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Re:Ask HN: Which audio books do you recommend? on Monday January 11, 2016 @01:58PM (#10882369)
sapiens - yuval hariri more money than god - sebastian mallaby black swan - nassim taleb anti-fragile - nassim taleb fooled by randomness - nassim taleb
Re:Ask HN: You're the smartest people I know. I am struggling and need... on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @06:14PM (#5403964)
Try some strengths tests like:

https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/Purchase/

sounds cheesy but these are sometimes very insightful. It likely will not tell you anything new, usually just makes the obvious clear.

Re:RollFWD A rolling prediction list of future headlines. What's yours? on Friday March 15, 2013 @11:45AM (#5381159)
Dark Clouds; internet becomes more vulnerable as 80% of all data now hosted in 20% of the world's data centers.

RollFWD A rolling prediction list of future headlines. What's yours?

Posted by cloudout on Friday March 15, 2013 @11:39AM
from the self-post dept.

We're keeping a rolling list of headline predictions, for a reason yet unknown.Future Headlines as of 03/10/13:1. Wyoming Joins Texas as Second State to Issue Own Currency In Wake of U.S. Dollar Collapse- matterhorn2. Following Dennis Rodman Visit, Switzerland Declares War on U.S.- matterhorn3. Bloomberg Bans Bottled Water: Claims It Robs Our "Precious Bodily Fluids"- matterhorn4. Patent Troll...

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Re:Creepier By The Minute: Google Glass Will Identify People By Clothi... on Friday March 08, 2013 @12:28PM (#5344574)
I'm on CCTV all day, but my insurance company and employer don't use a mosaic from that data in quoting rates or doing background checks. Glass or anything similar, can change all of that.

The point is that valuable privacy silos are lost due to centralization by a sophisticated party, that makes money by selling that privacy.

Re:AnyPerk (YC W12) Gives Your Startup Employees The Same Perks As Pin... on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @05:10PM (#5334370)
buckets of opportunity to move into the boring but more lucrative space of pooling group pension plan, life insurance and healthcare costs to synthetically provide "big corporate" perks.
Re:The Google Glass Feature No One is Talking About on Thursday February 28, 2013 @07:26PM (#5302024)
Bar Sign Prediction: No Under 21 and No Glasses
Re:Ask HN: What do you wish your non-technical co-founders knew how to... on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @03:13PM (#5252993)
I heard the reverse of this question a week ago at a lunch. Starting to think that in a lot of cases, this might be a symptom of other issues (communication etc), because it sounds like each side is reaching outside of their "killer app skills", which may not be the best use of each person's time. Not always, but mostly, the goalie should goal-tend and the striker should strike.
Re:Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:07PM (#5223196)
Excel is still used because it has High Operating Range with a Low Barrier to Entry. Someone can learn how to do simple tasks in 5 minutes, while advanced users can write macros. You can build a simple calculator or a complicated model without going through a programmers learning curve; where, you've traditionally had to learn multiple concepts before you can print "Hello World".
Re:Can we replace IQ/GPA with Curiosity? on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:18PM (#5147151)
There would be no way to quantify it....it would be qualitative questions I guess...e.g "Most interesting books you've read" or "what different projects are you working on"
Re:Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @11:20PM (#5143415)
"a thermostat in one of its corporate apartments and a printer in its offices — were still communicating with computers in China"

This is the dark side of the "internet of everything". Software=inherently buggy Software EATS WORLD Word=buggy?