how big of a transgression do people consider this to be? When I was in India it was common to have people sitting in the aisles on long distance buses, trains, and theatre halls where fire evacuation pl
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by ahussain 10y ago
This is a really good observation. I've noticed that people who are successful tend to have an uncanny ability to 'see' the right things. And making good decisions is often a function of a person's ability to be aware of
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by ahussain 10y ago
I agree. I definitely feel less curious as I've gotten older. One angle is - given how easy it is to access information, curiosity is more often a distraction than a benefit.
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by ahussain 10y ago
I agree about the lack of community. There is also something about "artificiality" - it troubles me when walking around a city to know that all this was constructed by other people; and getting to grips with the 'documentatio
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by ahussain 10y ago
The link doesn't open to a particular page for me - do you have a page number or chapter title?
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by ahussain 10y ago
No, but in this case he was right and consistent. She was eventually right and not consistent.
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by ahussain 10y ago
I agree, but also feel that sometimes 'maintenance tasks' can be incredibly humanizing. Life can feel artificial when there are too few maintenance tasks.
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by ahussain 10y ago
I think it's dangerous to place "add value to my thought life" too high on the spectrum of things that are valuable. Human connection, empathy, direct service to others are also tremendously important parts of life that are s
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by ahussain 10y ago
In London you can go to the TFL website and see live updating times for when the bus will get to your stop: https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/stations-stops-and-pie...
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Ask HN: Is there a “technological solution” to the Kashmir problem?
11 points by ahussain 10y ago|5 comments
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by ahussain 10y ago
It's not just reading though. Most of the value in a good liberal arts education comes from discussion with peers, and professors guiding the reading in a way that helps to avoid confusion and misunderstanding. Many 'great thinker
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by ahussain 11y ago
This is one of the reasons to read Infinite Jest - it explores the concept of addiction with incredible depth and interest. I love the idea that many things in life can be modeled as addictions. Abstractly, an addiction takes the pattern of
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by ahussain 11y ago
I don't think this works because you can have very safe failure modes - much like nuclear reactor control rods. Instead of all swerving to the right the cars would all slow down as quickly as it is safe to do so. In the second example
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by ahussain 11y ago
A physics professor in college used to say "learning is a spiral" - you go around and around a concept a few times, getting closer to understanding each time. I quite liked that as a model for learning - don't get demoralized
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On Being Inadequate(thecrimson.com)
2 points by ahussain 12y ago|0 comments
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by ahussain 12y ago
As someone studying physics at the moment, this is a great re-energizing force. Incredible to see that Einstein wrote the same equations, and (mostly) in the same notation that we use today. Humbled.
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by ahussain 12y ago
This article reminds me of an incredibly beautiful one by Christopher Hitchens called "Unspoken Truths" http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/06/christopher-hitchens-...
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by ahussain 12y ago
Facebook is also great for events. You can invite people you know even if you don't have their other contact info. I think you might struggle to 'bring everyone over' to a better group service. Part of the draw of facebook is
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by ahussain 12y ago
I have read the first 20% of this book 5 times... Each time I get a little further but still a long way to go!
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by ahussain 12y ago
A little disingenuous I feel. Sometimes people click 'click-bait' links precisely because of how ludicrous they are, not because they are looking for a hack. I can imagine people clicking some of these thinking 'Ha, who would
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Samsung's Paper-thin, Bendable Screen(stuff.co.nz)
2 points by ahussain 13y ago|0 comments
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The Purpose of Religion(medium.com)
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by ahussain 13y ago
I pasted in some David Foster Wallace text and it exploded.
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by ahussain 13y ago
Phone service is also much more expensive in the USA. In the UK, I pay £25 per month, in the US it's $70.
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Time Is Money(awaishussain.com)
1 points by ahussain 13y ago|1 comments
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Non-Invasive Brain-to-Brain Interface: Link between Two Brains(plosone.org)
6 points by ahussain 13y ago|1 comments
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by ahussain 13y ago
Keep an "Interruptions Log". Have a piece of paper next to you, and every time you are are doing something that's not directly related to coding, write down the start time, end time, and activity you're doing. It worked
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Show HN: Slide to delete on iOS(github.com)
1 points by ahussain 13y ago|0 comments
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by ahussain 13y ago
It asks for my email address before it offers me anything.
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by ahussain 13y ago
But that also means placing massive limitations on what the internet can do.

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