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by lowdose 7y ago
Books are the best way to expand your cognitive capabilities. A writer spends at least 500 hours on a book. Reading a book is like having conversation with the writer. I prefer to read non-fiction books, many of which I found through HN or
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by lowdose 7y ago
I would use google apis for sheets, tasks and keep. Comes with a nice UI out of the box. Why do most hack the itch projects start from scratch and not use and build on best in class apis?
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by lowdose 7y ago
Is an algorithm patent really a defensible claim?
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by lowdose 7y ago
Last October the U.S. Military replaced the eight 1970s floppy disks controlling all nuclear missiles. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/10/19/us-milita...
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by lowdose 7y ago
Off course my opinion is based on a very selective draw during traveling to many countries. However the conversation has been trending more and more negative on the United States topic and it's form of "democracy". Noam Chom
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by lowdose 7y ago
Yes this is legit! Got it to work on a throwaway domain under 30 minutes.
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by lowdose 7y ago
I completely agree with you. I do think China is becoming more and more the example people are looking at how to make progress. Politics aside the growth in wealth and it's distribution over the last 30 years have been magic. Most peop
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by lowdose 7y ago
Conservative or is not yet full context aware?
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by lowdose 7y ago
Amazon does not employ warehouse workers they are "associates". At Starbucks a waitress function is named "partner". Brilliant piece of doublespeak.
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by lowdose 7y ago
https://stratechery.com/ Ben writes about technology companies from a business model perspective. He also has a good podcast where he weekly summarizes his blog posts about company specific platform and aggregator data&#x2F
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Ask HN: Does your dog have a theory of mind?
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by lowdose 7y ago
It's about agile development. I would really like a write up how Google for example reduced the energy consumption in their data centers. I have a hunch 30% energy reduction was based on an insight on the specific causal relationship b
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by lowdose 7y ago
I second this 100%. But this needs to be advocated more. Yesterday on a trending ask HN question how to prevent technology scams for family members I recommended a chromebook. But every negative windows os comment gets downvoted so hard tha
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by lowdose 7y ago
I read love your wife more in the morning because her soliciting other guys in front of you is the most obvious sign she will give before filing for a divorce herself. If no one tells you this , you can't solve problem number one. Prob
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by lowdose 7y ago
Brutal honesty at its best. If everyone had the guts to talk this tone to their boss the world would look a lot better.
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by lowdose 7y ago
Talking about magic I came across this one last week. Robert Houdin hired by Napoleon III to perform a magic trick in Africa to convince the local tribes France magic was stronger than theirs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by lowdose 7y ago
For the sake of nuance, in 2019 "tech" has been in unfair bad spotlight while it has been a blessing for society. We literally have magical powers at our fingertips. People however do not want to spend money on the software that m
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by lowdose 7y ago
But if they already own an iPad maybe this metaphor can make it more easy to explain. Chrome OS on a chromebook is like iOS, Windows / MacOS functions like Android. For me this has kept the discussion simple and people already on iOS u
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by lowdose 7y ago
Give them a chromebook. No virus scanner or firewall needed. It's 2020 and the "Personal Computer" paradigm is past its expiration date. Want to keep hobbying with Windows and manage your "PC" like a pet, good luck
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by lowdose 7y ago
No I heard they still chew a lot of bubblegum over there.
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by lowdose 7y ago
"German quality" turned out to be German marketing.
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by lowdose 7y ago
Don't use npm?
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by lowdose 7y ago
So the 48 laws of power is required reading material? Link to google talk of Robert Greene (2018) : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcaVhMt71qE
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by lowdose 7y ago
Didn't Ford say something about a faster horse?
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by lowdose 7y ago
Acquiring knowledge. Auto flash card question generation based on the things I read, listen and watch.
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by lowdose 7y ago
People going to toilet every 30 minutes are caught. I have heard aws events are full blown las vegas style bonanza's.
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by lowdose 7y ago
The pilots mother-in-law was asking if he saw an UFO during his flight at every single encounter. Could it be that this is a case for inception / framing?
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by lowdose 7y ago
Is our current theory around Stonehenge stretching the principle of charity considering what we found Aztec's sacrificing while having a far superior culture. Is it actually reasonable to make the assumption people were dead when crema
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by lowdose 7y ago
This but it is not only traditional media gatekeeping. Google pulled the plug on Tulsi Gabber's ad account without explanation and she is suing Google over it. "Google ad set up got them approved everything was ready to rock and r
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by lowdose 7y ago
Did you guys choose Go over Java?

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