HappyKasper

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by HappyKasper 2y ago
Yes - at that time, the ethics complaint and retaliation allegations weren't public yet. This new article adds a lot to the story.
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Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State(technicianonline.com)
214 points by HappyKasper 2y ago|148 comments
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The Low Earth Orbit Platforms [pdf](kasperkubica.com)
35 points by HappyKasper 4y ago|1 comments
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The Suicide Risk Assessment Is Worse Than Useless(mountmalt.substack.com)
2 points by HappyKasper 5y ago|1 comments
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by HappyKasper 5y ago
I think the acknowledgement is implicit in this piece - current structures have allowed this "power capture" and need to be improved. The point the author makes is that blockchain has very obvious avenues for the same power captu
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by HappyKasper 6y ago
And it looks like they started "investigating" at around 450!
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Microtransactions as an Alternative to Subscriptions(medium.com)
4 points by HappyKasper 6y ago|0 comments
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A Plea for Micro-Transactions(medium.com)
7 points by HappyKasper 6y ago|0 comments
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by HappyKasper 6y ago
So how does this work? Binds to "sweet receptors" on tastebuds (or however that works), and activates them with ordinarily non-sweet molecules?
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Finding my cofounder was the best decision I ever made(medium.com)
1 points by HappyKasper 8y ago|0 comments
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The Three Rules of Pitching(medium.com)
1 points by HappyKasper 8y ago|0 comments
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
That’s a bit of a fallacy - you can legitimately point out the shortcomings of something without needing to name an alternative (e.g. criticizing Ponzi schemes). In this case, though, you could actually have an alternative of simply not usi
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
In my experience selling a consumer product, barely a month goes by without a new PR/marketing agency telling me we should “go for the green angle”. Few people seem to understand that, like you said, these common differentiators, in my
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
The insured pay the price. Hospitals will never turn away a patient with a medical emergency - the inability of certain patients to pay is factored into hospital finances, raising the price for those who do pay.
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
I was turned on to “no design” newsletters by Jeff Bezos’ updates on Blue Origin. They read and feel like a personal note from him, even though I know I’m just an entry on a big list. Since then, I’ve made all important announcements to my
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
It's often said [0] that every language is conducive to a unique worldview - in my personal experience, I see the world very differently in Polish than I do in English. Yet even if that worldview perspective may be intangible (i.e. har
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
You're right, Meltwater and Optimizely aren't as bad as it gets (84.51 definitely is). And after spending some time on those websites, you're able to get a pretty good sense for what they do. My main point is that it shouldn
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
>Tarsnap: Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid Oh, okay, that makes sense. Probably some super-secure online backup service... >Encryption: Your data can only be accessed with your personal keys. We can't access your data even
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Tell me what your company does(medium.com)
478 points by HappyKasper 9y ago|189 comments
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
"Talent is Overrated" is a great pop exploration of this and similar findings. If you find this interesting, I highly recommend that book as a jumping off point for exploring similar findings.
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
You neglect to mention the fact that we are so used to seeing 24 fps that anything above it doesn't look like a movie. Why do home videos have that "home video" look? The biggest reason is the 60 fps frame rate - it just does
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
Should be noted that while the article calls Rocket Lab a US firm operating in NZ, it's been an NZ firm since its first day, and only went to the US for funding. Exciting news not only because it shows commercial spaceflight is becomin
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
One could argue that the basics involve putting sounds together in the simplest way possible - something like this. And that it takes far more work and skill to get to the advanced, low level stuff like writing on staff paper (and on the pr
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
I've heard it from a friend working at one that it's 0.5-2% of a deal (the bigger the deal the smaller the cut), and here's a Quora discussion that corroborates that figure [0]. [0]: https://www.quora.com/What
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by HappyKasper 9y ago
This looks great! So I will ask the obvious question - how common is the failure scenario this protects against compared to others?