birdsbirdsbirds

11 ms·

61.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Production is limited by energy supply. Once renewable energies have reached the point where carbon hydrates have to be dumped onto the market to make any profit at all, there will be an abundance of energy. At that moment, unless enough AI
62.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
The world is going remote, thus finally becoming the global village that the early start-ups envisioned. Why should there be a crash if huge optimization improvements are made? The only things that will tank are the airline industries and t
63.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
The alternative would be to release the songs as public domain like Tom Lehrer [1]. Disney is making movies out of public domain stories because it's easier without the licensing overhead. Same is true for songs. Elvis and the Beatles
64.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Is he the only one? What about all the other 'driven' founders who have the means to enable their self-destructive behaviour? What about everybody else? What can and should be done? Do we want to get something done at all? The for
65.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Shouldn't he earn more? $100 is just $1 per 1000 views. >The site has grown steadily over time, to the point where it now has over 100,000 pageviews per month.
66.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
They did. Apple got beaten by the PC. Apple is back because they learned their lessons and picked a market that is more forgiving for closed systems. But they won't succeed forever. Just now they had to maintain their lead by verticall
67.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
When it comes to non-startup content, then hn is not the best choice. lobste.rs and lemmy.ml are more user friendly, and then there are plenty of other options, as can be seen in the subreddit for reddit alternatives.
68.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
When the books are done, there is another ending. I would assume that they remake the ending then.
69.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Where can one find the ambitious people of 2009 to build products and teams and companies? Asking for a friend.
70.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Don't ignore the second sentence. A marathon distance can be a three day comfortable walk.
71.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Where does the heat of you drier go? Into the room to be moved again by the air conditioner, or directly to the outside?
72.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
This article is not about escaping the rat race but about winning it. Reinvesting and having long-term goals is just the best strategy to make the most. It's kind of doubling down on the rat race. The status game is actually a valid st
73.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
He was kind of a diplomat back home and he worked 3 jobs when applying for the franchise. If such a person knocks on your door, it would be foolish to not give him a franchise. He go the team slide in his pitch deck right, the franchise kne
74.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
What would have happened if they had invested that money exclusively in non-silicon-valley engineers? $500 million per year can buy you 5,000 talented engineers at $100,000 almost anywhere on this planet.
75.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
How do you expect to rise a family of four on less than $600 a week with no time for healthy shopping, cooking, or taking care of problems? I am pretty sure plenty of women do rise their children alone on $300 a week because they are workin
76.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
If the winner takes it all, what good is it to help the 99%? Parents don't need daycare if they only work half of the time. (Of course, this means owning less.) Offshore money doesn't matter for the economy. Actually it improves t
77.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
>And if it's like other forms of fastidiousness, it should also be possible to encourage in children. I certainly got a strong dose of it from my father. >Perhaps the reason is that even the conventional-minded have to be curious
78.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
From where do you get the energy for indoor farming? Is it more efficient to turn solar radiation with photovoltaic cells into electricity to then turn it back into light before it reaches the leaves of the plants?
79.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
What is the evolutionary benefit of the 'Asian look'? If women are inclined to choose other looks how can it be that men with Asian features have obviously been chosen for thousands of years?
80.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
The author should allow visitors to vote on the available sites. Then the sites can not only be ranked by size but also by value. It doesn't make sense to call it a 250kb club if it is all about minimal size. Compared to the 1MB club,
81.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
>There is a big oversupply of people for the junior-mid level data science jobs. Which shouldn't be too much of a problem because they have the skills to analyse the market and find a local optimum that suits them.
82.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
>I see myself and my work as being an “early venture investor.” I work to carefully and selectively build a concentrated portfolio of companies that are clearly “pre A” in terms of stage, but where I believe the likelihood of “getting to
83.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Anarchistic society is one thing, but 'Animal Farm' another. If socialism means re-establishing the same structures with different names, why should a bourgeois person with good intentions give up their privileges with which they
84.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
>the genius level it takes to never do anything right A Freudian slip? Perfectionism is a deeper curse than procrastination. Procrastination can just be laziness, but like Alcoholism, if you cannot stop it, then you have a problem, and t
85.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
When we look at Facebook and other social networks, isn't it a settled issue that moderators are needed? Who moderates in a socialised society? From the point of view of a bourgeois, fascism can also be a service to society because soc
86.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
You have it backwards. It's the concept of class that allows you to use violence to put others in line.
87.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Hopefully you are successful, but how can you scale? If it takes 5 seconds on a desktop, then a server can solve 500.000 captchas per month. At $5 per month, a spammer can still send 1.000 messages for a cent.
88.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Does Jeff Bezos know, or is he shielded from bad customer experience like Mao, who saw a country full of rice fields along the rail tracks when he travelled the country? [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/02&#
89.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
How else can you learn to think? You need the ability to fail, repeatedly, in a short amount of time. Then you need people who actually dedicate serious resources to the game, to bring it to its limit and to be able to teach students the re
90.
by birdsbirdsbirds 6y ago
Maybe because open source software projects are not design driven? If you do something for free, don't you want to call the shots? If designers would come up with a design, which volunteer programmer would implement it?

More ›