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by qF 15y ago
I agree, and that is actually a similar stance to the one I took in the thread this is a response to. But the idea wasn't to judge whether someone is actually improving lives but rather to see if they feel like they do. There are a lot of d
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Ask HN: Does Your Startup Improve Lives?
45 points by qF 15y ago|42 comments
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by qF 15y ago
hmm, interesting, and I don't deny that 'commercial' companies can have good (unintentional) effects. But I am sure there is a space between charity and 'actual' companies, along the lines of what Fábio Barbosa[1] is doing. Which makes me w
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by qF 15y ago
I specifically chose to talk about a scale, because I do agree that it is not black and white. There is however a difference between: earning money as a goal and improving lives as a means (improved quality of life being a byproduct) and wa
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by qF 15y ago
'Improving lives' is ambiguous, it centralizes around solving problems that people have. However if you scale these problems from 1st world to 3rd world problems it seems to me that improving lives in this context is aimed more at 1st rath
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by qF 15y ago
Just keep it simple and go with: "No, just build the damn product." His own idea; http://vimeo.com/1425935 around 4:10
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by qF 15y ago
Accurately simulating physics is quite difficult. Simulations are a simplified representation of reality, but translating a simulation back to actual little robots might not work. This is because of noise you would encounter in the real wor
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by qF 15y ago
Many people don't know/understand what they share about themselves when they sign up for Facebook. What's wrong with someone who is known for speaking up to warn people about the 'risks' of social media?
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by qF 15y ago
I've only quickly browsed through the online version and already had a few good laughs! And I love the; This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License because I couldn't find a
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by qF 16y ago
Isn't the 10,000 hour most commonly applied to things like playing the violin? I haven't seen many cases of it being applied to coding, nor language learning, in the academic papers I've read anyway... I can recommend reading "The Cambridge
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by qF 16y ago
They calculate the positions. Though recently the railway implemented a system in their trains that seems to use GPS to inform passengers on realtime arrival times. So perhaps in the future they will make GPS data available in their API. Th