> Advertisers cannot create demand out of thin air - they can only find out what (certain) people want, and present messaging that says, "X fills your existing want because of Y Sure it can. Not only can advertising…
> Today, it's been democratised enough to allow your racist aunt to ramble on Facebook about how Obama is actually an alien born on Pluto, sent to America to destroy Christianity. I was/am a liberal, competent tech…
> Treat them with the same respect you would like to be shown when people are unhappy with you. Why do you think everyone deserves respect? I prefer the brutal honesty of the internet rather than the fake civility you…
The most "un-celebrity"? I'd say carter is the most "celebrity" ex-president we've had in a long time. He has used his celebrity to advocate for his charities ( habitat for humanity for example ) and for human rights (…
Great wars make great generals. People aren't great in and of themselves. They are great within an environment. So everyone is a "victim" of externalities.
What about HN's addiction to news about facebook? I thought after a year of relentless facebook spam, we were past this. Now the top two posts are about facebook. We have to kick this habit.
Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Saladin, Tamerlane, almost an endless list of greater military leaders than napoleon. People who actually won and built empires. I'd even put george washington and Vo Nguyen Giap above…
It's funny how there are tons of negative musk articles lately along with tons of negative comments. If I was a cynical person, I'd say there is a targeted campaign against the guy. And it's not just with Musk. When the…
> Nothing fundamental is stopping us from creating a synthetic one. Ethical considerations are preventing us or at the very least limiting the speed of development. But mostly our lack of knowledge of the brain was what…
Sigh. Here they go alternating from AI is a "super genius threat" to "it isn't that smart". Maybe an objective, honest and non-clickbait "Current State of AI" would mean they wouldn't have to swing from one extreme to…
I'm well aware of the theory. I used to subscribe to it myself when I was younger. I won't go into why reduce population wouldn't affect farm yields since back then, farming was a very physical endeavor requiring many…
Black death didn't kill feudalism ( even if we could come to a consensus on what feudalism is ). The societal structure wasn't affected by the black death. Feudalism died as european monarchs and elites got wealthy and…
Why is the assumption always that AMZN, GOOG and MSFT doesn't want censorship? Especially when they have taken to censorship like duck to water. Why is the assumption that when given a "binary choice", entities like…
Cybersecurity is something that I feel is best self-taught. Set up a small network at home. Go crazy with nmap. Set up a few VMs. Go crazy with gdb or windbg. The best way to learn is to break things. If you have an old…
> Also, yet another reason why America's gun laws are stupid. She wouldn't have shot herself in England. The highest suicide rates exist in countries without gun rights.…
> That's only your opinion of what it means '[to be] bloomberg'. No. It's a matter of fact. He works for bloomberg. He gets paid by bloomberg. Hence it is bloomberg. Now if it was an non-bloomberg employee wrote an…
Or water pumps. Imagine no water to drink or flush the toilet above the 10th floor.
Sure they do. If FB stuck to legal-based censorship then they wouldn't need to ban atheist or gay rights content because those content are legal in the US. But if they swing to moral-based censorship, then those…
Companies exist to make money. I think the tech community's biggest mistake was assuming that tech companies are moral agents. Of course tech companies ( "do no evil" ) had a hand in misleading us. But tech companies…
> The whole concept of "community standards" for a worldwide communication channel strikes me as newspeak for centralized moral policing. This is a classic case of the race to the lowest common denominator. When the…
Isn't this the same thing with colleges? Most of the rise in tuition costs goes to administration rather then education.
> This sounds like the infrastructure version of the 'financial bubble' prediction that crops up every other year. My favorite is the yearly "end of china" report by gordon chang. I remember the guy talking about…
I guess I was precocious then. My hate began at 25.
> Advertisers cannot create demand out of thin air - they can only find out what (certain) people want, and present messaging that says, "X fills your existing want because of Y Sure it can. Not only can advertising…
> Today, it's been democratised enough to allow your racist aunt to ramble on Facebook about how Obama is actually an alien born on Pluto, sent to America to destroy Christianity. I was/am a liberal, competent tech…
> Treat them with the same respect you would like to be shown when people are unhappy with you. Why do you think everyone deserves respect? I prefer the brutal honesty of the internet rather than the fake civility you…
The most "un-celebrity"? I'd say carter is the most "celebrity" ex-president we've had in a long time. He has used his celebrity to advocate for his charities ( habitat for humanity for example ) and for human rights (…
Great wars make great generals. People aren't great in and of themselves. They are great within an environment. So everyone is a "victim" of externalities.
What about HN's addiction to news about facebook? I thought after a year of relentless facebook spam, we were past this. Now the top two posts are about facebook. We have to kick this habit.
Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Saladin, Tamerlane, almost an endless list of greater military leaders than napoleon. People who actually won and built empires. I'd even put george washington and Vo Nguyen Giap above…
It's funny how there are tons of negative musk articles lately along with tons of negative comments. If I was a cynical person, I'd say there is a targeted campaign against the guy. And it's not just with Musk. When the…
> Nothing fundamental is stopping us from creating a synthetic one. Ethical considerations are preventing us or at the very least limiting the speed of development. But mostly our lack of knowledge of the brain was what…
Sigh. Here they go alternating from AI is a "super genius threat" to "it isn't that smart". Maybe an objective, honest and non-clickbait "Current State of AI" would mean they wouldn't have to swing from one extreme to…
I'm well aware of the theory. I used to subscribe to it myself when I was younger. I won't go into why reduce population wouldn't affect farm yields since back then, farming was a very physical endeavor requiring many…
Black death didn't kill feudalism ( even if we could come to a consensus on what feudalism is ). The societal structure wasn't affected by the black death. Feudalism died as european monarchs and elites got wealthy and…
Why is the assumption always that AMZN, GOOG and MSFT doesn't want censorship? Especially when they have taken to censorship like duck to water. Why is the assumption that when given a "binary choice", entities like…
Cybersecurity is something that I feel is best self-taught. Set up a small network at home. Go crazy with nmap. Set up a few VMs. Go crazy with gdb or windbg. The best way to learn is to break things. If you have an old…
> Also, yet another reason why America's gun laws are stupid. She wouldn't have shot herself in England. The highest suicide rates exist in countries without gun rights.…
> That's only your opinion of what it means '[to be] bloomberg'. No. It's a matter of fact. He works for bloomberg. He gets paid by bloomberg. Hence it is bloomberg. Now if it was an non-bloomberg employee wrote an…
Or water pumps. Imagine no water to drink or flush the toilet above the 10th floor.
Sure they do. If FB stuck to legal-based censorship then they wouldn't need to ban atheist or gay rights content because those content are legal in the US. But if they swing to moral-based censorship, then those…
Companies exist to make money. I think the tech community's biggest mistake was assuming that tech companies are moral agents. Of course tech companies ( "do no evil" ) had a hand in misleading us. But tech companies…
> The whole concept of "community standards" for a worldwide communication channel strikes me as newspeak for centralized moral policing. This is a classic case of the race to the lowest common denominator. When the…
Isn't this the same thing with colleges? Most of the rise in tuition costs goes to administration rather then education.
> This sounds like the infrastructure version of the 'financial bubble' prediction that crops up every other year. My favorite is the yearly "end of china" report by gordon chang. I remember the guy talking about…
I guess I was precocious then. My hate began at 25.