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It makes me sad that I can't read these books for the first time again. I reread them often. Surprisingly enough, my favorite book of the series was The Redemption of Time, a fourth book written by a fan with the blessing of Liu Cixin. If you haven't read it yet and you enjoyed TBP then you're one lucky sumbitch.
The big takeaway from this article for me was this line:
"Create a solution to somebody else’s problem, where that problem sits at the intersection of being genuinely interesting / meaningful to you and being something that you are reasonably capable of addressing."
I also want to second his book recommendation [The Mom Test](https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/...). It's really short and will save you a lot of time building things nobody will pay for.
This is a blatant violation and misuse of voter files. In Illinois, for instance, "Voter data is available to registered political committees for bonafide political purposes. Use for commercial solicitation or other business purposes is prohibited."[1]
I've been noticing a trend where more and more average Joes are just downloading these files and doing whatever they want with them (specifically, ad targeting). So it's not hard to imagine what malicious state actors have been doing with them. And on a social level, it feels as tho these apps are in violation of the spirit of the voter files purpose.
With these specific apps it appears to be a classic case of "it's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission".
1. https://www.elections.il.gov/votinginformation/computerizedv...
So in hindsight what is being suggested? That Tivo should have established its own content network and then add the dvr to it? That TrialPay should have created Stripe and then added the trial pay feature?
I think I'm misinterpreting this advice because it sounds to me like the chicken and the egg problem.
"In the later years of his life, Mr Kamprad had faced questions over his past links to the Nazis."
It's crazy how he ran Ikea for over 70 years but a quarter of the article deals with his ties to Nazis. Granted, he admits it was the "greatest mistake" of his life, so I suppose the attention to it may not be unwarranted. But I think it would have been prudent to touch on what caused him to shift his perspective. "Youthful stupidity" doesn't convey much.
Still, I can't help but feel like the information age is ushering in a modern-day version of the Akashic records. A double-edged sword anyone with an internet connection can consult. We laud past failures as learning experiences when it comes to startups, almost as if it's a badge of honor. But it's a very different story when someone violates a social contract, even in retrospect. (Albeit there are plenty of cases where people are embraced because of the drastic changes they made in their life, e.g. gang members that become speakers for at-risk youth.)
I think there's both a wisdom, and ignorance, of crowds/culture. And these crowds are constantly redrawing the line of who deserves redemption. Lately, the line seems to be inching in the wrong direction in my opinion.
With the advent of the internet it's scary to think about how efficiently the arbiters of information control the narrative. "We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us." -Madame Swetchine.
"Despite Mr. Fink’s insistence that companies benefit society, it’s worth noting he’s not playing down the importance of profits and, while it’s a subtle point, he believes that having social purpose is inextricably linked to a company’s ability to maintain its profits."
Perhaps capitalism is realizing what thinking long term actually means then? The future for humanity is bleak if we continue down the path of unsustainable business practices. At this point we really do know better. We can't allow our only natural habitat to be exhausted for the sake a few luxurious generations.
At the current rate our businesses are exploiting the environment and people, it's honestly hard to say what's bound to happen first, the planet reaching its limit or the poor eating the rich. Either way, change gon' come. Hopefully we avoid all of that and start thinking about more than just our own immediate futures.
In this way, I think the real long term strategy is to inject some compassion and empathy into business.
It's actually these anti-government, anti-establishment people usually spreading completely irrational fear.
Those groups don't have access to the mainstream channels and platforms to spread their influence like the establishment does. More often than not, that same establishment will paint those groups as the perpetrators of everything that is wrong.
Can you elaborate in your comment? What do you mean local coffee shop? And why is an echo chamber insinuated in that statement?
Sounds interesting! Any links you can provide to the project?
Conway's law has been popping up a lot lately for me. Can you share some typical examples of "communication structures of these organizations" and the systems they inevitably result in?
Ah, forgive me. I totally took it out of context.
"don't use technology to solve a social problem"
Where does this axiom stem from? A quick google search shows many instances of proclaiming the opposite.
Body cameras on police address a social problem.. If you're talking in absolute terms, such as something being the perfect solution that vanquishes an issue (i.e. a silver bullet) then I think it's a disingenuous stance to take. Social problems aren't solved overnight, and the greatest ones have always required incremental approaches.
This feels akin to saying, "I need code that's 100% bug-free", but in reality, writing bugless code isn't the goal.
If the big ISPs started throttling data and putting up walled gardens, what would stop competitors from entering the market to offer the "net neutral" flavor of internet we're used to?
Some communities are already banding together to start their own ISPs. I'm not familiar with how they deal with the "last mile" infrastructure challenge. But if it only took a big investment up front then that begs the question why did Google Fiber fail? Lack of community support?
If net neutrality was as valuable to us as we make it out to be, then what would stop local grassroots efforts from installing their own community-based ISPs in response to losing it?
One way they could hint at how to read it could be thru the form factor. Imagine if the data were to be embedded in a glass skull like the crystal skulls[1] or something akin.
this site just copied all of unsplash.com's images and added tags to them.
the original site unplash.com, has infinite scroll.
there are only a few images in total so I don't think splashbase is necessary. It takes less than a minute of scrolling to get through the entire db of images.
It's "Yo" for "Hey"
I don't think it's intent is to replace email but to supplement it with a new feature. Maybe one day the feature can become one of the tools you mention that regular email already has.
These are definitely key questions any new business needs to consider. While I don't know what the answer is for Toastio, maybe someone could shed light on what the answers may have been for early versions of twitter as it's somewhat related and could maybe help Toastio to address their own issues.
You can still receive long form emails as you always have, I think Toastio is just offering another option that's more appropriate for day-to-day routine communication.
I'd imagine auto-respond being an optional feature as well so you don't have to feel like a jerk if you don't want to. However, I'm not certain about this but it only seems natural.
There's an app called CSTM that takes this concept to another level with custom built furniture. The furniture is more expensive thusly but also more unique. http://cstm.co/
wow ngpio, this list is great. you've probably come across this one before as well but it's definitely a good one: "I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility" http://qntm.org/responsibility
The Gentle Seduction is a similar short story in regards to singularity that The Egg reminded me of http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
i think your initial thought is spot on unless they've figured out someway to automate the molds and store them for retrieval at a later time.
apparently they are on the verge of releasing an API and widget so that t shirt designers can embed directly onto their own site. http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/11/teespring-wants-to-be-the-p...
If they are able to allow single orders along with the widget I don't see whats stopping them from taking over the entire market as they are taking all of the hard work out of running a t shirt company.
good luck fellas
hey man, this is exactly what the article was alluding to, it should be the top comment imo. i'll definitely be spreading it around. amazing work and easy to digest. remember though, this type of information is often suppressed.
He has come to represent forgiveness and peace over time by learning from his past mistakes. No one is saying he never fought fire with fire. It is untrue to say his life "was a symbol of non-peaceful resistance and the progress that it can bring." Especially because his greater achievements were made through peace and reconciliations.
No one's perfect but it's unreasonable to only focus on the negative.
I'm new to web design and have been experimenting with a few other development environments. Reading through these comments I became excited to learn more about foundation. I went to their site and looked at their site examples. Many of them were broken and didn't seem to work as intended, nor were they very beautiful to the uninitiated. This was on a desktop using chrome. I didn't bother to check with my mobile.
My main platform so far has been extremely buggy too and is not even primarily made to create websites. I've been using Google Web Designer. Take my advice with a grain of salt as I represent hobbyist developers who thought "hey, i'd like to build a site. what tool should I start with?" I would not invest $200 to enroll in your intro course for something that gave me an initial first impression of being flimsy. However, it is equally likely that I am unable to realize the full potential of your product with my limited understanding of web development at first glance.
I'm excited about seeing how Macaw works and am going to begin a new project with Bootstrap soon. While my main focus has been purely static web design I plan to incorporate dynamic applications within my approach very soon.
How does this app make money? And why is it getting so much attention now even though the same idea's been done before?