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by akomtu 3y ago
Next episode: GPT4 is 3x better at identifying successful startups than VCs.
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by akomtu 3y ago
"Strong" in the golden age has nothing to do with physical strength. It's about moral strength, when one does the right thing even under grave pressure. The harsh strength comes into play in the iron age when might is the rig
963.
by akomtu 3y ago
Digm is word with complex meaning, and appears in many languages, including Greek, Latin and Sanskrit. It expresses an idea. But I believe that those who are curious should do this research themselves.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Speaking of Greeks, they believed that such universal ideas come from the world of ideas, or the world of archetypes; great thinkers merely perceive this world, and that's why different cultures seemingly by accident end up with the sa
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by akomtu 3y ago
It's a bigger paradigm shift in the tech industry. Search is one of the remaining ideas that empower users, because it does what users tell it to do. In the new paradigm users have no agency, instead the platform builds persona profile
966.
by akomtu 3y ago
Hinduist "four ugas" capture this idea very well: the golden age when strong and good create values, the silver age when weak and good uphold the values, the bronze age when weak with sloppy morals let the values decline, the iron
967.
by akomtu 3y ago
What does it mean to be progressive w.r.t. dating these days?
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by akomtu 3y ago
Does it matter who felt more comfortable for a short span of 60-80 years a few thousand years ago?
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by akomtu 3y ago
I'm disappointed he didn't attach to the wheel two magnets, a copper wire and a bitcoin miner.
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by akomtu 3y ago
To understand social status, look at these two piles of bones of ancient mesopotamian people. One pile belonged to a king, the other belonged to a peasant.
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by akomtu 3y ago
"Dear employees, As you probably know, our C-suite and their golf buddies are heavily invested in commercial real estate. Your absense in downtowns is a grave danger to CRE and our financial future. For this reason, we need you to show
972.
by akomtu 3y ago
The many-eyed monstroisity that sees everyone and is seen by no one keeps growing under the fig leaf of "safety" and "security", fed by people's fear and anxiety.
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by akomtu 3y ago
String theory looks like a good math framework to describe possible universes. Physics today is hindered by the obsessive idea that what we see around - the observable universe - is all there is, rather than just one of many possible worlds
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by akomtu 3y ago
Reading these news, you can tell execs and board members of what companies are invested in commercial real estate. And we can understand them: they are so invested in tech stocks that they must diversify their portfolio.
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by akomtu 3y ago
McDonald's 2043: "We still employ humans! Yes, we do. Apply here." A small asterisk at the bottom adds in a microscopic font: "Applicants must bring a recent copy of the baseline test with a score of at least 740."
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by akomtu 3y ago
HN should limit the rate of comments per user per post. This user is seriously worked up to mute this discussion and spams in every comment thread. Edit: this user wrote 26 out of 88 comments here.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Indeed, this is not Fintech News.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Am I talking to the hive mind of HN? If not, let others think for themselves.
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by akomtu 3y ago
When Apple or Google receives a request to give user data, and they get thousands of such requests, they compare the cost of complying and the cost of not complying. I'll tell you an open secret that such companies are doormat-level co
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by akomtu 3y ago
In those wonderful towns, residents not only get fired for wrongthink, they also get evicted by the corporate police. The omnipresent cctv cameras help residents stay in line with the community standards of inclusive speech and behavior.
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by akomtu 3y ago
e2e encryption is one forced update away from being plain text.
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by akomtu 3y ago
The omitted detail is that it's "NL national security [from its people] ..." The state, and those individuals in unholy union with it, understands very well that it's different from its people and in order to defend from
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by akomtu 3y ago
First they'll try to flag it down.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Falling in a black hole is a different experience. It must be more like being squeezed in a narrow tube with a glowing light that was once the universe on one end of the tube and something indescribable on the other end. Perception of time
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by akomtu 3y ago
Tipping exploits the american culture of niceness: when one feels compelled to look nice even when it's against his interests and contradicts common sense.
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by akomtu 3y ago
This snorkeling mask is how a well off hipster would escape reality. This ideal hipster needs to have thousands of spare cash and hours of free time every day, yet his day to day life must be nasty enough that he wants to escape it.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Indeed, CNN could talk non-stop about icebergs of plastic trash everywhere in the world and Coca-Cola factories that produce this plastic 24/7, but guess who buys ads banners on CNN.
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by akomtu 3y ago
The patient has switched to an electric toothbrush, but continues to absorb 3 fridges of food every day, almost 1.5x more since he started talking to the doctor.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Carbon offsets is like a doctor telling a grossly obese patient to mitigate the problem with periodic fat removal. This gives the patient a false hope that he doesn't need to completely change how he lives.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Imo, the future is millions of micro-GPUs on a chip, with simplified instruction set. Such mGPU clusters will be called neuromorphic chips. Btw, it's time to measure performance of LLMs in watts.

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