MrDunham

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by MrDunham 3y ago
Can we all agree not to mention Dark Sky anymore? I'm not through the grieving process yet. But seriously, what a great app that is sorely missed now.
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by MrDunham 3y ago
On the flip side, often the acquihires are ways for VCs to get a soft landing for a company that isn't working and return a little capital. There are reasons that venture capitalists maintain close relationships with acquisition decisi
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by MrDunham 3y ago
True, but radians or degrees are general more abstract. "0.24 degrees per hour" (assuming 12 work hours per day) just doesn't really ring to me... and I have a mechanical engineering degree.
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by MrDunham 3y ago
Reminds me of a story back in engineering school where a boat holding the appropriate amount of passengers at full capacity became overloaded and sank. Turned out that the average weight of an American had increased in the decades since the
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by MrDunham 4y ago
> The U.K.’s National Crime Agency announced last week that it’s been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Banking was the interesting one — the FIFA execs moved money and most bank wires (or ACH... I forget) end up going through the U.S. in one way or another if they're international.
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I believe something similar was a major reason that a whole FIFA scandal was able to be taken down by US prosecutors. Despite many people never setting foot in the US a lot of them use the US banking system or some of the piping that is pre
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by MrDunham 4y ago
it's a good point. From my understanding it was the difference between having a business and not having a business. So, more a fight for survival than a fight for just profitability. Though my memory is fuzzy… We were talking about thi
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by MrDunham 4y ago
So, crazy enough, I know the head lobbyist for the group that was fighting against that kidney dialysis thing. It's been struck down three times and, according to her heavily biased opinion, would seriously adversely affect access and
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by MrDunham 4y ago
From the original Show HN[1] a commenter wrote: """ As an intermediary in 2020, you're likely to see a lot of people target you in various ways because they don't like things that people are using your platform for.
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Could someone help me see the ties to hacker/dev/startup culture here? While I agree that this is news and it's a fascinating story, it feels like something more for Reddit than for HN. But that's probably my naïveté or
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I knew they were big but this gives so much more tangibility to the scale of these turbine blades. Forget a banana, "bike for scale"
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by MrDunham 4y ago
They almost certainly have income tax - I can't speak to it though (we chose a different suburb nearby). Many of the cities do have an income tax and property taxes are quite high (I pay $1k/mo on a mid six figure home). The full-
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I moved to Columbus after growing up in the Bay Area ~5 years ago, am friends with the head of economic development, and my wife worked at one of the data centers near Intel. It's hard to describe the sheer amount of land available the
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Deep in the article it mentions a 15 dB reduction in noise compared to a turboprop at the same thrust. Unfortunately, though, they don't give hard numbers… If that's 120 dB versus 135 dB it's still too loud for urban environm
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by MrDunham 4y ago
This is interesting and, possibly, they've become a victim of their own success. Back in 2011 @bluehat and I started one of the first professional hacker houses in Silicon Valley (Palo Alto). One of our competing hacker houses had some
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by MrDunham 4y ago
One of my all time favorite everyday engineering things I've learned is the absolute bonkers amount of energy needed to boil water (vs nearly any other fluid). It's so commonplace yet absurd/impressive when you really think a
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by MrDunham 4y ago
What an unbelievable and incredible coordinated tribute. I only managed to get through 35 of over 100 tribute comics but the magnitude the coordination is absolutely stunning.
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by MrDunham 4y ago
So, I have some inside knowledge on this one. There were many people who were axed as part of the layoffs days after start. But these layoffs were planned for months. The thinking was either 1) we can rescind job offers and give them nothin
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by MrDunham 4y ago
> And no shame in getting philosophical. It may not have been time. Perhaps you were not the same person, or nor was he This is a really good point. My wife and I often laugh about how in high school especially and college too we wouldn’
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by MrDunham 4y ago
This is an important point… I purchased a website about 3D printing at the beginning of this year and have been steadily improving the content quality and posts… Only for a recent Google update to obliterate 90% of my traffic overnight. Two
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Clicking into the article you see that it was built over the course of five years. And from other comments it seems that ~half of his revenue is from Patreon. That means that five years of labor has netted a salary of $60K per year (only $3
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by MrDunham 4y ago
> That guy on TikTok would be me. :) This is something I adore about hacker news. Person a: “I saw a person doing something super interesting the other day” Person b: “Hi! That was me.” Happened to me just a week ago (I was person a)
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Love it. I’ve heard Joe Girard did some questionable things to get in the door (calling during the day to get the spouse, then calling later an insinuating that spouse had requested a call) but he also did a lot of things that was digging t
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Both? The hardware? I loved what you did and would love to replicate it.
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I really wish they had opened sourced this. Was just thinking of exactly that post, thanks for finding it. It really makes a difference to have hand written with a pen as long as you have a font with multiple letter variants/subtly dif
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I really wonder what font they are using. The big challenge is not finding a handwritten style font but finding a font with multiple different variants of each letter. It becomes painfully obvious if you have two of the same letter in a row
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I would bet it would have a pretty decent effects. I’m a digital marketer/growth guy and right now I think the least crowded inbox is the mailbox. But not standard postcards or mass mailers. An example: I worked for an apparel company
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Both, really. Normalize first with the ambient temperature and then run the AC to sub ambient down towards the 60s. AC efficiency increases as temperature decreases. You would have to deal with the fact that your house is now frigidly cold.
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by MrDunham 4y ago
OP: as someone who has purchased a website through one of these services I 100% can tell you that finances are a major part of what we’re looking for. For an app the quality/maintainable/upgradeability would certainly come into pl

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