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by qwtel 11y ago
I think Daniel Kahneman is the wrong guy to start with this argument.
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by qwtel 11y ago
But underconfidence is a weaker problem, in that it only effects efficiency. Maybe you won't talk to that girl, get that raise or close that deal. But you will not find yourself in a situation of no return. The trick would be to be ove
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by qwtel 11y ago
> Advertising should be respectful of the user’s time, attention, and battery life. This struck me. I think it's the other way around: Users should be respectful of advertising, or, since this sounds ridiculous: Pay for content. Eve
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by qwtel 11y ago
> I just don't get how someone could have at any point said "yes, this is a good path, we should continue with this" for all these custom build systems in the wild on these projects. I guess nobody ever said that. What peo
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by qwtel 12y ago
Looks nice. React really is more of a pattern or (if you will) a design philosophy, so anything along those lines is appreciated. However, I don't think being ~10x smaller is enough. It needs to be ~10x better as a whole, which in my
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by qwtel 12y ago
A good example of bad "design", that holds aesthetics above everything else. To be fair, it looks really nice. But having scrolled through it twice and being annoyed by the hijacked scrolling and autoplaying video with sound, I st
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by qwtel 12y ago
Not sure if you are just trolling, but I'm pretty convinced that ~100% of startups are developing 'breakthrough' products. For various reasons only ~1% turn out to be very successful at it. From an after-the-fact standpoint i
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by qwtel 12y ago
What is the rational behind this? My guess is that when a buffer reaches its limit it's expected that it will need to grow by another factor of its current size, while a fixed-size rate does not incorporate previous or current growth n
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by qwtel 12y ago
I like the idea of basic income, but I'm skeptical about how many problems it can actually solve. Your depiction almost makes it sound miraculous (with a bit of social romanticism), while ignoring the problems it could eventually creat
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by qwtel 12y ago
> Second, you probably need to trust the servers you are storing your data on. Sure, you have some guise of anonymity, but ultimately you're probably transporting over TCP/IP and so you can look at the IP sender field to figure