1. brainpool May 4, 2020 parent

   Your disillusion really resonates with my experience, and likely many others. The thing is, if you had succeeded in all you wanted, you would still be asking the same questions by now.

   There are times for disillusion in everyone’s life.

   Look at it as an opportunity. A moment in the now - where you are not only open to, but also craving, for a new direction or a different mindset on the direction to move forward.

   I strongly believe in correct forward.

   That means valuing your previous experiences, valuing feedback from others in the present, and striving for better in the future.

   I would say you are two thirds there buddy!

2. brainpool Apr 15, 2020 parent

   If it’s sunglasses with a strong filter, or possibly unfortunate polarization, it may cause some issues I believe.
3. brainpool Apr 14, 2020 parent

   Definitely Keynes. Much of the fundamentals hasn’t made much sense earlier, but it does now.

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes

4. brainpool Apr 10, 2020 parent

   The world would have looked differently if the Mirasol technology ever took of. It was a large e-ink that could do color and had a refresh rate good enough for video. Most impressively, it could have been produced at existing display plants with some modifications. Unfortunately, the MEMS technology was close but no quite there as the displays degraded. Beautiful displays however, extremely energy proficient, and absolutely splendid in daylight. A bit dull, but very comfortable indoors.
5. brainpool Mar 11, 2020 parent

   Well, what to expect? An uptick in pleasure and joy. No. This is serious measures for serious times.
6. 1 point Mar 11, 2020

   Everyone at Spotify should Work from Home in COVID-19 Situation

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7. 3 points Feb 14, 2020

   Nothing is truly Scandinavian – top Nordic airline SAS declares

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8. 3 points Jan 26, 2020

   Frozen in Time

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9. brainpool Jan 24, 2020 parent

   Updated: Boeing 777X’s first flight postponed as weather fails to cooperate
10. brainpool Dec 25, 2019 parent

    Yes. Seasons greetings all! This community brightens every day. Wind down, spin up, and roll with next year. It’s going to be fun.
11. brainpool Nov 14, 2019 parent

    AGI is not a research problem but an imagination problem. I can’t vouch for how good John Carmack is in imagination, but striving to put things together with a goal seems like a good place to start.
12. brainpool Oct 14, 2019 parent

    Agree. Limiting access to G+ was lethally counterproductive. And why? Afraid of the traffic?
13. brainpool Sep 14, 2019 parent

    In this case, when there is absolutely no intellectual property to talk about, everyone huddles down and hopes that no one notices their investment. In other cases, the proprietary body attempts to sell the IP to cover debts. Shareholders walk but are usually eligible to pay for the IP at the same rate as any other buyer. Sometimes this is used by shady boards to get control of a company and their IP.
14. brainpool Sep 14, 2019 parent

    What was the con exactly? Selling dollars for cents is not a con, it is stupid. Different thing.
15. brainpool Sep 14, 2019 parent

    I’m most amazed that they started at all. The whole idea is just bonkers. Why would cinemas give away free tickets to a third party so that they can make recurring revenues that would siphon their own? No, and they didn’t. Even if they would be as stupid as to go along with it, the first mover advantage for MoviePass was so low as they could easily be outcompeted. I would love to see the pitch for this pipe dream in the cloud.
16. brainpool Aug 19, 2019 parent

    Yah. People will just die. Refugee sort of implies a refuge. There’s not going to be such thing’s around if things go south as we fear they are likely to. It’s gonna play out far more like the Old Testament.
17. 5 points Aug 13, 2019

    Hong Kong’s future hangs by a thread

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18. brainpool Aug 10, 2019 parent

    I have had the opportunity to visit China multiple times during the last few years. Have met many wonderful people there. However, what makes me uncomfortable is the society. I have been in many countries where you get scorned as a foreigner. China is the only place where I have encountered that people treat you as you do not exist. Obviously, this is not something that only applies to foreigners; it’s a view of humanity that is very far removed from the rest of the world. I find it chilling to be honest.
19. brainpool Aug 10, 2019 parent

    That’s how it is. When there is a fire however and people get suffocated because of those modifications you did or just because it was a fire. Then you are in for some serious trouble if the changes can be traced back to you. Some jail time possibly, but the litigation from victims and insurance companies is what really is gonna do you in. Possibly also the guilt.

    Don’t do it. Those plans and codes are there for a reason.

20. brainpool Aug 10, 2019 parent

    Yes, I have visited China on multiple occasions during the last few years. It has been an utterly chilling experience. I know xenophobia when I experience it, and South Africa during Apartheid was actually better.
21. brainpool Aug 10, 2019 parent

    No. Simply no.

    There is no anti-China agenda. There is however an anti-medieval agenda, it has less to do with China as such and more to do with the mindset of the society and the ruling of the state. Most other societies have been through this already. China will also eventually.

22. brainpool Aug 10, 2019 parent

    Not quite. In the USA the corporations own the people. In China the state owns the people (there is not much government to speak of).
23. brainpool Aug 10, 2019 parent

    Spot on. It is really important to understand that China does not have the same value system as the enlightened world. I am not saying that the sino mindset is inferior in any way, but it is important to realize that it is very different and that many premises we take for granted are null and void when it comes to China.

    The Chinese state of today is far worse than the most dystopian views the west had of Soviet during the Cold War. Then the western block tried to paint as a dark image as possible of the alleged enemy. Today it seems most try to paint as an rosy picture as possible of the Chinese state when in reality it is something right out Orwell’s nightmares.

    Note. I have absolutely nothing against Chinese as individuals and people. It is the state that is scary, and to be honest; intimidating.

24. brainpool Jul 21, 2019 parent

    Wow, a "more enlightened view of valuations” sounds a bit scary. I hope your founder acquaintance realize that valuation is not all that matters. Accepting more funding from investors that are not that “enlightened” in other matters is a sure way to get in all kinds of trouble.
25. brainpool Jul 9, 2019 parent

    Steve also managed to keep the company intact at a time when they were very close to get cut-up due to antitrust lawsuits. Also, Steve was probably the only one that could lead Microsoft post Gates as Bill remained in a decisive position pulling strings for quite some time (which in some sense is understandable, but not many could have faced such a situation).
26. brainpool Jul 9, 2019 parent

    Agree, language acquisition is so cool! That we just ”absorb” the language, or even languages, around us at early age is just amazing. Steven Pinkers 1994 book “The language instinct” gives interesting perspectives.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_Instinct

27. brainpool Jul 9, 2019 parent

    Interesting, I really like the approach! Thanks for sharing!

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