mnowicki

9 ms·

31.
by mnowicki 5y ago
"Return to Monke", Indubitably
32.
by mnowicki 5y ago
it'll just increase your "Potential Threat Level" on the one list that does exist. And they might SELECT * from homies_in_the_USA where threat_level > 5 or something, and you'd be on that list
33.
by mnowicki 5y ago
I recall hearing that the NSA was able to get permission to collect/access certain data by having private 'hearings', and in one of these private hearings they ruled that these hearings don't need to be disclosed to the
34.
by mnowicki 5y ago
Spending money on marketing MIGHT lower prices when looking at a single company. For a market like pharmaceuticals where patients are prescribed by Dr's and are going to be subscribed one thing or another regardless, the lack of any ma
35.
by mnowicki 5y ago
can't end worse than it did in our current system
36.
by mnowicki 5y ago
Which word did they make? Was it "Mitochondria"? I bet it was mitochondria
37.
by mnowicki 5y ago
My main issue with it is that we don't have complete data to feed into the formula to make a good decision. Some aspects of your job can't be quantified and entered into an algorithm. It's the same as when project managers tr
38.
by mnowicki 5y ago
> If Amazon has leaned too far in the direction of automation without oversight, then we'll see other firms fail to adopt these same practices. By "leaned too far" I feel like you mean they relied on it in a way that made
39.
by mnowicki 5y ago
it's likely the video creator used youtube so they could create an audience much more easily. Or didn't have the technical know-how to host a video themselves. Or they didn't expect making their youtube video private in the f
40.
by mnowicki 5y ago
sure there are some people that get meaning from work, and who would have trouble finding meaning outside of work. But I can't agree that 'working for the man' and doing whatever you can do to get by is the best recipe for fi
41.
by mnowicki 5y ago
Do you mean more productive so that you can return to work of some kind and accomplish more than you have in the past? If so, then even if your theory proves to be true, wouldn't you rather continue living happily instead of using that
42.
by mnowicki 5y ago
if we hadn't done that already, then we'd have the opportunity to regulate the out of existence in the future - it's much different
43.
by mnowicki 5y ago
In Amazon's case it's not using VC money to outcompete similar businesses, it's using their own money to demolish any competitors in the thousands of niche categories they sell products for. The diaper.com thing is the most p
44.
by mnowicki 5y ago
that's interesting to hear, and I'll have to take your word on it for now, but I'm curious why(unless things have significantly changed in the past 6-7 years) inner-city schools are still horrendously bad. I've experienc
45.
by mnowicki 5y ago
Have you ever met a person who eats rice and ramen and whatnot all week so they can make it to their next paycheck(s), and eats next to nothing before pay day because they literally just don't have money to buy food to eat. You want th
46.
by mnowicki 5y ago
Yeah not to sound like a "deep" 15 year old but I think being able to function in our modern society is much more unnatural than the behaviors associated with ADHD. But since is the society we're in, having it really is a dis
47.
by mnowicki 7y ago
Good point, I'd also like to add that just because an analogy doesn't apply 100% when you try to push it as far as you can, doesn't mean it's not a useful analogy. If you could push an analogy all the way and still have
48.
by mnowicki 7y ago
Hey guys, I have an idea/suggestion for you guys; you might already be doing this or it might just not be a worthwhile idea, but it sounds useful to me: Your addon/extension should track the amount of time spent on each of these t
49.
by mnowicki 7y ago
I agree with your point about finding better ways to spend time, but I also think that any LESS time spent on facebook and the like is a VERY positive thing. And despite being skeptical when reading the first few sentences of the original p
50.
by mnowicki 7y ago
That was the best explanation I've heard about this, before reading this I was questioning if I had aphantasia
51.
by mnowicki 7y ago
HN flamewars are the most tame and civil form of communication that takes place on the internet, pretty much anywhere you go is going to be worse than that
52.
by mnowicki 7y ago
they don't need to know the formulas or mathematical logic behind physics, but 5 year olds do have a working model of physics in their head. And AI wouldn't need to know the actual formulas either, but it would need some working m
53.
by mnowicki 7y ago
I'd argue that under the current system, the people who are unemployed are those who tend to be less motivated in general. I'm not sure about your specific country though, I'd guess it's true in all countries(the majorit
54.
by mnowicki 7y ago
What about this type of scenario, is this something you could see playing out: People receive UBI, more people are able to move out and buy/rent an apartment or house, landlords are getting more applicants and apartment buildings start
55.
by mnowicki 7y ago
I thought it was a deliriant
56.
by mnowicki 7y ago
> Full disclosure: I like Yang. Like, 'like like'? Or just 'like'?
57.
by mnowicki 7y ago
Are they implying that a storage drive with bits organized to store specific data(say an mp4 file, or the meaning of life) will way more than a drive with randomly arranged bits? If not then aren't they just measuring whatever mechanis
58.
by mnowicki 7y ago
Very well said. I have a question though, what is it that causes the 'manager' to push all of their responsibilities onto the developer lead? Just laziness, or is there some external pressure also being placed on the manager?
59.
by mnowicki 7y ago
Just want to reiterate: “In this case instead of the wrong person arrested for the murder, nobody would be arrested and the case would go unsolved.” Are you suggesting this would be worse? also, I don't think the air crash investigatio
60.
by mnowicki 7y ago
I believe time is intrinsically linked with our experience of consciousness, maybe consciousness in general. Sorry for the armchair philosophy, this is a topic I like to think about. We know that time is the 4th dimension, all things exist

More ›