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“It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importan
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The lesson is to look for what’s missing and hidden.
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In the US they aim to become a local monopoly through rock bottom prices, while abroad they are an upscale location with premium prices where people go to treat mostly their kids. McDonalds abroad I’ve seen had Hollywood theme or Elvis them
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The first and second times I visited KFC in the US I was shocked there were no vegetables in their sandwiches. Other than the corn, and coleslaw, no lettuce or other ingredients in the sandwiches. In europe, and China and any other country
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Nike is losing market share to Hoka and other brands that make shoes that are actually comfortable for long term wear. Capitalism is doing its job perfectly - it doesn’t matter how much of a sociopath is at the helm, if you don’t do what yo
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People who have struggled to get needed items in the past, or who have lived in poverty and learned how to use whatever is available to fit their needs, may have more of a hoarding propensity. The mindset of seeing an otherwise garbage-boun
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AI overtakes software, finance, and distraction industries (content generation of any kind - text, image, video, multi-modal). Distraction industries (social and regular media) are a time waster and brain frier for most humans who often con
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Except I see no grift or FOMO. You don’t need to put your money into it. All you need now is instinct and creativity. The FOMO to raise money or be nobody goes away instead. The FOMO in giants to appear like they are riding the AI horse is
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AI is dangerous to VCs. The returns are going to chip-makers and employers, including single founder startups, who don't have to hire a lot of people, and additionally get productivity they never thought possible. A surgeon I know uses
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How about building places? My grandfather built his own house. The Zoning system restricts where and how houses can be built. Open up more land and incentivize people to build - maybe eliminate capital gains on first home construction for f
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A friend in Bulgaria had a similar size CRT in his house when it got burglarized. The burglars drugged the dog, disabled the alarm system and stole all the things, except for the giant TV (they couldn’t lift it).
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They never mention if there was another person in his 2 person plane. What a life!
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In the US, instead of a clear identifier (which saves you time and energy), you have private party intermediaries that make themselves a lazily insecure buffer to provide the same service at a cost. Some have twisted themselves to provide d
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No, the attitude is that CSS is for decoration to meet the User’s needs (colors, dark or light mode, font sizes and adjustments for accessibility, etc). So moving it to backend is a bad idea because you remove the users ability to customize
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The project looks like it’s done for fun. From an architecture standpoint - the server is something you pay for, while logic and design outsourced to the browser is handled by the client’s compute and thus fun is free to you (unless your cl
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Mood, anxiety or eating disorders and having 2 or more peers increases risk by 18%. What about the following considerations: 1. Kids trying to pursue similar goals (applying to college, perusing sports or boys, playing video games late whic
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They could, but China has to feed a Billion people through manufacturing and trade with foreign countries. To keep the peace, they dedicate a huge % of their military to internal policing. They have a soft influence policy vs the US hard, o
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There is a very strong music copyright system in the US and in the Tom Waits case they had both music and voice impersonation. In Sky situation a person who sounds similar to Scarlet also sounds similar to some % of humanity as well. But no
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Listing potential methods of abuse advertises and invites new abuse. You almost need to have a policing model, trained to spot abuse and flag it for human review and run that before and after each use of the main model. Abusers will inheren
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Alcatraz Escape Attempt(en.wikipedia.org)
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But can it be trained to pickup and put away toys?
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The solution has been figured out by the company decades ago. The drinks are concentrated a massively and only mixed and the bottler, which is also the biggest plastic polluter on the planet. Have reusable containers people can buy from the
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A HUGE % of plastic production worldwide is from bottlers of Coca Cola company drinks and their competitors. Why not address and deal with the elephant in the room.
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The ad did its job perfectly. It created controversy and that spread iPad news way further than paid ads do. It pays to be controversial, not good or on message these days.
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I had to work 3 years to buy a computer in 2001 and in the mean time I would volunteer to do networking for internet cafes to get a few minutes of coding time after hours. When I finally bought a computer, my parents only allowed me to touc
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It’s money - taxes and tax collection a then the power of those with bigger coffers.
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Especially after Brexit.
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The math adds up when you notice a couple of things: 1. The EU added Bulgaria, Romania and other new member states in 2007 that expand the population and thus markets to 440 million in the EU vs 300-something in the US. 2. Government makes
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Using this to reduce the need for fertilizer would be awesome, but the engineer in me has to ask “What could possibly go wrong”. Interstellar showed one scenario. A nitrogen absorbing crop-blight or species out-evolving out food crops and o
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It doesn’t in mine, but it does in the VC’s who are investing in YC startups - making them and their LPs a lot less patient due to increased cost of capital for the whole industry.

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