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by hux_ 9y ago
Good move. Should be extended to colleges and workspaces too where any sort of concentrated work/discipline is required. Nobody will die.
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by hux_ 9y ago
This is what people thought when Visual Basic was released 20 years ago. Why it hasn't happened is our programming languages are stone age tools when it comes to representing and dealing with ambiguities. All that plumbing you do is ba
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by hux_ 9y ago
I didn't know you could add articles on the web to an anki deck. Is this done manually? Offline accessible? Anyone know? Good idea imho.
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by hux_ 9y ago
NASA isn't a high priority budget item. China is due to do a few interesting things in space over the next couple years. After that priorities are likely to change.
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by hux_ 9y ago
Yup if Micheal Jordan was born in a Nigerian village that's where he should do his best work.
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by hux_ 9y ago
The news orgs have discovered placing 10th grade problem sets on the desks of 2nd graders is very lucrative. It's what the Rush Limbaugh and Jon Oliver types do day in day out (and if you are observant with zero long term impact). All
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by hux_ 9y ago
Savings!?!...pfft this is America. If you are not in debt how can you buy a house, send your kids to college, take care of the families medical expenses and buy everyone new iPhones for Christmas? Savings he says! What madness!
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by hux_ 9y ago
>> I would even argue that the ability to execute code on the web is more profound and revolutionary than the ability to only publish text. The guys behind Java applets, Flash, ActiveX, Silver light etc all thought that exact same thi
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by hux_ 9y ago
Well programmed high end robots are a scarce commodity. The reason Facebook needs 5000 robots to run/take care of the data of 1.5 billion people while the Indian or Chinese govt need about 2 million robots says all there needs to be sa
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by hux_ 9y ago
I meant what I said. There are people who care in every mega corp you can find. But they are trapped by that same consumption culture. And unable to do jack. In a way they have become replaceable cogs of a giant machine they created.
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by hux_ 9y ago
A recommendation to what end? Pseudo subject matter experts?
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by hux_ 9y ago
Its not that Apple doesn't care. The over-optimized consumption culture that props up an Apple does not care. We are way past the point of no return. Might as well be standing in front of a giant redwood and yelling at it to change dir
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by hux_ 9y ago
The cause is 30-40 years of a mindless consumption culture. It has given us growth but at a price. The good news is we it seems to be hitting it limits. And that's when things change. For the better.
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by hux_ 9y ago
I don't like Sapiens. In a complex world the time it takes for an average second grader to become a subject matter expert is about 30 years. And it's increasing not decreasing. Reading Sapiens will make you feel and sound like you