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by kordless 11y ago
> Before you buy into ‘smart’ devices, consider this: nobody really knows the answer because they don’t want to tell you. It’s better if you don’t know. For anyone listening, don't allow others to tell you what to think. The stateme
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by kordless 11y ago
Fun lesson on why judging others doesn't scale.
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It actually doesn't matter whether what they say is true or not. Arguing this point won't fix the climate, but supporting it just might because someone paid attention when you were being positive about it.
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A throwaway account can be used to sway bias just as using "just about every messaging system does X". Neither of them are good arguments. Question is, why the anonymity?
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This is a bigger problem than anyone realizes. The thermostat in my home had been here for probably 30 years and worked fine. Then some idiot went an bought a Nest and replaced it. Me.
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Next Time You See a Taxi, Ask Yourself, Is This a Cop?(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by kordless 11y ago|0 comments
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It's all game theory, at the low levels.
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> our best statistical models You can't bet the bank with a model. Eventually you'll lose. You can't fix all suffering. It's impossible.
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BRUSH DID 911. CLEVE THE MEME.
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Keeping things sacred slows you down. Slowing down is good because it forces efficiencies as you grind toward aesthetics. As Gregory Bateson said to a colleague, "Keep your systems simple". That is mindfulness. I'm not a fa
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Yes. Google Alan Watts.
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Having been the poster child for this not so long ago, my advice to others dealing with distraction is to read about Buddhism. The Eightfold Path is basically an algorithmic approach to resolving cognitive dissonance. Dissonance can be view
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by kordless 11y ago
I hear that statement may make you sad, but statements themselves hold no emotions, unless you are speaking for the feelings of those who made the statement. I don't allow others to speak for my feelings and I try to not speak for thei
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by kordless 11y ago
Cloudflare's purpose is to make money. If anyone thinks they are here to help make the world better, that's a naive view. Tor's purpose is to help people access data that may be inaccessible to them without it and to help gua
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by kordless 11y ago
> That's just flawed reasoning all around. Starting with a blanket blaming statement isn't that great either. Conversion rates and e-commerce sorta go together, so I would say it's fine to entangle them logically. Tor exit
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by kordless 11y ago
Not one mention of the blockchain in the story or here. How interesting.
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Nobody here want to be a peduncle, but it's likely we are. Get used to it.
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by kordless 11y ago
It's interesting how people who are a direct cause of something can't see their own hand in matters.
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by kordless 11y ago
> I’m heading for my first day of work at HubSpot Having been forced to use Hubspot, I can say their UI is fairly horrific.
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These things will be the end of all of us.
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by kordless 11y ago
When you and a Google account manager go out to dinner, who picks up the tab?
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by kordless 11y ago
> You should, as early as practical, identify an actual human inside the mothership and convince them to like you. This presumes humans will retain abilities to manage such decisions, or can manage them at scale in the future. If a compa
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Why Every Startup Should Bootstrap(hbr.org)
16 points by kordless 11y ago|6 comments
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Maybe the new decimals are information from beyond this realm. Thanks, Sagan.
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by kordless 11y ago
What are your thoughts regarding the effects venture capital strategy (game theory) has on the compute markets, specifically the creation and acceleration of bubble phases? Do you believe venture capital, beyond the obvious benefits for inv
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by kordless 11y ago
Arrogance is saying what you are doing is better than what I'm doing, without fully understanding what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. That is the definition of judgement as well. Competition is gaining resources others are a
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by kordless 11y ago
> It's not arrogance if it is true. Trust is a slippery thing, given it can be swayed by biases. So is blaming others, which is exactly what you are doing with your comment. Arrogance comes from blame based on a comparison operation
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Moreover, it's simpler to blame someone else for the result of your own actions. The perception breaking encryption will solve all their "problems" and allow them to get back to reducing suffering to zero is a fallacy. Our go
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The Atari and Classic Game Archive(atariguide.com)
1 points by kordless 11y ago|0 comments
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If I had to hazard, the profit being referring to is the type where the company has profit potential on razor thin margins and requires massive cash infusions to grow it to numbers where the margins are substantial and support an exit. As l

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