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by itmag 15y ago
Way cool! I would buy your sci fi novel if you wrote one :)
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by itmag 15y ago
So it's mainly "dumbphones"? What kind of tech is best to reach these? WAP? Native apps?
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The government (at least in Sweden) already imposes really high taxes. And people here are still generally wealthy as fuck (relative to most of the world) and able to use a large chunk of their income for beer, trendy clothes, smartphones,
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by itmag 15y ago
Very cool. Do you know if something like that already exists? :)
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by itmag 15y ago
Also, might there not be legitimate uses for eg "Afribook"? -Keeping track of displaced relatives -Organizing for social change -Spreading info on best practices -Building connections that might lead to income -Strengthening communities Fac
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by itmag 15y ago
Very cool. I am listening. Tell me more plz :)
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by itmag 15y ago
This leads to an interesting digression... My hacker's mind sees society the same way it sees ie software layers, kernels, APIs, libraries, etc. And from that POV, current society practices seem very inefficient and disorganized, and could
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by itmag 15y ago
This is very interesting. Did not realize that mobile phones are so common in Africa. What kind of makes/models are typical? I would imagine that they are more low-tech than in the first world? Ideas for startups focused on this market? Hig
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by itmag 15y ago
Why can't social responsibility be handled at a different layer, though? Why is it the individual businessman who has to pay special taxes for things like that? Why not just take it from general taxes across the board? Here in Sweden, emplo
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by itmag 15y ago
In the weight training community, yoga is seen as problematic because it involves a lot of spinal flexion (ie bending the spine forward). This is seen as a general no-no (which is why sit-ups are generally viewed as bad as well today). Stua
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by itmag 15y ago
"If we are so easily influenced and changed by our society, then what kind of society do we need to shape to create a better self?" The number one problem in my not so humble opinion: the 40 hour workweek. What would happen to society if we
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by itmag 15y ago
What is a human right anyway? Ask an Ayn Rand fan, a libertarian, a Hobbesian, the United Nations, or a Swedish legal positivist, and you willl get different answers. We need to define these things, otherwise the discussion becomes a clash
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by itmag 15y ago
Cool! (heh) I want to meet local entrepreneurs who are in tune with the HN ethos, but it's really hard sometimes in Jante country :)
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by itmag 15y ago
I don't have the exact statistics, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's the other way around in Sweden, automatics being the more uncommon choice. Supposedly, automatics incur a few percent more gas usage. And gas is really expensive here.
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by itmag 15y ago
Interesting that things are actually happening outside of SV. Speaking of that, is there a startup scene in Scandinavia? Anyone know?
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by itmag 15y ago
Holy fuck you Americans are well paid... 80k is a very respectable salary here in Sweden. Hell, I know plenty of programmer working for 40k a year. In the US it seems like the norm for recompense is 100k+. What gives?
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by itmag 15y ago
Exactly. I weigh free time as FAR more important than money. As long as I'm over some threshold of income, time is by far the most important outcome. Spending all my time working on someone else's projects is simply not an option to me (unl
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by itmag 15y ago
How is it different than simply being esoteric. Maybe I am personally fascinated with regular expressions and after much study, can belt out a half page of parse and extract 'magic' that would make the uninitiated shake their head and crow
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by itmag 15y ago
If we are in the Matrix, then it would not be strange if we could change our physical reality with thought alone. There is no spoon, and all that. Napoleon Hill talked about this in "Think and grow rich". http://knol.google.com/k/tom-butle
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by itmag 15y ago
Some more options: -Life is around but it's nowhere near our way of thinking and functioning. Maybe it's a gas cloud which takes a billion years to "think" a single thought. Who's to say that an alien lifeform's "neocortex" and utility func
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by itmag 15y ago
I thought the word was "devigner". What are some good books/resources for a code dude to learn som design and UX? I feel lost with this stuff....
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by itmag 15y ago
Also, idea for a startup: Fix My Crisis. Advertise jobs like this when your ops go fubar and you need a deep expert to come in and save your ass ASAP. Reward them with cash and/or resumé glory.
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by itmag 15y ago
To the person who fixed the problem: are you putting this on your resumé and if so how are you describing it? I imagine something like this might be VERY attractive to certain employers.
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by itmag 15y ago
BTW: Thanks for the pointer. That book looks very interesting. I'm actually not so happy about posting that link. For me, it states things that I had already mostly figured out on my own previously. For others, it might zap a lot of Sanit
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by itmag 15y ago
Also, if the "basic tenets of existence" (whatever you consider those to be) can be torn down by looking at them critically, shouldn't they be? (Perhaps.) Should we look at Cthulhu just because we can? :p
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by itmag 15y ago
Is there good way of knowing how you'll respond in a crisis? Is it just random, or is it tied to some characteristic which can be observed in normal life? For instance, I am quite self-regulated and often go against the grain in regular lif
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Does anyone ever feel that neuroscience is getting more and more lovecraftian and challenging basic assumptions of what it means to be human? It sometimes feels like we're at a point in history where all the basic tenets of existence are be
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by itmag 15y ago
I'd like to add a similar question: what are the lesser known but cool control structures?
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In Sweden, it would be viewed as in the realm of fantasy. I don't know anyone who makes that much.
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Seth Roberts' sleep experiments: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xc2h866#page-1

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