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Elon Musk Doesn't Care About Patents. Should You?(hbr.org)
1 points by adam 6y ago|0 comments
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by adam 6y ago
Awesome start to what could be a useful resource. In v1.1, would love to see some more granularity in your accommodation category, i.e. on-trail huts, primitive camping, nearby town inns, etc.
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by adam 6y ago
You're thinking in the right direction in terms of having infrastructure support during your first multi-day hike. My first was the Laugavegur trail in Iceland a few years ago, and it helped tremendously that I was staying in huts each
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by adam 6y ago
If anyone ends up building lamps for themselves or buys something for self-treatment, you should look up protocols for use to treat psoriasis. Psoriasis is often treated with full-body UVB lamps like these units: https://www.natb
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Facebook Prediction Market Launches in US and Canada(npe.fb.com)
146 points by adam 6y ago|128 comments
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No handshakes. A bad economy. These car salesmen shifted tactics– and succeeded(washingtonpost.com)
40 points by adam 6y ago|52 comments
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by adam 6y ago
I'm not disputing your practices, but I was in the same boat as you, then recently saw this article and have since relaxed a bit on some of the cleaning protocol we've been following: https://www.theatlantic.com/id
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by adam 6y ago
This sounds great. We already use https://percentpledge.org though. How is this different?
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by adam 6y ago
I think the larger point the author was trying to make was don't give lip service to specifically going out of your way to try and help Black founders if you're still going to use the exact same credentialing signals you always do
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Facebook NPE launches prediction market app(engadget.com)
1 points by adam 6y ago|0 comments
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'Superforecasters' Are Making Eerily Accurate Predictions About Covid-19(time.com)
4 points by adam 6y ago|0 comments
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by adam 6y ago
A very well sourced article on SeriousEats begs to differ: https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/03/food-safety-and-coronavi... I'd be interested in the counter sources for your claims as we've been ordering
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Show HN: Crowdsourcing forecasts of Covid-19 infections, therapy/vaccine timing(covidimpacts.com)
1 points by adam 6y ago|0 comments
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Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable Covid-19 Dataset(whitehouse.gov)
1 points by adam 7y ago|0 comments
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Food Safety and Coronavirus: A Comprehensive Guide(seriouseats.com)
2 points by adam 7y ago|0 comments
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by adam 7y ago
They got a slight budget increase in the 2020 budget to $3.56B.
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Jimmy Iovine Knows Music and Tech. Here's Why He's Worried(nytimes.com)
1 points by adam 7y ago|0 comments
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A Longing for the Lost Landline(nytimes.com)
9 points by adam 7y ago|4 comments
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Air travel shows what happens when we give companies ruinous power over us(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by adam 7y ago|1 comments
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We need a major redesign of life(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by adam 7y ago|2 comments
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by adam 7y ago
We were in that first California batch for our old company Inkling Markets. I remember going through our interview and being asked very few questions about our actual idea, and instead Paul asking a bunch of questions about a political blog
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by adam 7y ago
Cultivate Labs (Formerly Inkling Markets YC W06) | Rails Engineer | Chicago, IL Cultivate Labs builds collective intelligence solutions like prediction markets and opinion polls for governments, large private organizations, and think tanks.
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by adam 7y ago
As an aside, whenever I need to make a can't miss recipe, I google that dish name + seriouseats food lab. Never had a fail from Kenji and his methodology in constructing recipes.
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by adam 7y ago
Thank you for this. So often we rip on government agencies from our perch on...Hacker News, when we really have no idea what's going on. We do work with the Government in a different context, and I've found nothing but professiona
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Companies Turn to Internal Crowdsourcing to Pick Best New Ideas(wsj.com)
3 points by adam 7y ago|0 comments
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by adam 7y ago
I agree with you that organizationally companies may end up having to go in that direction, but I think there are some interim steps to have employees feel more like they have a voice. For example, we run internal prediction markets at comp
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by adam 8y ago
Interesting the production methodology follows Toyota. I blogged about the need for exactly this as I'm convinced in these kinds of situations there are employees working on these projects who know there are issues, but because of cult
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The Culture of Fear Problem(cultivatelabs.com)
1 points by adam 8y ago|0 comments
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by adam 8y ago
"Balto" was also the name of Elizabeth Holmes' (of Theranos fame) dog: For Holmes, the dog represented the journey that lay ahead for Theranos. As she explained to colleagues at the company’s headquarters, in Palo Alto, he w
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by adam 8y ago
Hiring these firms is a major "cover your ass" move. If you're a CEO and you hire McKinsey, your board is going to likely approve as they are from the same East Coast/West Coast Ivy League fraternity as McKinsey consulta

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