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Yeah, reading the comments, I was surprised how personally some people seem to take it.

>> has to be a lie - they haven't died from lack of sleep

C'mon guys, you can't be serious?!

Umm.. maybe? I'll wait and see. Not that I have much of a choice with the current hardware availability issues..

I'd insta-preorder a cooler running, less powerful, fanless version.

Chaos Group does some cool work in Haskell: https://www.chaos.com/all-products

> Well, it won't happen.

One can dream, no?

> perfectionism is doing things the right way and make the best out of the limits you encounter

This is 'being a reasonable homo sapiens'. Perfectionism is having absurd expectations and refusing to do anything unless they're met.

It's the game industry way. Diversity this, inclusiveness that, but when you want to go on holiday for Orthodox Easter instead of Catholic Easter, we have a problem. And you realize it's all pandering and saving face in front of the public.

I thought about it. Maybe it's a cultural difference. Maybe you're right, at least when it comes to right now and American society. Sorry if my comments seem crude or inconsiderate.

And I expect decent counterarguments, but here we are.

The creation of such laws is only a matter of (perhaps very long) time. You think this is an "arbitrary" viewpoint? Fine, give me your best argument why what John Deere is doing is "good".

I don't think having a monopoly should be a requirement to take legal action against nasty practices in general. If somebody is beating his wife, should that be ignored because, you know, she can move out?

It's a 100% pure lottery. I'd easily answer some of the questions, but for others I stand no chance without prep time. For example, I've re-learned implementing a self-balancing binary tree at least 3 times in the past, and I literally can't remember anything about it.

I've always found such questions lame, because (1) you rarely need this kind of thing, (2) when you actually do, you can find the information within 5 minutes, and (3) if you don't know it, well... you're not gonna suddenly come up with somebody's PhD thesis during a stressful job interview.

And you may say "yeah, they don't expect you to, they just want to see how you think". That's bullshit, because people know this questions come up often and will sit down and study them in order to game the interview process.

If I start a side project, I find myself wanting to work on it instead of my daily job. But if I make the project my daily job, I want to work on something else. So no side projects for me, please. And I know plenty of other people who function like that.

Also, if you work hard on your job/project/startup for 7-8-9-10 hours a day, that's probably already past the point of diminishing returns.

Ordered by chance of decline (IMHO):

1. Netflix (~50% chance) - I feel it's only bundled with the rest of FAANG to make it sound better. In any case, HBO/Disney/Apple/whoever producing a cultural phenomenon like "Game of Thrones" would be enough for Netflix to lose the lead. Netflix wants to game viewers based on big data, but I feel like that will only lead to more and more generic stuff being produced.

2. Facebook (~25% chance) - It has pissed off multiple governments and other tech giants. Younger generations don't really care about it, and older people are starting to understand that it thrives on outrage.

3. Google (~10% chance) - Most of their services are slowly becoming worse, but I feel there's at least another decade before disruption time.

4. Apple (~1% chance) - Even if they need to allow additional app stores by law, I don't see that significantly impacting their bottom line. iPhone/iPad/Watch are the device to own in their categories, and the latest crop of Macbooks have been absolutely stellar. Additionally, they have by far the most devout userbase out of any big tech company. If anything can hurt Apple, that's the NIH syndrome, but it's more of a long-term concern.

5. Amazon (0% chance) - Yeah, not happening. Amazon is synonymous with online retail in a time when online retail is what keeps the world going. And AWS is only going to grow, even if it somehow manages to fall behind Azure. Labor unions will certainly show up, but so will automation.

I'd pay for a search engine where I get to customize this kind of stuff.

I will move to a part-time job and start a physics degree. There are many crazy things coming up in science, and I want to be a part of it.

The amount of time it takes to learn all that is like 15 minutes. And it's one-time investment.

It's not the size, it's how you use it.

Reminds me of that early Facebook game where you could "buy" your friends, and every time someone buys them, they become more expensive.

(with extra steps)

Or centuries. Back in late 17th century, people thought the Ottoman Empire will fall apart any moment now, but the "falling apart" took like 200+ years.

You monster.

When Niels Bohr was on a visit to Princeton, he wanted young Feynman's personal input, because he knew Feynman would tell the truth rather than be intimidated into agreeing with every word.

It's one particular search engine partnership cough cough.

Unlike the concrete-and-glass boxes, it makes you feel things, which is already a plus in my book.

It has less hackers, I'd give it that. But yeah, in every other conceivable way the old BNET was miles ahead.

Almost all generalizations are wrong. Some are useful. This is not one of them.

> advertisers keep spending the same amount (or more) even though they have less info because of less tracking of Apple users to correlate with dollars spent

Plot twist: You are the consumer, and ads are the product. Most of the data they got on you is garbage, and the algorithms they run on it have an unfalsifiable claim of usefulness.

Yeah, that's a problem.

To the person who downvoted me: I'd like to hear some arguments. Perhaps you don't need to. But that's irrelevant -- the world at large does. That's the main point of the post, too.

No, but we have to. Hopefully they'd sooner or later be bullied into doing the right thing.

> In fact, it is an evolutionary advantage. Perhaps the truth itself is hostile to life...

This is one of my favorite things to discuss about this book! See, I enjoy making games and having meaningful interactions with other people, and the world is readily granting me all that. Keeping in mind that (1) I'm NOT The Chosen One, (2) I don't have 600 metric tons of plot armor, and (3) people much wiser and knowledgeable than me still find the world perfectly livable, why should I sentence myself to a lifetime of misery to end up changing nothing? How much exactly should I be convinced that I know best in order to do that?