totemandtoken

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   by totemandtoken 7y ago

   OpenAg had several projects - a Personal Food Computer, which is what I believe has the allegations of not being performant as claimed and another project called the Personal Food Server, which is where I imagine such a high discharge of wa
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   by totemandtoken 7y ago

   I want to frame this comment. Beautifully articulated, thank you
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   by totemandtoken 7y ago

   It's nobody's job to come up with a new business model, except maybe C-suite powerbrokers. But it represents a great market opportunity for whoever does find an alternative business model...
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   by totemandtoken 7y ago

   I didn't say taxpayers should absorb their operating expenses. My only point with my comment is that there's a lot of armchair analysis but not even armchair solutions
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   by totemandtoken 7y ago

   I see comments like this a lot, but I rarely see proposed alternative business models. The only one I can think of off-hand is ProPublica. Anyone else got anymore? I'm sometimes afraid that the reason newspapers don't pivot to any
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   by totemandtoken 7y ago

   Yeah, I liked the read but the two tips I somewhat disagree with is the twitter tip (because honestly, even if you use twitter right, there is a low signal to noise ratio) and the price signals for failure/success. Sometimes its better
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   by totemandtoken 8y ago

   Somewhat incidentally, I was watching a Wisecrack episode on the philosophy of Tolkien which seemed to imply that his middle-earth universe was meant to be read as preceding our own history [0]. Following in that vein, I wonder what a high
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   Assembling Assemblers(youtube.com)

   7 points by totemandtoken 8y ago|0 comments
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   by totemandtoken 8y ago

   Interesting recommendation. Looking forward to checking this out. I usually hear Schopenhauer or Zapffe as a similar recommendation.
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    by totemandtoken 8y ago

    I hesitate answering because I am not really a software engineer, but I think a strong understanding of philosophy will probably help. I see a lot of other comments in this thread recommending empathy, organizing, hermeneutics, etc. Most of
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    Ask HN: Favorite language features?

    3 points by totemandtoken 8y ago|0 comments
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    by totemandtoken 8y ago

    I actually looked at this submission because I thought it might have something to do with Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies [0] [0] https://cogsci.indiana.edu/book.html