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by gretch 3y ago
I don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic or what, but it's as worth enshrining as the "freedom of speech". You could easily say "lol what, yOu'RE NoT aLLoWed to Talk?", but what it actually means
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by gretch 3y ago
I think knowledge is a human right. Free people are able to go outside and start dropping rocks from different heights to start deriving physics. Or study wildlife for biology knowledge. That's not what this article is talking about th
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by gretch 3y ago
> I'd be pretty annoyed, as a child or not, if at every turn I'd be asked to retrospect about an accomplishment or even a failure. I’m the complete opposite. I might be irritated if people made me relive a sore defeat too soon,
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by gretch 3y ago
IMO clickbait title > Gates and his then-wife Melinda took a decisive step by limiting screen time to 45 minutes for games, with an additional hour allowed on weekends. This was in addition to the time required for homework. "Banned
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by gretch 3y ago
Why don't you go ahead and personally do it then? It's pretty close to free.
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by gretch 3y ago
2 weeks later is actually very hard to apply IRL because you're right that such resources don't really exist. Actually I do more like quarter in review or year in review. For example, I know Obama and Bill Gates do yearly reviews
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by gretch 3y ago
> You must not bet old enough to remember when people thought MySpace would always drive the internet. You know there's a difference between "people thought" and dollars. Some people think the earth is flat. Opinions can c
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by gretch 3y ago
I avoid the news because it’s often wrong (and I don’t necessarily blame them, because they are reporting with incomplete information as it appears). I find that it’s much more productive to just ask “what happened 2 weeks ago?”. All the un
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by gretch 3y ago
Banks compete on customer service, atm networks and fees, locations, app and technology infrastructure, among other things.
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by gretch 3y ago
> It's basically destroyed any local alternatives You mean local taxis which were ultra ultra corrupt. Like seriously, I understand some of the participants on HN are too young to have personally experienced that industry first hand
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by gretch 3y ago
The thing is, many endeavors are not single dimensional nor are they designed to be competitive, so pairwise ranking doesn’t make any sense. If you say, I’m better at bob than badminton. That makes sense since it’s designed as a competition
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by gretch 3y ago
This is a strawman - no one is complaining about the pain of the stab. It’s 100% the juice inside the syringe. This is the CDC site on the history of vaccine incidents: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/co
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by gretch 3y ago
Individually no, but in aggregate... A few games here, iMessage, Facetime, Whatsapp maybe, some other internet products, etc Does it boast something else to make up for the loss of these things? Trading something for nothing always feels ki
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by gretch 3y ago
You don't think there's a prospect of financial loss? They literally just said they would pull their products. Ecosystem features like those are huge contributors to platform retention. And if the cynic in you doesn't believe
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by gretch 3y ago
Interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever been forced to used to a single product in my whole life (blessed to live in a good country I suppose). I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing.
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by gretch 3y ago
Poker is different than most other games in that you are not competing against the house. You can never ever beat the house (in the long run). Which is okay in poker because you win your money from other players. You don’t have to be “good”
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by gretch 3y ago
If you think you have a solution that is the best, and it's much better than what exists, shouldn't you strive to let everyone access it? For example, most people would agree that Uber is much better than the legacy taxi industry
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by gretch 3y ago
The parent comment linked an article. In that article is an embedded video. It’s one of the first few things thiel says after thanking the interviewer.
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by gretch 3y ago
Thiel's quote from the article "You create a monopoly when you invent something new". What he means is that when you compete in an existing competition with known competitors, you only have a chance of winning. Example - if I
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by gretch 3y ago
Yeah I don’t even understand non-whole bases. For example, how does someone express the number 5 in base e…
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by gretch 3y ago
> changing retail zoning is as cheap and expedient as writing a document This vastly underestimates the problem. It’s like saying all you need to be president is have people write your name on their ballots. Are people in this city amena
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by gretch 3y ago
Believe it or not if you go out in the street and talk to real people, you are going to find that the vast majority of them find (playing video games) to be in a significantly different category than (smoking crack). You don’t have to belie
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by gretch 3y ago
Who is cheering for 1 and not the other? Megacorps should buy 1 of every book (if they want to train on it)
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by gretch 3y ago
Yeah I absolutely believe it. If you were riding a public bus, and you had the option of sitting next to 1) a person on crack or 2) a person not on crack, which do you choose? Also, how about you present a counter position to the argument?
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by gretch 3y ago
> Then end result would turn hiring processes into a kafka-esque hellscape where reason has no bearing and candidates are essentially selected at random That’s pretty much what it is today isn’t it. You get into a room with a hiring mana
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by gretch 3y ago
This Ted talk (includes a lot of data) shows that motivation via money hurts creative problem solving. https://youtu.be/rrkrvAUbU9Y
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by gretch 3y ago
You want an internet where no one can actually talk about things that happen in their lives. Like we’re all robots and just discuss facts and figures. Speaking personally, I love hearing about people’s actual experiences instead of a bunch
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by gretch 3y ago
Why are you comparing these things? Is anyone talking about the state of Conferences in Orlando, FL?
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by gretch 3y ago
Imagine if you walk down 1 block of a street and there's 3 people smoking crack. They aren't sleeping on the street, or breaking any other law, but they are high on crack. Do you think people feel safe on this street? Just because
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by gretch 3y ago
GP is relating a personal experience at a SF conference, which is what the article is about. It seems like the most on topic thing ever. Why are you bringing up stuff about Vancouver in Canada?

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