Alex3917

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by Alex3917 6y ago
Consider that to make the majority of the most successful startups of the last twenty years -- Facebook, AirBnB, Uber, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. -- you don't need much more programming ability than you'd get from a six month boot c
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by Alex3917 6y ago
I have no issue with this. The bigger issue I have with Google Maps is that it makes zero effort to avoid dangerous routes. If two routes for a ~45 min drive are within 30 seconds of another, why would I want to risk death by taking the one
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by Alex3917 6y ago
What cultivars would you recommend? I planted a szukis, john rick, and mohler this past year. Not sure what else I should be looking into.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Most people would probably recommend Paul Stamets' book Mycelium Running in response to this question. I haven't read it personally (despite owning 20+ mushroom books), but that's probably the closest to what you're look
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Arcade City (the other driver co-op from Austin) is still going strong though. They’re actively working on v5 of their app. https://arcade.city/ They are more of a free tool to allow drivers in each city to create co-ops th
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by Alex3917 6y ago
eshakti only makes dresses with pockets, but they aren’t obviously doing 10x better than other dress companies.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Besides talk about how you are in MENSA? I was in an ultra-high IQ society called The Thousand. Not because my IQ is in the 99.9%, but because they weren't smart enough to figure out how to password protect their Ning group. There
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by Alex3917 6y ago
10x better than you selling 10 bicycles. Your example actually demonstrates why blockchain is hugely valuable.
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Blockchain doesn’t need to make it impossible to counterfeit real-world items to be useful, it just needs to reduce counterfeiting levels by reducing the profitability. It’s more than capable of doing that. If you can only sell at most one
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Sauceability, Forkability, Toothsinkability I like how even pasta creators argue about which ilities are most important.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
It makes sense, given there are academic fields where a gun might be needed. E.g. if your research involves inventorying songbirds in the jungles of Colombia or whatever. Even in the U.S. a lot of mycologists carry weapons, so if they get s
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Cornell. The specific classes are: Introduction to Wines: https://sha.cornell.edu/admissions-programs/undergraduate/ac... Introduction to Handgun Safety: https://courses.cornell.edu/preview_course_
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> You know that's not real. You can definitely do the James Bond semester at college if you're so inclined, which iirc is: wine tasting, handgun safety, cross country skiing, swedish massage, and ballroom dancing.
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Electric Freight Trucks Could Soon Be 50% Cheaper to Own Than Diesel(forbes.com)
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Dr. Bronner’s only exists as a result of the Holocaust, so the connection isn’t exactly lost here.
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> You honestly think the Stanford PhDs who created Google couldn't get hired as basic SWEs? Seriously? They would definitely get a phone screen based on their resumes, but there is a good chance they wouldn't even make it to th
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Zuckerberg could get a job at Facebook. He obviously wrote a lot of Facebook's early code. That doesn't mean he could do leetcode problems.
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> A single developer who put in 7000 hours before he made a cent. I think this is less uncommon for bootstrapped companies than a lot of people assume. E.g. Patrick Campbell from ProfitWell has a similar story.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Apple also tries to trick you into enabling Siri every time you install a security update.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> But other than that vinyl is such a strange "fashion". The problem is that a lot of music that was originally recorded on vinyl was either never remastered for modern audio equipment, or else has been remastered in a way that
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> people who can only afford to live in trailer parks, even with a full time job. Given that the rent in many trailer parks comparable with an NYC apartment, it stands to reason that most people are there by choice.
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"A grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount
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Your fertility drops exponentially after age 35, and the risks for both the mother and child significantly increase. And since it takes ~2 years to make a baby, ideally you should start having kids no later than 35 - 2k, where k is the numb
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Are those magic mushrooms growing in the mastodon poop? Where is Andy Lechter when you need him :-) http://andy-letcher.blogspot.com/2011/07/selva-pascuala-mush...
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> Wait, do you mean "if you were involved in a car crash you'd be less likely to die than if you were involved in a CME"? Car crashes kill around 35k Americans per year. Whereas let's say a CME would kill 300M America
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> What would life look like if we tried to be 100% prepared for all contingencies? No one is suggesting that it would make sense to be 100% for all contingencies. But most people wear their seat belts, even though your chances of dying i
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More like you're allowed to make informed design decisions that have known trade offs. But you have to actually own the issue and promote it to being a purposeful design decision.
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>But once you let that one fly, there's no zero-bug policy left, right? If you know what the fix entails and have decided that the fix will make the product worse then that seems different than just not fixing a bug because it'
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by Alex3917 6y ago
At FWD:Everyone we always ensure there are zero known bugs in production at any given time. So if a bug is reported, it's always fixed with 24 hours, and no feature development is done until we're back to zero known bugs. If a use
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by Alex3917 6y ago
So you're saying the pepe memes didn't originate from 4chan? There were an enormous amount of those on facebook and reddit.

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