Nicholas_C

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by Nicholas_C 4mo ago
Q: How can you tell if someone is an atheist? A: Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
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by Nicholas_C 4mo ago
Sim City 4 and Civilization 5. Both are timeless and I still play them a few times a year. Hard to believe Sim City 4 is over 20 years old.
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by Nicholas_C 5mo ago
If they’re just using excel or their LLM vibe coded its own double entry accounting system this is a pretty bad idea.
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by Nicholas_C 6mo ago
In my post I said "this kind of stuff" which also includes their DRM policies (which is the real reason they are ending the users' kindle support).
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by Nicholas_C 6mo ago
This kind of stuff is why I no longer use a kindle. I use a kobo which IMHO is not as good of a product but it's worth not supporting this behavior.
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by Nicholas_C 6mo ago
Houston has quite a few software company billboards. It’s just that in SF it’s 100% software billboards so it’s really noticeable.
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by Nicholas_C 7mo ago
I'm surprised he would admit that publicly on a podcast.
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by Nicholas_C 7mo ago
The HN of old is no more unfortunately. Things get up or down voted based purely on political alignment.
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by Nicholas_C 8mo ago
Maybe it has always been this way but it seems like these days it's only a matter of time before anyone "authentic" (or at least seems authentic at first) turns into some type of grifter. If you have a big enough following th
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by Nicholas_C 8mo ago
There are a lot of people with incentives to hype the AI industry (VCs, founders, CEOs, internet personalities that need clicks, people that sell courses, etc). Last week everyone was hyping Claude Cowork, this week it's Clawdbot. Don&
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by Nicholas_C 11mo ago
Agreed. If no one uses gymnastics to traverse a laser filled room it's actually pretty lame.
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by Nicholas_C 1y ago
I switched to kobo for a while but I thought the hardware itself was inferior. Maybe they fixed it but I couldn’t dim the screen low enough to not annoy my wife while she tried to sleep. It felt cheaper too. I begrudgingly switched back to
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by Nicholas_C 1y ago
My work laptop and personal laptop are the same model for this reason. Switching between two different keyboard layouts is very frustrating.
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by Nicholas_C 1y ago
Not the OP but I used to do breathe hold training for surfing and bought a pulse oximeter. I don’t think I ever got below 90%.
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by Nicholas_C 1y ago
That is much higher than I would have expected. Good news. What are they using to charge the batteries though? I wonder if it's offpeak renewables or mostly natural gas?
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by Nicholas_C 1y ago
Counterpoint: some people are just better at their jobs than others
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by Nicholas_C 1y ago
How would LLMO and SEO strategies differ?
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by Nicholas_C 1y ago
Are those passionate/nerdy people still running niche websites? A search engine that prioritizes that kind of content would be great.
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by Nicholas_C 1y ago
When we were having our stolen card testing it was from people using made up gmail handles and ELV handled those easily. I guess it views temp-mail emails (and probably others) as real, which is unfortunate.
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by Nicholas_C 1y ago
We had the same issue (people testing stolen credit card numbers) on Stripe that was close to getting us shut off for a certain credit card company. We implemented a captcha and a tool to validate email addresses (emaillistverify) and it so
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by Nicholas_C 1y ago
Pretty cool, reminds me of content from SeekingAlpha. I'm trying to do something unrelated with public companies, where did you get a list of all companies filing with the SEC? Or was it built based on whoever filed 8-Ks? A google sear
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Not surprising given our diet and car-dependent culture. From the article: >While less access to health care and weaker social structures can explain the gap between the wealthy and poor in the US, it doesn't explain the differences
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
>It's my understanding that solutions like Stripe Tax, Alavara, Quaderno, etc. only help collect the necessary data (which I consider the easier part, at least for digital goods), but do not handle the registration & filing (tho
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
If you ever want to sell your company the purchase price will be discounted by the amount of sales tax liabilities you have (source: have seen this happen). It's easier to get ahead of it and start collecting and filing sales taxes now
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Sounds a little like crypto although there are actual use cases for AI. Just not as many as investors think.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
I loved any and all Gary Paulsen books. This one was so unique and I still think about it from time to time as well. I’m due for a reread.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Agent based modeling (ABM) is an attempt at this. I've wanted to forecast the economy on a per-person basis since playing Sim City as a kid (although Sim City is not an ABM to be clear). From doing a bit of research a while back it see
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
And then after the slave raiders a Scottish sheep farm was established and they confined all the natives to one small area (Hanga Roa). The population is now highly mixed and only about half the current population are of Polynesian descent.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
As a finance leader I use this as a reference occasionally. I can imagine it’s a pain to keep updated for the team but it’s nice to have this available.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Encountering this reminds me of the earlier days of the internet when finding novel things like this was a common occurrence. Reminds me of something you'd find using StumbleUpon.

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