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by increment_i 11y ago
I suspect you're going to get hammered here but this is an incredibly important point. Aging and death forces the passing of the torch from the old generation to the new, and I think this is a crucial part of progress. A tragedy on par
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by increment_i 11y ago
I seriously doubt this is the case. Most bankers I know have regarded bitcoin with a keen curiosity rather than some kind of malignant threat.
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by increment_i 11y ago
But again, like the author said, they're pretty useful for truly global events from the OS itself. For instance, when the keyboard notification fires, it comes with useful information the app can use at runtime like xy coordinates invo
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by increment_i 11y ago
As a commuting Canadian I'm interested in this being addressed as well, as I'm sure millions of others are. All the self driving lab work seems to be taking place in California. If I value my life, shouldn't I want to buy a s
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by increment_i 11y ago
I'd be inclined to constantly reevaluate - if not outright resist - this impulse if I were you, lest you inadvertently allow huge opportunities to pass you by because they didn't have the cachet to signal "capital and connect
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by increment_i 11y ago
That does seem insane -- why not just make a cocoa app for it?
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by increment_i 11y ago
There is a bit of consensus about this exact issue in terms of the 'Uncanny Valley' hypothesis[0] and I'd tend to agree. We would have to dehumanize any sufficiently advanced or "self aware" AI agents if we mean to
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by increment_i 11y ago
Are you describing the Netflix app? Because that was actually the one thing the poster said he would use on a TV.
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by increment_i 11y ago
I think Sam Altman touched on this masterfully when he wrote about how critical it is to have people tell their friends about your app/startup/whatever. Their reaction to it is the ultimate test of whether you built something anyo
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by increment_i 11y ago
I had the opposite experience - I never really had the desire to own a home until I had children. Once I had them, I really wanted one. Although I have to admit, paying a mortgage does make me feel slightly like a sucker.
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by increment_i 11y ago
>> The demand for f.lux is certainly incredible. I'll say! Is it really hundreds of thousands of people? That's fantastic.
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by increment_i 11y ago
Gotta agree with this. If YC is serious about biotech, we should expect them to start bringing domain experts into the fold soon - doctors, surgeons, eminent researchers, possibly folks with high level experience in regulation etc. I imagin
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by increment_i 11y ago
IMO, your vitriolic armchair attack here is a hundred times more arrogant than anything I read in the Medium post. The author isn't on trial here, he's simply relating his thoughts on the issue. I for one, found it a worthwhile re
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by increment_i 11y ago
I felt the same but was wondering if I was being harsh. It seemed to take forever for the piece to say anything of interest.
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by increment_i 11y ago
Pretty cool! Not something I thought would work so snappy on a mobile browser. I made a killing on Enron!
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by increment_i 11y ago
Yep, absolutely. I tried everything, had an MRI done, and the only thing that reduced symptoms was starting regular high intensity workouts (Olympic lifts and such). A year later and I'm nearly symptom free.
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by increment_i 11y ago
Very true. The key word is "compelling". Once you try a few VR devices, even low end ones like a decent phone and a Google cardboard, you can definitely sense the possible seed of something game changing here. Maybe VR will work o
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by increment_i 11y ago
Exactly. There seems to be a huge disconnect between what ad executives assume people will engage with and what people will actually tolerate. I think people will tolerate small banners and images and interstitial video ads that are 3-4 sec
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by increment_i 11y ago
Those really are incredible figures when you think about it. 20% of market share reaping 92% of the profits. Is there any comparable in any other industry? Ever? I'm currently in the android camp but I have to say I'm astounded ho
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by increment_i 11y ago
Do they have a legal leg to stand on with this? It screams frivolous.
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by increment_i 11y ago
Did they mention how far back the Mac line will support the new Metal api? I'm assuming it only supports relatively recent chips? Can't find any information on this.
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by increment_i 11y ago
>> "We made the deadly mistake of thinking of MetaMed as a business that was trying to turn a profit and grow organically, rather than a start-up whose ‘profits’ would come from selling its stock to investors at a higher price. E
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by increment_i 11y ago
That's what I was thinking. This sounds like the death knell for many an app data service, especially those that purport to sell insights into proprietary data that are obviously exclusive to Apple.
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by increment_i 12y ago
Or, put another way, for those lacking familial wealth or connections, there is no choice but hard work.
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by increment_i 12y ago
I'm sure I'm nitpicking here but this is a huge deal for me: forcing a branded splash screen onto the final product. Ugh! Why?! I understand a ton of work has been put into this engine and Unity is graciously offering it for free,
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by increment_i 12y ago
Wouldn't messages passing from the future to the past imply that the future can then influence the past? Which of course introduces a slew of paradoxes. I realize the concept is concerned with single particles, but could there exist a
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by increment_i 12y ago
>> "web devs hating on native mobile for no reason other than being web devs." Well I'm not a web guy, but I can imagine at least one reason: having to learn and work with a slew of proprietary software stacks to deploy
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by increment_i 12y ago
I wonder if this phenomenon is perhaps one of the side effects of the cost of producing and deploying software approaching zero. You could learn a language, framework, or library a week for the rest of your life for the cost of an internet
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by increment_i 12y ago
Can we say compulsion is completely different from intent though? Or are we just arguing over semantics? Can we place an arbitrary intelligence threshold on when compulsion can be inferred as intent? For instance, most spiders build webs, a
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by increment_i 12y ago
Is verbally relating the reason why one does something a prerequisite to conscious thought? Dams don't get built by beavers all over the world by sheer random chance - there's obviously some deliberate intention there. Its also po

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