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by nico 3y ago
> they do not have the risk of someone stealing passwords from their server and walking away with the money So if they get hacked and the credentials to upload code get stolen, what happens? Wouldn’t the hackers be able to deploy code th
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by nico 3y ago
Last December I rented a car from Avis for 30 days. I had to return the car 5 days earlier, so I called them up and asked them about it, they said they would just charge an extra fee (because I was returning it at a different location). Sou
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by nico 3y ago
Very interesting concept. Is there something like this but for a marketing team? Btw, the team described in the readme doesn’t have any people doing sales or marketing, which are crucial activities in a company, software or otherwise
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by nico 3y ago
That’s pretty much the whole plot of the movie Don’t look up The Extrapolations series on Apple TV also touches on this
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by nico 3y ago
Great insightful comment. It should be a pinned article at the top of HN for anyone wanting to start their own business. Unfortunately a lot of people will think: ok, I just need to come up with a new way to swim, I’m smart (maybe smarter t
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by nico 3y ago
At this point you are either just trolling or being a hypocrite There isn’t a single organization that doesn’t do marketing one way or another (just putting a sign outside a restaurant is marketing, maybe you also consider that to be tricki
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by nico 3y ago
> "yet another messaging app" Outside of the US, Whatsapp is pretty much _the_ messaging app
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by nico 3y ago
So what? You need to grow a thicker skin Building an audience and selling a product is in large part about rejection. You will get tons of comments like that. Haters are going to hate, no matter what you do Yes, it hurts, but just keep goin
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by nico 3y ago
It’s not juvenile games, it’s hard work. If it was easy games everyone would be raking it in If anything, the juvenile thing to do is to look at reality the way it is and deny it because it doesn’t fit our personal world view I get it, we’d
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by nico 3y ago
Not offended. But I think you might be mis-understanding my post The main take away you should have is that you need to be consistent, have a system and give your audience what _they_ want Posting a lot about whatever topic you want to talk
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by nico 3y ago
> The recommendation is to look dumb to avoid learning about something you are not interested in. It’s saying “I don’t care about this and I don’t want to care”. Wish I could do this more often. Some of the most effective people I know a
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by nico 3y ago
It’s very hard to build a following without a system and without copying content For LinkedIn, ideally you should be posting at least 5 times a week, reposting your best performing content, re-phrasing or straight up copying viral content,
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by nico 3y ago
For sure. However, the most important thing is not reading the book, but doing the exercises If you could do just one thing, I’d recommend only reading the intro and practicing the 3 tips/exercises as much as possible until they become
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by nico 3y ago
Try just reading the intro. It gives you 3 very simple exercises that work surprisingly fast and are pretty easy to do I’d recommend to not read any further until you’ve done the exercises, every chapter has 1-3 different ones Reading the b
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by nico 3y ago
For anyone interested in developing the skills for talking to strangers, I highly recommend the book The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane It has some really good exercises to build confidence and ease social anxiety
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by nico 3y ago
Try the book The Charisma Myth, it has some great exercises to help you do stuff like talking to strangers. You have to do the exercises though There is stuff there that can help you get people to talk to you without initiating the conversa
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by nico 3y ago
Just reading the transcripts above, she comes across as rude and condescending, not as confident and assertive Although without knowing the tone of the interviewer before the excerpts above, I don’t know if it’s warranted I don’t think this
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by nico 3y ago
Very interesting read. Highlights how important having an audience is The key was building his Twitter following and mailing list
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by nico 3y ago
Completely agree. It’s just annoying to read disingenuous arguments trying to instill fear in the public
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by nico 3y ago
Excellent, thank you!
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by nico 3y ago
Looks helpful. Definitely better than Truecaller Thank you!
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by nico 3y ago
> “Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilisation?” If we could control civilization, we wouldn’t have all the issues we have. Devel
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by nico 3y ago
Still getting 5-10 robocalls a day, mostly from Texas area codes from people/businesses that want to buy some properties I don’t even own The calls sometimes start at 6:30am Besides just keeping the phone silent, nothing really blocks
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by nico 3y ago
Looks very interesting. Is there a mobile-friendly version?
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by nico 3y ago
There’s a new series on AppleTV called Extrapolations Very interesting if a bit depressing. It’s like a climate change themed Black Mirror, with some Don’t look up vibes Very well made, amazing cast, lots to think about
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by nico 3y ago
In production yes, but it’s like kids, you don’t want them to fall and hurt themselves, however that’s how they learn Likewise, maybe self-driving cars need to get a few bumps and scratches to learn not to crash
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by nico 3y ago
I wonder if giving cars a sense of touch is what will ultimately be the key to enable full autonomous driving Are there any cars out there that have something like a sense of touch and with it can sense the road or things that they crash in
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by nico 3y ago
It never stopped, and the US is one of the worst offenders Check out War is a Racket, by US general Smedley Butler Also the Snowden documents and the whole Asange/Wikileaks case
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by nico 3y ago
Has anyone used any of the generative models mentioned in the article? Didn’t see any images or direct comparisons of the outputs with current diffusion models
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by nico 3y ago
> Why are Americans always so quick to cast shade? Not sure it’s an American thing, but it’s definitely a thing here in HN, a lot of times it’s not that bad, but it does feel crappy

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