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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Is this a necessity because Google threatens to own the self-driving car market? Is the car experience so important that it will drive phone sales? Or is this just a way to invest their money?
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Somewhere on the internet there is a similar story about French peasants by a member of the French revolution.
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
We know it, too: According the the research, it's the electric shock. The difference is the alignment with your desires. If somebody else tells you to sit in silence then it is most likely not the activity you would choose on your own.
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
How does it get the cash? How do you get the data? Some services get away by being small enough that persecuting them costs too much but overall, laws work.
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Where can I apply for that room? For virtually everybody, that quiet room is not a given, but has to be acquired and maintained. How can you sit in that room and give yourself to silence if you know deep down that the silence is a temporary
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Turing, as well as, nine days ago: Where Did Combinators Come From? Hunting the Story of Moses Schönfinkel [0] Reasoning is computation. It's one suppressed thought away. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25335
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
How about taxes and increased interest rates?
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
>There is very little attractive about the idea that a group can devalue currency on a whim. You can turn this around: There is very much attractive about the idea that a group can maintain the value of a currency on a whim. >> Is
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Only in an artificial situation. Usually, the value of all bitcoins combined shouldn't be able to exceed the value of all assets of all economies. What could you buy with those coins if not those assets? You can achieve an arbitrary va
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Hasn't the drop in value at the beginning of the year shown that bitcoin doesn't have an inherent value? The price just reflects how much people want in and out. It seems like many people expect the dollar to collapse, so many peo
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Why not? It's the only moment in time when people are interested in the life achievement of a person. There will never be enough interest for a second discussion that balances his achievements with the negative consequences. As a socie
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
> Startups like Notion have a great deal of flexibility to tweak and innovate on their UX Isn't it the other way round? For small start-ups, making disruptive changes is dangerous because losing important customers would kill the co
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
>Some of scarce will become not so scarce as their availability limited by energy. Then those resources will cost the same in units of energy >Other will increase in price as they're limited by other factors. So why use energy to
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
The absence of a reddit competitor on the open internet despite reddit's flaws suggests that the technically advanced users have already reassembled somewhere on an .onion domain. If the old.reddit.com users had the means to start some
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
(2) actually remains constant. If you use energy to pay for energy, then one unit always costs one unit. But if the world energy production doubles, do you think that scarce resources cost the same? Prices of e.g. concert tickets or art pie
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Gold is not priced as a commodity and if everybody is starting to buy oil to store their value, it will stop being a commodity, too. The oil price would go up for a short moment, investments into renewable energies would increase and oil wo
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Energy will become much cheaper in the future. Every time a new solar cell improvement happens, your money would be worth less. Having those disruptions baked into your currency would make it almost useless.
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
True, it could work like pinboard or MetaFilter. In general, I doubt that the network effect can be overcome for consumer platforms. People want to share their book reviews. Why should they limit themselves to people who pay? Paying only wo
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
They probably will choose the latter one, because the butcher is talking to the nerve cells. A nerve cell cannot speak for the cells that are ultimately harvested. To make it ethical, the nerve cell has to choose the suffering, to at least
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Isn't Hyundai cutting edge on its own? I had the impression that Hyundai is quite innovative. This could be a good match where BD profits massively from Hyundai's resources.
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Very, very impressive. One small nitpick: The result ulrs don't behave like regular links. Can you open the recipe, preferably the original url, in a new tab when a middle click happens on a 'Read Cooking Directions' link?
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
The problem with equity is that if everybody does that, a company is not worth 15 times their profits but 150 times. That would turn company shares into a form of fiat based money. Or if everybody is starting companies, competition would be
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Can you elaborate? What stands out to you in their contributions?
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Where do people store their money but in government bonds? There is just a finite amount of gold and company shares and commodity available. If you want people to save money for the last part of their life, they need something to buy.
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Only knowing HN comments about IC design tools, I got the impression that they don't seem to be that good. Which means that China could come out ahead because they can work with better tools if they make them by themselves. And as far
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Apply and let the company handle the paperwork.
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
If you look at Apple's apple, you will notice that it is already bitten. It was not the snake, but Eve.
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
How near is your near future? Isn't China planning to achieve major progress until 2025? They aren't bound by patents in the same way as western companies. Why should they not be able to reproduce the knowledge? For nuclear energy
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
You don't even have to go to the ocean. We still don't know how humans work.
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by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Who wants to waste his time rejecting people? Not getting rejected is a bad goal if you deal with the internet, just ask the Nigerian princes or the women on Tinder.

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