sradu
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Comment · 3 years ago
I've had Govee floor lamps for a while now, they seem to have feature parity with Philips Hue for 1/3rd of the price.
One of them broke, and there was a button in the app to report it. I kid you not, a replacement arrived the second day, free of charge.
Comment · 4 years ago
You must not be from a former communist country. The system worked for two-three decades during the initial industrialization phase. When that phase ended growth was hard to find (the whole system was based around factories and moving villagers to cities). That's when the numbers started going down and the system started faking numbers to give the appearance that all is well and nobody could disagree with them.
At a country level (not talking about Amazon) these systems are fragile and don't handle volatility well.
Re: Amazon - you can't compare countries with private corporations.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've done a bit of research here. It's not snake oil.
They did a trial, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.21256982v..., and it worked very well.
It's being commercialized here: https://www.apollohealthco.com/, and the guy has patents on everything.
Comment · 5 years ago
You are misinterpreting Isaiah Berlin.
"Such theoretical shifts set the stage, for Berlin, for the ideologies of the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century, both Communist and Fascist–Nazi, which claimed to liberate people by subjecting – and often sacrificing – them to larger groups or principles. To do this was the greatest of political evils; and to do it in the name of freedom, a political principle that Berlin, as a genuine liberal, especially cherished, struck him as a ‘strange […] reversal’ or ‘monstrous impersonation’ (2002b, 198, 180). Against this, Berlin championed, as ‘truer and more humane’, negative liberty and an empirical view of the self." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berlin/
The idea of positive liberty is that you are free to become the best man you can be, but there is someone or a group who defines what 'best' is. And that inevitably ends in dictatorships or similar types of abuse.
Comment · 6 years ago
That was the initial approach, we're bringing in some people to highlight projects.
Comment · 6 years ago
We're working on this!
Comment · 7 years ago
Have done a lot of scraping in my life, and I'm super excited about what Hugues and Max have built.
I tested a super early version and was surprised how well it worked.
Comment · 8 years ago
I don't know if you've seen this: http://carbon.ycombinator.com. Want to drop me an email with what you'd be interested in helping out with?
Comment · 8 years ago
Each proposed idea has a section related to energy requirements.
Comment · 8 years ago
Which projects would you consider as a potential replacement for Bitcoin?
Comment · 9 years ago
Can you share any studies around this? Especially about sleep apnea and bipolar 1.
Comment · 10 years ago
Can you create a trigger on any continuous query
Comment · 10 years ago
Coming from a former communist country, I don't understand why smart, capable people want to give away their money to a corrupt, incompetent state to manage it for them.
The US is fundamentally different than Nordic countries, where socialism appears to be working: * The Nordic countries are tiny compared to the US. * They are highly educated. * Their society is homogenous.
It seems like everybody is assuming that there will be this rational actor collecting money from the rich and distributing them to the poor.
What actually is going to happen is that instead of entrepreneurs becoming rich, politicians will grow even richer than they are now. The politicians will have more power, power that they want to keep, and the only way to do that is to suppress the press and the people.
And that's how communism starts. It might sound like I'm taking it too far, but it's happened a number of times already.
Comment · 11 years ago
Huge fan of Jared. I met him a long time ago at a random party and he agreed to have coffee and share startup / YC advice.
Comment · 11 years ago
You're right. Can't edit it anymore. Would have deleted the second paragraph.
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