andreskytt

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by andreskytt 5y ago
Make sure you understand your motives to do so. I’m a lifelong loner, don’t really have any friends but a few folks I meet about once a year and sometimes talk to online. That’s OK, it’s just who I am. So why exactly are you looking for fri
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by andreskytt 5y ago
It is a machine responding to inputs but it involves feedback to the level we don’t usually experience with computers. This introduces non-linearity which is difficult for a human mind to process in terms of cause and effect. They are still
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Complexity explains a lot of it. Complexity is feedback-based dealing with its consequences (i.e., understanding complex things and working with complex rather than simple things) gradually consumes more and more resources until the busines
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Mainstream media is very cautious about causing a mass exodus of their customers. That’s why this whole thing is scary: a random group of people, easy to ignite deliberately, can shift what many people see or hear. That’s scary.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Do you have any facts on the decline or just a general feeling? Don’t send the kids to these colleges, then. Send them to study STEM, it’s much harder to bs a computer.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
MBA here. Does not sound like hate but statement of fact. In my experience the US MBA and general management management teaching is very dollar-based in stark contrast to, say European management education. This will lead to extreme efficie
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by andreskytt 5y ago
He lost me when making statements about a paradigm shift and human history while explicitly talking about US of A. A fine country, but not representing the entirety of any global trend.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
The question is not what percentage they were of the cohort but how does that percentage compare with the overall makeup of the district.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
So you are saying all modern rock music from Elvis to Black Sabbath to Metallica should not exist as it is the “in” group taking the music of the “out” group, in this case the blues? People don’t work like that, culture doesn’t work like th
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by andreskytt 5y ago
I don’t think it’s the masses. I think it’s a very small minority stuck in a feedback loop of always needing to be more woke than the other person. The social media in itself is an echo chamber: most people even in the US are unlikely to fe
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by andreskytt 5y ago
This is something governments are ignoring en masse when they build their digital identities and data exchanges. Nobody gets on your bandwagon unless there’s already people on it. And even if you make adoption mandatory, the usage will take
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Yes, that girl should not have worn that short skirt.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Free speech used to mean the right to say anything without persecution. Does it now mean the right to have ones opinion be actively globally distributed by a third party? This is very much about fighting two viruses: one biological and the
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Differential equations are a bugger. You get four of them, one for each mechanism group trying to adjust your weight up or down by changing intake or expenditure. Some are physiological, some psychological. If they get out of whack, you get
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by andreskytt 5y ago
This is fine until you get serious about the exercise. Which happens very gradually. Then you’ll find that you easily “bonk” during high-intensity long workouts having exhausted your internal glycogen reserves. At this point (and I’m here)
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by andreskytt 5y ago
The doc has two product streams: uk-made and foreign. These appear to be completely different as the same size of the same model fits me when uk-made and is woeful when not.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Most people are capable of running the marathon after some training but most don’t. The fact, that, theoretically, it is possible to loose weight by conscious choice (I have), does not mean it is reasonable to expect everyone to do it. I k
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by andreskytt 5y ago
There are two basic mechanism groups defining the weight of a person: one, that adjusts calorie input based on the weight and one that adjusts output based on weight. Some of these mechanisms are physiological (stress eating), some physical
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by andreskytt 5y ago
I don’t think these movements have been based on identity but rather the concept of lacking something. This group lacks X, thus we should seek to give them X. But X does not necessarily equal the identity. What I find heartbreaking in all t
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by andreskytt 5y ago
You assert “there is” but do you have any concrete facts? Also, why wouldn’t there be an equally huge PR machinery from the insurance companies fighting for it as, by definition, they stand to loose as much from the use of alternatives?
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by andreskytt 5y ago
I’m quite frankly shocked by the quality of discussion here. The HN community could do so much better. There’s unsubstantiated claims on all sides, downvoted comments galore etc. If this is what the geekier than average and probably more li
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Background: many of my former colleagues and team members have made it big. Really, 7-10 figures, big. Firstly, it is not a lottery. There are several hygiene factors like being smart but the key differenting factor they all share is likeab
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Not necessarily. In a fadt-growing startup scene the chances are significantly higher than a lottery
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by andreskytt 5y ago
I do get the RATM ethos and the libertarian ideas. I don’t support them but I do get where they are coming from. Given that, can somebody explain to me how does BC solve any of the things they don’t like? Instead of a faceless bureaucracy,
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by andreskytt 5y ago
The entire PSD2 directive laying the groundwork for open banking is a disaster, IMHO. It seeks to do the right things but then completely ignores identity and authorization as a problem. It kinda matters, which organizations you authorize t
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by andreskytt 5y ago
IMHO the source of confusion comes from how the term Enterprise Architecture has been interpreted not as the “Architecture of the Enterprise” but as “Architecture of IT systems in an enterprise”. Of course it gets frustrating, when the part
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by andreskytt 5y ago
I do apologize. People, including me, don’t go spend their lives talking to computers because they are great at talking to people. I’m bad at reading social context, probably on the autism spectrum and many of my colleagues over the last 30
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by andreskytt 5y ago
For me, there is nothing intense about the emotions. I feel sad, that real care for the well-being of people has been replaced by the ability to slap a CW onto things. I also feel sad about there apparently being people intensly hurt by rea
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Getting similar emotions to having been punched from reading a name sounds very scary. And, if such people exist, how can I tell, what other things can trigger others? People having been involved in bad car crashes might plausibly be trigge
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Depends on the circumstance. Skype office in Tallinn had free food because it was an efficient way to feed the mass of geeks in that part of town at the time (10+ years ago).

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