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by thisisit 8y ago
I have been meditating for 6 months now and the actual breakthrough came with the realization that meditation was not about "doing" rather "letting it be". So, no more struggling with trying to calm my mind and rather le
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by thisisit 8y ago
But then peer to peer is not always a good thing. Often times finding a peer is a big issue. An example is AirBnb. There were people on both sides who required this service. But it actually took a centralised service to actually get it work
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Why There Is No Salt on Restaurant Tables Anymore?(bloomberg.com)
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Uber accounts for less than 0.1% of economy’s total work hours and compensation(epi.org)
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Sam Harris and the Myth of Perfectly Rational Thought(wired.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
Blockchain's only use seems to be in money: https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-blockchain-is-hard-60416ea... In a sense, current conceptions of blockchain are trying to do the impossible. They want the security of
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Are more productive companies higher up?(marginalrevolution.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Transactions don't consume energy. Makes me wonder - what is your definition of a transaction? Traditionally a transaction is something which has been committed to the book or ledger. Transactions cannot exist out in the wild with
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The 'Black Hole' That Sucks Up Silicon Valley's Money(theatlantic.com)
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Why Blockchain is Hard?(medium.com)
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Swedish Thieves Turn to Wildlife Trafficking(theatlantic.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
Given how blockchain operates the only viable use case is currency: https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-blockchain-is-hard-60416ea...
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Where Graduates Move After College(wsj.com)
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What if JavaScript wins?(medium.com)
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Why Tech Philanthropy Doesn't Help Silicon Valley(theatlantic.com)
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Why Blockchain is Hard?(medium.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
I think the whole "One" branding is a tired trope which many technology companies tend to use to show one platform, company etc. In past 5 years I have seen 3 of my employers add One X, with X being the company name, as the offici
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What Does Facebook Consider Hate Speech? Take Our Quiz(nytimes.com)
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The Gun-Law Loophole That Entices Tycoons and Criminals to Play Cop(bloomberg.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
You didn't use the term stock market, so I am assuming you mean market research. One of the ways people do their research is by creating a landing page and driving traffic via google/facebook/linkedin ads. The amount of signu
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by thisisit 8y ago
Original link: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2168713-huge-new-facebo... The actual problem here is not that Cambridge Analytica got the data. But that they created a site where this data was made readily availab
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Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980(nytimes.com)
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Ledgers and innovation in banking(blog.dgwbirch.com)
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Why Blockchain is Hard(medium.com)
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The Wild Ride of Zoox's Autonomous Taxi(forbes.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Where we find evidence that these or other apps did misuse data, we will ban them and notify people via this website The website in question is Facebook. My bet is this didn't even go through a PR. Rather as this slowly unfolds
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by thisisit 8y ago
You live by the sword you die by the sword. Tesla and Musk, especially are in news all the time - boring company, flamethrowers, candy company etc. So, it goes to reason that even the failures will get highlighted.
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by thisisit 8y ago
That is the nature of business cycle. Everyone starts of doing their own thing. Then at a point in time businesses start to run out of markets to keep growing. They need to find new places to generate alpha. This mostly coincides with the r
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The Wild Ride of Zoox the Robo-Taxi Startup(forbes.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
I assume by 'traditional' industry you mean stuff like manufacturing, finance? If yes, then you should check out Six Sigma, Kanban etc. Those came from traditional industry - manufacturing and applied to software engineering. Scru

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