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by closedloop129 4y ago
How good is he as a manager? Would Nissan be a better company if they had kept him at the top?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
I would look at it the other way round: Books teach solipsism. How much is that needed for our civilization and future progress? Without book, you have spoken words. Their meaning is also coming from one's head, but civilizations witho
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>What an unparalleled activity it is to browse a bookstore in a state of curiosity and receptivity, chewing one’s intellectual cud!” This isn’t the cheap, fast-food browse of the scroll but, rather, something more meditative, more nutrit
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by closedloop129 4y ago
That would be very exclusive, wouldn't it? The problem is that 'every mathematician has only a few tricks' [1]. This means that every scientific problem should be exposed to as many scientists as possible, coordinated in a wa
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>What do you mean by a "better self"? That's difficult to define. I think I have used it in the same way the author uses it in the article. I took the liberty to equate the better self with the SuperEgo but that could be w
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>some interdisciplinary problems are difficult to address in existing research settings, and Janelia was built as a separate institution to address such problems in neurobiology. >The center was designed to emulate the unconstrained a
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>Quantum computing is in a similar position today I don't think that the position is similar. The level of 'ingenuity' of the overall system was lower. Fewer men were needed to understand each and every aspect of the syste
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>What if the moment our better self suggests an early bedtime or a lap in the pool or writing a poem, it starts to sound like a scolding parent telling us what we ought to do. So we become a little like a stubborn child, asserting our in
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>Is branding so critical that Duo can't be used? Actually, if they keep both apps for a while, Duo is the better name.
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If you transport it with airships, is transport still inefficient?
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>What's hard to do now is host a lightly used but broadly interesting service that doesn't require a login. Which other broadly interesting services do exist? The owners of those services could come together and offer a VPN tha
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by closedloop129 4y ago
It's becoming more popular to start a long video with a short teaser but in general, long videos need some time to reveal their value. If you show long videos randomly to everybody then the perceived noise increases which may reduce us
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> Moreover, every bit of information that we communicate to the users will be heavily backed by scientific evidence which we disclose in the delivered reports. Will it be possible to contact people with similar profiles to create new sci
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Right now, YT doesn't have competition, but they will have to improve once TikTok has the content. According to his parallel discussion [1], suggestions on YT were much better. [1] Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically
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by closedloop129 4y ago
TikTok is having longer and longer videos. TikTok will become something else. The machine learning only works for short videos. For long videos, you need social graphs to match videos to users who like them. I expect that both technologies
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by closedloop129 4y ago
There is a video of Steve Jobs promoting an accountant or such to C-level and she tells how she grew into the job. Why is it necessary to hire external C-levels? What do they bring to the table? Why not promote leaders from within? If you s
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by closedloop129 4y ago
To me, the project looks like a wall, sealing off Saudi Arabia from the rest of the world. With enough desalination, they can turn the peninsula into a green garden, kind of like India, powered by solar energy. I would say they are not bett
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by closedloop129 4y ago
You could take the serially produced reactors that are used in ships. If you pay enough you should get the next batch. If you push it like China pushed its emergency Covid hospital, it should be a matter of months to have some reactors goin
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Did he regain concentration and focus? It's more like he just reduced distractions. That's not the same. What if being distracted is not a bug but a feature and his mind doesn't want to continue the path of constantly writing
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by closedloop129 4y ago
There is also https://rpgplayground.com/
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>The last step needed before actually starting programming is to start a web server. Why not write the code directly in index.html and open it directly in the browser?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
What could they do? It's kind of like a failed state. How to you recreate a core with integrity? You cannot rely on the managers that you want to let go to implement the change that you need.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
OP's comment is: >Which is a good reason to add a reply-notification system I share the view that omitting reply notifications is a good tool to prevent flamewars. What I would like to have are notifications for entire debates. Righ
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by closedloop129 4y ago
A feature that I miss about HN is the ability to subscribe to old posts. It would be nice to be informed when those debates continue, e.g. from references like these.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>Maybe it’s not the achieving stuff that makes us happy, but rather the act of chasing after achievements. It's called happiness, like happening. If nothing happens or can happen, how can people be happy? People do optimize happines
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by closedloop129 4y ago
How should one interpret the speech in light of his suicide? [1] He didn't shoot his head which suggests that his mind wasn't a master. Still, it makes me a bit worried that his thoughts could be the structure that made him suffer
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Make the license non-transferable. Then there is no resale market.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>Theres nothing I can say now to make you believe if you don't Why can't everything be licensed directly from the right owner of a game so that the license of a game can be transferred from one streaming service to another?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Form >Those who agree point to LoF as embodying an enigmatic "mathematics of consciousness", its algebraic symbolism capturing an (perhaps even "the") implic
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by closedloop129 4y ago
We have built a telescope in space to kind of avoid blind spots. What can we build to avoid the blind spots for ourselves? I would expect some form of collaboration since others are not inhibited by our own blind spots.

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