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by 40acres 8y ago
Getting "accepted" and then rejected made me finally realize how badly I want to try my hand at creating my product idea and starting a start up. So thanks YC for the bug, see you at YC W19 applications.
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by 40acres 8y ago
I've been a pretty consistent pot smoker since 2014-15, which was when Oregon legalized it. Prices have dropped considerably so it's not uncommon to get a pre-roll of pretty strong stuff (20+ % THC) for $5. I have not noticed any
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by 40acres 8y ago
If you've read the biography by Ashlee Vance this shouldn't surprise you. Musk has always been a guy who runs at 100%, even at the sake of his personal life. On the one hand it's inspiring but also very concerning. The board
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by 40acres 8y ago
I use pomodoro and find it helps my productivity more than hinder it. Mind you I show signs of ADHD (working w/ a doc to get a diagnosis now) so pomodoro might no be for everyone but I find it allows me to slice out some time to really
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by 40acres 8y ago
I found Blind a pretty good social network for the niche. I got a useful info on industry salaries and interview prep from the general section. The company I work for had a section that was pretty negative and I think doesn't reflect t
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by 40acres 8y ago
Jesus that was difficult. How the hell did she even survive the gunshot wound?
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by 40acres 8y ago
I was born in 91, so for the first half of childhood (0 - 9) there were no tablets or smartphones or smart TVs around. During the latter part of my childhood (10 - 17) these things started to propagate but we were still in the initial phase
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by 40acres 8y ago
I think you're right. About half my social circle is friends from work (other millennial in the high tech sector) and for the most part they are doing fine. Took a few years to knock out student loans but folks are saving well and buyi
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by 40acres 8y ago
Congress recently failed to pass a bill which would add election security funding, so we know where they stand.
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by 40acres 8y ago
I'm actually a lot more interested in the product decisions than the tech stack. I wish there more product deep dives on HN.
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by 40acres 8y ago
Can't wait for the next round of apology commercials.
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by 40acres 8y ago
NYC policy is what allowed the medallions to be so artificially inflated in the first place. The city has less medallions today than in the pre-war times. Now that the market collapsed it's the moral thing to do not only to liberalize
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by 40acres 8y ago
Seem to? The entire middle class was built this way. See: FHA, student loans.
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by 40acres 8y ago
I think you're being a bit harsh to the individual drivers here. My dad was a yellow cab driver in NYC, lots of drivers, like my dad, were immigrants and owning / renting out a medallion was seen as the equivalent to owning your o
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by 40acres 8y ago
Honestly, even accomplished writers sometimes don't have a book in them. I've many works that would be a great Harvard Business Review article but got expanded into books for some reason or other. You probably have a great long re
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by 40acres 8y ago
If I'm Apple I'm earmarking some money for AR development. ARKit is really solid and should get better w/ time. That can provide a nice launching point for developing AR glasses. If anyone can pull off tech glasses it's
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by 40acres 8y ago
But did they fix the coil whine?
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by 40acres 8y ago
There has never been a time where America wasn't segregated or in equal. I think throughout America's history we've had a long runway: the fact that the continent was open to use w/o a well organized Mexican or Indian st
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by 40acres 8y ago
I think you can mask a lot of issues through sheer population numbers. India and China have really structural issues with their economies, democracies, etc. But if India can get itself to 50% middle class as the US that's 200M more peo
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by 40acres 8y ago
If you ask me, the fall of America from the lone 'superpower' to a 'great power' is all but assured as long as the structural racial inequality in this county persists. Let's take a look at education for an example:
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Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City (2016)(nytimes.com)
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by 40acres 8y ago
I'd rather see a SICP rewrite that lowers the barriers of mathematical pre-requisites. SICP is a great book but I found myself having to research calculus equations more than I'd like.
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by 40acres 8y ago
Are you taking the caffeine from coffee in pill form or in a cup? Also how long does this seem to last?
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by 40acres 8y ago
It's not just Oregon. Haswell (4th Gen) is based off of Haswell, CO (Intel has a presence in Fort Collins, CO) and Kaby Lake (8th gen) is based off a lake in Canada.
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by 40acres 8y ago
People are being harassed about minor things all the time in this country. The age of social media has just made it more visible. This summer there has been a trend of stories regarding people (usually white) calling the police on their nei
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by 40acres 8y ago
If poisoned is analogous to murdered then the children of Flint are victims of negligent homicide. Either way, there is a very long thread connecting the events of Flint to other decisions made by government officials which probably would
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by 40acres 8y ago
I was in the market for a laptop last year. My choices dwindled to the 2017 MBP and Dell XPS 13, due the price increase and reviews of the touch bar I decided against the MBP. And due to quality issues I also decided against the XPS. I ende
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by 40acres 8y ago
Interesting thought, I'd wager that our economy isn't as efficient as it should be with respect to the labor force. For instance there are tons of men in their prime age working years who are dropping out of the labor force, and t
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by 40acres 8y ago
Buying stuff on Amazon has just become second nature to me. I've gotten hard to find hot sauce, books, and laundry detergent despite the fact that I live literally across the street from a whole foods because of the convenience. My apa
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by 40acres 8y ago
Find your passion is great advice, in a world of increasing loneliness, isolation, exposure to news, etc. I think having a passion is a wonderful thing. I don't think your passion has to align with your career however. Programming is a

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