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by bkirkby 5y ago
`makewords` is also `tr -cs "[:alpha:]" "\n"`
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by bkirkby 5y ago
I've heard advocates of trigger warnings share their lived experience by talking about what "triggered" them, using that word specifically.
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by bkirkby 5y ago
15 years ago a young engineer i worked with overheard me say "getting rich is a pretty easy formula if you are patient." he came to me later and asked me to expound. i told him "the formula is: spend less than you make and in
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by bkirkby 5y ago
> Most recently, bombing the offices of multiple news outlets during a conflict comes to mind. to steelman the assertion, will you pick one of the targets you are referring to and tell us what Israel says about the reason for the target?
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by bkirkby 5y ago
Can you share with us the most egregious example of a war crime committed by Israel that caused you to change your view? Please be specific about the laws, actions, and outcomes that resulted in the crime.
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by bkirkby 5y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57021128 not quite as the poster claims. G4S didn't "shift" employees, they hired new people to meet their new demand for covid related work. for these new people, they used e
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by bkirkby 5y ago
why do these "how much they really pay" exposés always stop short of the full comprehension of taxes paid by these business owners? they conflate "wealth as resource allocation" (business ownership) with "wealth as
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by bkirkby 5y ago
"why ... delay till final sale?" Delaying until final sale encourages people to keep money in the market. Money in the market is, ostensibly, providing a value to society as good; probably better, than anything government has ever
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by bkirkby 5y ago
You should offer some criticism about what he wrote. Dismissing something because of who wrote it is just as ineffective as liking something because of who wrote it.
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by bkirkby 5y ago
Neighbor | Sr. SRE & Full-Stack | Lehi, UT Neighbor Storage is building a platform and marketplace for people to store cars and other items in their neighbor's space. We just secured $53M in series b and have less than 50 people in
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by bkirkby 5y ago
As I read the comments (not watched the video yet) where people are discussing the misaligned incentives of both the ice cream machine vendor (Taylor makes money on maintenance) and the McD franchisee (ice cream is a loss leader), I was rem
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by bkirkby 5y ago
Interesting. I'll have to fully grok it later. I've never thought about defining upward mobility as doing better than your parents.
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by bkirkby 5y ago
You seem to be talking about a caricature of the "silicon valley rich." Who are you talking about when you say "this mentality of earned wealth completely rids the owner of any sense of responsibility"?
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by bkirkby 5y ago
As economist Russ Roberts often points out in these inequality discussions, the quintiles that are used to show growth only in the upper class does not refer to the same people over time. When you follow people over time, they generally mov
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by bkirkby 6y ago
They employed 452 adults for a one-month data-entry job, which the authors say it's "a relatively cognitively-demanding task intended to be sensitive to sleep deprivation."
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by bkirkby 6y ago
Neighbor (YC W19 Reject) just secured $53M in Series B and is looking to hire our first Site Reliability Engineer. Must be willing to work in office in Lehi, UT. Looking at people with senior experience only at this time. https:/&#x2F
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by bkirkby 6y ago
apologies. i thought the regular posts of "company (YC blah blah) is hiring" was fair game. i now know better.
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by bkirkby 6y ago
Here's a story about our Series B funding: https://www.neighbor.com/storage-blog/announcing-neighbors-5...
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Neighbor Storage (YC W19 Reject) just secured $53M in funding and is hiring(neighbor.com)
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by bkirkby 6y ago
The impulse to see "soaring stock price and valuation" as a reward that can be drained is exactly the kind of sophomoric economic view i was referring to. it's quite obvious that if you took all of the value of a company the
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by bkirkby 6y ago
A strategy that grew their capacity to provide value to the world. The economy is more complex than "look, money, let's take it for government."
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by bkirkby 6y ago
Can you, as an individual, provide the value of a Zoom that benefits society? Are you paying thousands of people a salary (paying taxes on their salary)? Are you providing a service that people are using to, ostensibly, make their lives bet
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YC Reject, Neighbor Storage, just secured a record $53M in Series B funding(insideselfstorage.com)
2 points by bkirkby 6y ago|0 comments
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It's not Corporate Espionage if you give up the information freely(dogfoodconnoisseur.blogspot.com)
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Neighbor secured $53M in funding from personal and institutional investors(linkedin.com)
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by bkirkby 6y ago
I've raised a boy and several girls in the internet age. I had your attitude from the get go. I wish I had been better educated and had done it different. What I've learned raising children in the internet age is that boys are vul
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by bkirkby 6y ago
perhaps. now that i think about it i was buying my kids $50 androids when they came of age, but with the last two that didn't seem to cut it. i spent more like $100 with an extra $20 for an extra SD card. for myself i paid under $250 f
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by bkirkby 6y ago
i don't think it's smartphones that are considered luxury items, it's the $1000 iphones when a $50 android will provide all those benefits just fine.
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by bkirkby 6y ago
i love this idea! i think i'll do that as well just to test it out.
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by bkirkby 6y ago
you're probably right. i think everyone would have been fine with "crazy uncle brian going off on a tangent," and leaving me be, except i didn't tangent. when i left facebook i just left and when i left whatsapp i told p

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