logisticpeach

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by logisticpeach 3y ago
How is this false?
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India drops evolution and periodic table from some school textbooks(ft.com)
2 points by logisticpeach 3y ago|3 comments
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by logisticpeach 3y ago
https://archive.is/zBb8J
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by logisticpeach 3y ago
Is it teaching people anything? I suspect it's just enabling the "author" to spend even less time actively thinking about whatever task they're performing.
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
This is pretty hyperbolic. Great products that were much better than what they replaced or competed with, but "beyond wild dreams of millions of people"? You'd think they cured cancer in 2003 or something...
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
He also had substantially wealthy parents if I'm not mistaken. Same with Gates and others. This is the ultimate safety net. It's easier to take risks when you have an out when it all goes really wrong. Doubt he'd still be c
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Ask HN: Has anyone found a good “smart” alarm?
1 points by logisticpeach 4y ago|0 comments
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
I'd add to this by asking: how much more PMF can you get when you have a two week horizon of new customers before you literally run out of compute resource in a major cloud provider data centre? Sounds like customers are coming in thic
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
Disclaimer: UK centric thoughts (because that's where I live) Some projections are signalling deflation on the horizon. Given the brutal cost of living crisis, I suspect the government and BoE have grossly underestimated how hard thi
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Information commissioner warns firms over ‘emotional analysis’ technologies(theguardian.com)
9 points by logisticpeach 4y ago|0 comments
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
I occasionally struggle with issues around optimism/pessimism. Working in a start-up I'm surrounded by others who are overwhelmingly optimistic (which is such a powerful bulwark against the brutal struggle, especially in the early
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
Devs can get by working few hours a day, some barely do any work at all Not sure how others here feel, but I have to say that when I've found myself in situations where there isn't much work to be done I find it utterly soul des
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
True, but then we've essentialy had limitless image generation capabilities since we've had the tools to make marks. I guess this is faster, and in other ways it offers promising new opportinities for people who can't /
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
Aside from the fact that I explicitly praised the achievment, my point actually relies on said appreciation. I guess my musing was hypothetical but I was careless in communicating that. I get that we can't centrally plan innovation or
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
Hate to say it but when i see stuff like this it only reminds me of what we could have achieved if this ingenuity had been applied in another domain. Can't help feeling that this accidentally harms creative types and risks swamping us
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
Excellent link, thanks!
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
This is an excellent framing that's rarely expressed. Most people focus on the tax aspects, and that makes sense - it's easy to feel a sense of injustice if you think others are somehow getting away with paying less tax. In realit
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
It's not so much that they refuse to disclose the methodology, it's that there is no methodology . The rules are (I suspect intentionally) vague and the degree to which any given factor (duration of contract, working practices et
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by logisticpeach 4y ago
Good grief that has to be confusing. I'm often temporarily baffled by legit entries when notified, letalone strange or unexpected spam entries :)