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by balaji1 4y ago
> What will happen when evil players will get hold of this tech? Are we going to witness another cold-war or something, just this time the threat will be who develops better models? My friend wrote a "remote c2c server, basically a
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ChatGPT summary (by copy-pasting main text of article): The pandemic has caused many people to turn away from digital distractions and seek solace in things they can touch, feel and sense with their whole bodies. This has led to a surge in
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I mean my old phone is built to pop at anytime. I really have no old working devices or those work frustratingly slow. My last old phone just died -- maybe it was from disuse.
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Is there any anecdotes or data about the impact of sitting too much? And screen time?
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Well there is cover fire
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35+ ain't that far. For all. Damn. Is that fewer than 2-3 chances for huge economic outcomes?
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> work and attention Attention is such a good choice of word. Attention with memory is key. I feel memory/remembering is the work, because we are constantly flooded with new things all day. Otherwise, once I am out of a conversation
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"Traditions are solutions for which we have forgotten the problems" - I think this quote fits to so many more situations as I get older. Relationships (w/ friends and family) are easily strengthened by traditions. Traditions
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Weatherford, in his Genghis Khan book, says there isn't much surviving text about that period and region. But whar sources he uses in that book are all by "chroniclers" of that era - my understanding is that the chroniclers a
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Did I miss it or does the article specify what tools Tremendous uses for their documentation?
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I am curious about Rust + WebAssembly. I haven't thought enough about if it is really that powerful or useful.
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Is it because we are made to want too many things? Many of which don't give real satisfaction. Including being expected to know what we want?
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How many times do you open HN each day?
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You are right, showing up to help or at least to anything they invite you to (even a simple lunch) is very important to continuity. One of the reasons I won't read these articles - I don't want the content to become an excuse&#x2F
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How the World’s Wealthiest People Travel(youtube.com)
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It will happen. India will follow anything the West does (good and bad). Disclaimer: I don't know much about state of Indian farms today.
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I want to read newspapers again. I used to do that ~5-10 years ago, every morning.
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As many have mentioned, this is probably very common in every country. But there is always the next target(s) to go after, to keep in check, in a pop culture sense. So one way is to see this (article and this HN post) as a hit piece.
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This seems to be in the vein of PE acquiring companies and cutting cost to extract value - just a sensible more strategy of firing middle management haha. But this reminded me of a podcast episode with some PE guys. The PE was able to enhan
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Any anecdotes of a company that was successfully split up as you suggest?
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The animation is beautiful. This is art. Thank you artist.
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Makes sense that effective militaries are well-organized like this. Militaries have conducted big engineering projects for civic purposes, all thru history - don't remember the exact anecdote. But found a wiki[1] by quick google search
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Inventing some protocol around the Dunbar number is interesting. There was something similar in the Weatherford's book on Genghis Khan [1][2]. This system was described to be very effective for communicating and coordinating the huge m
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Yep I was adding to your point. People who wfh are building nicer and nicer home offices also -- or at least fantasizing about it haha. And such an office is nearly impossible in a conventional work office building.
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Also open offices are the norm in many places -- so any company wanting a non-open office has to face going counter culture alone; apart from having to figure out logistics involved in setting up cubicles and offices. Some of us don't
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I was gonna say books too. And newsletters from certain folks, usually to click into their blogs for their other long-form content. Separately, is there a good web+mobile ebook reader (to transition from laptop to mobile)? Does Kindle app w
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it is a good point to suggest to take more action. But to make significant progress, requires thinking thru the next 5-10 moves and committing to them and putting in consistent effort -- do any books discuss that? A change shouldn't be
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Fish cooked in ghee. Both are rich in omega3. And you will notice a difference haha.
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SEEKING WORK | U.S. timezone | Remote Technologies: Java/J2EE, Spring Boots, Struts, Python, NodeJS. JavaScript, Angular, React. Location: SF Bay area, CA Experience: 5+ years experience. Last role: building enterprise software in the
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If Google does shutter GCP: there will be good business/job-security for companies/engineers involved in cloud to cloud migration.

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