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by takinola 3y ago
I feel that the mindset is part of how you get to be really, really rich. If you are easily satisfied, then you will not have the drive to get to enormous levels of wealth. You need a certain type of personality to continue to roll the di
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by takinola 3y ago
I don't think the issue will be hiding that you have the money. That's almost trivial. The person next to you on the bus could have a huge amount of money but until they start spending, you have no way of knowing. However, given
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by takinola 4y ago
Has anyone actually verified that the song was generated by AI? It should be trivial for a good singer to mimic the voice and style of a famous artist and claim it is AI as a way to get some notoriety.
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Ask HN: What’s the difference between IBM’s Watson and Gen AI Like ChatGPT?
1 points by takinola 4y ago|2 comments
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by takinola 4y ago
Possibly, probably. Technology does not, in itself, create all the advantages. I likely have the same model iPhone as Bezos but his contact list probably includes much more powerful people. Similarly, we could have access to the same AI but
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by takinola 4y ago
Is there an example of a solely "for the good of humanity" thing that has come out of SV? Seems like a strange thing to expect from the technology sector. I think tech companies are (very) net positive for society but don't
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by takinola 4y ago
What exactly do you imagine is going to happen? There are lots of very rich people walking around in public all day long with little ill effects? The most you can get by robbing him is the stuff he has in his wallet, which is pretty much
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by takinola 4y ago
I've a sneaking suspicion that Apple's vertical consolidation of the iPhone supply chain makes the company much more fragile. There are clearly lots of economies of scale by building custom silicon that's optimized for their
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by takinola 4y ago
Think of it as cash. If you received $1K of vested RSUs, you have the exact same scenario of getting $1K cash. Would you buy the company stock? If so, keep the RSUs. Would you buy some other company stock, a new phone, whatever? If so,
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Ask HN: How do you handle photo uploads in a public site?
3 points by takinola 4y ago|2 comments
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by takinola 4y ago
I literally just spoke with someone who mentioned that skiing during the winter helps her get over the doldrums for the exact same reasons you mention
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Ask HN: What is “Hello World” for online marketing?
3 points by takinola 4y ago|2 comments
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by takinola 4y ago
The biggest falsehood a programmer could believe about time is that they have the ability to roll their own time manager. Just use a battle-hardened library and hope for the best. Dealing with time in code is crazy-making in a way I never
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by takinola 4y ago
I tried Inspire but it didn't work for me. My doctor said it's about 50:50 in terms of patients that it works for. CPAP works great for me. I also recently got a mandibular oral device which also works fine and is useful for si
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by takinola 4y ago
When I ran a SaaS business, I didn't have the analytics to find out if a customer was using the product or not but I never hesitated to give customers refunds if they claimed to have signed up and forgotten to cancel or something. It&
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by takinola 4y ago
Oh what I would give to be able to experience a world where the movie flopped. The same people claiming it was successful because it didn't try to be woke would have said it failed for being too woke (female pilots, multi-ethnic crew,
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by takinola 4y ago
You're probably just making a joke but in case others are wondering, your SUV is almost certainly not powered by liquified T-Rexs. Instead, most hydrocarbons we have today come from plants ie plankton-like creatures. Also, the positi
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by takinola 4y ago
Intelligence is the ability to consistently get what you want out of life. This definition really helped me expand my understanding of intelligence and helped me see intelligence in other people that I had previously dismissed. If people
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by takinola 5y ago
If you want to know how the feather trick works, here's the explanation Step 1: Ask for 2 people to stand apart blindfolded Step 2: While explaining the set up to the crowd, surreptitiously brush Person A's arm with a feather Step
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by takinola 5y ago
If you know what systemd is, you are, by definition, not a layperson.
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by takinola 5y ago
I think it is more than just condescension. In job's like plumbing or carpentry, it is much easier to ascertain when your work is done and if it is good. The workmen on a house remodel have a fixed(ish) scope and at the end of the da
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by takinola 5y ago
I do concede a certain amount of hand waving in this proposed solution
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by takinola 5y ago
Well the one we’re on has made it 4 billion years. Getting one to last 10,000 years should be a lot easier
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by takinola 5y ago
Don’t we have highly durable generational spaceships already? They’re called asteroids. If we find an asteroid that’s large enough to have internal geothermal activity, you could put a bunch of people in an underground system and nudge it i
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by takinola 5y ago
This is absolutely incorrect. Consulting companies, at least the major ones, will never let any consultant work for more than one competitor throughout their career. They also strictly forbid sharing any info learnt about a company with a
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by takinola 5y ago
But you are assuming an AI fighter plane is the same as a human-powered plane. If there is no need for a pilot, you can probably design the fighter to be something closer to a missle. It will pull harder Gs, have smaller radar profiles, e
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by takinola 5y ago
Can someone explain the appeal of Discord? It seems to be the same as Slack. In what way is it differentiated from existing messaging services?
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by takinola 5y ago
I believe a lot of people do this. There is even a podcast that is designed specifically for that (Sleep with me, I think is the name). I have particular podcasts where the host has a somewhat monotonous voice, not too exciting content an
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Ask HN: What tools do you use to acquire cryptocurrencies?
2 points by takinola 5y ago|0 comments
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by takinola 5y ago
Won't there be an equilibrium at some point? Empty ships rush back to Asia but can't load in Asia because all the containers are back in the US. Hence they will sit idle in Asia not earning any money and ships that do carry empt

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