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901.
by dgudkov 8y ago
>We could choose to offset it directly, for example by subsidizing children -- kind of like a basic income just for kids. Unfortunately, too many people thinking "why should I pay for raising someone else's kids?".
902.
by dgudkov 8y ago
I like the idea. It's basically an encapsulated portable personal "wiki" for a user (persona) with an open data model that can be accessed by external apps based on permissions. What it doesn't solve is the problem how t
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The Mach-3 Drone That Spied on China(warisboring.com)
7 points by dgudkov 8y ago|2 comments
904.
by dgudkov 8y ago
Icarus (2017). Won an Oscar, has 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Not just the story of how state-sponsored doping and corruption kill Olympic games and major sport competitions, but the emotional and sometimes artsy way the movie is made is
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Starting a professional blog [1] in English. In some months it got 5-6K readers (now not so many). I started getting interesting professional contacts as well as qualified job inquiries. I never looked for a job since then. [1] https:&#x2F
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>Their position should be a very firm "don't tell us what to f*cking do." Then this position should also extend to gender/diversity quotas and similar things pushed by the government.
907.
by dgudkov 8y ago
I wonder what's the threshold for a demographic ratio to be considered discriminatory (age, gender, whatever)? Is 90/10 discriminatory? How about 70/30? 51/49?
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PayPal’s one-touch, localised payment options go global(techcrunch.com)
1 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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Klondike Gold Rush(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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One of the World’s Biggest YouTube Channels Just Got Sold(bloomberg.com)
2 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
911.
by dgudkov 8y ago
Payoff is somewhat proportional to self-education effort. For a big payoff you may need to spend years on learning. But for many people earning extra few hundreds bucks per month can drastically change their lifestyle. And that kind of chan
912.
by dgudkov 8y ago
What's the cost of self-education of a person that doesn't much anyway? Sitting on a bench all day is not labor, it's a waste of time.
913.
by dgudkov 8y ago
You still need to work hard, but working hard smarter works better than just working hard.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>The capacity for self-education is not innate for most people. I disagree. Most mentally healthy people are capable of self-education. Self-education is what makes human a human. Being an adult person requires working self-education ski
915.
by dgudkov 8y ago
>you just cannot escape poverty by just working harder. This is a traditional, stereotypical belief that in order to escape poverty you have to work harder. This is old understanding of meritocracy and it's no longer valid. The new
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PayPal will instantly pay businesses after they make a sale(engadget.com)
3 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
917.
by dgudkov 8y ago
Huh, the dehydrated water in Space Quest actually isn't that much of a joke.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
To make it worse, the Chrome account is always user id = 0. You can't have other account logged in first, then log into Chrome -- it will kick out the first account. This breaks all bookmarks that use particular user, i.e. contain &#x2
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Another take on the causes and significance of the 2008 financial collapse(business.financialpost.com)
11 points by dgudkov 8y ago|7 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Or Windows Store.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>It takes some startups years to find true product market fit. I can think of only 3 reasons (not mutually exclusive) why it happened: 1. They had too much money which made their PMF search process inefficient. 2. They had to educate the
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by dgudkov 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. You can't skip finding product/market fit. No matter how much money you have, if you have no product/market fit you're toast. If you're not desperate to find product/market
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by dgudkov 8y ago
There was an airshow recently in Toronto and all aircraft (including F35) stopped flying because of a light rain. I guess it's a common precaution measure on airshows.
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SALTO – Berkeley's leaping robot(youtube.com)
2 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
925.
by dgudkov 8y ago
Technology is much more advanced nowadays, why not use that? I would envision a robotic arm that automatically collects UAVs when they approach sufficiently close to the mothership. The arm can be rather large and can be extended through re
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A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use(techcrunch.com)
218 points by dgudkov 8y ago|107 comments
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Meet the German Fintech That's Now Worth More Than Deutsche Bank(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>Maybe we just need time to develop coping mechanisms. There is a well known coping mechanism - "Don't do it". Works pretty well for anything addictive. Requires rational thinking and self-discipline, though.
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Robots Can Successfully Peer Pressure Children(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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Inside the thriving business of selling fake YouTube video views(business.financialpost.com)
1 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments

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