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It’ll be hard, but we can feed the world with plant protein(theconversation.com)
3 points by acconrad 7y ago|1 comments
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by acconrad 7y ago
Is the government recommendation of $25k/yr per child accurate? To answer this: > Make a budget for next 2 years. This will show how much money you might actually need. How much does one need for a child?
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by acconrad 7y ago
Should you tailor your message differently to each person? Yes. Does that mean dividing them into "personality types"? No. By and large, there is no strong evidence to support personality types. Of the various kinds, OCEAN is the
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by acconrad 7y ago
WASM will be cool when you can start writing Python, Go, Rust, or Clojure on the front end. Until then, I don't see anyone trying to make their lives more painful by running something like Java or C# on the front end.
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by acconrad 7y ago
9 times out of 10 an article with this little substance or original insight is buried on Hacker News. How did this one manage to break out?
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by acconrad 7y ago
I don't buy this article's premise (that there is too much recycled, unoriginal content). You could make this same argument for all forms of art (music, TV, theater). They can all be explained the same way: the barrier for entry h
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by acconrad 7y ago
Regenerative agriculture is another means with which to restore the land without pesticides or herbicides, with the additional benefit of sequestering nitrogen.
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by acconrad 7y ago
> How many expected hours/days does that translate to? The PR review should take 20-30 min. The phone call before the on site is 45 min. The on site is 5 hrs spread across 5 interviews and includes time for lunch
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by acconrad 7y ago
As a hiring manager I'm literally losing sleep over this problem. I've been on both sides of this now and it's such a delicate balance. As a developer, you want to be fairly evaluated to prove your worth. As a hiring manager,
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by acconrad 7y ago
> when I was younger I often wanted a bodybuilder physique As someone who has competed in both bodybuilding and powerlifting, I can attest that you don't want that physique. It's not worth the pain, time, and effort for it. P
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by acconrad 7y ago
every state has it's own reserve. obviously skewed to navys on the coasts and texas/california have big reserves of folks
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by acconrad 7y ago
A federalist republic should mirror more like the EU than the USA. I don't see why states couldn't be their own countries.
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by acconrad 7y ago
Indigo Agriculture | Software engineers (all levels) | Boston, MA | Full-time | On-site OR REMOTE | https://www.indigoag.com/join-us ================ We're the fastest growing unicorn you've never heard of [0] and
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by acconrad 7y ago
I work in agtech so I can speak to some of your concerns. > people can still think that technology is somehow going to save us from bad agri practices So one thing we're doing at my company is we're trying to de-commoditize a
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by acconrad 7y ago
Not everyone responds the same. I hated when people would use fluffy language: "would it be okay if you could do X?" Dammit...just tell me to do X. I know you're not really asking me you're just trying to be nice for s
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by acconrad 7y ago
What kept me from quitting my computer science program was advice I got from a friend of mine: > A computer science program is like training for the Olympics only to coach your little cousin's softball team In other words - it&#x2
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by acconrad 7y ago
Both podcasts and blogs are difficult to monetize. But does that have to be the point of a podcast/blog? I'd say no. Plenty of people write blogs for themselves and for learning/teaching. Why not do the same thing for podca
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by acconrad 7y ago
> Personally, I had a lovely childhood, and nothing traumatic ever happened to me. I think that's the point. Lovely != perfect. Not that I'm trying to be pedantic here...but "perfect" says a lot. If you think you ha
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Naked Singularity(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by acconrad 7y ago|0 comments
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We are stardust. And Big Bang dust(cosmosmagazine.com)
1 points by acconrad 7y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 7y ago
The total muscle mass of involvement with deadlifts is higher than squats because of the lever used by your arms (whereas you support the bar with your back in the squat, the same muscles that keep the bar close to you when deadlifting). Ra
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by acconrad 7y ago
> test chairs on your on as much as you can This is the correct answer. I spent 8 hours researching, trying out (i.e. testing) 25-30 chairs since for over a year I worked completely remote from my home office. You really need to sit in
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by acconrad 7y ago
Deadlifts work 70% of the muscles in your body, including your forearms and gripping muscles. Your best bang-for-the-buck to help your strength and get in some exercise is to pick heavy stuff off of the ground a few times.
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by acconrad 7y ago
I was just talking about this with a friend. I think every few months I have one of these crises. And I don't even know where to begin with talking to a therapist about this. I feel like I would just steamroll the conversation with &qu
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by acconrad 7y ago
Yes, we do have teams in Croatia right now. Let's chat more if you want to send me an email or message happy to go over it more
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by acconrad 7y ago
Indigo Agriculture | Software engineers (all levels) | Boston, MA | Full-time | On-site OR REMOTE | https://www.indigoag.com/join-us ================ We're the fastest growing unicorn you've never heard of [0] and
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by acconrad 7y ago
Look: I'm all for working sustainably and creatively. "Hard work = effort" as a sole proxy without targeted, deep practice is suboptimal. But is DHH trying to get us to believe that he made Rails without working hard? He just
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by acconrad 7y ago
Collectibles are a tough market because you can't predict what will continue to be valuable in the future (i.e. art, sculpture, watches) vs what is ephemeral (i.e. Pogs, Yu-Gi-Oh cards). I genuinely don't know: were people trading
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by acconrad 7y ago
This seems like a bad PR move. Having been in consulting everything is about perception of value. Why not just plan to spend some of your money (say 5%) on supporting open source projects and just raise your rates by 5%? Ticketmaster is the
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by acconrad 7y ago
What if I want to take notes but not contribute to deforestation and issues with the environmental impact of using paper in 2019?

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