JacobAldridge

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by JacobAldridge 6y ago
It was also originally Startup News, and changed names about (iirc) 12 months later.
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Super cubes: inside the (surprisingly) big business of packaged ice(theguardian.com)
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Banksy's “Flower Thrower” Trade Mark Thrown Out(moulislegal.com)
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I was a regular at the HN London Meetups, when I was living over there, and fondly remember (after yet another founder anecdote on stage) someone tweeting “Do founders at dog food companies eat their own dog food?” Many years later two owne
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Gabriel Weinberg, aka ei0Bauqu https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=epi0Bauqu
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Linked 197 times, possibly referenced more than that; plus it’s a neatly exaggerated example of a joke that I’d imagine has been made many more times again: “I have a problem I’m trying to fix with X.” “Ah, so now you have 2 problems.”
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I’ve only driven in maybe a dozen countries, but so far the US is the only one where the pre-payment thing existed. I was glad to have read about it in trip prep, or I would have stood there staring at a non-functioning gas pump for far too
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To me, with a limited data set, Vardy does seem to have got smarter over the past few years. Still pace and power, but a little more skill even if it slows the ball down (perhaps as he gets older, or just wiser?).
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Noting that transferring assets into Trust will often trigger a capital sales event (and tax), while potentially increasing asset holding costs (your home held by a Cook Islands trust may be subject to non-resident land taxes, for example,
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Thanks for the comment! I’ve been doing a bit of research into various economic indicators aiming to help my (business owner) clients, and it pretty rapidly becomes a complicated mess of cause and effect. Take Unemployment - a lag indicator
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At what point should a President, especially in their first term running for re-election, stop being able to fulfill parts of their duties? Declaring war? Responding to an attack? Talking to other world leaders? Advocating Congress to act o
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But is ‘city mobility’ a lead indicator of ‘rising new COVID cases’, or a lag indicator of ‘declining active COVID cases’? I could make the hypothesis for either (or both), so are you using it to track improvements in a city or prepare for
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Fellow B2B Consultant here. I had the thread open to find some time to return and add my thoughts and experience. Everything you’ve said is spot on, and I think you’ve hit everything of substance. Growing a consulting (even a tailored tech
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“Punctuated Equilibrium” - long periods of stability, and then short periods of great change. I find it interesting to see the effect in other fields in my life - for example, I’ve been tracking net worth each month for almost a decade, and
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Is Gymshark worth $1.4B? A Financial Teardown that says Maybe(medium.com)
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I switched to Compact reddit a few years ago - much easier ride than the full site or needing a separate app. https://www.reddit.com/new/.compact
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I also wonder what benefit the study of alchemy, the Bible etc may have had on his other discoveries? Sometimes ‘flashes of insight’ come from patterns developed in other fields. Gutenberg, for example, made a breakthrough with the printing
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I’m a night owl, struggling with the adjustment to fatherhood and expectations to be present at home right at the time my motor normally fires up. I’ve always felt 3-5am was the most beautiful time of the day; though I’m used to seeing it o
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Thanks for that. Here’s an example of what I’ve done - as ‘simple’ as copying the text into my CMS (Wordpress) and then polishing as I read through it with some headings and graphics to make it more readable - https://jacobaldrid
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I’m much the same ... and I’m saying that as someone who trained as a TV journalist, once hosted his own tv show, put out 134 weekly episodes of a business video series, and even now focuses on putting out 1-2 videos (on businesses <500
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Seconding the Compact version - at one point the site upgrade / redesign reached the point where it was unusable in my browser. Compact saved the day, and makes the experience much smoother to a fellow app-refuser.
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> it was still just an internet study where people were self reporting And I wonder whether it would largely have been people contemplating a decision because they were dissatisfied/ unhappy with the status quo? My immediate thought
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We started with Breakfast at Tiffany’s , and it was all downhill from there! One film blurred into the next; time stood still; I believe the final movie was Fight Club although our choices were cut back when the VHS Player overheated abo
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Aged 21, I became the first person in the world to watch more than 60 hours of films without falling asleep (under controlled conditions), for which I (and two friends) was awarded a Guinness World Record. Almost two decades later, that’s t
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I wonder if there will be some competing airline startups in the next year or two wanting to bid for the domain, or if it will sit on Walmart’s balance sheet for a few years redirecting traffic and waiting for the airline market to pick up
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While I was aware these were largely a relic of the Little Ice Age, I hadn’t realised how rare they were even then. Nor had I appreciated the confluence of factors that created them, including the narrow arches of the previous London Bridge
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In my main keynote I talk about being in the top 25% of the field across 3 different domains, while also being at an intermediary level in a range of others. In part, that’s to set an achievable first goal - most of the audience are probabl
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This is the focus of my main keynote presentation topic, On Being a Deep Generalist . Specialisation came to the fore during the Industrial Revolution and achieved a form of preeminence in the 20th Century that hadn’t existed elsewhere in
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FUCK is still my default “Find>Replace>Find>Replace” placeholder. Need to shift a wad of spreadsheet cells laden with formulas but don’t want to risk anything? Find All “=“ Replace with “FUCK” Copy/Move Find All “FUCK” Replace
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Cheers Dan

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