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by nibs 10y ago
Does it go away after a while?
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I love this subject. For those who read it, the stage 4.5 that many gifted people (and rarely others) end up going through is also called existential depression [1]. It involves coming to terms with the first principals of the universe and
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When you say "cloud" I assume you mean the colloquial use, meaning: - Multiple clients using the same application files - Hosted in a data center instead of on client-owned servers - Priced per seat per year/month instead of
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by nibs 10y ago
Under this model, drone operators should get paid $100M/year. I sincerely doubt the satisfaction from all the disability adjusted life years saved from facilitating the creation of autonomous cars would be overshadowed by the occasion
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My father, brother, both grandfathers, one grandmother and fiance (female) are all adults on the spectrum (Aspergers under DSM-4). Empathy can be systematized like anything else. This works in 99% percent of situations. Just give him opport
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Property law. Good luck "sharing the land" peacefully with 8 billion people. Have you ever been a country without zoning laws (let alone property ownership)? It is chaos. Very little sharing to speak of. More like problems are set
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Nerd is mostly == IQ still, I think you mean geek.
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Cover your costs includes mortgage and food in this context.
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Autobetes perhaps? One is autoimmune pancreatic insulin resistance (T1), one is self-induced pancreatic insulin resistance (T2), one is autoimmune or self-induced nervous system insulin resistance (Alz).
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This is true. I make plant floor systems for the meat industry. Lots of modern tech being employed by your local food processor(s).
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"Nobody pops out of the womb a math genius" Two thirds of the world's current math researchers can trace lineage to just 23, 17th century mathematicians. Source: http://www.nature.com/news/majority-of-mat
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I think a world of all-speech interfaces would be flawed (if that is the natural conclusion of this line of thinking). I may be able to speak 3x faster than I type, but I read 10x faster than I can listen to someone speak. Speech-to-text is
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South Korea has the highest average IQ of any country in the world [1]. The process of democratizing the country started working early 2000s in addition to the social capital built by co-hosting the World Cup in 2002. While this was happeni
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Agreed. It takes <60 seconds to back-up all my personal files to a reformatted USB3 thumb drive I can stash in a safe. I only ever use them from one PC. Dropbox is good for collaborating but I think the "use from any device" be
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What if pain, in the traditional sense, makes you happy. I get pleasure from rebelling my hedonist parents in a way reminiscent of puritans. It has nothing to do with comparison to others - I just like denying myself pleasure (abstaining fr
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I get this weird feeling that that is the revenue line of his PR firm and not his after tax income. After tax income of $1.5M is insane. He would be among the CEOs he references, working all the time. A passive income of $1.5M from a servic
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by nibs 10y ago
I live in Toronto. It is mind-blowing the number of condos being built. More are in progress now here than exist on Manhattan. But as far as world cities go, the condos and rent are both very affordable. So I think to a certain extent it do
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Losing a critical customer and following up to get feedback as to why it happened seems like something you should listen to that also gets you down. Not mutually exclusive.
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0-60 is what matters. Top speed is not a bottleneck anymore unless you are track racing. It has a 0-60 that is comparable to a Bugatti Veyron.
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Larry Ellison does this too. Netsuite (Nelson) and Salesforce (Benioff) are seen as two major cloud computing titans. Both were Ellison proteges who were given enough money to safely work on growing the new generation of the same business.
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by nibs 10y ago
Zoho Mail has a tolerable UI, free custom domain support, no ads and much less interest in the value of your data. They make their money when you use all their other apps.
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This. I will take the kids somewhere to do something while she is alone. Otherwise same deal. It is worth it net net.
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My fiance is extremely introverted. We eventually realized that she needed this "apartment to myself" feeling at least once a week in order to function in the real world and do the extrovert obligations she needed to do. So we ins
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To be fair, most businesses in history eventually regress to market-matching through zero-sum tactics like this.
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There was an HBS article about how both Microsoft and Facebook were started during Harvard reading week because putting all the smart people there and making them bored during time off resulted in productive projects. Trying to find it...
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Probably yes, but not when that 5.6% is coming from something inherently low-liquidity and high-risk.
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My observation is that most criminals fall into a category that would be solved with "impulse control" pills and/or better mental health treatment. The big difference I have observed, independent of race, wealth, etc. is that
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We all still call it Champagne even though rarely does anyone drink sparkling wine from the Champagne region. I suspect diamonds will be the same: most people will consume the "synthetic" ones, which could by almost any physical c
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Zinc and Copper belong on that list too. Zinc: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3868572 Copper: http://www.naturalnews.com/047834_copper_toxicity_depression...
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by nibs 10y ago
This is probably true. The other thing I have observed, is that single people are far less likely to pass their genes along than married people. Mediocre married/paired people tend to reproduce more than exceptional single people. This

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