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Coding Can Be a Gift to Struggling Students. Let’s Give It to Them(edsurge.com)
1 points by hos234 7y ago|0 comments
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by hos234 7y ago
"but when you have billion user products, some people are always going to be pissed at you" The problem with this narrative (which has been the official line for almost 7-8 years now) is it doesn't cause exaptation or adaptat
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The Focusing Illusion(edge.org)
1 points by hos234 7y ago|0 comments
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by hos234 7y ago
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. He is not qualified to be in the room. The problem when people like him with a big chequebook show up, is the majority of "experts" will just pander to get the cheque which has many
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by hos234 7y ago
Mark Zuckerberg is too full of himself. Not only does he have a track record of not having an imagination, he seems to have got it into his head, that if he reads two books on Economics and Sociology over the summer he needs to be at the po
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Trust is money in the bank but most companies are leaving it on the table(siliconangle.com)
6 points by hos234 7y ago|0 comments
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by hos234 7y ago
Or just buy/lobby govts to make Internet free in the sense that roads are. Once individual consumers hit "peak data" consumable, which despite all the hoopla about phones/IoT devices everywhere streaming in 8k 24x7, has
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by hos234 7y ago
This works the other way too. Corporate power resides in hubs and connectors that can be identified and disconnected to weaken the entire hierarchy. Lot of movements succeed because the hubs and connectors shift loyalty. Niall Ferguson has
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by hos234 7y ago
Problem is new issues will keep cropping up every 2 days. And govt regulators have to keep reacting. Putting pressure on Google requires seriously increasing competition. Let the local units rebrand and compete against each other. Maybe eve
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by hos234 7y ago
Took 30 years and in that time the internet was born. Key is to keep creating conditions where they compete with each other. Nobody wins overnight if the game has good rules.
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by hos234 7y ago
Search engine can be broken up regionally and the regional versions allowed to compete with each other globally. So Google France competes with Google Germany competes with Google Spain etc. This happened with Ma Bell - https://e
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by hos234 7y ago
Definitely. You might like - https://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-seth-lloyd%E2%8...
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by hos234 7y ago
I don't think you need to bring quantum computing into the picture. For example "naturally" 3D printing a Mango takes a few years. Just drop a seed in the right place on earth and wait. Isn't that computing on the substr
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by hos234 7y ago
Well humans are human. Mistakes happen and as long as they aren't increasing over time, it's all cool. Awards don't just exist to award the individual. In polarizing times, where the instinct is to create more conflict as a p
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by hos234 7y ago
Yup easy to get depressed about this stuff. It would be a better show if they paused it at critical moments and allowed an Allison Gopnik to talk about child development, a Jonathan Haidt to talk about motivation, a John Gottman on relation
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by hos234 7y ago
Also all the individual effects get exponentially amplified when dealing with orgs/groups/teams being hit by/creating their own info tsunamis.
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by hos234 7y ago
I get my news from PewDiePie
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by hos234 7y ago
You don't. It works only after you get enough funding to afford them. Initially you just stay focused on getting simple things done. And done well. That attracts better people through your satisfied customers and investors.
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by hos234 7y ago
That depends on whether "Everything" is finite or infinite.
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by hos234 7y ago
There is a ton of free software. Price is not up just because of IP law. It's up because running and maintaining Wikipedia for example has a price even though most of the stack is free.
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by hos234 7y ago
I have been looking for something like jupyter notebooks or matplotlib interactive mode that works in the terminal. Meaning I type in a command and if output is an image or video or interactive graph it shows up in the terminal itself. How
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by hos234 7y ago
Work on your network. If you aren't good at networking atleast put in work to know people who know people. The advantage big orgs provide is basically a network of specialists you can count on to compensate for all your weaknesses and
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by hos234 7y ago
Google is a political entity. Anyone controlling info flow is. There are lot of people in Google deluding themselves that this is not true, while taking decisions that effect millions of people. Who elected them? That contradiction will alw
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I was born in garbage and I will die in garbage(ruralindiaonline.org)
1 points by hos234 7y ago|1 comments
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by hos234 7y ago
Consciousness doesn't have to be all encompassing. Might be a small rider on a gigantic elephant, i.e. just a small part of the simulation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt#The_Elephant_an...
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by hos234 7y ago
Maybe useful- http://www.forbesindia.com/article/startups/we-are-seeing-is...
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by hos234 7y ago
If you are starting a business/expanding ops etc it's not complicated to raise cash today.
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by hos234 7y ago
There is a lot of cash still floating around. It's not all bad.
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Media looks away as house approves warrantless spying(theamericanconservative.com)
3 points by hos234 7y ago|0 comments
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The crisis in language education across the UK(inews.co.uk)
1 points by hos234 7y ago|0 comments

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