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What stage startup offers the best risk-reward tradeoff?(joinprospect.com)
1 points by Swizec 3y ago|0 comments
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I remember Google Wave! It felt more like a technology demo than a product.
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You get a shadow profile without agreeing to a TOS. There’s nothing to violate
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I think we’re seeing these attitudes change in real time. Progress execs don’t care as long as the work gets done. Conservative execs see wfh as an affront to status. You have to remember that we’re the first generation since pre-industrial
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Keep in mind this appliues to the execs as well One challenge is that many execs see WFH as a privilege of being an exec. The modern corner office is a detached home office overlooking the pool.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Does Working from Home Boost Productivity Growth? Does it have to? Remote work is great because it reduces carbon emissions, reduces noise pollution, reduces traffic, increases residential rent revenues, increases work satisfaction, in
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> In my first CS class at university the professor started with "We are not going to teach you programming. You can do it on your own time. This program is called computer science, and that's what it will cover." That was
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> Personally, I would rather read content that is likely correct, with a flag that the content is currently unsourced, then to have nothing at all Funfact: This is dangerous! We have a bias towards believing written information. Even if
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> Conglomerates of disparate businesses never work in the long term Tell that to Yamaha, Mitsubishi, Siemens, 3M, etc
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You use money to buy energy. Wouldn't matter that you're money-bound if gas was free. With gas (energy) not being free, people are voting with their wallet to say they would rather spend their limited funds on things other than en
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> People will happily trade off more energy consumption for personal convenience This must be why European cars are generally smaller than American cars. It has nothing to do with the lack of tax breaks on large vehicles, historically hi
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I’ve always liked Viktor Frankl’s take on this: There is no meaning. But humans need meaning. Create your own! Absolutely anything will do as long as you find it meaningful. Just pick a goal/meaning and go for it. It’s okay to change
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As a tech lead I would rather see a team member ask me questions early than never. Nudging them in the right direction before they waste 3 days going down a path that’s never going to work is at least half my job. But it’s important that th
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by Swizec 3y ago
HN surfaces a lot of good ones. Sometimes friends recommend stuff. Or I search for things I'm interested in. Then once you have a hook into your topic, it usually cites 30+ other papers that may be worth reading. You will never run out
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> One possible future is going back to a medium with higher cost of publication. Books Honestly I’ve switched to books and papers a few years ago and it has been fantastic. 2 hours of reading a half decent book or paper outweighs a week
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> In terms of economics specifically, in what way have things "gotten better"? 50 years ago was 1974. Wasn’t USA just coming out of the Vietnam fiasco at the time? Were economic things really that good? I think there was an o
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> That said, I have absolutely seen people be excessively polite in a way that comes off as non-genuine, but they are always ESLs. I assume they just have a hard time seeing the line, so they try to play it safe. I wonder if on a subcons
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> How is the body burning the same calories with increased physical activity? As someone who runs marathons, the answer to “how does the body burn the same calories with increased activity” is: It doesn’t. You will feel a marathon meta
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As an ESL, my opinions in exclamation points are “shrug”. But here’s something about tone that grinds my gears: Why is clear writing considered aggressive? I often find it nearly impossible to understand coworkers because they couch everyth
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> Do people really just perpetually not know where to get something they want in the place they live? No but a) people travel and b) the young post-college demographic is usually new to the area . By virtue of being young and freshly ou
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And yet I listened to a podcast once where a tax accountant explained that Instagram Search is her strongest lead pipeline. At my dayjob we do women’s health, actual clinics with real doctors. Many of our users come from Instagram and Tik
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> it's hard to keep up with blogs and niche interests. More difficult than it used to be, at least It is hard to keep up with niche interests! I blame it on being 36 with real responsibilities instead of 22 and in college. I suspe
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Fair. I was not aware of all those other things. I guess he gets to keep the celebrity because he was the most successful American cyclist. America number one and all that :) (I’m not a american so I find that attitude silly but very noti
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> That his celebrity and accolades were obtained fraudulently Important to remember that when they took Armstrong’s trophies away, the next person who hadn’t yet been caught doping finished 10th. During that era of cycling, 87% of top 10
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> Static typing lets you do more complicated things by offloading a subset of complexity-management to robots I've read some of the research on this! Yes, static typing improves documentation and helps you navigate code. It also cor
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> 93% of trips are less than 30 miles, but the vast majority of drivers take occasional trips that are beyond the range of an electric car I live in a dense city and don’t own a car. For most of my regular trips, a bicycle is faster and
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> Instead of simply abstaining from using my phone, I put time into activities My relationship with social media, even HackerNews, really clicked when a meme (oh irony) said: ”You’re like a tiger in a cage. You know how they pace in ci
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Winston Churchill: From Prisoner to Prime Minister(economist.com)
3 points by Swizec 3y ago|0 comments
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I agree! GenAI is great at solving lots of problems right now, but not all problems as many are hyping. And for many use-cases it's still too expensive/slow. I wasn't trying to say it's useless, I was getting at this sen
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> how has generative AI had a positive impact on the average person? Generative AI, for the most part, is a technology in search of a problem. For now. The tech is in a “demos well, productizes poorly” stage. Once you try doing anything

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