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by glass3 4y ago
It's the other way round. Dept is discounted potential future growth. Potential growth and the ability to pay back dept is the foundation for receiving money. What the author ignores is that it is a race. There are many opportunities b
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by glass3 4y ago
If your employees go to a competitor and make a secret sauce that tastes the same, how do you judge what is the source of knowledge? They can have used their skills to come up with a recipe that tastes the same because the requirements led
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by glass3 4y ago
>Skip uninteresting items with newsreader scoring/killfiles In my opinion, there is one step missing to bring nntp back to mainstream: votes. If there were a standard for votes, or feedbase.org would implement a standard, or clients
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by glass3 4y ago
How could that be improved? Allowing insults to prevent passive aggressiveness doesn't seem right.
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by glass3 4y ago
My attempted reply to korroziya's now dead comment: >For me, you disqualify your comment by using 'This.' and by using strong words that are borderline insults. To 'non-progressives' it may look like dissenting c
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by glass3 4y ago
It doesn't have to be one central guild. There can be a competition of guilds, each with their own criteria. Guilds already exit as networks of friends who recommend each other. Hiring is only dehumanizing for those who are not part of
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by glass3 4y ago
Applicants could organize in a guild. The members can rate each other in a friendly environment with constructive feedback. Then, the guild knows who are the best matches for a given job. Employers at first communicate with the guild and on
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by glass3 4y ago
Build cities where children are safe to roam.
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by glass3 4y ago
With genetic engineering and AI, what's the perspective for regular humans anyway?
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by glass3 4y ago
It would be helpful if the ideas are clustered. Only non-focused founders will spend their time on reading all ideas, which is needed to find matches in specialized areas. YC could offer hierarchical subreddits for business sectors. It woul
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by glass3 4y ago
>It was necessary to move the computer science department from Arts and Sciences to Engineering, and reorganize the management level of the department, to implement a useful undergraduate CS program. Why was it necessary? We have seen so
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by glass3 4y ago
It will make life easier for those who want to improve search. Looking at Google's search results, shareholders must have demanded that only the necessary amount of resources are used. With Microsoft's competition, it's easie
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by glass3 4y ago
Children in front of a screen are essentially alone. It doesn't have to be a surplus in instant gratification but could as well be a deficit in human interaction.
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by glass3 4y ago
>fine of $425,000 Legally speaking, can Stripe keep that money? Flurly will be broke and cannot payout their customers. Aren't those customers as entitled to their money as is Stripe or the card networks?
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by glass3 4y ago
Which religions do you have in mind and what are those same stories?
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by glass3 4y ago
>but they were functionally completely useless and just a collosal waste of manpower, materials, and space. That's how you show affluence. With all the resources we have, we don't have enough to waste them. From that point of v
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by glass3 4y ago
>It'd be cool if the Android version of Firefox got some UI love to bring it back to where it was before they force-updated folks to the "phone only" UI. Since this is open source, everybody should be able to adjust the UI
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by glass3 4y ago
The internet is also a terrible way to exchange information securely. With encryption, it's possible. There was a time, when security vulnerabilities weren't blamed on the hacker but on the system developer. Why feel limited by ma
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by glass3 4y ago
If somebody is skilled to write engagingly with discipline, shouldn't they have been able to create something even more beautiful if they had followed their instincts?
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by glass3 4y ago
>Valve has good hardware but can't compete with Meta due to their scale and capital. Valve is no startup but should capital ever be the limiting factor, venture capital should be ready to finance the expansion. However, Valve has th
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by glass3 4y ago
Does this lead to the same results? It feels like the difference between a paid article and a comment on a social network. Both have their place, but it's not fun to read a wall of paid recommendations for a restaurant.
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by glass3 4y ago
A bit off-topic: Which structure would be needed to make mass surveillance acceptable? Would it be possible to make it secure and transparent to the point that a mass surveillance system can be accepted as safe?
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by glass3 4y ago
It's difficult to trust a source that fights fire with fire. If stress and anxiety is handled by beating it, where does the entropy leave the system?
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by glass3 4y ago
It's kind of absurd to imagine a world full of people, connected to the internet, who watch generated content to not feel alone. If only they could reach one another. What does it take to create a clearing house for lonely people to fi
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by glass3 4y ago
There was also a talk in 1920 about universal computation 16 years before Turing: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/12/where-did-combin...
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by glass3 4y ago
The broader global talent pool could kick in the Jevons paradox [1]. Software eats everything and even more talent could be needed to maintain a lead. When more value is derived from software in the value chain, the market leaders can then
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by glass3 4y ago
>The scariest thing about it was that nothing we came up with doesn't already happen in some way. Like the texts on the homepage, there are two ways to interpret this sentence. I don't want to imply an insult but why haven&#x27
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by glass3 4y ago
You are on a site that talks all day about boxes which are literally just mindlessly sitting and not even staring. I am sure people are intrigued if somebody makes a video which offers access to the mind of the mindlessly sitting persons. B
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by glass3 4y ago
Twitch/YouTube is as lonesome as the wild Siberian forest. Both have found situations that flood them with repeatable stimuli that makes them feel good. It's interesting to look at what both don't do.
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by glass3 4y ago
What does this say about future global economics? Will there be a selected few areas where everybody lives and the rest is left to automated machines for farming? >annual funding from the national government to local councils in England

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