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by ohduran 7y ago
This. Imagine if you said the same thing with taxes. "Gee, why do I have to pay taxes differently in every country?" Well, because that's what you have to do if you want to do business there. You're not forced to do anyt
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This is a very good point: the compelling value proposition of AI isn't that is accurate; it's that we need no human tweaking. I mean, it HAS to be accurate. But once it can replicate the accuracy of humans (which isn't 100%
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Like "military encryption" and buzzwords like RSA, which leads me to believe that banks do just the bare minimum that some consultant has told them to do...
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I loved Cal Newport's book. It's insightful, and full of takeaways, drawing from years of writing about the topic on his blog. While reading it, I was constantly looking on the Internet for the references and pieces of research th
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And yet, here we are, posting comments on HN. By the way is not being able to hear your daughter screaming for attention because you're deeply focused on your phone being distracted, or not? Sounds like laser focusing to me. Which mean
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Agreed. Relying on growth tactics while ignoring a well-thought marketing strategy is doomed to fail.
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Have you tried searching for Facebook in the App Store? The first result is...Amazon.
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With so many forms of native advertising out there, I now can't tell whether this is actual news or just P-TECH purchasing ad space in the form of a news report.
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It boils down to the fact that borders are artificially constructed. Yeah, even democracy isn't something that came down from the sky. Again, "who are you to block my path?", a very difficult question.
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Maybe that's a good idea. Is charging more the solution? Effectively you're making tourism more robust in the area, because it becomes the main source of value for what you can do there (as in, the more expensive it is, the weaker
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Not at all. What I meant was that Brexit mentality comes from the idea that you are entitled to decide who comes into "your country" and who doesn't. I lean towards a freer movement, but I understand that others lean towards
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No. My point is that it's a difficult problem, one that isn't solved by building a wall, be it literally or bureaucratically. My criticism is that this problem is hard. Should we do nothing instead? No. Just think harder.
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If it's you, then it's a 'traveler' or a 'wonderlust'. The rest of the world are simply 'tourists'. It all comes down to the question "who do you think you are to block my path?" It's n
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Currently living in Barcelona, where 'overtourism' is a much bigger problem than in Norway IMHO, it feels weird. You start passing bills on restricting tourism, then the natural next step is being hard on immigration, then Brexit.
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Going through ossu at the moment, highly recommended. Coming from a Physics background and working as a SE, it gives me the tools I need to "catch up" on my own terms. Edit: Typo
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Thanks for this! I've been in the lookout for good philosophy podcasts, to no avail...yet. Definitely giving this one a try
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Wait, Firefox Monitor? As in "allow us to store your email and password in case your email and password are pwned in some other site"? Does anyone else think this is prone to disaster, eventually?
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I can't agree more. People here often think in terms of open source software, Red Hat, and so on and so forth without realising that Netflix, HBO and the likes have built empires on top of intellectual property...of the content they ha
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In Spain, we have Teruel. Even IKEA did a commercial on the topic called "Teruel does exist!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxBvvQ2GeEc
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This makes sense to me, perfect sense. Removing metrics would reduce engagement, and that's all that matters.
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I disagree. Haven't been all told off by our parents that "if everyone jumped off a cliff, would you?"? That in my opinion means that humans are prone to do and think what their peers do or think. The key issue is what we def
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I didn't come to HN to cry!!
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a PhD in 1905 means that he got it around the time he published his 4 articles in Annalen der Physik. I understand your point, but by the time he wrote the relativity theory he was, by the standards of this article, an amateur.
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Don't you find that fs.blog is increasingly clickbaity? I mean, this article is just a listicle that could have appeared in Business Insider or HuffPost or the likes. Does someone agree? By the way wasn't Einstein an amateur physi
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Languages don't die; people do. Languages are tools for communication, but communication always happen between two people. There's a great book called Language in Thought and Action, by S. I. Hayakawa, where he discuss topics like
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Facebook, like a true attention merchant, keeps pushing the envelop. It seems to me that we'll see more on privacy vs connecting the world for years, because that's where the two biggest tech business models, Apple/Netflix&#x
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I don't get the business model behind this. Why a paying service? Isn't it more sensible to keep it free and entice companies to pay a fee to advertise in your platform because of the, ideally, wide circulation of the newsletter?
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Number of books read isn't the goal. The goal is reading outstanding books with such intensity that you exhaust what can be taken away from them. One of those books, by the way, is How To Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler. Check out my no
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On Deep Work, Cal Newport recalls how Carl Jung built the Bollinger Tower to be away from his daily obligations in Zurich in order to produce high level work. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Melville would do the same. By the way,
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Not really an autobiography, but something quite similar is George Lois's Damn Good Advice. Quick and read with great takeaways. I put together some notes on that book here: http://alvaroduran.com/damn-good-advice

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