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by visakanv 10y ago
> it costs a lot of money to do that Well they _have_ raised $15,000,000,000 in cash: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/business/dealbook/why-uber...
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by visakanv 10y ago
> A group of talented, well compensated engineers are developing a machine to be offended on my behalf and their leader openly states that he isn't well-placed to make the necessary trade-offs
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by visakanv 10y ago
First thing that comes to mind is that live video that poor lady filmed while her boyfriend was sitting in the car next to her being shot by police. It was a very important piece of news. How will Facebook or AI prevent flagging that video?
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by visakanv 10y ago
> You seem to be implying that they are violating privacy just for the heck of it. Why not both? Why not collect all the information you possibly can, whether or not you immediately see obvious value to it, and then find ways to justify
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by visakanv 10y ago
> Individual users' data is very closely guarded internally. It's immensely difficult to look at user data without specific access. Overwhelmingly, this data is queried in aggregate and fed into machine learning systems. The ri
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by visakanv 10y ago
> I'd go so far as to say that all niche markets have non-disclosed "syndicates" of sorts. I think this might be human nature. My wife told me about the group behavior of a Facebook group she belongs to (women's fitn
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by visakanv 10y ago
It IS possible to get lucky on content aggregation sites without any magic. I've had this happen for me in several places – HN, Reddit, Medium. But it's very hit and miss. You can post something great and have it totally miss 9 ou
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by visakanv 10y ago
You just hit on one of the fundamental reasons why all online communities tend towards toxicity – the people who have the most time and energy to invest in discussions (which eventually snowball into flame wars) are the people who aren&#x27
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> As an early fan of ProductHunt I became saddened to watch their community get diluted and become more of a place for "growth hackers" to hang out than people who actually make things. This is the inevitable fate of all commun
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by visakanv 10y ago
> Does anyone else feel uncomfortable when SF tech workers, in this case a CEO of an acquired startup, talk about homelessness in this way? I recognize it as a tone-deaf thing to say, probably from someone who's never actually exper
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by visakanv 10y ago
I hate that I have a thought this cynical, but... I think almost all success invariably involves some amount of collusion and rigging and grey-area manipulation. It's all showbiz in the short-to-medium run. Most people don't care
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by visakanv 10y ago
"Nasty Gal's Sophia Amoruso Hits Richest Self-Made Women List With $280 Million Fortune" – http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2016/06/01/nasty-ga...
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> Do sales people have something important other than their interpersonal skills? Consider the difference between my dad telling a joke at dinner and a standup comedian doing a 2 hour set to a sold out arena. They both technically are &q
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by visakanv 10y ago
Wow, did Slack just assume your timezone?
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Sorry, I legitimately thought it was interesting and relevant
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by visakanv 10y ago
Unless Musk cracks open the asteroid mining industry with SpaceX! (Though Bezos IS best-positioned to compete with Blue Horizon)
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by visakanv 10y ago
I found this reddit comment interesting: > [–][deleted] 3796 points 2 years ago*x2 Lots of Indian dudes are great guys. Most, even. Smart, funny, sociable, kind, handsome, eyes to kill for, the works. But just as with every group, some a
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by visakanv 10y ago
My perhaps-naive response to anybody in this situation would be: you should always be building relationships with people who'd be happy to hire you at a moment's notice. To do that, you'll want to be able to talk about things
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by visakanv 10y ago
There are several different parts to procrastination, and both of these are valid interpretations. See: https://alexvermeer.com/how-we-use-the-procrastination-equat...
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by visakanv 10y ago
Science writer Lewis Thomas observed this decades ago: > The solitary Ik, isolated in the ruins of an exploded culture, has built a new defense for himself. If you live in an unworkable society you can make up one of your own, and this i
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by visakanv 10y ago
> Has anybody here ever had her/his mind changed by a great overpaid speaker? Overpaid speakers aren't there to change your mind, they're there to signal to you the high status of the institution that burnt a pile of cash
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by visakanv 10y ago
See also the backlash against the athlete protesting during the national anthem.
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by visakanv 10y ago
How dare you express appreciation in an abbreviated manner!
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by visakanv 10y ago
I once saw a reddit comment that explained it really, really well: https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3pcvfb/saudi_arab...
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by visakanv 10y ago
I too enjoy signalling my superiority over others!
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by visakanv 10y ago
How do you know; have you ever tried not being human?
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by visakanv 10y ago
I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your story with us.
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Yup I paid for Design Your Workflow (primary on the merit of his writing/insight) and I found it very helpful. It restructured my entire GTD system and just clarified my actions a lot.
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I don't know the answer either. :-(
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by visakanv 10y ago
I seriously love Tiago's work. I don't know if anybody remembers, but I once wrote a post about procrastination that got to the frontpage of HN, a couple of years ago [1]. And since then, I've been basically reading everythin

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