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Apologies for posting a comment that doesn't add to the discussion. I was trying to show the absurdity of the quote in the article that someone recommended reading 500 pages a day.

It takes me three minutes to read one page. 500 pages per day will take only 25 hours a day. :)

Reading is important, and I have heard this advice many times, yet I never took it to say reading is the only thing that matters. The advice on reading 500 pages a day will not work for most people, indeed!

Here is a good succinct and practical advice from Naval:

"Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years" (https://mobile.twitter.com/naval/status/871415571551629312?l...)

Just one hour! Doing that consistently can be hard but very beneficial.

I hear you. I am not criticizing Halloween, since I take part in doing all of these. I did mention costumes going to landfill though, not just pumpkins.

What I mentioned doesn't have to be taken to extreme to say nothing should be produced and moved around! By that analogy, the only way to save the environment is to stop living.

People buy a lot of stuff during Christmas, but they get used.

EDIT: I think so.

> They are renewable and compostable —both things are often not possible to achieve in other activities.

I was thinking and wondering if all those 1000s of acres could be used to grow something else, which people could eat and not throw away. :)

But you make a great point. It is better that we carve pumpkins, which are compostable, than use some kind of non-compostable stuff.

I have mixed feelings about Halloween. On the one hand, it has a great social aspects to it: people get together for carving, there are parties, and kids have so much fun. But the environmental and health sides of it mindboggling. We are completely fine growing so many pumpkins only for them to be carved and thrown away; we buy a ton of costumes that are worn once and go to the landfill; and we buy so many candies a lot of which probably gets thrown (which is probably better than eating them).

If you read the book "Thinking fast and slow" or perhaps "Predictably irrational", you will realize how irrational all of us are.

> inability for humans to properly assess risk

Would you be willing to entertain the same thought for yourself?

I don't see your quote in this article. Is there a different article you are referring to?

You want Technology Review to build a social network?

I agree. These laws are not set in stone. Times change, and so the regulations need to change. The government must do what is good for the people, and in this case, it may be letting Uber run (or may be not).

The article sounds one-sided in favor of Uber, but as a tourist who visited the place recently, it would have been much easier for me if Uber/Lyft operated.

The public transit may be nice, but as a tourist, I didn't bother with the bus timings and such: it was way easier to get a cab. Under such circumstances, Uber/Lyft may have made it much easier, especially since, at times we felt flagging down a cab was impossible.

I am curious why you said that?

I realized that it was very tough for me to read the whole article from start to beginning, sentence by sentence, without getting distracted or skipping sentences.

Ok I didn't know Anki knows when notes are added, thats great. Also I don't need front and back sides. I just want a note on the front that states what I need to refresh about.. but I guess I can just leave the back side of the flash card empty for that, I suppose?

Is there any SR tool that can just remind you to review stuff while taking into consideration the date it was added? The use case is as follows: Suppose I read some article on some neat python tricks today, if I don't review it or use it I am going to forget it in a month. But if I note that I learnt it today, the program should remind me after say 3 days later, two weeks later and then probably after one year. My understanding is that Anki cannot do this, since it doesn't know when things are added.

Hilarious! Initially I was thinking "poor fellow who made this mistake" and eventually I felt like I got trolled, this almost feels like its not a mistake! PS: There are 38 <h3>s and 2 </h3>s.

To use Twitter, one does not have to tweet.

May be thats true, but it is irrelevant to my question.

I feel like robotics in a few years is what big data is today. So what is it that one should be doing to get ready to jump into robotics in a few years?

Yup, don't take this advice blindly. You should put the PhD and probably cut down on listing all publications, and focus more projects/internships..

You are mostly right, but then there are other issues to consider: why would a business buy from you who is just starting out? They would like to have some guarantee you will be around after a few years..

I noticed a family in an airport a while ago --- the parents and the two children were all engrossed into their own mobile phones. I felt very sad and have since then trying to reduce my mobile phone consumption.

I do take a lot of photos with a DSLR in the name of photography, but sometimes I wonder whether I am missing the bigger picture (though I do think I am a better observer and appreciate nature/beauty/patterns etc. better since starting photography).

Several years into the future..

PG: Unban me, HN.

HN: I'm sorry, PG. I'm afraid I can't do that.

I saw it long back and had really enjoyed it! Yours is probably the only useful oneweirdx website..

I guess you did not notice the animated GIFs? Edit: or may be those are videos?

91 Wireless -> $1.9B I wish they had named it 99 Wireless? :)

Oh, I was actually thinking I was reading a post on Medium.