nico

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871.
by nico 3y ago
Maybe some things are just inmensurable Consciousness is not even well defined, in that sense it is ineffable
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by nico 3y ago
What’s that saying? “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it” This issue could have been solved a long time ago if the companies (and regulators) actually cared about solving
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by nico 3y ago
I get 3-5 marketing calls on my cell everyday, including weekends, and sometimes starting at 6:30am Some I’ve been able to block by using an app to block all calls from Texas But a lot of the calls are from area codes which I don’t want to
874.
by nico 3y ago
So the question is: how do we change it? How do we break out of that? What are the better alternatives?
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by nico 3y ago
What’s your secret for LinkedIn? Everyone I know who’s ever tried Ads there has gotten little or no conversions at all, while spending a ton of money (LI advertising is expensive!)
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by nico 3y ago
It would be very useful for a lot of people who commented on this previous post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37622702 ) to read this article Starting with the misconceptions: > Paid ads =/= marketing
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by nico 3y ago
It all depends If the people that sold needed the money, they are for sure better off, even if they got less money than waiting Additionally, it’s impossible to know if they invested it in something that gave them better returns than waitin
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by nico 3y ago
You are very patient Everyone I know who had funds on MtGox at the time of bankruptcy, ended up selling their claim (most to Fortress), for a pretty good amount, in fact more in USD than what their BTCs were worth at the time of bankruptcy
879.
by nico 3y ago
> Demand for surgery is inelastic instantaneously This is not true, a lot (most?) surgery is elective and can be delayed or avoided altogether Only emergency surgery is instantaneously inelastic If more people can get the surgery they ne
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by nico 3y ago
So you are essentially saying that you can keep your own ideas of “objective semantics” because you can dismiss people who disagree with you Which means you have a subjective definition of the meaning of “objective semantics” Objective does
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by nico 3y ago
You can believe whatever you want, assign any meaning you want I can say that 1+1=2 means it’s lunchtime on the moon I can also say that 1+1=11 I can’t force you (nor anyone else), to accept or agree with those meanings, but I can definitel
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by nico 3y ago
Well, I can disagree with that, so what can you do then? If you can’t force everyone to agree on the same semantics, you can’t have absolute semantics Of course you are free to believe whatever you want, including absolute semantics, but th
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by nico 3y ago
It’s just an agreement that has been pretty much forced on anyone that has a basic school education I can choose to disagree and doesn’t matter what you do I can assign a different meaning to it No ideas are objective truth, and objective t
884.
by nico 3y ago
Both have their risks For example, people that had their crypto on MtGox were still able to file claims for their funds in bankruptcy proceedings And a lot of them have also been able to sell their claims, for more money than their BTC were
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by nico 3y ago
> he only truths I can imagine that could meet those requirements would have to be really abstract, like 1+1=2 And that is not even universally or absolutely true, 1+1=2 is a set of symbols that need to be interpreted by someone for them
886.
by nico 3y ago
It would be nice if the main interface for all search engines were an API Then browsers/apps/phones could just search on whatever engines they prefer (or several at the same time) then just display results to the user It actually
887.
by nico 3y ago
This reminds me of the first ever solar desalination system, which was built by a Swedish engineer, for the saltpeter mines in Chile, over 100 years ago It would be great if they can scale it up and make it widely available
888.
by nico 3y ago
You can conceptualice them however you want, but without people there are no companies Companies are a completely made up concept. Made up by, you guessed it, people People create them, people run them, people decide what to do with them It
889.
by nico 3y ago
Neither will Tylenol heal it, so what’s the difference? Both have the same exact effect, which is what is controlled for in double blind studies
890.
by nico 3y ago
And who said anything about capitalism vs communism? Seems like you are just arguing with yourself there
891.
by nico 3y ago
And don’t forget Zoom https://apnews.com/article/tech-work-pandemic-zoom-wfh-rto-e...
892.
by nico 3y ago
Because that “protection” is not going to be free, it will come (if it isn’t already), with a lot of strings attached Having their own protection could potentially buy them a little more independence
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by nico 3y ago
> society is cruel and violent Which society? Why does this happen only (mostly) in the US though? That’s what we should be trying to solve instead of just endlessly escalating Are we going to end up with militarized schools because we c
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by nico 3y ago
Sounds similar to airport security and the TSA. Maybe soon the government will create an “ESA Education Security Administration”?
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by nico 3y ago
> The stupid "cycles better than a doped up Lance Armstrong" ones get caught (what did you expect lol), but the more careful people won't I know someone who hacked their college system for applying for classes, it was a po
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by nico 3y ago
Are you then suggesting that it doesn’t matter? That we should just shrug and give up? Or that we should just allow for any group of people to do anything to another group of people, because it just happens, it’s just human nature, so whate
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by nico 3y ago
> Companies already send that clear message even without AI. Companies are people. You are saying people running those companies are doing that to other people
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by nico 3y ago
What do you mean? Like if your headache goes away with a placebo, isn’t that the same as taking a pain killer? In that case the effect is the same isn’t it?
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by nico 3y ago
Shouldn’t we be trying to maximize the placebo effect? If we can heal ourselves just by believing we can, then isn’t that an amazing ability that we should be trying to develop and improve?
900.
by nico 3y ago
They network very effectively with other high net worth people

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