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by birken 7y ago
It is also a disadvantage. The peloton bike is heavier (IE sturdier), has more grip options, takes up less floor space (the peloton is about a foot shorter than my actual bike, not including any potential trainer that would be required), i
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by birken 7y ago
I used to live right by 24th street right before the whole foods moved in, and I can visualize all of those shops as I walked down the street to Holey Bagel (still going strong!). The little weird boutiques! The running store! But even t
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by birken 7y ago
Maybe not "wrong", but there are some very obvious downsides to exposing sequential IDs vs a randomized token: - It exposes the count you have of a particular item - It exposes your growth rate of those items - If a developer acci
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by birken 7y ago
What percentage of your blitz games end in draws? I just checked my stats and over my hundreds of blitz games only about 5% of them end in draws. I checked the stats of some friends who are both better and worse than me and all of them we
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by birken 8y ago
Well nothing is a universal truth, but I think my point is generally accurate. IMO a bad team at a good company is way way better than a "good" team at a bad startup where nobody knows what they are doing. At the very least the c
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by birken 8y ago
One thing that gets glossed over a lot with startups is that often times the technical skill level is really low. If you are a young engineer and you are hoping to learn technical skills, be very very careful about which startup you join b
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by birken 8y ago
Well the USCF knows your exact USCF rating and your birth date, so it is very easy for them to make these lists. Though they should be taken with a grain of salt because, especially for young players who are improving quickly, their rating
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by birken 8y ago
http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/repeatable-thin-cuts-on-th...
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by birken 8y ago
One thing that I will note is that Matthias often makes somewhat risky cuts and is known to joke about what the "safety police" will think of it. He obviously has a very deep understanding of his tools (since he built most of them
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by birken 8y ago
I've been waiting for somebody to say this. The SawStop would ideally prevent his hand from being cut by the blade, but it wouldn't stop the wood from flinging back from the machine at high speed which is incredibly dangerous on
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by birken 8y ago
Depending on the type of cut, I'll either use my hand, a push block, a push stick or something like the Grr-ripper to make a cut on the table saw. The Grr-ripper is what I use the least, but it is one of the options that is really irre
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by birken 8y ago
I'm sure one person out of a billion has bought viagra from a spam email, it doesn't mean all of those were fine. There is no cut and dry rule, but here is a simple heuristic that will apply to most emails you write and receive: I
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by birken 8y ago
I'd just like to note this does not pass the golden rule. If every company spent hours to make "relevant" emails that got past spam filters and into all of our inboxes, then our inboxes would be full of "relevant"
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by birken 8y ago
Maybe I'm not viewing this with the proper historical context, but I don't understand why you are saying the market for linseed oil has "dried up" for non-food uses. Boiled linseed oil, which contains linseed oil, is pro
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by birken 8y ago
Not to mention all the calories the residents must be consuming from the massive spike in Philadelphia's Crisco consumption [1] in January 2018. The soda tax really affects everything! 1: https://www.nytimes.com/2018&#
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by birken 8y ago
Maybe it an anomaly and maybe it isn't (I can't predict the future), but I know the growth was real. If I bought stock 5 years ago and sold it today, I could pocket those gains. That is the problem with looking at private company
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by birken 8y ago
I disagree about joining a startup worth over $1B. First, compare it something that actually is de-risked, a big company. Amazon has grown 6.5x in the past 5 years. Google has grown nearly 3x in that period. So in addition to have basic
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by birken 8y ago
The 13-inch Macbook Pro has 4 USB-C ports
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by birken 8y ago
Yup. The best thing for running an A/B test you can do, by far, is setting up the rules in advance. Our protocol was something like this: This test is going to have 2 variations, looking for a 5% increase of the conversion rate that
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by birken 8y ago
I completely agree. We went through all of this stuff as our A/B testing was evolving at Thumbtack. They seem so simple, but the deeper you get you realize they are only simple if you don't "cheat", which everybody doe
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by birken 8y ago
I could not disagree with this more. I remember vividly having this "low-intent" vs "high-intent" debate at Thumbtack, when we rolled out changes that A/B tests showed increased conversion (by a lot), but some peop
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by birken 8y ago
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Nevada-reach-tent...
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by birken 8y ago
I fully admit I'm not an audiophile. I think most people are not. I do understand that for audiophiles wireless headphones may not be the best solution, but that really isn't Apple's fault. Compromises must be made. The of
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by birken 8y ago
When running low on power I just charge them one at a time. It only takes about 15 minutes to charge each one, so I just go "mono" for 30 minutes and then I'm fully charged and don't miss any time.
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by birken 8y ago
I think finding a wrapper that fits your ear is very dependent on the person, but in my dongle days I used "Yurbuds Inspire 200" headphones, which are somewhat normal looking headphones with a silicone wrapper you put on them that
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by birken 8y ago
Fortunately I spent a lot more time on land than I do on airplanes, but for a frequent flyer that is spending the majority of their time airborne that could be a problem. But even if they did work I'd still recommend a nice pair of bos
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by birken 8y ago
I was formerly a dongle-hater, having gone through at least 3 or 4 of them, all of which broke under what I consider normal usage. I didn't realize you could get them replaced for free either so I spend like $30-40 on them. Then I fin
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by birken 8y ago
Wait a second, you don't want more of this "high quality", "totally-not-retread", "seriously-not-trying-to-get-you-to-sign-up-for-our-lawfirm" content that Sam Altman assures us is as much of a must-read a
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by birken 9y ago
I'll just note from a political perspective, Donald Trump threatened to veto the final budget bill because of the totality of these spending increases. He was not in favor of these increases. In fact the budget Donald Trump proposed [
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by birken 9y ago
I'll spare you the effort of going through this because I went through the methodology behind it: Qualify of life is based on 7 factors: Natural Environment (50%): - Drinking Water Quality (13th) - Low Industrial Toxins (20th) - Low Po

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