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by slackstation 10y ago
It isn't that he isn't trying. It's that it's clear that despite trying, he still isn't seeing it. He talks about being a "pretty good" listener but, not catching the fact that people he respects and admir
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by slackstation 10y ago
> One of the three or four core apps that will ship with Magic Leap’s headset “is a game, ‘Dr. G.,’ that has no female heroes or lead characters”. The one female character in the narrative, who isn’t in the game itself, “is a busty woman
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by slackstation 10y ago
This is what happens to a market when the person paying for it and person receiving the service are seperated. It can be generational (parents pay for kids education) or time (a person buys something at 20 that they will pay off at 45). I a
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by slackstation 10y ago
Why do we treat people with PHDs as idiots who in their 10 years of collegate level study don't ever think about their debt, their job prospects or their lives as they do it. Do you think that grad students don't read articles lik
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by slackstation 10y ago
As someone who also first installed Debian in 98 from a single floppy disk netboot image, a memorized FTP site domain, a cable modem connection and a whole night of hoping, I wholeheartedly agree, Dwarf Fortress is way, way harder. Every ye
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by slackstation 10y ago
This looks like it could be a more modern interpretation of what Apple's Hypercard was trying to be. Flash did this very well but, the technology and corporate ecosystem around it was terrible so it was good that we got rid of it. This
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by slackstation 10y ago
It's funny how alarmed this person seems to be and how they take pains to point out how it's tied to Nazi imagery. Dark Enlightenment, Cathedral, etc are ideas. Probably bad ideas but, ideas. You battle bad ideas by showing them t
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by slackstation 10y ago
It's not either or. Autonomous service for commuting is still highly valuable even if you retain your own car. Over the medium term, this will only encourage ever more massive and distant suburb creep. Also, with longer commutes less t
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by slackstation 10y ago
This is an N of one but, I use either Uber or Lyft to and from work every day. People get used to it. I find it far more pleasant than a crowded and dirty bus or train. Even when the car is small and full, the car usually smells better, is
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by slackstation 10y ago
For all intents and purposes, it's more energy than we will ever need so it's closer to infinite (conceptually) than finite.
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by slackstation 10y ago
Same thing happened with me. Coastal housing prices skew your perception of reality so much, it's hard to imagine <$100K even existing.
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by slackstation 10y ago
Also, making a logo is a one-time service. What value can you provide in the month after the logo is done?
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by slackstation 10y ago
People want car ownership; it's built into the culture. The question is at what cost. I have gotten rid of my car because Uber/Lyft and public transport/biking are SO much cheaper than owning a car. On the order of a few hund
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by slackstation 10y ago
Cheap? You can buy one from this guy for only $230 (!)
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by slackstation 10y ago
I think people are pointing out that the founder was someone that people wanted to see, a brilliant young woman; proof that the Steve Jobs of the world don't have to only be men. The real story turns out that the whole thing was smoke
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by slackstation 10y ago
From the article, Glenn Beck says: > "Yet, I still go to church, sometimes with a gun." I don't know why but, that somehow chills me to the core. As a former religious person. I'm so glad I got out American Christiani
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by slackstation 10y ago
> ... but she did do a very good job amassing big names, capital, and fantastic media attention to Theranos[1]. Things that every startup needs to do well. She did that largely because everyone wanted her a young, well educated smart whi
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by slackstation 10y ago
If a simple sandwich gets famous and then goes up in price, it isn't the fault of people outside the neighbourhood, it's the fault of they guy who runs the bodega on the corner. He realizes that he can do business where last week
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by slackstation 10y ago
This takes a massive amount of capital and distribution is usually through department stores that both sell and often install the machines. Getting into department stores will be an uphill battle but, that's still less hard and cheaper
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by slackstation 10y ago
Yes, if you are going to minimalism as a lived, pre-subscribed aesthetic experience, it's basically a really uncomfortable fashion. I find it better suited as a tool to examine your life and peel away things that aren't needed. Th
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by slackstation 10y ago
> I wish more companies understood the value of great products that people love to use as marketing instead of spending money on advertising. Companies understand. It's just that making something that people truely like is expensive
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by slackstation 10y ago
A $900 11" Macbook Air is really hard pressed to a better option than a $250 13" Chromebook for the types of low-end user that these appeal to. Yes, there are those dedicated few who would prefer an 11" over a 13" model
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by slackstation 10y ago
>> It's the same as if I chose to take 3 months off to section hike the Appalachian Trail > This includes holding future promotions and days off against them for doing the very things society thinks they should be doing - name
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by slackstation 10y ago
> Nah. Not really Valley Style, lets just fund another AI Moonshot. Because there isn't enough money in AI already. An AI moonshot if it works would change everything. It would change way more than the Linux kernel ever even dreamed
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by slackstation 10y ago
> it would be odd if their porn detector had such a huge gaping hole in it phrasing ! I couldn't resist.
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by slackstation 10y ago
For centers of innovation and insight into the future, startups collectively shoot themselves in the foot by centering on some of the most expensive real estate in the world. It'd be far more logical for VCs to pick a far more livable,
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by slackstation 10y ago
This is dumb. He's risking a significant amount of his livelyhood for a company that doesn't really care all that much about him and he's calling them out in public. Dumb move. Most people will forget about this in a week and
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by slackstation 10y ago
I hope you like time paradoxes because this is how you get trapped in a time paradox.
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by slackstation 10y ago
Respectfully, this is kinda BS. Your average American kid has already won a genetic lottery. Being born and raised in America is already great. I grew up the kid of immigrant parents from an African country and I am an immigrant myself at 5
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by slackstation 10y ago
Why do we get mired with the attempts quagmire? If you look at depression and suicidal thoughts as a disease, the death rate is gendered. Men die more from suicide yet society shows more sympathy and support for women. That makes sense sinc

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