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by lowdose 6y ago
Even on HN there was a pressure of the herd. Anchormen, journalists do not have skin in the game like weathermen.
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by lowdose 6y ago
You underestimate your bodies strength. There are people of 98 years that do a full triathlon, so there is no excuse for you not to able to do that. You can do anything when you put your 10k hours in, but not on the first try. If mountain
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by lowdose 6y ago
> almost all customers would pay more for the benefit. This is where you are wrong, how many paying customers does Google have VS users? Platforms that are value aggregators decoupled value production from internal capacity.
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by lowdose 6y ago
Isn't Github basically the blueprint for running an infrastructure to manage a full remote coding workspace? I'm actually surprised the mature way Microsoft handles the Github acquisition. It's not anything like that of what
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by lowdose 6y ago
But code in any language can be read by any engineer in the world that is proficient in it. I do not speak or read Chinese but when I pull an interesting looking repo from Github that is Chinese I only have to stroke 3 keys to translate all
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by lowdose 6y ago
Finance is still such a broad field without really adding value to your bottom line except for advice on leveraging debt to increase the return on your investment. The shift to digital that is catapulted by platforms with network effects ar
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by lowdose 6y ago
Platforms facilitate interactions between producers that create value which others consume. Thereby comparing revenue of a platform against a traditional business model doesn't make sense because the cost and profit drivers are inverte
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by lowdose 6y ago
I would ask your HR department for a clear example of a company at the low to mid end of the market rates on salary. And which market i.e. city, state, national or global assuming the entire software industry.
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by lowdose 6y ago
> what cool things they can do than on doing rigorous science (which makes sense -- if you optimize for rigorous science, your stuff probably isn't as flashy as the stuff produced by people optimizing for flash. Is this a new iterat
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by lowdose 6y ago
China also made the life of almost a billion Chines better by a factor of 50 in 30 years time. > I frequently think that what is happening over there are the emulations of unethical experiments that the Western world would never be able
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by lowdose 6y ago
> What's next? Text To Video webapp that renders text to video + voice synchronised of famous people. Who wouldn't like to laugh 5X more when social scrolling? The first platform that enables creators with the ability to produc
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by lowdose 6y ago
I recommend buying a Google Hub with a screen for Google Assistant. It's pretty awesome to just ask Google to play Spotify on my Sonos without having to touch anything. On the screen I can see all my interaction history with the assist
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by lowdose 6y ago
I have also experienced the elimination of my ego with MDMA use. I suspect this is the explanation that MDMA works as a treatment for PTSD.
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by lowdose 6y ago
> there are 3 people that have access to the production databases that hold account info and they aren’t developers, just managers with no clue what to do once they log in. Just for my curiosity is this your observation or is this a comp
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by lowdose 6y ago
The ultimate free lunch in insurance.
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by lowdose 6y ago
Non of the solutions China comes up with is worth to discuss?
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by lowdose 6y ago
Does WeChat cause the same problems in China as Facebook & Twitter in the west?
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by lowdose 6y ago
> Without government help there wouldn't be any airlines left. Could you elaborate on that please? Edit: It's just another round of socializing risk while privatizing profit. Too big to fail is a hoax. When a firm is declared b
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by lowdose 6y ago
> because the company made it clear they wouldn't sell to consumers or hobbyists. But if you have a business address it always allowed to request a sample.
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by lowdose 6y ago
> Lufthansa was on the verge of bankruptcy and agreed to a €9 billion bailout from the German government. In an effort to save the company, the German government told Lufthansa that they don’t need to obey EU consumer protection law, and
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by lowdose 6y ago
> But you the human understand, because you have a lap, and you've at least seen a cat on a lap. You really think GPT-3 never came across a comment about a cat in lap? 50% of all the pictures on the internet are cats sitting on peop
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by lowdose 6y ago
No need for a VR set when you are already living in the simulation just reroute some plugs and you can do multitasking with remote viewing.
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by lowdose 6y ago
I had a similar opinion as you until I actually travelled to the United States. I went to San Francisco to visit a girlfriend. As soon as I was landed I felt like this version of the experiment is in a whole other gear than Europe. Everybod
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by lowdose 6y ago
It's core business to every politician so you can leave Irish out.
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by lowdose 6y ago
A woman that uses the pill as birth control consumes 0.00365 gram of estrogen a year. At a consumption price of the pill for $300 a gram of estradiol is thus worth $82,191.79. Compare that to $44 for a gram of gold and you wonder if big Pha
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by lowdose 6y ago
Aren't you aware that people on airplanes are per definition almost excluded from public buses?
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by lowdose 6y ago
http://archive.is/rL8Tj
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by lowdose 6y ago
First Bezos unbundles product search with Amazon from Google's core BU. Amazon US is earning an ARPU of 900 almost an order of magnitude higher than Google. Now Twitch unbundles the most profitable piece of Youtube while he bundles a N
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by lowdose 6y ago
Why aren't we putting elephants in the wild on other continents?
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by lowdose 6y ago
Aka the bandwagon effect.

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