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by Jd 14y ago
In that case, what do you mean by "the inside" ? Presumably you have some sort of privileged access to information, including that which is currently under NDA. If you aren't receiving funding from the organization, what exactly is your rel
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by Jd 14y ago
You could call it that, but given that the US track record so far is closer to Halliburton (i.e. the aforementioned Enron case) and not Sweden, it seems more appropriate to refer to what has actually happened rather than what people wish wo
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by Jd 14y ago
I would argue that the problematic conflation exists in the original program, insofar as the 20 under 20 program is often described as a potential replacement for higher ed. As far as I see things, there are a whole bunch of extra factors w
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by Jd 14y ago
Agreed. I think Thiel was probably creating a program with a knowledge of the PR the initiative would generate without much thought to long-term outcomes. Obv. he is a smart guy with plugins to higher-ed, and clearly someone who believes in
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by Jd 14y ago
I think the "Pos" side should be discounted as it is obviously Thiel centered PR from an employee. I think the "Neg" side should be the default, since one should not presume value until value is demonstrated. That we are still in a sense "e
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by Jd 14y ago
What is "a bunch" ? 30% ? I still don't think it makes sense to refer to them as dropouts unless over 50% were enrolled in a college at the time of application and left a higher-degree program in order to do the program.
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by Jd 14y ago
tl;dr: Neg: Exhaustive review of individuals showing that nothing of value (except riding on existing trends) can be shown from any applicant, except potentially in the case of the Solar Energy startup, in which money was used to hire PhDs
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by Jd 14y ago
I believe the title is wrong. Virtually none of the applicants were "dropouts," although some were accepted to prestigious colleges and decided not to go. The program was envisioned as an alternative to college, and most applicants were pre
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by Jd 14y ago
Fascinating. What were the "few trustworthy references" you found? I've never heard anything like your experience before, and the anecdotal evidence I've heard regarding fasting is largely gathered from spiritual traditions (i.e. Yoga, Chri
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by Jd 14y ago
We have a weird situation in the US right now in that lots of information is available via the alternative press, etc., but none of it seems to matter during election time, in which the major parties and major media vehicles seem to be the
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by Jd 14y ago
There are various tiers in the intelligence of criminals. Tier 1: Get caught. Go to jail. Tier 2: Get caught. "Fix" the legal progress in your favor. Don't go to jail. Tier 3: Bribe the people doing the enforcement. Don't get caught, becaus
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by Jd 14y ago
"giving Heidemann more than one second to land the winning touch" This seems the crucial point, and without having it specified it is hard to tell if this is a very serious oversight or very minor aspect. If Heidemann had 1.01 seconds inste
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by Jd 14y ago
Personally I'm glad this made HN simply because it is an interesting story and I virtually never check the mainstream media. To me, the failures in the mainstream media, including focusing on kitch or faddish things that are of no particula
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by Jd 14y ago
Given what you've said here, I highly suspect you do long-term fasting within some sort of "yogic" context. I personally suspect that many of the potentially negative outcomes of dietary depravation are mitigated when in a positive environm
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by Jd 14y ago
This is also fascinating. I always assumed I was losing muscles, and perhaps I adjusted my exercise/fasting program to accomodate for this -- but I could have been deluded as I never focused on this point carefully.
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by Jd 14y ago
Very curious now what causes the dizzy spells. Please send me a github message or something if you ever find info. This is a long term interest of mine.
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I wonder if the insertion of lemon juice is enough to counterbalance the dizzy spells. I recall doing long walks but not any jogging while doing longer fasts. I'm very surprised by the lack of muscle fatigue though. I've done fasts of 4+ da
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by Jd 14y ago
My experience is that even with lots of water you get serious muscle fatigue starting on day 4, and major dizzy spells everytime that you sit down/stand up. Also, the body seems to go into something of a hibernation mode and want more sleep
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by Jd 14y ago
"If the value of software we're writing is so low, it's probably not worth being written" I think you are missing something big. Lots of software is like infrastructure. It serves a function and needs to exist so that function can be fulfil
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by Jd 14y ago
Up to two weeks at a time of a total (water only) fast? I've done this before, but it was quite difficult to maintain in the midst of work pressures and I'm curious to know how you manage it.
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by Jd 14y ago
Very impressed that this went from a one page cookie-cutter site, to a HN post, to 4K sign-ups, to a BBC article. Hopefully it is the start of something big -- if executed on well it could be very appealing.
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by Jd 14y ago
The testimonials were a bit weird, esp. since they came from people who presumably weren't using the framework. Once we all realized this was a YC thing, what happened was quite clear. YC and YC partners was throwing their valley knowhow an
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by Jd 14y ago
From an evolutionary psychological standpoint I find this ridiculous: Traditional standpoint is that men go to places where women are (e.g. bars) and hit on them. This requires a combination of various skills on the part of men, including r
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by Jd 14y ago
Yep, Ivy league undergrad here. I came from a lower middle class family, total cost of year about 45K with my family expected to pay about 10K per annum for the four years of college, with an additional 4.5K debt/year on top of that. Took m
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by Jd 14y ago
Yep, I avoided scraping with the first version but with the friends feature it was unavoidable -- that's why i've left it on a branch and haven't merged to head yet; no easy solution there and I was in fact temporarily ip banned while testi
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by Jd 14y ago
I built something like this: https://github.com/fractastical/Hacker-News-Filter Filters by domain, keyword, and karma points. On the friends branch you can also create your groups of friends and the main page will show how many of your fr
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by Jd 14y ago
I would say this is true in my case. I suppose you could say that I've become "really good" at what I do, but I feel that I am mostly great compared to what Mark Suster would call the "B Team" so this doesn't serve as a great motivating fac
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by Jd 14y ago
I am a relatively unhappy consultant. I have reached premium billing status within my industry, but seem to be offered to work on relatively repetitive problems that are anything but challenging. Also, although I've made a fair number of co
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How the world typing champion maintains 170WPM speed(seanwrona.com)
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by Jd 14y ago
Might be the best you can do but the problem still exists.

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