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The hype around blockchain is far more than just cryptocurrencies, which have done well by many measures.

The person you're replying to is saying that all the hype around blockchain for contracts, identifiers etc. is most likely way overblown and we will look back in a few years and see it as a mostly useless fad

In contrast, the tradition of Okinawan finger tattoos was essentially eradicated when the Japanese took over

https://blog.janm.org/index.php/2015/08/27/the-secret-histor...

No discussion of Apple Arcade in the article.

If Apple get that right, that could completely upend the whole free-to play, freemium, "hypercasual" business model

Agreed, we need to let a pattern emerge before jumping to conclusions about where Lyft stock is headed

There are many interesting criticisms and observations to be made around this IPO, but I don't think second day stock movement is one of them

OKRs can be really great but only if they are used properly and are fully integrated into the process from top to bottom.

Just relabelling old KPIs as OKRs is pointless (just, why would you do this?)

Just having OKRs at a division or company level is pointless (no buy-in or engagement from regular employees)

it is a self-imposed complexity that we could opt out if we were smart

You could say that about a lot of things in a lot of countries. You have to think twice before you throw away such an old tradition that connects people to the past and the history of their culture.

Most Japanese people I know are either ambivalent or happy about it. No one is suggesting doing away with it.

You do know that plenty of other cultures around the world have their own calendars and these (like Japan's) coexist just fine with the Western calendar, right?

Ironic to see this post on HN, the place where I go to procrastinate

Because of the clear assumed superiority of coders over all other humans

It's more like someone who says they will drive you somewhere but when you get in the car with them they reveal that they can't drive, but they are going to learn over the next few months and they will definitely drive you were they originally promised just as soon as they've done that.

I agree with you that free add-ons to games are great but they shouldn't just be the originally promised functionality

I remember going to a rock festival in Sweden around 2001 and telling people they were being stupid for wearing earplugs. Enjoy the moment, I told people. Listen to the music raw and unfiltered. This is rock music!

I was young, stupid and wrong.

I'm 40 now and I have pretty much continuous tinnitus.

Protect your ears, people.

Bezos is a hardcore megabrain who lives in the future

I think he is atypical, and so not a good representative example

Japan kind of has this. Golden Week in May, Obon in the summer and New Year's leave are all mandatory days off for the vast majority of employees. These are the peak leisure travel times for Japanese people, because everything is closed.

As Japanese workers are famous for not using all their paid leave, and if they do it is in half days here, this is a nationally mandated way to make sure that everyone gets at least a few days off a year.

Point is, there's always something else they could be doing/improving/creating/testing/helping with

This was addressed in the article I think

Your examples show that CEOs "can" matter, but not that they "do" matter.

I think anyone would agree that there are plenty of CEOs who happened to get their jobs just as pipelines come through, the economy rebalances in their favor, long-term HRD plans come to fruition etc. but they get all the credit anyway

> life as an event, and specific things that happen thereafter are no less “random” than specific chunks of rock/dust in specific configurations

No. Incremental changes over millions of generations in response to environmental pressures are not "random".

This sliver of dusty ice may have formed in a one-in-a-million random chance, but there's no process that selects for this.

It's more often referred to as "radical candor", and it comes with an assumption of caring about the other person

https://www.radicalcandor.com/

Have you heard the old design joke?

If you really hate someone, teach them about kerning

YOou could have the City AND a sovereign wealth fund. It's not like they are mutually exclusive choices.

The rise of the City was more to do with loosened regulations, privatization and the leveraging of historical factors like trade links and banking presence globally than anything else AFAIK

Depends where you live

I do agree to some extent, but when you look at the sovereign wealth fund that Norway has that still generates huge amounts of revenue and then look at what the UK has left... it does seem like the word "squander" is appropriate.

When British people go to other countries that got wrecked in the war, like Japan or Germany, they will sometimes look around them and comment "How did they do it? How did they build and keep all this manufacturing capacity? Why do they have this awesome infrastructure that we don't? What did they do differently?"

For Germany, this article provides the answer. For Japan, it's a little different, of course, but the principle of judiciously using post-war investment holds for Japan too.

This should be more common knowledge and hopefully it will stop the rumors like "Germany was flattened so they could start from a blank slate". This obviously holds no water as this advantage would have been entirely eroded within 10-20 years as new technologies came in anyway.

The UK squandered Marshall Aid. The UK squandered North Sea oil revenue. The UK ripped up and threw away an advantageous membership of the world's largest free trade bloc.

The UK has an unenviable track record in this area.

Paying bribes, sitting in traffic, waiting for people who never show up, having the people above you just start knocking out walls or something, being swindled out of wages...

He was foolish to mix his money and the company's money; CEOs should always be explicit about this, if only for the optics.

Not sure it's a crime, though, and the Nissan senior management seem to have known about it for a long time without doing anything about it. This seems quite negligent of them.

I think you're right.

The first big step in Emotional Intelligence is being able to understand and regulate your own emotions, and it's the first step for a reason.

Kids who passed the famous marshmallow test (were able to resist the impulse to eat the marshmallow when unsupervised) were far more successful in later life

I have two brothers who occasionally get very angry, cut off relationships on whims and sabotage themselves through acts of defiance and misplaced protest, and neither of them is very 'successful' (however you define it). There is definitely a link.

Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence

You could just be someone with an axe to grind

Cyberpunk still resonates and has cultural value for many reasons (the aesthetic not the least among them) but primarily because it is very much human-centered, messy, broken and glitched, or, to put it another way, realistic.

Previous SF genres had shiny futures, technology that worked, bad guys who were bad and good guys who were good... cyberpunk turned that all on its head and asked "What if everything is as broken and shitty in the future as it is now? What if it's even shittier? Never mind the captains and the heroes, what will the lowlifes and the junkies and the scoundrels do in the future? What if technology is no solution but just a source of more problems?"

These questions remain as relevant and compelling as ever, and so the genre endures.

No, not just you, exactly how I read it too

"Imagine there's no countries", said every armchair revolutionary ever, before going back to getting high and thinking of other things to say to appear deep and radical to impress girls

ON the contrary, John Lennon was a useful relieve of peaceful expression that never had a single chance of actually bringing about any change in the world. He was a useful idiot, allowing the masses to feel that there was a real movement for peace and that their desire for peace was being reflected back at them, but he never even came close (or indeed even really tried to come close) to doing anything about the military-industrial complex.

He is fading because his late music wasn't very good and the generation that loved him is dying. The deep state, powers-that-be are the ones who will mourn him, because as an impotent fantasist, he was no threat to them at all while playing the perfect appearance of one.