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People with internal monologue basically think in language. They are often very articulate. Jordan Peterson said he thinks in words, and he talk very fast.

I think in abstract and concrete imagery, and only found out recently that other people think in words.

I think thinking abstractly hinders my verbal skill as there is a translation layer from idea to words.

It's indeed mind blowing when you first realize how other thinks.

I am not sure if it is because I am getting old, but have found Paul's old writing more resonating than ever.

Pingyin doesn't not only help me learn Chinese, but also learn English's pronunciation later in life. It's not one-to-one match but close enough.

Bopomofo predates Pingyin and did what Pingyin did but with non-Latin alphabet. It was always a surprise looking back that Mao adopted "Western" alphabets for Pingyin when he was very much against western ideology.

It was an excellent call, especially when writing is done digitally nowadays.

This is amazing. Money doesn't make us live longer, but does $45 billion help bring the future sooner? I bet it does. It will widen our horizons on what's possible. Everyone on earth will benefit from it.

Yes, I remembered it was weird childish sound in Chinese. Sounds like a duck.

I remember seeing this when I grew up in China (translated into Chinese). Last time I saw this film was 30 years ago. Thank you so much for sharing.

Different generation consumes news differently. I am the "newspapers" generation, but I found BI useful. If it is clickbait, I just skip it. The UI/UX makes easy to skip things you don't like. Try to do that on a piece of newspaper...

With that said, I did skip a lot on BI. I go to BI because of its fast updates and maybe just a habit.

It is tricky. The expected value is mathematics term people invented for easy calculation. It is different from the "value" in human perception.

How much is a $1 lottery ticket worth? It is probably 40 cents depending on the probability. It's worth zero for all the people who lose and millions of dollar for the luck one. There is no "between" value which is what expected value represents.

This is a great article. Great writing!

Software eats the world, or it may not. I don't think most of startups are doing what they do to realize that goal. All they do is to solve a specific problem with technology. Of course if the "problems" aren't there, they would fail.

I don't know what the action items are for the tech communities after reading the article. We find something interesting to do with our tech talent, and aren't really trying to choose which future we want to live in.

Regardless, Maciej has some great insight and offers some different prospective in tech/web.

I don't think there is ET. The probability that atoms fuse together to construct a organism that is capable of turning sun into bio-energy and multiplying itself just by chance is too small to have two civilizations in this universe.

No one procrastinates on things they enjoy doing. You may not have found your niche yet, keep looking. People grow up learning competing with each other all the time as it is theme of life. You would have to unlearn that and enjoy life.

It is part of life lesson to distinguish bull shits from constructive criticism.

If you haven't learned it elsewhere, HN is good place to start.

I haven't been in Singapore and have read very little on why Singapore is so successful.

Three of Four Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea) are more democratic/free and equal in prosperity comparing with Singapore.

IMHO, a great strategic port and super effective government are probably key reasons that power the its great achievements. I hope people don't consider quasi-dictatorship style of governing the cause of economic miracle.

The question comes down to how you evaluate things. Are the growth rate and money the only measures here?

God doesn't favorite China. Looking at its past 100 years, huge political unrest and communism experiments kept the country so behind the rest of world.

The technology, free market reform and globalization help China quickly escape from its historical baggage and catch up with developed world. The question is what value would win out at the end now everyone has equal footing.

Culture, political system and work ethic are the deterministic factors going forward. Would you prefer a world looking more like America or China?

Thank you for answering my question. I think I now get a sense of thinking using tactile representation. I can imagine it is incredible hard to work on things that don't have 1-to-1 mapping between visual and tactile.

It is a fascinating topic. I hope to have a chance to understand how brain really works in my lifetime.

Thank again!

Thank you so much for your insightful post and prospective.

I have a question on how you imagine/think. People with eye sigh often think with pictures. Even thinking about abstract things like programming. I often visualize how a data structure looks and how it interacts with other code. I have found it tremendous useful as I can replay/test such scenario in my head.

Do you have similar experience when you think? Do you construct mental picture (such as circle, a binary tree) in your head? What is it like?

That's great new! Going to grocery store is such a pain. Instacart delivers you to the grocery store and bring you back after you've done shopping.

I didn't notice it until you mentioned it. I didn't feel cheated though since I got good amount of info from the article and was curious about how Aerospike did it.

I wish all ads were like this.

A big topic can be easily broken down to small chucks. It's just easier to consume that way. I don't think they really took time to condense the content to focus on the essentials.

I really want to enjoy the jokes/small talks, but they are really flat and not funny at all.

Does unique throw-away card number really reduce fraud? If so, can't Visa/Mastercard implement them too?

You got a point. We will see one team on full attack which is not always the case when both team are cautious. but thinking about it now, it is not necessary interesting football that way.

I think your analysis makes more sense to me than that article. I am from north and barbaric.

I spoke with him when I was at Avanade (he was the CEO) over a decade ago and just got connected with him on LinkedIn last year. My condolences to his family.

Who will be regulating it? Government?

It is a great tool to discover interesting courses and it saves me a lot of time searching. I am not sure if you are working on it, but it maybe a good idea to allow people to subscribe subjects/classes so that they got notified when new courses got created.

I hate to see this, but it looks like the machine is getting some characters....scary...we are getting close to 2001...

Is this possible to change to the scrolling direction to up and down only? It would then feel more like reading a newspaper and also work well with HN's scoring system.

I can totally understand. Growing vegetables on earth just doesn't generate big enough GDP for the 8%-a-year-every-year target.

The association is not same as causation. I think It would be more useful to derive or at least inference the causation of success/failure from your data.

For example: if someone can't convince other people to join, how could he be able to convince customers/investors later on. This implies causation. I would love to hear more causation like this for the single founder startup.

There are relationships and associations everywhere. If people look at the data between skin color and success, they will find relationship. but it doesn't mean people succeed because of their skin color. The causation is more useful information than the mere association.

love the article. I would add that simplicity is just the right amount of abstraction. a little more becomes complex. a little less becomes incomprehensible.