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by timoth3y 6y ago
> How much mental stimuli did you have sitting in the forest and doing menial labour much of the day, Quite a bit, I imagine. We tend to discount the complexity of tasks we don't have to do. In the same way you dismiss the complexit
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I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm not sure if that means anything; coming from a random stranger on the HN. But thank you for sharing what must have been an unimaginably difficult time for you.
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I know being an "elitist" is not in fashion these days, but very few of us (and certainly not me) are qualified to answer this. Looking at his body of work, there is no question that Stephen Hawking was a genius, so this is not a
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I question the underlying assumption that the average person is more intelligent today than 100 years ago or even 20,000 years ago. Yes, the Flynn Effect is real. IQ scores have risen internationally over the past 100 years, but that's
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by timoth3y 6y ago
More accurately, NFTs unbundle ownership from payment.
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by timoth3y 6y ago
> In form, the language of social media is written—but in style, it is far more like speech." I don't think that's quite it. The problem is that tweets are are almost completely context-free. Tweets are a complete, self-co
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Stuck Suez cargo ship in Microsoft Flight Simulator(pcgamer.com)
85 points by timoth3y 6y ago|27 comments
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It's not a public vs private thing. I've been in plenty of panel discussions where I have offered advice to female founders publicly. I was in a semi-open mentoring session just a few days ago when I did so. In fact, I've bee
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While I have no doubt that the author's examples are true, and of course sometimes feedback is misinterpreted. However, I've never found this line of argument compelling. Yes, as a man, sometimes you do have to be careful about ho
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This is why the other CEOs refused to give the "simple yes or no" answer demanded by Representative Doyle. If you try to give context you are attacked for being evasive, if you play along, your "admission of guilt" becom
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by timoth3y 6y ago
> ... but Jeff Bezos would have a much harder time doing the same? I question that assumption. Let's keep in mind that we have already accepted that URLs pointing to a video or jpeg become valuable once they are put on a blockchain
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by timoth3y 6y ago
HR gets a lot more hate than they deserve. I've built several startups, and I do get the the whole "we don't need no stinking HR to tell us how to treat people!" vibe. It's definitely true at small companies and one
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by timoth3y 6y ago
> no Federal provision was made for their maintenance. That's not quite true. The federal gas tax was created specifically to fund the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges. States add their own taxes onto this. The prob
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by timoth3y 6y ago
This is called "Demand Response" and it's an important part of grid management. For example a factory will agree to decrease consumption when asked in exchange for lower rates. Too much power is usually handled in the generat
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Because they can make you a better person. Many of the classic books that are still available are those that explore profound truths about who we are or tell stories that affect us deeply. They have been examined and discussed for centuries
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> What would an algorithm’s accuracy be when distinguishing between faces of people of the same age, gender, and ethnicity? To answer this question, classification accuracies were recomputed using only face pairs of the same age, gender,
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There were different people involved. The idea probably came from a brilliant tour manager, but like everything in the music business, the talent gets the credit.
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by timoth3y 6y ago
I was about to comment on that same statement. The author seems to be confusing supply with demand. Simply because you can create and distribute something doesn't mean there is a market for it. If you could, we would see a lot more pro
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by timoth3y 6y ago
There was a bit of a scandal about this a few years ago. As I recall, no one could find any record of Tim Ferris ever winning the Chinese kickboxing competition he claimed to have won. Was that ever resolved? In a sense, I suppose, his poin
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by timoth3y 6y ago
Exactly. Everyone knows it's an octothorp.
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by timoth3y 6y ago
“He’s not uncomfortable and he doesn’t look weird,” Musk said. When the (US Department of Agriculture) came through and inspected our facilities, our monkey facilities, she said it was, like, the nicest monkey facilities she’s ever seen in
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Elon Musk's Monkey-Brain Pong(news.com.au)
1 points by timoth3y 6y ago|1 comments
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> exit! exist something that needs to exist. Not sure why I can't edit the original comment.
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Thank you for starting this. It's something that needs to exit!
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My construction experience was mostly moving heavy crap from one pile to another pile, so I can't really judge the relative skill of individual electricians or plumbers. However, an unskilled or sloppy electrician will have a pretty lo
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by timoth3y 6y ago
> Like carpentry, electrician, construction, plumbing? This may not be a popular opinion on HN, but it is much harder to learn how to be a passible electrician or plumber than it is to learn how to be a passible programer. I worked plent
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by timoth3y 6y ago
It's like playing basketball or playing golf. Almost anyone can learn to do it and to enjoy it. But to be really good takes years of effort and probably some natural talent as well.
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by timoth3y 6y ago
Thanks for that. It's nice to see a calm perspective on GME. Of course, he doesn't try to get to the bottom of a lot of the questions that really do need to be answered, but a good perspective on what it means for "the rest o
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by timoth3y 6y ago
> At least I'm familiar enough with Amazon to know I'm not getting charged for things I didn't intend to order You are better at online shopping than I am. Amazon has tricked me into signing up for Prime twice. First time
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by timoth3y 6y ago
Has anyone figured our how Epstein made his money? His Financial Trust asset management company seems to have had no clients and generated relatively little (declared) income. His real estate holdings all seem to be his own property. He com

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