RichardCNormos

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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
I'm a manager. This is a low-energy take on management, focused on the part of the job I call "keeping the spice flowing": knocking out tickets, landing key results, and coordinating with other teams. For a manager, this is a
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Nearly every YC company is a "services" company.
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Three young men I work with got myocarditis from the vaccine. In each case, the emergency room staff didn't believe that it was a vaccine injury. In each case, they called it "anxiety" and sent them home. Only later were they
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
I live in the part of California where the power company does just cut the power for days upon days, for the sole purpose of limiting their own liability for wildfire. Just because they are a regulated utility does not mean they care abou
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> Probably win a court case (and sizable payout) against a corporation cancelling your ability to drive your own car. They would cancel your license to the software that operates the car. John Deere already does this with their industria
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
> Your pay is based on the cost to hire your replacement. And my effort is also based on the cost to hire my replacement.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Fuck cancer. It takes more from this world every day.
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> In addition to providing an important source of vitamins and minerals, breakfast cereals are also potentially important sources of antioxidants and phytoestrogens Always make sure to get enough estrogen in your breakfast.
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Great eye. It should be part of public education to teach kids to question both whether or not something is true, and, "who benefits from me believing this is true"?
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It's not "quiet quitting", it's "inflation-adjusted effort".
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> selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), could reduce the severity of COVID symptoms This is dangerous medical misinformation. The only way to reduce the severity of COVID-19 is a 100% safe-and-effective Emergency-Use-Authorize
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Move from California to Texas because you don't like the outcomes of the policies you voted for, then proceed to vote for the same policies in Texas. Why are Californians like this?
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The mission of Artemis is to land a woman and a person of color on the moon. It is a federally funded affirmative action program.
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It will be interesting if the red states stop selling food to the blue ones. There are plenty of buyers overseas.
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This is a use case for crypto: seamless first or third-party attestation of age without sharing additional data. It's still a stupid law, but we have the technology to make it work.
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I've always hoped that the US would restrict hardware exports under ITAR, as AI is absolutely a military weapon. I doubt, though, that they will restrict the export of the raw material for creating AI: data.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
"Centralization" is a common theme in California governance: centralized energy, centralized municipal planning, centralized healthcare payments. Voters here can't get enough of it. Of course, they do not consider the failure
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Why does every YouTube video have the same thumbnail? A narrator, almost always wearing glasses, surprised eyes, and a gaping mouth, and some sans-serif block lettering.
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Nobody seems to care about the boosters. Even here in narrative-guzzling California, only 40% of the people have received at least one booster. Source: https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Paraphrasing President Reagan: The Moscow police are notoriously strict when it comes to speeding. One day, Gorbachev and his driver are going to a meeting, and they are running late. Gorbachev admonishes the driver to go faster, but his dr
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
I left social media 5 years ago, and haven't looked back. Facebook, Twitter, and especially LinkedIn, because I don't want the mob to know where I work. Let them find an easier target. It became a liability, because of just how me
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
And yet you come to me, asking me for a higher standard than you're willing to uphold yourself?
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> an experiment in local-only networks is worth investigating. That's what church is. The experiment has been successful for at least 2,000 years.
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Desalination is an ecological catastrophe, and it costs over $1,000 per acre-foot, and that's before the cost of water delivery to the end user. For comparison, my local irrigation district charges ~$150 per acre-foot, delivered. Desal
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This management team clearly needs to work on its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion numbers. Wow.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
In other news, The New Yorker is owned by a private equity firm: Advance Publications.
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It will absolutely become more common. Launching a PR campaign to convince the public that a given disease is an "emergency" can save billions by side-stepping expensive clinical trials. With the relatively low deadliness-to-panic
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> The billions of people who have gotten Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccines show how safe they are, those experts say. I don't like that "testing in production" is now a norm in healthcare.
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In the US, it would end up in court. It directly pits fiduciary duty against OFAC. For example, if a US-based CEX that operates in New York has a slashing event, that brings regulatory consequences from NYDFS, regardless of the reason for t
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People value low prices more than they value longevity.

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