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by ajju 4y ago
This is an hour away from the tech capital of the world. Shameful that the state of California or the FBI don't seem to care about this. Meanwhile we have to organize to fight self inflicted problems like banning algebra in high school
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by ajju 4y ago
“ The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines released *thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide* into the stratosphere, temporarily lowering average global temperatures by about 1 degree Fahrenheit, according to the U.S. Geological S
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by ajju 4y ago
Here’s a corollary that has worked for me and that I want to share - if, in general your startup feels like freedom - even if it has required you to work long hours for many years -(as all startups do for at least a while) - long hours that
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by ajju 4y ago
It is ok to give up. It is ok to come back to entrepreneurship to it if you want at some point. It is ok to never think about entrepreneurship again. What matters is that each point you make the decision that makes sense to you. And if you
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by ajju 4y ago
An ode to @dang (fueled by three amazing strong coffees in Ginza and the first idle moments on the interwebs I've enjoyed in a long long time) HN: one of the last remaining Great Good Places of the Internet, a lone tavern in an iconic
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by ajju 5y ago
I think such a law would clearly violate the first amendment. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/1/23/21078810/kansas...
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43 points by ajju 5y ago|5 comments
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by ajju 5y ago
Why does eating the liver make them particularly metal? I’ve always assumed predators in the wild eat most/all parts of their prey. (Vegetarian here if that explains my ignorance :))
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by ajju 5y ago
It may turn out that these little guys are the real dolphins from Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.
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by ajju 5y ago
If, at the moment of formation, the company has a binding agreement with Elon Musk (the founder) requiring their services for a fixed time allocation and at a fixed rate of remuneratin, then yes that contract has value and therefore the com
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by ajju 5y ago
All shares issued at founding have a near-zero cost because, while you technically need to buy the shares, the company (by definition) is worth $0 on the day you start it. There is no tax gimmick involved in that part. If you require entrep
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by ajju 5y ago
“ The battery life SQFMI estimates depends on your use case — it says if you’re just keeping time you should get five to seven days, but if you’re fetching data frequently you may only see two to three. Its open-source nature, however, mean
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by ajju 5y ago
Sounds like defragmentation are first sight. Seems likely that the storage algorithm for human memory could use periodic optimization, especially since we recontextualize memories over time. For example, let’s say we smell a lychee for the
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by ajju 5y ago
I don't see the text you quote in the actual paper. Here is a link to the paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/134/100...
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by ajju 5y ago
Interesting. I wonder how the modern microbiome differs from ancient ones and whether that is correlated with “modern” ailments.
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by ajju 6y ago
I had not heard of that interpretation. Interesting.
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by ajju 6y ago
The article focuses on texts of Hinduism but I don’t understand the criticism. The article seems to accurately describe how vedic verses were memorized using simple techniques like chunking and chaining. The author starts by pointing out th
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by ajju 6y ago
Fascinating. As a child, I semi-reluctantly learned vedic chanting when staying with relatives over the summer. It was very interesting to understand the “algorithms” behind the techniques they used to have us memorize each “shlok”. As the
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by ajju 6y ago
Got it. I am aware of the history. I was reading too much into your comment. I thought you were joking that PG may have used the Thompson trick to juice scores for his posts on HN.
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by ajju 6y ago
PG says “the most earnest part of Europe is Scandinavia [and therefore it has more successful startups]”. Afaict GP is saying PG doesn’t believe what he is saying and is disingenuously suggesting causality just to support his main thesis.
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by ajju 6y ago
Is this a tongue in cheek reference to Ken Thompson’s trick in “reflections on trusting trust”? [1] if so, it wins the 2020 award for originality in HN conspiracy theories! 1 - https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh
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by ajju 6y ago
Why do you assume bad faith? Having worked closely with folks from many parts of Europe as an early stage founder, folks from Scandinavia certainly seem to take “naive” or “earnest” efforts of founders more seriously than other parts of Eur
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by ajju 6y ago
As someone who is most likely on the more boring end of the spectrum, I agree with many parts of your comment :) Still, I have learned that being earnest and being fun are not opposites. Sometimes earnest people are spending most of their t
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by ajju 6y ago
My personal experience, admittedly anecdotal, for context: My cofounder and I have started 2 businesses together, across 11 years and I have no idea what his caste is. Of the 50+ Indians who work at our company I think I know the caste of
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by ajju 6y ago
“ Is Bloom's "Two Sigma" phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it? Educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom found that one-on-one tutoring using mastery learning led to a two sigma(!) improvement in student performance.
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by ajju 6y ago
This is such a civil discussion and debate. I don’t even know you folks but I am more optimistic about our future as a society because of this thread.
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by ajju 7y ago
> They think (correctly) that having these things will accelerate their growth and somewhat lower the bar to success Incorrectly, unless you define success as a local maxima. You usually can’t influence your way to broad user adoption
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by ajju 7y ago
It’s great to see a technical post from pg after a while!
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by ajju 8y ago
Using parts per billion for one stat and parts per million for the other is just wrong. If that is not a typo it's shameless sensationalism at its worst. Surprising to see this from the guardian. Even at 1 ppm it is above the line, so
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by ajju 9y ago
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