DorintheFlora

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by DorintheFlora 10y ago
Homelessness has been increasing nationwide for about 3 decades or so: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/why.html This is because the supply of affordable housing has been dwindling while demand grows: http:&
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by DorintheFlora 10y ago
And, yet, here we are, discussing the clickbait -- me included. (I mean, instead of something meatier.)
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by DorintheFlora 10y ago
If we do too good of a job of keeping out Mexicans, we will have serious food shortages. There will also be other areas that suffer -- like upscale landscaping that seems to be mostly maintained by Mexican workers -- but the whole food shor
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by DorintheFlora 10y ago
Yeah, they even have a state called California which gets quite a few people from Mexico coming in across the border. Many of them speak little or no English. I hear it is doing okay.
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by DorintheFlora 10y ago
I am a bit fed up with hearing this kind of thing. We are all human beings. If you are rich, you get accused of being in it for the money. If you are poor, you are accused of being in it for the money. If you have a vested interest, you are
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by DorintheFlora 10y ago
Not only that, but I think there is reason to believe that AirBnB further stresses the housing market and adds additional fuel to the existing divide between the Haves and Have Nots by putting more rent monies into the hands of the Haves an
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by DorintheFlora 10y ago
Still, it seems thin for HN. Even given that many people here live in California and HN is headquartered in California, it doesn't seem like something interesting, discussion worthy and meriting hitting the front page. I mean, I like t
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Liquid drops attract or repel by the inverted Cheerios effect(pnas.org)
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by DorintheFlora 10y ago
Fifth largest, sixth largest, eighth largest -- it kind of does not matter. A single US state has a larger economy than the vast majority of nations. It's pretty impressive, but it isn't really news. This has been true for a long
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Physicists Turn the Cheerios Effect Inside Out(gizmodo.com)
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Permafrost Thawing Below Shallow Arctic Lakes Due to Winter Climate Change(scienceworldreport.com)
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Which browser is most popular on each major operating system?(zdnet.com)
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Folding an Idea A Thousand Times (dorintheflora.blogspot.com)
1 points by DorintheFlora 13y ago|0 comments
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
From the article: Since that change, I haven't heard word one about our terrible, onerous, awful default body and title character limit policies. Not one. Single. Complaint. So, they didn't do what the customers said they wanted
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
That's part of my point. We don't know where the OP is coming from though in terms of how well he/she knows the problem space, etc. If they don't know it well enough, perhaps pointing this out will help them.
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
If appropriate, give the the elevator pitch and a 1min demo on your live product. I want to point out the the above snippet assumes/implies a fairly deep knowledge of your intended audience, the problem space you are working in and s
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
I am aware of his essays. I am trying to think and talk about something specific, let's call it Memology for the moment. I am not talking about start-ups per se but more about he architecture of ideas and how we separate the wheat from
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
Quote: #2 – Built a Solution Without A Problem (i.e. No “Market Need”) Choosing to tackle problems that are interesting to solve rather than those that serve a market need was often cited as a reason for failure. Sure, you can build an ap
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
It is a pleasure to see this analysis of the business strategy, what worked, and why. Tweeted. :-)
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
Men currently hold most of the "worldly" power -- political offices, CEO positions, etc -- and, on average, make about 150% of the money women make in the U.S.* * (These stats may be a bit out of date but I have no reason to belie
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
If you care: Sometimes, just looking may help. Just don't turn a blind eye to it, which is what most men do in such situations. If the woman feels she has a sympathetic supporter, it is easier to defend herself and if the jerk thinks t
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
In other words: It is just speculation. You (apparently) do not have a real world example to cite. I am female. I have blogged before about some of my struggles with the glass ceiling, etc. It got no attention. Perhaps I was doing something
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
Would it? I personally doubt that. Do you have an example of something like that working? Or is that just speculation?
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
My concern with posts like this is that a) men currently hold most of the power b) attacking their behavior in a confrontational manner tends to close doors, not open them and c) I do not see it offering a real solution. I am female. I thin
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
Thanks to everyone who replied (or upvoted me). FYI, I am going to try to start exploring these ideas here: http://dorintheflora.blogspot.com/
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
I think it's a little more complicated than that. If you pay close attention to behavior, you can infer what people really think, on a deeper level than what they admit to. We have concepts for that in spiritual and psychological r
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
To try to get things rolling: Mine is @DorintheFlora.
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by DorintheFlora 13y ago
I am of the opinion that "ideas are nothing, execution is everything" grows in part out of the lack of adequate language and mental models to distinguish amongst ideas of the armchair politician variety and ideas with legs. The
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Ask HN: What's your Twitter handle?
2 points by DorintheFlora 13y ago|8 comments