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by cj 2y ago
The only way I’ve found (that works for me) is avoiding regular grocery stores at all costs and only shopping at health food stores. The same stores will have more brands of granola than they do brands of regular cereal. They most often don
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by cj 2y ago
Feel free to email me off HN and I’ll explain. Email in profile
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by cj 2y ago
For what it’s worth, I bought a new gas mower at Lowe’s last summer, and had to buy a new one this summer because I couldn’t get the old one started. Granted, I probably could have spent a few days figuring out how to repair the old gas pow
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by cj 2y ago
It’s not a vaccine, but it’s close to one at twice a year. Even if we can consider HIV “cured” in the developed world (where PrEP is available to anyone who wants it) there’s no way we eradicate HIV from impoverished countries with limited
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by cj 2y ago
The reason I love HN is the constructive intelligent debate. Your comments aren’t contributing to that. It’s not about being right or wrong. Also not about “having an audience”. Legitimately just want intellectual conversation and debate. I
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by cj 2y ago
No wonder half the comments in your comment history are downvoted! Instead of attacking me, why don't you share some sources that prove my thinking wrong?
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by cj 2y ago
A fine is meant to discourage a behavior. A fine isn't excessive unless (and until) it -effectively- discourages the wrongful behavior. Or at least that’s what my argument would be in court.
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by cj 2y ago
> Last year, 48% of creator-earners made $15,000 or less, according to NeoReach, an influencer marketing agency. Only 13% made more than $100,000. I'm not sure what the definition of "creator-earners" are, but 13% of them
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by cj 2y ago
Small secret: The best tech stack when starting a startup is one you don't have to learn. There's a million things you learn when starting a company. Don't make yourself learn an entirely new tech stack on top of everything e
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by cj 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter%27s_privilege "Reporters privilege" It's also just common sense. If you make it easy for anyone to sue a journalist in a way that requires them to reveal their conf
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by cj 2y ago
https://detailed.com/wp-content/uploads/fandom-change.jpg Can't you simply go through this image and manually create a list from all the logos? Yes, it would take time and would be tedious, but it's very
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by cj 2y ago
> I'm not a developer, and I made this with Claude Opus's help PSA: just clicked into this post after reading another submission complaining about how companies don't take security seriously enough. If you care about the
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by cj 2y ago
Tip for anyone job hunting: ask the company if they’re profitable before accepting the offer. If they are, huge bonus points. If they aren’t, ask them more about how they run their business and how they plan to fund it over time.
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by cj 2y ago
I did. No regrets. They supported it as long as our company wanted to use it. By sunset date we had already decided to not renew the license.
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by cj 2y ago
I’ve long suspected marijuana has a similar effect, in that it “helps” you fall asleep by making it harder to remember the process of falling asleep. It’s widely known that marijuana inhibits short term memory formation. (I could be wildly
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by cj 2y ago
"mid" is something I hear from people high school age most commonly.
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by cj 2y ago
Our company is working with a SEO firm we pay $11k/mo for (who I want to fire). They sent us new copy for our core marketing pages last week, and many sections simply sound non-sensical. As in it just didn't make cohesive sense, a
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by cj 2y ago
Specifically, the ability to block specific URL patterns in addition to just hostnames. DNS blocking gets you 90% of the way there, though. (And the only way to block your smart fridge from phoning home)
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by cj 2y ago
This is (kind of) starting to happen. See Vanta ($100m+ funding), Secureframe ($50m+ funding), etc.
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by cj 2y ago
How do you propose companies approach goals setting? Surely there has to be some way for a company to communicate to employees “Our goal is to grow 30%” and we will do this focusing marketing on a rebranding, focusing sales team on shifting
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by cj 2y ago
The timing coinciding with the founder exiting is interesting. I've heard multiple horror stories from founders who sold to Vista. They don't exactly have the best reputation. I wouldn't be surprised if this move stripped val
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by cj 2y ago
If AGI were available as an API tomorrow, I would have it come up with 1000 startup ideas, code them all, market them all, and hope at least 1 reaches PMF without leaving my couch.
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by cj 2y ago
> Why though? I suppose because you want to have more ships to store your nuclear armed planes in more places around the world. Speed. Honestly (and unfortunately) if anyone actually did destroy a US aircraft carrier, the counter strike
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by cj 2y ago
> graph where you're allowed to move in one direction and cannot do loop To be fair, you didn't need LLM for this. Googling that, the answer (DAG) is in the title of the first Google result. (Not to invalidate your point, but t
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by cj 2y ago
> why get their site to the top of the rankings if they can't put any advertisements on it? You would need to penalize any website that accepts money from users. There are a lot of SaaS companies out there writing blog spam to prom
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by cj 2y ago
The organization still got the end result, though (to play devil's advocate). That sounds like a win for the company. They got the cost savings, plus they redirected attention back to a project that was higher priority than saving $10m
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by cj 2y ago
>You don’t need to consider the cost they could drive during that time. You don't need to, but you 100% should. "Opportunity cost" (cost of not doing something) is real. This is the problem with all refactoring/migr
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by cj 2y ago
$6m in annual cost savings is truly unremarkable, if we are to believe levels.fyi [0] [1] If you're truly paying engineers, project managers, etc $500k a head, it dramatically undermines the financial cost savings. It very well might b
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by cj 2y ago
The justice system moves an order of magnitude slower than technology. It’s the Wild West. The lack of a court case has no bearing on whether or not what they’re doing is right or wrong.
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by cj 2y ago
Alternate approach that doesn’t involve sending people to jail just to make an example of them: Make up a new position with equal authority as the CEO, but their only charter is safety and compliance. Lift the corporate veil specifically fo

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