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by sail 11y ago
Can you say a bit more about this? How does a quantity of one affect supply so much?
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by sail 11y ago
Historically technology has been more successful in affecting political change.
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Ask HN: Will I get locked in a single company going into finance?
4 points by sail 11y ago|1 comments
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by sail 11y ago
> Wealth will always equal opportunity and influence to some extent, so inequality will always be a bad thing to some extent. Perhaps, but we may all be surprised to how little extent. Instead of giving up, it's worth giving a bette
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by sail 11y ago
I can't think of a bigger complement to a writer than to explain something clearly and yet that somehow turn into a controversy. Because if the writing is clear, which in this case it is, it means the problem is the audience. It means
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by sail 11y ago
Mike, can you imagine any way to run a cryptocurrency so that growth doesn't threaten decentralization? Could a cryptocurrency not be controlled by those who can afford to spend the most in CPU power (like governments)? Could consensus
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by sail 11y ago
Could one design against this?
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by sail 11y ago
This may be naive but why can't Bitcoin fork? Forks historically produced better results. Why would switching to a cryptocurrency that is better designed be a bad thing?
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On being sane in insane places(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sail 11y ago
First: "Sweden, for instance, has a higher startup rate than America, and less income inequality — as do a number of other countries." To the extend it can be measured, the metric that matters isn't the number of startups (
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by sail 11y ago
What stood out for me: My PhD advisor never seemed to care particularly about publishing papers; rather, he wanted to move the needle for the field, and he did (multiple times). Racking up publications is fine, but if you want to have im
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by sail 11y ago
This is inspiring Steve. Did you try different price points? Do you have data to share about this? Did you have a full-time job while you were building it?
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by sail 11y ago
You are discounting a strong trend: expensive products become commodities. Plus there are degrees of richness. It's easy to name examples where rich people have been trusting their personal information to faceless entities for years. &
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by sail 11y ago
How to live. A central place with 10-sentence (or less) summaries from the most important books. So I could read everything from this one place in 1 month and bootstrap myself as a human. e.g. like Derek Sivers's book notes from https
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Keep your goals to yourself(ted.com)
3 points by sail 11y ago|0 comments
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by sail 11y ago
This seems to have started by Derek Sivers: https://sivers.org/nowff
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by sail 11y ago
> The 140 character limit is long past its purpose What was its purpose and why is it long past it?
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by sail 11y ago
While reading, I take a photo of a sentence I like. Later, I look at the photo and write down the part I liked: writing seems to ingrain the conclusion in my mind.
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by sail 11y ago
Can you imagine yourself ever wanting anything more?
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by sail 11y ago
You put a lot of effort into this. What makes you believe it's important to consciously remember things we learn? Maybe the knowledge is supposed to seep into our bones. Maybe it's enough to record, find something when we need it
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GTD and Kanban: Similarities, Differences and Synergies Between the Two(personalkanban.com)
1 points by sail 11y ago|0 comments
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Why you only need to test with 5 users(nngroup.com)
2 points by sail 11y ago|1 comments
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by sail 11y ago
Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darya_Zabelina/publicat...