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by oskarth 13y ago
Wow. This graph is certainly illuminating: https://public.brightside.io/v1/chart/321ef2c603e8d67080afcd... 450000000 is a lot of users. Metcalfe's law says that the value of a communication network is propo
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by oskarth 13y ago
That's true. What about people like da Vinci or Michelangelo? I am not comparing pg to either of these three people, at least not directly. I'm just claiming that it's not unlikely there's some kind of taste, knowledge o
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by oskarth 13y ago
If you are the Richard Feynman of your field, don't you think you could pick up if someone is a good physicist or not in 10 minutes of talking about physics? Not just physics per say, but the mental models you have, the experiments you
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by oskarth 13y ago
What's so strange about that? Personally I think it's a brilliant strategy. It's the logical conclusion of having few users love you, and frankly I can't think of anyone better than Sam Altman to beta test a email app. O
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by oskarth 13y ago
This is spot on. I absolutely love the book, but I've never thought about how connected it is to the chase of user metrics and the likes. Good observation.
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Express yourself with gifs using your webcam(andtheniwaslike.co)
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by oskarth 13y ago
Well, after struggling for a year and if your second year salary is still RMB 2,000, then that means you have not grown as a person. You should be really ashamed of yourself. Do yourself a favour and go to the supermarket and buy the harde
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by oskarth 13y ago
> Central banking is possibly the greatest human invention since sanitation. The U.S. central banking system ranks among the finest of its kind. How did you come to that conclusion? Is this a common viewpoint? EDIT: I am genuinely curiou
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by oskarth 13y ago
I don't know about you guys, but these two quotes together with the events in the life of Assange seems to paint some picture. According to the Post, officials “realized that they have what they described as a ‘New York Times problem’
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by oskarth 13y ago
By your logic, all of the following statements should lead to an arrest: I'm gonna have to kill someone if I don't get to sleep soon. You make me so mad I want to kill you! If these kids don't calm down you'll have
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by oskarth 13y ago
Conflating law with ethics. Becoming more prevalent as the number of laws increase. I can't back it up with science (someone know of any research?), but it sure seems to be a trend when you compare among countries in various stages.
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by oskarth 13y ago
> Don't make threats if you don't intend to follow up on them. Hello, Thought Police. It wasn't a threat. It was a series of tasteless jokes. The consequences aren't even remotely proportional. You know what would be
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by oskarth 13y ago
Sounds like religion without many of its benefits (for example, human terminus) and with a more superficial form of belief. If this is a trend, it feels like the potential for a revival for organized spiritually in the coming generation or
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Reinventing explanation(michaelnielsen.org)
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by oskarth 13y ago
A lot of people are vegans for all kinds of reasons. Does that mean meat shouldn't be served at conferences? Frankly, that's ridiculous. The absolute majority of people are ok with alcohol in moderate doses (I still don't kno
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by oskarth 13y ago
There's a world of difference between being excluded because you are of a certain gender, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation and because you don't like a certain beverage. Hey, I don't like the naive techno-optimist pr
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by oskarth 13y ago
More relevant: where did you find the article?
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Winter 2014 residents(hackerschool.com)
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XPP – quirky but declarative and interactive(blog.oskarth.com)
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Decade dollars and using the right level of precision(blog.oskarth.com)
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by oskarth 13y ago
> I'm against these It's not a football team. It's a conference that someone else organizes. Leave it alone if you don't like it.
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How the Amazon Warehouse Works [video](chonday.com)
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by oskarth 13y ago
Or maybe they follow few people because of limited resources. You can't infer someone's humility bases on the amount of people they follow on twitter. Why do they follow "big" people? Maybe because they are friends, some
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by oskarth 13y ago
All I can think about reading the comments (and the article, for whatever reason) is pg's advice to sama and how it didn't seem to help at all here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6843726
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by oskarth 13y ago
He did make a lot of money in 2008 as well. That is completely aside from the fact that his points would be valid regardless of how successful his individual investments have been. I am not sure what would convince you otherwise though, sin
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by oskarth 13y ago
You are absolutely right. In hindsight I shouldn't have replied. The comment thread would've been shorter and more readable then, too ;)
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by oskarth 13y ago
I like Bitcoin. It's odd that I even have to say that to be read correctly. None of the things you mention are uses, they are features. Great features, sure, but it's not something that you actually do with a currency. It's
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by oskarth 13y ago
I think you are mischaracterizing many of the comments. The abstract value concept is not new to people. What is confusing however, is what the uses are. In the case of Bitcoin this is easily explained: Silk Road, "laundering" (fo
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by oskarth 13y ago
I don't understand. Who is buying and selling Dogecoins? For what? Mining for fun is one thing, but why buy it with USD?
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by oskarth 13y ago
I would also recommend RescueTime, a YC company to track your time. You barely have to do anything, just let it run and see what it reports to you in terms of your productivity. Probably one of the best ROI that a app can have.

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