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lurcio

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Still in awe of it all
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lurcio··on Food Delivery Is Magical Thinking
It’s great that this reduces barriers to entry: “I sold microwave meals on Deliveroo” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k47u9tduwb8
lurcio··on The API-as-a-Marketplace
All well and good but blockchain doesn’t invalidate the need for ‘good faith’, which is actually due diligence supported by rule of law.
lurcio··on The Problem with the Way Scientists Study Reason
Read the Greeks.
lurcio··on Doing Western students' homework is big business in Kenya
There’s a more lucrative thriving non-location based market at degree/PhD level too (Harvard, etc)
lurcio··on Educated Fools
The “Neoliberal agenda” didnt surface in search results for me. Anyone have a link to a copy please, I’d be most grateful.
lurcio··on Welcome to Apple: A one-party state
“Who wants a stylus?” Jobs asked then. “Nobody wants a stylus”

The stylus is great in the right app(Procreate/Notion/Notability...) and holds more potential So: 1. Visionaries also have their blindspots 2. Ergo, App developers are a major part of what makes Apple great (FB etc moved away from this) 3. Apples ‘walled garden’ is the only platform with the potential to provide users a wholly unified computing experience, over any Apple device... a cut back version of Weiser’s vision perhaps.

lurcio··on Napoleon’s Looted Art
My friend, understand the difference between looting and preservation :-)
lurcio··on Forget philanthropy. The super-rich should be paying proper taxes
The Guardian is operationally in the UK, but its ownership is sited in an offshore trust.
lurcio··on London’s Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and Cafés
And many of Londons cafes are not much better than toilets (I speak as an ex-pat having recently visited).

I used to live around the corner from the one in Fitzrovia. Never saw the appeal. Chacun a son gout.

lurcio··on “It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net”
It's also cheap and trivial to form a UK company with bank account - no matter whether UK citizen/resident or not.
lurcio··on Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33
Spooky.
lurcio··on Apple updates its iMac line
I'm happily using Mojave on two MBP's - 2009 (4Gb) and 2010 (8Gb) with SSD's. Freedom to upgrade internals and the smarts and generosity of dosdude1 (google that) turned them into the best tech purchases Ive made (after previous years of throwing money at premium end PC's that didn't last)
lurcio··on Studying the demise of historic civilisations
Why not cut inequality at the root: prevent children accruing socio-economic advantages from the moment of birth
lurcio··on Studying the demise of historic civilisations
What is the point of children..?
lurcio··on The Life of a Small-Town Bookseller and Writer
"If you have a library and a garden, you have all you need" Cicero
lurcio··on EU countries agree on copyright reforms, deal in sight next week
- or, for security, the EU raises a standing army, is granted fiscal powers over the core states to fund it's increasing needs and becomes Eurasia... (writing this from Airstrip One).
lurcio··on I want to start to learn web development.Where to start
0. Careers 1. Technical: HTML/CSS/JS 2. Design - UX/platform/browser 3. A 'framework'

If you like video, I recommend the University of Youtube

lurcio··on Business networking is overrated (2017)
You got to get along to get along
lurcio··on Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist
It is 'experimentable' - policies are tested and piloted all the time.
lurcio··on Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
Solid recommendations - anyone can get a long way fast with Gatsby/Firebase

I'd only add NextJS as an option for the runway it offers and Meteor/Apollo/AWS as an alternative in that case.

lurcio··on The Norwegian art of the packed lunch
Here in Albania (Europe) it's still a lifestyle thing - school is done by 1pm and lunch is taken at leisure with pleasure. It's a real joy.
lurcio··on How to Land on Mars
Extraordinary claims...
lurcio··on The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history
Article is quite wrong: the FB is an ad platform with at least the longevity potential of mainstream TV channel's.
lurcio··on The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
"BS-o-meter"

You mean critical faculty, perhaps?

lurcio··on Preparations companies are making for Brexit
Ah, we are all wise on our own conceit.
lurcio··on Ask HN: Which is the richest IT niche for a 2-3 years project?
In EU I like the growth prospects and environment for E-commerce - of course, riding the wave while differentiating from what Amazon is aiming to achieve...
lurcio··on Why We Need Difficult Books
"Literature awards are much less a popularity contest than music and film"

The scale is smaller, but lit awards are as much a trade event indulging in the vainglory of supply-side driven trends, celebrity, fashion cycle...

lurcio··on How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows
Do you think people/organisations couldawouldashoulda operate any better under any other paradigm?
lurcio··on How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows
Hmmm... yet somehow a sales person/consultant of any worth is hired on the strength of their book...
lurcio··on Golden Thoughts for a New Nuclear Age – from a new biography of René Girard
Y-comb for me is "broadcatch" (Kevin Kelly?) over a range of side-interests (tech, science)
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