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by david927 8y ago
There's a lot of food for thought here but I would just swap consumerism with Capitalism, even if it makes it harder to digest. The other point here is that as Capitalism becomes more sophisticated it suffers from the Innovator's
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by david927 8y ago
I applaud bringing up some of the unseen issues, especially regarding mental health, of the area. But if you walk down a street in SF you risk stepping on a needle or human feces. It's a catastrophe and some of the issues raised here
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by david927 8y ago
I laughed at that too. And "well-funded schools" very much depends on where you live.
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by david927 8y ago
Somewhat obvious that YC is looking for new blood. Definitely, and it should, otherwise it won't outlast the next (looming) market correction. And I don't mind YC trying a new tack; I mind that they still don't get it. Br
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by david927 8y ago
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky Les Miserables, Hugo Several stories by Kafka Dubliners, Joyce
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by david927 8y ago
Nassim Taleb, not Massimo
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by david927 8y ago
genius principle engineer He was never considered an especially talented developer. He bought the OS that was used for the IBM PC.
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by david927 8y ago
I don't know where this idea comes from. I'm American but my experience with healthcare in European countries where I've lived (England, France, Czech Republic and Switzerland) is unparalleled. I had my gall bladder removed
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by david927 8y ago
I'm convinced that healthcare is an impossible problem to solve. You need to travel more. The German system, for example, is very old, very simple and works very well.
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by david927 8y ago
When was the last time YC was relevant?
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by david927 8y ago
Wars don't happen because people don't get along; they don't happen because people are different and don't understand each other. Civil wars are both common and nasty. Wars happen because in a set of animals, one member
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by david927 8y ago
Yes, Instagram
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by david927 8y ago
In some sense, for some people, I think that's true. FB and IG certainly foster certain types of mimetic desires. But I think for the rest, it's less homogeneous in what we're seeing. When people used to watch TV, there wa
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by david927 8y ago
Good article! I'm going to hijack this comment section to raise a question: is memetic desire weakening with the mass personal communication of the internet? I think that up until the 1990's you would identify more with an entire
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It gets quite strange: A prominent placebo researcher, Dr. Fabrizio Benedetti, was able to show just how peculiar the placebo effect really is. After inducing pain in participants for seven days whilst treating them with morphine, Benedett
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FDA Approves Sale Of Prescription Placebo https://www.theonion.com/fda-approves-sale-of-prescription-p...
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by david927 8y ago
In a world where people like Tim Berners Lee are given the Turing award and people like Alan Kay are ostracized and ignored Well, to be fair, Alan is a Turing Award recipient since 2003. He's hardly ostracized and if he's ignor
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by david927 8y ago
Nice, France There's a technical hub in the area and multiple universities, along with a lot of English-speaking expats. The weather is amazing and the food is fantastic. I'm from the SF Bay Area and I live here now. Best decisi
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by david927 8y ago
Wow! I've never seen these works and they're brilliant. You've made my day! And, yes, the final piece is perfectly what DFW was talking about.
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by david927 8y ago
After we create a Universal Basic Income, you can say this without looking callous.
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by david927 8y ago
The faster a bicycle goes, the more stable it is and therefore less likely to fall over. But also when it does fall over, the damage is much more devastating. You're right that there's a keel keeping real estate from tipping. Th
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by david927 8y ago
We're at an interesting crossroads in modern history where US hegemony is slipping away, as viewed in declining US Dollar dominance. I wonder if this will end with a bang or a whimper.
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by david927 8y ago
The U.S. wouldn't do this because it would have no effect.
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by david927 8y ago
That's still you being a jingoistic American.
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by david927 8y ago
The author was quite confused with a lot of the facts. (She had the Germans invade a year late. Dr. Thorne is the Academic Director at NYU Prague.) The topic is interesting; it deserves an author with at least a cursory understanding of th
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by david927 8y ago
No, the recipes were organic, they just mandated that it would be a high level of ingredients and portions for school and work cafeterias.
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by david927 8y ago
The entire article suffers from a common misconception that former communist countries "suffered horribly from lack of innovation," when it was a negative against many other positives of the time. Food was cheaper and higher qual
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by david927 8y ago
I swore off ever buying HP products after I bought an HP Envy with a year warranty and exactly after one year, the hinges wouldn't work. I still used it but just at home, until the hard drive had a catastrophic failure and I lost ever
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by david927 8y ago
Up until the 19th century, construction was an extremely bespoke process. There was no standardization on tools and materials which made everything much more difficult. It was always hard, but it's much, much easier now -- and maybe
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He's not actively insulting anyone; he's calling a spade a spade, he's telling the truth, and if you find that insulting then change that reality.

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