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by borski 2y ago
I know nothing about Olympic weightlifting! What makes snatching so unique and humbling? Aside: you don’t have to, but a one sentence definition of it would be awesome too - my lifting has been limited to the classic stuff, no fancy Olympic
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by borski 2y ago
There’s definitely plenty of survivorship bias in that argument - you’re making the argument that Meta could not have built successful products without also building a ton of unsuccessful ones, which they did by virtue of executing fast rat
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by borski 2y ago
Eh, I don’t think that’s true. I think you’ve just had bad experiences, and that that can definitely be true in pockets. For example, I am exceptionally happy that we have standardized on OpenAPI documentation and/or the self-documen
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by borski 2y ago
> but it's really stark when you're playing with quickly-solidifying goopy liquid sand I already wanted to learn glassblowing, but hearing it described this way just sold me on it completely. I’m gonna go find a place. :)
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by borski 2y ago
Sometimes urgency does matter; for example, when I ran Tinfoil, we got a lot of good press from being the first ones to release a public vulnerability checker for things like Heartbleed and so on, and it was a common reason we made sales.
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by borski 2y ago
This is one of the first really important lessons you learn in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Everyone walks in, day one, and is dumping adrenaline everywhere they look. I mean, the person in front of you is literally engaging you in practicing murde
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by borski 2y ago
Sure, but toward the end he decided to move away from potentially helpful medical treatments and toward junk science. Also, this guy is not an oncologist, advocates for a vegan diet that is extremely high in carbs (and fiber, granted), and
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by borski 2y ago
Relative to not having predictable monthly recurring revenue.
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by borski 2y ago
That is an extremely high-level statement that isn't worth making. Sure, Li-Ion batteries are generally pretty simple, and electric motors as an idea are simple. Making them work, at scale, and compete (or beat) ICE motors, while als
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by borski 2y ago
That's an entirely different topic
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by borski 2y ago
But that doesn't prove your point. Plenty of startup founders raise funding without an Ivy degree, or a degree at all. Most people without a degree, however, don't try to raise funding , whereas more people from 'prestigious
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by borski 2y ago
That may be true for Stanford and Harvard (I don’t know), but a wild majority of MIT students were there on financial aid. There was clearly a spectrum, but overwhelmingly the people at MIT did not seem to be well off.
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by borski 2y ago
> Feeling like an imposter is a motivational drive from the other end of the spectrum pushing you to continuously improve, holding yourself to a progressively higher standards, and never resting on your laurels. And also making you depre
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by borski 2y ago
I’m not suggesting we just recently invented the motor or Li-Ion battery. Modern EVs are costlier to manufacture than modern ICE cars. This is sort of indisputable; the reason for this is because of economies of scale. We know how to manufa
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by borski 2y ago
Yes, eventually. They're expensive to manufacture for now, because the tech is relatively new (as compared to ICE cars). Price will come down over time.
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by borski 2y ago
The latter for now, the former hopefully eventually.
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by borski 2y ago
Every other year they build a hackable “smart badge,” and people love to hack on those things. Are they necessary? No. They’re toys. But they’re fun.
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by borski 2y ago
To be fair, there are a lot of hackers who work and/or worked for various intelligence agencies, either directly or as a contractor. Some of them are people who have also clearly been hackers before and after their work there. Was it w
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by borski 2y ago
Why is it so expensive? And is it covered by insurance? If so, then I'm not sure the list price matters all that much from a 'to most people' perspective, even if there is a moral argument to be had here (in which we'd p
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by borski 2y ago
I’m confused. The parent comment said “longer term,” and you went on to discuss how it is not going to be used in the short term, due to the need for more testing and cost. Cost comes down over time, and more testing occurs over time, somew
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by borski 2y ago
Actually, sadly enough, a big portion of the people who buy those bags (or similarly luxury items that have fine non-luxury equivalents) don’t have the money to. Often, people buy these things because it makes them feel better, in tha
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by borski 2y ago
Er, that distinction isn’t quite right. In any B2B enterprise company, there are SDRs (Sales Development Representatives) and AEs (Account Executives). AEs are the sales people. They’re the ones who close the deals. SDRs pretty much do noth
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by borski 2y ago
Yup, down to the qualification script.
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by borski 2y ago
Cold calling still works today . People are gullible and want to believe the best in others. Cynics don’t make good victims.
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by borski 2y ago
It’s actually both. It ends up being “eat as much as you can of low quality ultra processed foods that are high in empty calories and low in nutrients,” because that is what is inexpensive
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by borski 2y ago
Totally fair. I only meant they’d lose the battle against third-party searches, not that they’d lose money on the programs overall.
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by borski 2y ago
The long term answer to this is easy: the airlines (really just Air Canada, and that will set a precedent) will lose this battle. They will devalue points, change award charts, play the stupid cat and mouse game of trying to prevent scrapin
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by borski 2y ago
For you, maybe. For my diabetic mother who has really bad legs, or for me who has had back issues his whole life, or for someone who is treated like they deserve to be there in first class instead of being cattle called into a tiny seat w
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by borski 2y ago
A list of common competitors: 1. https://www.point.me/ 2. https://seats.aero/ 3. https://www.awardtool.com/ 4. https://www.pointsyeah.com/ I’d love to know what the real co
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by borski 2y ago
Roame has been around for a little while; I’ve used it in conjunction with point.me and pointsyeah.com. This “launch HN” is really a launch just for HN, it seems; it’s been around a lot longer than today.

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