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by Thriptic 11y ago
I understand your stance; perhaps at the very least she should have used a pseudonym to protect her husband's family and friends. With that being said, we are only being exposed to a portion of the story which she has decided to share
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by Thriptic 11y ago
They took on an industry in which existing players were poorly serving consumers and have been providing a good product. Other potential competitors avoided the market due to the regulatory environment in the industry. Uber dealt with this
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by Thriptic 11y ago
It depends on how you define doing the right thing. If you mean telling drivers to be accomodating of passengers with disabilities, then yes I agree. If you mean fielding an entire discrete service of vehicles across the world to se
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by Thriptic 11y ago
In my experience a lot of very critical steps in experiments are frequently never formally defined in literature or even within lab notebooks, existing only as institutional knowledge. What may seem like an obvious step not worth docimentin
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What 145 Funny App Ideas Say About Today’s Tech Culture(medium.com)
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by Thriptic 11y ago
If the research can yield ways to improve the happiness of society, then I would say it is worth doing.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
The sprawl of the city struck me as kind of odd, as did the intermixing of small and large buildings.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Reply to your edit: >And being invited to a party with VC is a net positive option. Ignoring it would merely put her back to the level of men, not below that level. Feeling pressure to go there - really? Let's say she that she theor
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Even if you assume that investment is completely off the table so there is no conflict of interest, creating a situation in which a founder might feel pressured to go on a date with someone they are not attracted to in order to get in the r
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by Thriptic 11y ago
An investor should not be inviting people actively seeking funding from their VC to a VC backed event as a date. It's unprofessional (it sets up an obvious conflict of interest for both parties) and it's unethical (it sends very m
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by Thriptic 11y ago
No script defeats a lot of paywalls btw
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by Thriptic 11y ago
True, but it's still possible to save quite a lot of money on such a salary because the cost of living is much lower outside of major urban areas on the coasts. My friend who is a chem E in the midwest is taking home about 70K and has
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Ask HN: Best resources on project management
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by Thriptic 11y ago
The 518 is an awesome mouse. I have the G5 which is basically the 518 with a rubberized exterior.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
I went through a somewhat similar phase in which I didn't particularly care if I lived or died (new city, shitty job which I wasn't doing well at, had no friends / gf, poor health, no immediate prospects etc). I think what he
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Ask HN: Best tools and practices for documentation
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Kelly Starrett, an expert on mobility, has great short pieces on how to optimally sit and walk to improve posture: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/sit-better-live-better-excer... http://www.allthingsgym.com&
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Holy shit, I retract my statement. How has this not been addressed yet? I will write my congressman this weekend about this issue.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Assuming that his contact was only with a mental health professional, his dismissal strikes me as illegal and unethical. It is absolutely illegal in the United States for a physician to release medical records to anyone without the patient&
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by Thriptic 11y ago
I got my bachelors in biochemistry at a mid tier school with a bad science program and am now at MIT for my PhD. The difference in quality of instruction at the undergrad level, access to undergrad research opportunities / internships,
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by Thriptic 12y ago
The fact of the matter is that translational life science, medical device development, and pharmaceutical development are not safely possible without animal experimentation at this time. Our in vitro and computer models are simply not good
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by Thriptic 12y ago
THANK YOU!
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> Her lab job was to kill rats in the lab(adults, and babies). She would slam their heads into a piece of granite. Some times multiple times. (btw--she had horrid dexterity) NO IACUC at any university or any veterinarian would approve th
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by Thriptic 12y ago
Coincidentally I just stumbled upon this service which integrates with FB chat to offer OTR encryption a few minutes ago: https://blog.crypto.cat/2014/05/cryptocat-now-with-encrypted... Anyone have any knowledge r
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by Thriptic 12y ago
Is arch relatively approachable for a linux noob who has logged a bit of time on Redhat and Ubuntu?
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by Thriptic 12y ago
You make very good points, and I apologize for the accidental condescension conveyed by my post (which became apparent after a re-reading).
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by Thriptic 12y ago
The linked study doesn't examine what is mentioned at all; it is a study of chocolate milk as a recovery drink from 2006. No real athlete would consider a power bar, gatorade, or fast food to be a good post workout meal anyway, as the
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by Thriptic 12y ago
This is an incredibly important point. I have seen many extremely successful people with easy lives crumble when confronted with failure / hardship. Easy success also makes people complacent and lazy. The ability to strive through hard
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by Thriptic 12y ago
> You obviously have a high metabolism Not particularly. If I had a high metabolism I would not have put on the weight easily in the first place. > and abundant energy and willpower. Not overeating requires willpower every waking mome
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by Thriptic 12y ago
It's just as easy to keep the weight off as to lose the weight. It's literally the same methodology. I've kept my weight at a healthy level for over 4 years.

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