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by cell303 5y ago
People are losing their minds over this. Barely anything web3 has even been built yet. Perhaps it never will. Still, the idea that young people want to do things differently is so terrifying to these geocity boomers that they must churn out
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by cell303 10y ago
saw this recently on HN: Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working[1]. I know that "not working" and "not leaving your bedroom" are differnt things, but maybe that's what makes it "American
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by cell303 12y ago
Actually, I think they can (also be entrepreneurs and artists) They just can't all be successful ones. However, due to the non-linearity of success, the winners would offset the losers, which is also why incubators like y combinator ca
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by cell303 12y ago
What sales figures won't tell you though is how well people are doing who choose not to buy or can't afford those things. Also, your argument does not account for tomorrows sales figures, which might look very different, as execut
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by cell303 12y ago
This is a rather unusual comment and this link is probably the wrong place to have this conversation, as hacker news is probably the wrong place in general. Anyway, it's rather simple. It's just taking what we have seen in the pas
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by cell303 12y ago
I was terrified after reading this. Reminded me that I should live a bit healthier, not drink more coffee then water, got to sleep earlier, wake up earlier, maybe even exercise. But more important, it got me thinking. The non-routine kind o
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by cell303 12y ago
Actually Apple has just accomplished what privacy advocates around the world couldn't have done: Getting people concerned about the issue (by hitting them where it actually hurts: music taste). I think it's a great and mostly inn
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by cell303 12y ago
I personally enjoyed this comment and this type of humor in general. It was witty, critical and open about it's satirical nature, distinguishing it from a troll post (which would disguise itself as genuine extremist view). Unfortunatel
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by cell303 12y ago
I disagree with the lottery notion. There are two important differences: In a lottery you know exactly what your odds of winning are and what the (best) possible outcomes are. In the App Store on the other hand, the odds are more or less
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by cell303 12y ago
Speaking of irrational fears: I always fear that I forgot my keys while leaving my flat. Now I know that I just need to post some holiday pictures of myself on instagram and eventually somebody will show up to help me get back in - for free
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by cell303 12y ago
This reminds me of Kenneth Goldsmith's notion of "Uncreative Writing" (In a nutshell: There is enough text out there, don't write anything yourself) From the looks of it, this would be a nice visualisation and way to tra
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by cell303 13y ago
I just have to ask. If it really is that way, what would prevent the maintainers of open source projects to issue (more or less worthless) "shares" of their projects? Could this be a way to pay open source developers?
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by cell303 13y ago
Sorry for the deliberately stupid question but: What if I need to login somewhere on my phone?
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by cell303 13y ago
This is great for writing scientific articles, manuals, tutorials, text books and the like. I'll start using it right now :) However, as far as literature is concerned, I'd not be using it. The title is misleading in that respect.
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by cell303 13y ago
I really don't know how to say this without sounding like a complete bozo, but I really think that this is a very, very sad perspective on life. It tries to quantify every aspect of life (or rather: disregards any aspect that can'
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by cell303 13y ago
I like that thought, but I think its wrong. or at least it's only true on average. But the average is not really interesting when you are in a domain that's heavily dominated by exceptions. See this distribution of youtube views f
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by cell303 13y ago
This really struck me: "Preventing burnout is part of your job. Staying well rested is part of your job". Many would rather consider optimizing one's productivity as being part of the job, usually by introducing new self mana
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by cell303 13y ago
I'd like to contrast that with current HR practices. Why is it that HR departments (as far as I can tell) focus on hiring "the best" or "the best available", while it would be more important, easier and cheaper to s
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The Precariat: The new dangerous class(youtube.com)
1 points by cell303 13y ago|0 comments
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by cell303 13y ago
Why make the implicit assumption that investment banking is at most socially worthless? The scale doesn't end at 0 here. When evaluating the utility of things (could also be technology) than the cumulative effect can be negative as we
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by cell303 13y ago
Didn't they collectively lose more than they ever made in 2008? (and didn't they do so in 1987 already?) How exactly was the free market at work when the government bailed them out?
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by cell303 13y ago
This really seems like a trivial problem but it's one that has been bothering me ever since. I've found it to be too stupid to even address this, even though I assume that a "non-trivial" amount of development time is wa
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by cell303 13y ago
it's not so much about the reproduction of the person as of the idea.
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by cell303 13y ago
Well, feel free to take any medicine you want, whenever something hurts or you feel depressed, basically every time you want to adjust any body function. Never mind side effects and let evolution take its course.
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by cell303 13y ago
Or is it the science based population that will be thinned out? Taking into account iatrogenesis (look it up) basically anything that takes you away from a doctor will be beneficial to you. However, this does not apply when dealing with ser
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by cell303 13y ago
This reminds me, playing WoW has been so much about names for me. Together with a friend we poked fun out of other people with stupid names or gave credit to creative ones. Usually I had a strong opinion about somebody's playstyle and
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by cell303 13y ago
Isn't there the spark rendering engine that can be used independent of meteor? https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Spark I haven't tried it, but it seems like cleaner approach than cutting the pat
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by cell303 13y ago
Moving away from "the best available" towards "not the worst possible" (who could potentially destroy our company) would be a good idea.
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by cell303 13y ago
why don't we take this discussion over to http://longbets.org/ (and put some money behind it, so eventually people mean what the say)
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by cell303 13y ago
I don't see why so much cynicism is needed to describe perfectly normal economic behaviour.

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