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by balaji1 4y ago
I think there needs to be an app that rewards reducing screen time / social media. Yes I need a crutch to keep my behavior in check. I like how the iPhone gamifies "you screen time down 27% this week..." and for the record, I
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by balaji1 4y ago
meta comment about the whole situation: Do we need to be taking so many photos, videos and short videos (shorts, reels, etc)? Do we need to be sharing all of them?
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by balaji1 4y ago
> there's at least a chance for the public to catch onto shady looking behavior that manipulates the price of an asset but can we do anything about it even if you catch the behavior? other than old-school regulation and litigation?
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by balaji1 4y ago
They are trying to seed users, iterate and growth hack for now. By not showing us more info, maybe they want us to wait for the network effects, so I will wait.
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by balaji1 4y ago
Clay and other concrete based bricks must be cheap enough already, and work well. If we intend to reuse plastic in bricks, maybe use those bricks for building things in and around landfills or things like storing nuclear waste - so that tox
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by balaji1 4y ago
> Do good work, work that pays, that you're good at, that you can be proud of. Then go home. Switch off... Do good work. But if not switch off, and if you are young, it might be better to get another boring job. There is so much dis
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by balaji1 4y ago
agree, never seen entrepreneurs regret getting into business. If not entrepreneurs, at least what is called a businessman in India, are fine at the end of the day. They get a decent amount of support from family to run their business. They
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by balaji1 4y ago
I also thought of job security when I saw the OP question - what will guarantee work and pay for a few years. Once you commit to a job with job security, manage time to get it done efficiently. Then manage distractions to spend time on some
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by balaji1 4y ago
oh yes I remember reading this now. Co-incidentally I was just glad today morning that iPhone doesn't show the row of small notification icons on the top-bar all the time. And then noticed that notifications don't show on the home
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by balaji1 4y ago
Not intending to start a storm here. Why does the author want an Android? The iPhone mini would do the job right? I have a iPhone mini for the same reasons of size, premium feel and price. It would be cool to hear what the founder of Pebble
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by balaji1 4y ago
The article has a title that is concise and makes a big claim, but it is not clear what the issue is. I could spend more time to read the article fully, but it seems intentional that the article is not so readable. And we know by now that m
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by balaji1 4y ago
doesn't break for me. I am able to continuously clear lower rows. So now I finally feel good playing tetris.
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by balaji1 4y ago
Another level of wisdom is to realize this is a form of job security. Put in the 8 hours, whatever the grind. If that's good enough for you. Else there seems to be suggestions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=312
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by balaji1 4y ago
I remember reading that reproducibility is hard in these scholarly articles... When will an AI attempt to reproduce the results from all CS and math articles.
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by balaji1 4y ago
how much of his judging was actually coming from within? And how much was because the society (school system mostly) around him telling academics/science was the right thing to be doing, and since he was good at those, he was somehow b
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by balaji1 4y ago
I didn't get the joke exactly or dunno if it is a reference. But it seems like the right response to this thread lol
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by balaji1 4y ago
> In seasons of life where there are a lot of new things happening... that's a neat idea to allow us to be cognizant of life. And to keep other things simple to create mental and physical bandwidth for the main things.
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by balaji1 4y ago
There is a benefit of re-listening to certain audiobooks, lectures or podcasts. If there was a sophisticated way to just have content on-repeat, that would be cool. New content all the time is over-consumption, while repeating could be used
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by balaji1 4y ago
that's smart. We always had 1:1s where we would just step out and walk. In a way, it forced 1:1s to be 30 mins long. Now 1:1s have become "you can have 15 mins back in your day" lol. 1:1s can definitely be done walking, even
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by balaji1 4y ago
agree that walking is a reward in itself. I should have phrased it as - "more people would walk more if they were rewarded more tangibly". Friendly competition might incentivize more people to walk. Just some thoughts since the ar
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by balaji1 4y ago
Great article hashing out the details of implementing regular long walks as a habit. However, it would be cool if there was a way to get paid for walking. That would motivate a lot more people, even if it is minimal pay. Walk-to-earn crypto
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by balaji1 4y ago
think this is first useful response. Everybody else saying "you don't need to be interested in that" to the OP's question. It may be true that macro is irrelevant to the OP's objective of being a good investor. I wi
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by balaji1 4y ago
Companies being paranoid about "losing control of employees" seems overblown. People (at these tech cos anyway) (on average) are very responsible as individuals and motivated to work and grow their careers. It not obvious what car
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by balaji1 4y ago
> You must reduce the amount of plastic shipped overseas by putting it in the regular garbage instead of the recycle bin. That's the reality. Why does the US/California make it seem like recycling is a magic trick to save the p
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by balaji1 4y ago
It would have been cool if there were a few tweets with the caveat of "tho here's what DALL-E is good at". Maybe the twitter account has showcased that separately. otherwise so what if DALL-E has limitations on some weird obs
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by balaji1 4y ago
would it have been possible to sell the code and business? the author doesn't mention that he explored that option. This seems very sellable. And like you said, $3.2k/month could go long way in other countries. So it would have b
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by balaji1 4y ago
what is the toxicity of these compostable materials to humans and animals? Also do we understand long-term health impacts? Though these shouldn't be worse than the plastic/styrofoam that is so prevalent today.
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by balaji1 5y ago
Rail networks have a lot more potential for automation and electrification. It is way too underestimated. It would be cool to see when Amazon gets into Rail.
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by balaji1 5y ago
it is a good observation, I think you mean most immigrants are not rich. If you didn't mean immigrants, immigrants are not rich until 10+ years later. Definitely don't spend like the rich. But they are willing to commit years to b
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by balaji1 5y ago
knowing this, should we do intentionally lift-and-coast? Get out of the rat-race? Going to a medical test center in America is insightful. Old folks who drive alone to get tests they know the results to, to take prescription drugs they know

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