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by aneil 9y ago
Conscious consumption doesn't work. It ignores financial incentives, and we know how that story plays out. In particular, companies have a fiduciary responsibility to exploit resources for shareholder gain. Until that problem is addres
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by aneil 9y ago
For instance, he didn't consider loss of privacy, the ability for governments and companies to surveil people, or the effect of information bubbles, for instance. Those seem like objectively bad consequences, or at least things that he
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by aneil 9y ago
He gave an interview on Nightline, I believe, back in the late 90s or early 00s where he was contrasting biotech and digital tech. He concluded that digital would lead almost entirely to good things and biotech would lead exclusively to bad
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by aneil 10y ago
I used the pattern suggested, but came up with no useful results after 3 tries: * "channels in go" (no result) * "mutex"(no result) * "generator in python" (returned a page describing the Python programming lan
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10x better is easier than 10%(library.gv.com)
3 points by aneil 11y ago|0 comments
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by aneil 11y ago
I'm a pretty regular user, but have unsubscribed from a number of the default subreddits. Still, there is often a feeding frenzy mentality that takes over there. The racism during Ferguson was appalling. I saw a Pao subthread where
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by aneil 12y ago
What is the evidence for this?
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by aneil 14y ago
I'd be ok with a limit if there weren't a 1 year period for reclaiming a license. What's annoying is having a bunch of unused UDIDs - whether from departed users or abandoned phones.
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America's labor market is hollowing out(economist.com)
1 points by aneil 15y ago|0 comments
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Bezos backs Nuclear Fusion based on swirling molten lead(npr.org)
2 points by aneil 15y ago|0 comments
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Michael Lewis on Daniel Kahneman, the Father of Behavioral Economics(vanityfair.com)
4 points by aneil 15y ago|1 comments
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by aneil 15y ago
Agree - this seems like an invitation to problems. Are there any known issues with it?
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by aneil 15y ago
I've had terrible trouble with RubyMine and RVM. I'm hopeful that the PATH-based approach of rbenv might be better.
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A tool for real-time user testing?(quora.com)
1 points by aneil 15y ago|0 comments
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by aneil 15y ago
Arrington is clearly enjoying this.
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FTC complaint lodged against DropBox over security issues(crave.cnet.co.uk)
1 points by aneil 15y ago|0 comments
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How a non-technical co-founder can be productive while the CTO builds the site(businessinsider.com)
2 points by aneil 16y ago|0 comments
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by aneil 16y ago
Twitter worked because of psychology and marketing. It is essentially a game and reputation system in which the users add content to increase their followership. People use it for other things, of course, but it's this dynamic which drove
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by aneil 16y ago
2peer is a distributed peer-to-peer social network, similar to diaspora. It has downloadable Windows and Mac clients: http://2peer.com
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This mobile payments startup just raised $15M(cmoney.com)
9 points by aneil 16y ago|7 comments
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by aneil 16y ago
"Yahoo is where startups go to die." Two ex-yahooers echoed this sentiment. A moribund company, falling apart at the seams.
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by aneil 17y ago
I think we can safely toss out Sayres Law (the "intensity" of academic squabbles [is] a function of the "triviality" of the issue at hand): http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/18/nyregion/education-lessons... "In government, people know how to