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by visakanv 11y ago
Fascinating, thanks for sharing!
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How do you define "independent media"? My impression is that the media industry in Singapore is near-centralized because of the size of the market. There's really just not enough people to support multiple large news organiza
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by visakanv 11y ago
Singaporean here. Some thoughts: 1. The people I talk to don't really care about privacy in the abstract sense. I mean, nobody wants to be filmed or recorded, but I think we all assume that the metadata is everywhere. We more or less a
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by visakanv 11y ago
Singaporean here. How exactly have I given up the "ability to find truths about (my) country" and "control over my future"? Do elaborate, please!
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by visakanv 11y ago
I do currently have multiple todo lists, but the experience of going through all of them can be kinda tedious. I'd be curious to try something more intuitive, if it existed.
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by visakanv 11y ago
> I said this elsewhere but I will say it here too - our best of the best software can't tell a zebra and a sofa in a zebra print apart. Really? I find this surprising. Do you have any links or sources? I'd like to learn more.
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by visakanv 11y ago
Fun fact: automated elevators were considered to be "unsafe" and "taking our jobs", too. Somehow we got past that one!
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by visakanv 11y ago
I want this for everything. Music to listen to, books to read, guitar skills to learn next, etc
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by visakanv 11y ago
I'm so sorry for your loss.
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by visakanv 11y ago
Love the name.
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by visakanv 11y ago
I'm in Singapore (we're right smack on the equator) and it's seriously sweltering here. Really, the hottest it's ever been in my entire life (25yrs). It's unbelievably intense.
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by visakanv 11y ago
Can you think of any examples of wisdom that don't seem blatantly obvious on hindsight? Would sincerely love to hear them
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The internet Ig Nobel!
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by visakanv 11y ago
I hesitate to describe myself as a smart kid, but I wish I couldn've skipped most of my formal education. I ended up making a living from the things I was doing outside of school, and wish I had been able to pursue those things more, a
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by visakanv 11y ago
He said "Pretty standard way to brand your own offices", meaning using your own brand's color scheme to color your stuff. Yahoo's offices are purple, Virgin's offices are red, etc etc
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> It seemed like Dan may have wanted to write this book before even taking a job at the company. This seems pretty likely to me.
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I would try this out.
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by visakanv 11y ago
I have always wanted this, so badly.
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I was told that driverless cars would not be in my lifetime, and that a machine would not beat a human at Go in my lifetime. We'll see.
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Can I ask you to elaborate on how and why? I instinctively agree with you, I think, but I don't know how to explain it.
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by visakanv 11y ago
> a natural side-effect of the increasing complexity of a society, or the result of active work and research toward increasing society's intelligence? I think the two are interrelated, and maybe one might be a function of the other–
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by visakanv 11y ago
> The company’s slogan, according to its website, is “We could wreck the world.” What a slogan.
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Asana Raising $50M for Work Tracking(blog.asana.com)
3 points by visakanv 11y ago|1 comments
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This is great, you should expand on it if possible and/or publish it elsewhere
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by visakanv 11y ago
> VJ-23X sighed. "Space is infinite. A hundred billion Galaxies are there for the taking. More." > "A hundred billion is not infinite and it's getting less infinite all the time. Consider! Twenty thousand years ago
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by visakanv 11y ago
> 5: One day, you too will write Inspiring Stories about your own Life's Calling. Make sure you always have photographers to take pictures of you. Make friends with media people. They will share your story even if it’s fake or unver
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How to Bullshit Everybody with an Inspirational Success Story, Sans Facts(medium.com)
2 points by visakanv 11y ago|2 comments
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> then I know that I'm not working on the final, final version, and I can allow the paragraph to be, temporarily at least, imperfect. Absolutely. This is so important. The writing and editing process should be decoupled– trying to d
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Works really well. The key is to be committed to seeing the process and not obsess pathologically about the outcome.
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Certainly! I experience this periodically, usually (perhaps always) when I'm approaching new topics or ideas that I'm not familiar with. I wouldn't say it's writer's block altogether, I think it's just the &quo

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