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by rafiki6 8y ago
I don't doubt what we decide should survive isn't necessarily what "nature" will decide should survive. If we get to a point where we are in too much conflict with "nature" we will lose most likely. Earth'
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I've learned that being an expert in any field does not shield you from being very very stupid in many other fields. Critical thinking skills are hard to learn and maintain. It's a constant battle against our own biases and misinf
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Hmm, really? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146752-we-seem-to-be-g...
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Not true. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146752-we-seem-to-be-g...
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I'm all for conspiracy theories, but we have to use some reasoning here. I don't doubt the food industry does this, but the reality is there's a happy middle ground. Maybe that middle ground could be using common names for th
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Yes and no. MSG is what gives food that amazing umami flavor. It's in more foods than we realize. It's the same as adding any other spice. It's important to revert to a scientific approach to understanding why something shoul
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I think it's a cognitive reaction to safety. Fear is certainly there due to the unknown. People will retreat to what they feel is safe and easy to understand i.e. "natural" food. Little do they know natural food is GMO! The c
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I feel the underlying cause of this is the continuing stupidification of Western Societies. It ties in well with the fact that most people just aren't well equipped to navigate complex issues and are easy prey for unscrupulous marketer
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Failed because my co-founders weren't committed and I didn't care enough about the idea to attempt to pursue it on my own. Learned that having good committed co-founders is critical if you'd like to have them at all. Also lea
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Sorry what makes you think the second largest economy in the world is by any measure poor? These countries are quite wealthy, despite the fact that a large chunk of their populations are poor.
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You can tell that he's come to terms with his situation in life and lost any ambition. How hard did he have to work mentally to reach contentment? It's admirable but incredibly sad that him and many others like him didn't hav
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Exactly. In general, if you do well it means you're probably pretty smart (whether you've memorized or figured it out on the spot). If you don't do well, it just means it's not your type of test most likely. I'd say
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I feel like this topic comes up on HN every six months and we all lament the broken state of technical interviewing, and the ardent supporters of all the different styles come in and push their position based on success perceived from anecd
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Self-made is a huge stretch here...she is literally the product of her mother's intelligence. Put her in any other situation and she'd be yet another bratty 20 year old.
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Lots of annoying articles would be written about it, its stock price would tank and we'd forget about it in about 3 months.
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Define passion. Your better off understanding your fundamental drives beyond basic primal urges. Is it money? It is power? Is it helping others? Is it praise from others? My own personal experience is this. I did engineering, then worked in
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Patents aren't a peer-reviewed academic journal. They're just a way to gain exclusive rights to an idea for a period of time, whether or not that idea pans out. If I am doing competition research, it's not to determine the fe
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I find this to be less of a whitepaper and more of an opinion piece. For e.g. "For example, two business parties transacting would not need to maintain their own record of the transaction and would use the blockchain as a single source
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I don't understand what the argument being made here is. They charge high fees because they can. They can because there's no competition to take customers from them. There's no competition because Large ISPs are greedy and lo
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Not sure why the reaction to this is so negative. Google's own AI blog ( https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natur... ) admits that this is a very specific use case system. And it seems to be
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by rafiki6 9y ago
In general, I'm of the opinion the current day style of teaching (someone supposed "expert" stands there and tells you stuff) is inefficient and a terrible way to teach anything. The best way to learn any concept, and I mean
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Soon enough Spotify will become the record label. All a record label does is, produce, promote and distribute. It's an antiquated model.
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Here's an inevitable comment since you make such an authoritative statement with 0 ounce of evidence to back it up. Internet Advertising is not as effective as you believe it is. https://www.theatlantic.com/business&#x
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I agree with loss of community and generally speaking those important life event celebrations are what make a community, but have you ever considered that what made those life events important to begin with is the religion itself? Non-relig
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FB isn't a life or death service and neither is any social media for that matter. I think we sometimes seem to forget that the world existed and did rather well before the FB ad network made it's debut. At the end of the day that&
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I agree to a certain extent. I'm not a fan of legalese and do think things like TOS should be much simpler. To have rational consumers who think critically we need to remove hurdles for people to think critically. But here's my ma
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Disclaimer: I'm anti-democracy in it's current form so before you down vote me think through my point carefully. What I don't get about this whole issue, is that we are basically admitting that the average person who uses t
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Hundreds is a bit of a hyperbole here. We've only had modern corporate America for maybe the last 150 years. Pre-industrial companies didn't have as much power or clout as large behemoth enterprises do today.
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Technologists aren't doctors. Doctors are a necessity because people have an incessant need to stay alive. Technologists aren't a fundamental necessity to society. We are business people. The only rules/ethics that govern us
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Ask HN: What are the real drawbacks of an energy based currency?
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