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ceasesurthinko commented on Pleasures by Aldous Huxley (1920)   hackneybooks.co.uk/books/... · Posted by u/waihtis
redthrow · 2 years ago
I haven't read it but Steven Johnson wrote a book that argued the opposite:

Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter is a non-fiction book written by Steven Johnson. Published in 2005, it details Johnson's theory that popular culture – in particular television programs and video games – has grown more complex and demanding over time and is making society as a whole more intelligent, contrary to the perception that modern electronic media are harmful or unconstructive.

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

ceasesurthinko · 2 years ago
Yeah I don't think Mr. Johnson foresaw TikTok.
ceasesurthinko commented on A collection of coins and theoretical cost of a 51% attack on each network   crypto51.app/... · Posted by u/harporoeder
ceasesurthinko · 3 years ago
This is why coins like Ethereum Classic needs like 50k confirmations which is a 1-2 week waiting period for deposits, since blocks take like 15 seconds to mine and a 51% attack on the ETC network is relatively affordable compared to BTC/ETH, so fake chains sprout up very often and many transactions would be reversed
ceasesurthinko commented on Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?    · Posted by u/mikewhy
troymc · 3 years ago
If an HN user is a citizen of an EU country, then it's my understanding that the GDPR requires you to comply with their request for account deletion.
ceasesurthinko · 3 years ago
That's why he said he will delete if you request, GDPR or not. They've helped me delete a previous account, change usernames, and delete comments- they are nice people and aren't trying to make anything difficult. They just don't want deleting to be as instant as reddit with a delete button which can easily disrupt archives- such as when you go into old threads on reddit on google, you see like half the comments deleted and that makes for a poor reader experience.
ceasesurthinko commented on Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js   threejs-example.hyperbeam... · Posted by u/declan_g
ceasesurthinko · 3 years ago
This is the most random funnest thing i've done in days. I tried to inception it by pasting the hyperbeam link into the VC, didn't work though heh.
ceasesurthinko commented on Show HN: Wordle but for Tweets   birdle.art/... · Posted by u/mox111
ceasesurthinko · 3 years ago
Really good animations! Hoping we can play past games or at least generate new phrases after completing the day's puzzle because this is somewhat entertaining and dopaminergic for some odd reason.
ceasesurthinko commented on Ask HN: Best books to build up entrepreneurial mindset?    · Posted by u/aristofun
ceasesurthinko · 3 years ago
E Myth Revisited Lean Startup Zero to One

Not a book but just a personal opinion, that building is the easier part, marketing is way more difficult and it is way more important. If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not going to be very fun or stimulating

ceasesurthinko commented on Ask HN: What skills have given you a 10x return?    · Posted by u/jnathsf
homarp · 3 years ago
same learning early: regex and basic 'unix' tools: grep (or ripgrep), find (or fd), cat, head, tail, and simple sh/bash
ceasesurthinko · 3 years ago
second the regex
ceasesurthinko commented on Ask HN: Will I Ever Recover?    · Posted by u/answerme
ceasesurthinko · 3 years ago
Isn't the average age of the founder of a successful company at the time of launching, somewhere in the 40s?

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