orasis

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by orasis 11y ago
I'll point you to Nagarjuna, who can do a much better job of explaining the subtlety than I can. http://www.wisdompubs.org/sites/default/files/preview/Nagarj...
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by orasis 11y ago
I concur with this. Compression and Generation are fundamentally what neurons do and how objects are "created".
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by orasis 11y ago
"The object boundary is in some sense arbitrary and porous." Yes. All objects are mind created, so indeed their boundaries are arbitrary.
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by orasis 11y ago
Right, which is exactly why our brains do not directly perceive the "truth" of physical reality. It's models all the way down.
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by orasis 11y ago
Let's start with this question: What makes an object an object? Find an object in the room, say a chair. What imbues the chair with "chairness"? Why is it considered separate from the floor? If you investigate this you wi
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by orasis 11y ago
For the more audio-visual oriented - here is a talk covering the same topic. http://youtu.be/dqDP34a-epI
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by orasis 11y ago
In 2000, I wrote a Java reed solomon implementation that also includes native libraries for linux-x86 and win32. I expect it to be at least 5x faster than a pure Java implementation. http://www.bytebucket.org/onionnetworks&
728.
by orasis 11y ago
You should not charge anything if your app is semi-viral. I've done the experiments and charging kills growth for high retention apps.
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by orasis 11y ago
Fremium only works with high retention apps. The goal with a high retention app is growth, not revenue. You want people to use it a lot, tell their friends and they use it a lot. If you can hit 4%+ week-over-week growth then this is a go
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by orasis 11y ago
Things have actually gotten worse for us developers. I've noticed now that I'm taking a significant hit on App Store views when I release a new version. My best guess is that this is due to the reviews being reset on each release
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by orasis 11y ago
My unschool and homeschool friends bounce around with their kids just fine.
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by orasis 11y ago
"If you sold every share of every company in the U.S. and used the money to buy up all the factories, machines and inventory, you’d have some cash left over." So by this theory the value of a tech startup is the developer's l
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by orasis 11y ago
Do yourself a favor and don't call yourself a CTO. It makes you sound silly in front of your customers. Call yourself a Founder.
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by orasis 12y ago
So, the author doesn't like congestion pricing because it is regressive. This is another strong argument for Basic Income - proper market solutions can be used for public problems without worrying about gouging the poor.
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by orasis 12y ago
I was typically sleeping 7+ hours per night, but the stress from the day was giving me scrambled restless dreams. Nowadays I sleep 10+ hours per night.
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by orasis 12y ago
If George Church is saying its a bad idea, then people should listen.
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by orasis 12y ago
I experienced the same thing with my startup. My vocabulary started to deteriorate, my memory was shit, and it was taking me longer to calculate tips. This is very alarming for a previously "smart" person. I ended up retreating t
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by orasis 12y ago
Dang. I wistfully hoped this would be drill down real time analytics for the U.S. economy and government operations.
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by orasis 12y ago
Yes. I'm the original inventor of "swarmstreaming". If done correctly there is actually an increase in efficiency, especially if some of the users aren't watching the whole stream.
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by orasis 12y ago
"Before I had studied Chan (Zen) for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and rivers are not ri
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by orasis 12y ago
"To put it simply: not all structure is arbitrary. Sometimes, the mind creates structure, but other times, the mind recognizes structure." Unfortunately, the author is materialist, which causes them to miss the point that all stru
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by orasis 12y ago
social networks can't be launched broadly. Unless you can niche down to a space where you get very high penetration, this thing is DOA.
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by orasis 12y ago
I have a new saas product and I'm trying to figure out whether to sell to SMB or larger. Do you acquire customers via ads? What's your cost per acquisition? What's your CLV? I'm doing consumer stuff right now and the
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by orasis 12y ago
Uber and Google don't need to sell cars. They only need to sell rides.
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by orasis 12y ago
"Isn't there something vaguely equivalent in US law?" Nope. The closest would probably be plans to make nuclear bombs. Oh, and the stupid thing about crypto. If I was bored enough right now I'd paste some long crypto
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by orasis 12y ago
Just eat a meal? I think thats an over-optimistic suggestion?
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by orasis 12y ago
The two algorithms I have been getting a ton of mileage out of lately are Bayesian Bandits and variations of the TrueSkill ranking algorithm. Bayesian Bandits Explained: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/baye
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by orasis 12y ago
A totally normal part of insight meditation is to cycle through states of mind that have increased suffering. They're so common, that experienced meditators can pinpoint when they are entering into "Fear", "Misery&quo
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by orasis 12y ago
If you want to work one-on-one, you can grab a meditation teacher for a Skype session on PopExpert. I personally recommend Kenneth Folk - https://www.popexpert.com/kennethfolk?code=join-kennethfolk If you want just an intr
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by orasis 12y ago
Yes, there are certainly some experts, but also people that have done only dozens to hundreds of hours who have made enormous progress. As for not having time, most of these folks have worked up to 2 20 minute sits per day. Myself, I take

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