mindfulplay

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by mindfulplay 7y ago
If we had the sketch to how toilet paper was first developed would we hold it this level of reverence? What is the fascination with such trivial technologies grabbing a mindshare?
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Agreed! Asking people how they feel and jotting that down on a piece of paper isn't science. Similar to social and nutrition "sciences" that gear more toward PR angle and "number of news outlets talking about my paper&qu
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
I find this incredibly fascinating. I wasn't aware of how complex these things were. A few videos that blows my mind on what really happens inside your cells - https://youtu.be/bee6PWUgPo8 https://youtu.be&#
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Why are startups born this way? Why optimize for growth and CTR etc. Is there a world in which security and privacy focus (maybe sprinkle in, dare I say, social good) could be funded from the start? These companies presumably all pivot on g
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
My point is the insane supply chain costs that permeate the insurance, hospital and medical manufacturing industry. I used the saline solution as an example based on an LA Times investigation that found out saline solution is charged 1000$+
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Ideas are incredibly cheap. Execution is hard as someone else pointed out. Beyond that, a random AI crapsoup of techonerdmangled words would give a pretty good "billion dollar idea": AI ML crypto spaceship Nano modular ML-based DN
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Why are nutrition and social studies considered science? They chart out a few numbers for very few people; have no understanding or analysis of the underling biological or biochemical processes. The later of which is hard, grungy and boring
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
I have no idea who the founders are. (I do have an idea of who bradfitz is). I have no connection to these people and still find this technology as something new and fascinating. It's hard to see a genuinely new concept in startups the
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
That's really cool. Thank you.
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Is there any page that describes how to actually get VPN work end to end with tailscale? I am a newbie and would like to understand.
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
You say that from the comfort of writing a HN post. Do you have much at stake to make such a condescending suggestion?
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Not quite. Stock market has real value. People buy things, consume goods, sell tangible useful things. The market is a reflection of that. Crypto crapto is the reflection of a giant random number generator that is operated by both VCs and n
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Crypto seems like the replacement for casinos gambling away your life savings at a desperate time. I don't have a beef with you but the whole crypto crapto markets really need to calm down and stop stealing money from naive people espe
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
He immediately followed up by claiming that the number of accidents cause more deaths than COVID19.... The love for Elon Musk in this site is super strong! He is certainly infallible.
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
I assume people will name and shame Elon Musk too: still way over his head - thinking he is smarter than the scientists.
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
It's interesting to look back at these sort of prescient events and laud the people who got it right and ignore all the people that 'got it wrong'. However in Bill Gates' case, he really was being realistic and not presc
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
It's a security landmine. IFRAMES, mixed content, downloading / rendering behaviors are all sensitive and may contain private information known only to the browser/user and not the containing webpage.
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Totally get what you said IF the artists of this day and age weren't shilling for money. If it was pure art that was an expression of their self, sure, I agree it's art. But peddling mediocre crap for large sums of money should be
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
It's ironic that I upvoted this post to agree with you - which is exactly the issue you talk about in your post.
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Such a beautiful, elegant language. Simple to grasp and lets the compiler handle all that legitimate complexity. Wish more language designers would respect code authors like these designers do.
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
It is amusing to me the sort of detached love people have for Eastern medicine. It's really a feeling of grass is greener on the other side. In India and a few other SE Asian countries, the predominant killer disease is heart disease.
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Why would it take a single engineer 3+ years to build a Mario-like game with a tweak around time-mechanics? I am discounting the artwork and asking primarily around the efficiency of the coding and development. Each developer has a focus ar
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Slight tangent but why is the bottom portion of this article covered with social media icons? Hard to read and is distracting.
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Why would an American government database ever need access from outside the US? Under what circumstances couldn't a simple IP rule prevent such a silly transfer of data? I could never wrap my head around government databases (that need
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Curious, and being serious here, what problems are you working on and how do you make the world a better place?
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Bitcoin is no different. It's just a scam on a much longer timescale.
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
I am a bit glad to see this come from WaPo and not NYT given the implication of ownership....
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
I work closely on ondevice OCR technology - something that has improved so much and still cannot figure out the difference between I and 1. And that took many decades not even years and in a very constrained problem space. Releasing a &quot
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
I am honestly scared even of WayMo that I think unless NHTSA gets its acts together this shit shouldn't be allowed on roads. It's often reactionary - people wait for someone to die and then suddenly you have nervous Musk in front
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by mindfulplay 7y ago
Just listening to this talk scares me. The amount of errors - even in a seemingly normal, sunny day - is mind boggling to think people trust this crap. How can we rely on the output of eight cameras? This is not a kid's science project

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