TravisDirks

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Steel Bending Bare Handed and What I Learned About Developing Technology(linkedin.com)
3 points by TravisDirks 4y ago|0 comments
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Moonshot: Ambitious Technology Development – A Book of Methods from the Trenches
2 points by TravisDirks 5y ago|0 comments
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Palo Alto Area Locals – Alpha Program for Strength Device Prototype
2 points by TravisDirks 10y ago|0 comments
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by TravisDirks 11y ago
Seldn, inc - Warning None standard offer: Creative Sabbatical in Maui, Hawaii We have decided to sponsor a creative sabbatical for a front end developer or data scientist to come work on our AI startup (= Seldn) for this period. Seldn will
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by TravisDirks 12y ago
I originally wrote this up for friends and family, but thought the crowd here might find valuable to hear from someone who thinks similarity. As Bruce Lee said so well: Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your o
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by TravisDirks 12y ago
I wrote this up for friends and family, but thought this crowd might find it valuable to hear from someone who maybe thinks similarly. As Bruce Lee put it: Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own. Hope it h
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Weight loss:a tech guy's lessons losing 50lbs(2013) and keeping it off(2014)(alwaysascending.weebly.com)
17 points by TravisDirks 12y ago|10 comments
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Why Michael Dell wants to change the buyout voting rules so badly, in one chart.(qz.com)
1 points by TravisDirks 13y ago|0 comments
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Thank You Rework: We Took a Stand and Got Featured in the New York Times(dealbook.nytimes.com)
1 points by TravisDirks 13y ago|0 comments
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Does ruling impact the DHS discussion from a couple days ago? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321036 http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
"Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders." From: http://www.aclu.org/national-securit
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Population is concentrated on the coasts. Has anyone worked out what fraction of US Citizens have lost their 4th amendment rights?
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
I think the author may have misunderstood the claim. Intel was probably referring literally to low power computing (what happens inside Intel's chips) not to low power any-thing-you-can-do-with-a-computer(display, communicate with others, e
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
This has been driving me insane lately. Every site I follow a link to gives me an app splash page. What is particularly frustrating is that usually its a complete waste of both of our time since I already have the app. LinkedIn in particula
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
I think you'll find that this is not a useful way of thinking. There is always something else you could try and account for. To save your thinking until you can account for everything simply results in no thinking. It's far better to fully
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
If I understand the article correctly the argument is that ZD strategies don't do well against each other, so they can never dominate a population. Therefore they will not exist evolutionarily. I don think that conclusion follows. I would
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
I doubt this is as big a problem as you think. If you have any interbreeding at all the general conclusion holds. I would guess that even extremly low estimates of interbreeding rates wouldn't change the result much.
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Very interesting! If I didn't misread, a better title would be "In 3000 years almost everyone alive today will be a common ancestor of all humanity." From the story: "In fact about 80% of the people at that time in the past will be the ance
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Was thinking the same thing. Way to many periods and not enough question marks.
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Where Steve Blank Went Wrong About Art, Science, and Entrepreneurship.
3 points by TravisDirks 14y ago|0 comments
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Sounds good. I was over optimistic promising today, though. Look for it next week. I'll post a comment hear when its up.
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Thank you everyone for the Up votes and the conversation! We reached six or seven on HN on the same say Seth Godin sent out a blog post mentioning how unlikely it is to reach the front page of HN. That was a treat! I'd love to keep it going
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Thank you! That is great to hear! Ah the three person system! You can really understand a lot of this by digging into it, so you are thinking along the right track! If you like we can have a chat by phone. Otherwise I think I can answer a l
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I have been consulted by law firms employed by major activist investors litigating fortune 500 companies. The short of it is, if your worried about actually controlling a company this is the control you need and I woul
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Great! I'd love to hear what reaction you get!
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
It is counter initiative! I done lots of these analyses and I've learned to just run the numbers, because intuition is often wrong ( though you can usually understand it in retrospect ) On control and ownership, if you tell me one sharehold
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Just went over to PIRC, very cool! I'd love to have a short chat some time. I'm interested in the UK market because a very high percentage of the ownership in public companies is known. Nothing like tiny error bars :P That's an interesting
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Let me know if the ABC example didn't get the job done. The core insight is to understand that it doesn't matter how high the result is. 51% wins just as well as 85%. So how much you win by is irrelevant.
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Sorry for the confusion, terminology around this issue can be VERY confusing. The word control in particular is nearly always abused. Control is itself an objective number without assumptions beyond a shareholder-list / Cap-table. Control i
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by TravisDirks 14y ago
Bingo! I call this the Crazy Uncle Charlie example:). One tiny correction: when any vote, important or otherwise, comes up C's vote is just as important as A or B.

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