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> the only one I would recommend is a massive cliche but I do think it's actually quite good: How to Win Friend and Influence People. It's a quick read. It’s a very good book. However, for me personally, it was too advanced in
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It’s great what they did, very impressive and excellent product. However, the article is a bit misleading, mainly for two reasons: “bootstrapped”, and “without spending a dime on marketing”. They “bootstrapped” by financing the company with
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So at what scale do we call movement movement? Because things are moving inside this lens, but at a molecular/atomic level.
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Why not both?
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Kazaa
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Notarize.com - I was blown away by how easy, simple and fast it was to get documents notarized.
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Not sure what you mean about assuming a self-sustaining thought. The point is that you can never experience anything outside your own point of view, which means that you can never know if anything outside of your own personal experience is
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I remember seeing dealers selling crack in plain sight on 9th and mission every day. Cops would drive by and the dealers wouldn’t even try to hide. It really seemed like there was some sort of arrangement going on there. But what would I kn
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How can you be sure is not the same with physical reality? Ie. That only your thought of it exists. After all, the only thing that we can be certain of is our own (subjective) experience.
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Or perhaps consciousness means being conscious of being conscious ;) Ps: love your username
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> “Since the cerebral cortex is the seat of intelligence, almost everybody thinks that it is also the seat of consciousness,” Solms writes. “I disagree; consciousness is far more primitive than that. It arises from a part of the brain th
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> Saying that "consciousness is just a feeling" is equivalent to saying that "consciousness is just consciousness". It may sound like and explanation, but it is just a tautology. I think you hit the nail in the head w
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You just described the stock market. The only difference is that before, there were only a handful of people with the power and tools to manipulate it (ie. Wall Street), whereas now, due to the power of the Internet and social networks, mas
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FTA: > In this case, 50 stands for 5/6 and 8,20 stands for 8 1/2
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> and together that makes up what human conciousness is? If you believe consciousness is completely materialistic, then maybe it is like that. I personally think that to be conscious means to be aware of being aware. You could say it’s a
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Thank you, looks great. Does it have a replay feature? Didn’t see a reference to it on the readme or the wiki.
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Do you have a recommendation for gsm usb sticks? Where do you get them? Do you use just one SIM card at a time, or do you have a usb stick that can hold (and operate) multiple SIM cards simultaneously?
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> In Firefox reddit (new version) Lately been using teddit.net for browsing reddit and it’s been great.
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Tangential to this. Does anyone know of an app/service like etherpad, but for handwritten notes? Would love to be able to replay notes that I write with the pencil on the iPad. I also feel it would enable a cool way of storytelling in
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Very interesting point. Could an argument be made that since Disney has never defended this, then they have no right to complain now? (At least trademark is supposed to work that way - you lose it if you don’t actively enforce it).
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So was this tried somewhere and that’s what happened? Or are you just making it up? Drawing attention to budgets should not only be about the way the money is spent, but also about the way the money is collected. In any case, the point stil
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> They’re trying to draw more attention to it That’s what they are claiming, but there are many ways (probably a lot better), of drawing attention to taxes, aside from forcing you to go through a bad process. Additionally, if they were t
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Cool, thank you!
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Does it work with private repos? I tried github1s with a private repo and it threw an authorization error.
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> VC money makes it possible to support a bigger team from the outset Yes. However, in practice, it is very rare to be able to raise money before the founding team has already been working on the business for a few months. Hence, by the
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This is the case with pretty much every Marketplace out there. Same thing happens with Amazon and same thing happens with Airbnb as well. What a Marketplace cares the most about is maximizing transactions. Hence, they care about having plen
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> Wirecutter simply isn't that reliable Agreed. Recently bought a handheld vacuum cleaner. Wirecutter had some recommendations and said the Dyson one was “the strongest” (also most expensive), I got the Dyson and hated it (very cumb
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> let these lobbies profit off the back of addicts and their families and their ruined lives This already happens and has been the case for a long time. People get addicted to drugs regardless of their legality. The way to address addict
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Got it, but what is the reasoning for that rule to be there? Why was that rule/law created?
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It would also be important to know, not if ads can produce great results, but how many companies do they provide great results for? Even better, what percentage of all business that run online ads get a positive return on their investment,
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