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by awillen 6y ago
This is one of those generalizations that just doesn't work for a country with hundreds of millions of people. You think those in the South and Midwest are hyperactive? Hardly. Those in sleepy beach towns? Nah. If you think that there
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by awillen 6y ago
The ability to filter isn't the issue, it's what keeps the system in place. Not saying it's a good thing, just that it's the reality of the situation and a reason so many attempts to get rid of the existing university sy
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by awillen 6y ago
Much less - then you get to the same brand name effect but for companies you've worked at. Though those brand names probably correlate a lot more heavily to real employment value.
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by awillen 6y ago
We all know how valuable network effects are in staving off competition, and universities are an excellent example of that. If you don't like dem apples, you can get a great education at the library and online for free, but education i
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by awillen 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words and the heads up - I'll take a look at that today.
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by awillen 6y ago
Still early on (I launched during the pandemic), but my make-at-home dog treat mix business is rapidly heading in the right direction and should hit profitability early next year. That said, that's in large part because it's just
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by awillen 6y ago
I think it's really great when people write down bets like this publicly, so we can go back and see what people's expectations of the future are. There are snippets of this kind of speculation from many decades ago, plus of course
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by awillen 6y ago
Now that I've started my own business and am mostly flexible on working hours, I've found that I can work a lot more by leaning into my productive times. I'm usually at my most productive from about 7am-10am. Then I eat break
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by awillen 6y ago
I posted about my new company in this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930 and got some good feedback and a bunch of orders about six months ago. Now I've started getting some decent traction (nothi
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by awillen 6y ago
I started a company selling make-at-home dog treat mix that has been going really well (I mean, relatively - sales aren't huge but they're going the right direction and feedback is great so far). Of course I started this after Cov
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by awillen 6y ago
+1 to confidence voting - a totally underutilized and extremely simple way to distinguish volume from actual confidence.
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by awillen 6y ago
A couple of thoughts: 1. Practice interjecting, and if other people are talking over your interjection, just keep talking until everyone shuts it. It will feel uncomfortable for you, but it's an important skill to have. 2. Is there som
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by awillen 6y ago
I run over other day for 2-2.5 miles. Usually around 8:15 miles. I truly hate running, but everything I've read has lead me to gather that getting your heart rate up several times per week is a good idea. Beyond that, I have two dogs,
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by awillen 6y ago
I'm talking about facts, not character judgements. There are Senators (or at least there were during the time of the hearing I'm referencing) who absolutely thought that Covid was no worse than a bad flu, science be damned.
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by awillen 6y ago
They've already made him the common enemy and are filled with rage about whatever they've deigned to be censorship. At least in highly-televised public hearings, you have the opportunity to impress upon the public the insanity of
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by awillen 6y ago
It's bizarre to me that the government seems to expect Facebook to regulate speech, particularly around the election, when no matter what they do on that front, one party will accuse them of bias. I really wish that when Zuck was at th
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by awillen 6y ago
Good on you for breaking out of a cycle that wasn't working. I think you're really speaking to something that's becoming increasingly true - distribution is at least as important as, if not more important than, products thems
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by awillen 6y ago
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of historian jobs in 2019 was 3500 - that's in the entire US. So... incredibly rare, really.
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by awillen 6y ago
I feel like the timing of the election couldn't have been worse - it has taken so much focus off of Covid (and continues to do so as Republicans claim it's not over) at the worst possible time. The whole Midwest is in terrible sha
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by awillen 6y ago
I don't know... I'm afraid if I install this I'm going to get "Don't check the news today" and fail a dozen times over, and then I'm the guy who couldn't even manage to complete the least dangerous to
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by awillen 6y ago
I lost both of my grandparents in the last few years, and I just truly loathe condolences. I know the intent is good, and I certainly don't hold them against anyone, but someone (especially someone I don't know well) telling me th
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by awillen 6y ago
I have no idea what this means, but it sure sounds like a legitimate concern. Can anyone who actually understands this confirm?
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by awillen 6y ago
This really just feels like the author isn't a fan of change. Reminds me of how everyone has complained for about two weeks after each change of Apple's icon style, then realized the new ones are fine, and it just doesn't mat
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by awillen 6y ago
I assumed this would be about real estate as well - the tagline feels somewhat misleading. Much as I hate "X for Y" descriptions of products, calling this "Shopify for rental businesses" would definitely communicate what
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by awillen 6y ago
You've clearly never been on the other side of things... ratings help app developers get reviews, which is important for their business. It's a hard place to be, and they're doing something that works, even if it is kind of a
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by awillen 6y ago
I'm gonna listen to the world renowned scientist instead of some random guy named logicslave12 on the internet, but that's just me.
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by awillen 6y ago
There's a few specific, actionable suggestions at the very end of the book - particularly a couple of pills he takes. But regardless, my interest is as much in the general progress that's being made and the speed at which it'
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by awillen 6y ago
If you're interested in changes to aging and the growing science behind it, I can't recommend Lifespan by David Sinclair highly enough.
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by awillen 6y ago
But what public high school was it? Public is by no means equivalent to located in a poor area or underfunded.
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by awillen 6y ago
Where on earth do you think inner city kids are playing water polo and golf? Just because golf courses aren't that expensive to play on doesn't mean they're accessible to poor people (plus there's the cost of clubs, obvi

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