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Dementia is a progressive multi-system failure (CPU, RAM, SSD, Motherboard)

Anterograde Amnesia, on its own, is a failure to write to the SSD.

Medical amateurs, like tech amateurs, might struggle to differentiate between the two.

Medical professionals, like tech professionals, should not.

When it is not possible to upgrade the SSD, using the CPU and the RAM to compensate for the faulty SSD is an excellent hack.

There is a reason I check out Hacker News on an almost daily basis, this is it.

"To medical professionals her condition looks a lot like dementia — amnesia is a common symptom of dementia — but she doesn’t have dementia. One difference is that (as I understand it) dementia is a progressive disease, while this amnesia is stable."

Dementia is a multi-system failure, memory + CPU. Amnesia, on its own, is a failure of memory, the CPU is working fine. Medical amateurs, like tech amateurs, may be confused by the difference. Tech professionals, like medical professionals, ought not to be.

Since we do not yet have the capability to switch out human memory 'cards', making use of the CPU to compensate for the faulty memory card is a great hack.

There is a reason I check out Hacker News on an almost daily basis. This is it.

This happens way more often than you might think. Congratulations on surviving to tell the tale, and best of luck with your next venture. These lessons will stand you in good stead, provided you recognize that this is only one way to kill a startup. Trust me, there are oh so many more...

(and product market fit is a necessary condition, but unfair advantage is where it is at)

I love that this has climbed to a medal position on the hacker news podium!

There is a flaw in the calculation of benefit. It makes no allowance for any domino effect resulting in other non-directed kidney donations.

This would appear to be a material change to the terms and conditions. What recourse do paying subscribers have in terms on cancellation and refunds?

What discredits a piece should be its accuracy, not its political leaning.

That the CIA was not created till 1947, as already pointed out by serallak, will, not stop me from adding the novel to my reading list.

What saddens is the willingness of the community to defend inaccuracy when they agree with the underlying point the inaccuracy is supporting. The author of the article could have said US Intelligence Assets, and forgone the clickbait of CIA. Putting SEO requirements ahead of factual accuracy, particularly when the fact is so easily fact checked, is not how the world gets changed for the better.

Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond Journey to the ants - Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Lewis A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay (In addition to its inspiring message on overcoming adversity, it also taught me a powerful message on the difference between diversity and inclusion - the latter only happened afterwards when it was pointed out to me - another lesson...) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (keep a highlighter ready for each episode of altruism)

There's more than one crazy new idea floating around, checkout cituzenshareholders.com reimagining of capitalism and their (ok, our) crazy, yet feasible, plan to democratize corporate governance. With $40 trillion in shares owned thru collective investments Larry Fink's wish for a new form of shareholder engagement will come true!

Assuming that there should be a universal salary, I seem to recall a lesson an economics lesson on the interaction of supply and demand in determining price.

The bigger question is whether there should be a universal job salary for remote working jobs.

Working on some inforgraphics tackling gender bias a while back, I was'accused' of producing data visualization art. I defended the intellectual rigor of my work, yet lost the argument - my 'accuser' turned out to be the curator of data visualization art at the Tate Modern. He won the argument by pointing out that the work, though based on hard data, was designed to evoke an emotional rather than an intellectual response. Ao much philosophy is taught as if it were a niche area of literary criticism, rather than as raw materials for the creation of algorithms for intentional living, it probably is fair to regard much philosophy as if art, or even art criticism.

'OKRs before KPIs'as it says in our culture deck https://citizenshareholders.com/culture If achieving your KPIs compromises your Objectives and Key Requirements you have the wrong KPIs. In the start-up/scale-up world this there can be enormous pressure to meet investor expectations on short term revenue/growth forecasts. Part of the job of founders is to know their market, their company's unfair advantage. 'Don't be Bullied' should probably be the title of a blog post calling on founders to resist investor pressure to follow the norms in achieving early revenue, not because early revenue is a bad thing, far from it, it's amazing. But if the cost of generating that revenue puts OKRs at greater risk, its better to raise more money to extend your runway. If you meet your OKRs, assuming you've chosen the right OKRs, your KPIs will follow. In many ways this is a culture issue: Culture trumps Strategy, OKRs trump KPIs Provided you have the cash. Citizen Shareholders is now looking for that cash. When we're asked why we have no revenue projected for 2 years, it's because being able to survive for 2 years without revenue will derisk us to the early B2B adopters. Having that early revenue in the bank alongside those investor funds is a problem we can live with. Just in time supply chains are so very 2019, we plan to make sure we have enough to succeed by, at times, having more than enough. If you want to find out more: CitizenShareholders.com

I thought the issue was not the CO2 they emit out the front but the methane(CH4) emitted from the other end. Methane apparently does an even better job than CO2 of keeping the heat in. The Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition a few years ago featured the work of some scientists measuring the impact of different feeds on the amount of methane produced. But the real problem isn't cows, it's humans. As the sheer biomass of humans expands exponentially so do our demands. Almonds are no panacea, just ask the bees, or take a look at the water tables beneath the almond fields (groves? plantations?.

Watching this with great interest. The platform we are launching next year is focused on letting people vote the $40 trillion in shares they own through their collective investments. A core feature is the ability to support externally proposed company resolutions so that they trigger minority shareholder rights, creating a mechanism for getting the issues that matter to you onto the only corporate agenda that counts. We'll be operating 'Citizen Shareholder Assemblies' in which anyone will be able to participate. We're super aware of the need for open debate and free speech but at the same time we want arguments to be based on data. As Citizen Shareholders are able to follow the voting pattern of Default Advisors, we are particularly keen on preventing the 'obtaining of votes by deception'. You'd think there would be lot's of best practice we could follow from the wonderful world of politics, but it turns out that isn't a thing in the 'real world'. If we achieve our ambitions in a few years we will have 10% of the EU population, and even more in the US (103.7 million US citizens own shares through collective investments). Rather than waiting for problems to arise we are looking to get ahead of this curve. We have a number of things going for us, 1. we are not reliant on advertising revenues 2. we will know who everyone is (free speech doesn't have to equal anonymous speech) and 3. we have so many examples of how not to do this. We ;ook forward to the constructive criticism we will undoubtedly get from groups like hacker news. Any upfront thoughts would be much appreciated.

As someone who has been accused of earnestness I have long maintained that Earnestness-ness-ness is the enemy. Earnestness minus humor is the enemy of building a scalable community. Churchill once defined a fanatic as someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject. To move beyond the early adopters and get through to the late majority we need to work out not how to keep the conversation on track, but how to let our audience develop it and still be able to deliver our punchline.