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by peterlk 6y ago
> Academic research shows that US multinationals consistently lead in adapting the best corporate management practices of any major country.[1] Your source points to an article about horseshoe crabs... Can you update it? I'd be inte
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by peterlk 6y ago
What incentive would anyone have to do this? Show of force? Frustration about a specific package?
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by peterlk 6y ago
> and thinking they signal intelligent commentary Can you point out where in the writing their commentary is not intelligent? You seem to be attacking the author of this article but make no commentary about the weakness of their argument
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by peterlk 6y ago
https://musicianship.studio I built it a while ago, and don't have the heart to shut it down. It's basically meant to be musical flash cards. If it got some more traction, I could probably afford to spend time actually
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by peterlk 6y ago
Simple was an online bank. They had no physical branches and charged very low fees. Personally, I think they're one of the best banks around, and I'm very disappointed to hear that they're shutting down.
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by peterlk 6y ago
Not OP, but I feel similarly. I'm going to go get the vaccine as soon as I can because what's the alternative? I want to go to concerts and travel again. If I don't get the vaccine my choices are: 1) not care and probably ge
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by peterlk 6y ago
Yes! This is the kind of stuff I'm looking for. There appear to be some interesting fractal apps as well. Any other suggestions?
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by peterlk 6y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I mean. I feel your pain for writing. This morning, I accidentally deleted all my notes from yesterday and could not recover them from my phone because there is no undo (!!? How can phones still not have an undo?)
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Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them?
98 points by peterlk 6y ago|80 comments
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by peterlk 6y ago
I wonder if the "I'm feeling lucky" has stayed around because it's a good training heuristic for Google Home (and maybe other services?) even if very few people actually use it. I'm genuinely curious why they'v
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by peterlk 6y ago
I have some friends who have recently started a business based on this model. They don't have a site up yet, but are doing some small scale tests in Colorado. I'm happy to direct anyone who is interested toward them.
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by peterlk 6y ago
Excellent article > When you hear someone say something, stop and ask yourself "Is that true?" This is one of my favorite things to do, though the list of people who will talk to me again after I do it is very short. (Edit: To
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by peterlk 6y ago
Any yeast that produces psilocybin is GMO unless there is some yeast in nature that naturally produces it. The article you link uses GMO yeast
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by peterlk 6y ago
> “We can now confirm that these [...] balls from Yanghai are the oldest [...] balls in Eurasia,” says Patrick Wertmann, an archaeologist at the University of Zurich and lead author of the recent study. “They were life tools, used for pl
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by peterlk 6y ago
The irony here is that you're still optimizing, we're just arguing about heuristics. I find it to be a very difficult thought experiment to consciously avoid optimization. Maybe the key might be to stop thinking and/or live w
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by peterlk 6y ago
This is well put. I want to expand on one point that seems to be lurking beneath the author's remarks. Technical debt does not necessarily come from technical people. If you're in a startup, there is almost no way that you can end
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by peterlk 6y ago
My armchair analysis of the obvious solution is to airgap all these systems. Perhaps this would require some new infrastructure in hospitals, but it would add a very difficult-to-penetrate layer.
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On the Utility of Generalists(peterklipfel.com)
3 points by peterlk 6y ago|0 comments
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by peterlk 6y ago
This is a topic about which I am particularly passionate. We teach music so wrong. Classical training is about militaristic precision - the ability to achieve perfect regurgitation of a piece that everyone has heard before. But this is the
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The Great Reset(weforum.org)
1 points by peterlk 6y ago|0 comments
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by peterlk 6y ago
> If we care about blood pressure, for example, why have we not given every drug, at every dosage, every regiment, and in every combination to a mouse and actually seen what happens? One of the answers is hidden behind this question: Eth
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by peterlk 6y ago
What's old is new again. These stickers were printed 30 years ago too when there was a huge influx of Californians to Colorado. Source: told about it 10 years ago by native Boulderites
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Reversible dynamics with closed time-like curves and freedom of choice(iopscience.iop.org)
3 points by peterlk 6y ago|0 comments
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by peterlk 6y ago
Usage of BIL Gates in gene therapy - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptor The possibilities boggle my mind
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by peterlk 6y ago
Accommodation cost is the primary heuristic I use for travel. I have a personal model for places to go, and I actually prefer going to places with lower prices because the most expensive places are often just tourist traps. The places with
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by peterlk 6y ago
This is exactly the argument for privacy. Privacy is about agreed lines because we know that there are some places where we just won't get along. The "if you have nothing to hide" argument assumes that you want to see the thi
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by peterlk 6y ago
Was this comment generated with GPT-3?
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by peterlk 6y ago
I think there are probably more than a dozen people, but they are working other projects. GPT-3 is cool, but it's not really commercially viable yet. There are lots of more immediately profitable projects to work on in the large enterp
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by peterlk 6y ago
I can't help but wonder how much of this is coming from Unreal Engine. Epic has been using its Fortnihe money to buy up markets, and after the Mandalorian, people are starting to look at UE much more seriously in the media industry. An
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by peterlk 6y ago
War doesn't care what you want. It's already starting. For example, look at the China/India conflict

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