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by dtnewman 2y ago
To be fair, many many people die in car accidents every day. Yes, self driving car crashes are still newsworthy but you are up against a baseline that’s pretty bad. On the other hand, virtually no one dies from laundry, that I’m aware of. S
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by dtnewman 2y ago
Strictly speaking, yes, I’ll concede that this changed the world if you are part of a military group and your foe is Israel or another highly advanced adversary. But no, I don’t think that this changes the world in the way that the article
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by dtnewman 2y ago
I’ve had many times where a restaurant is officially booked online but I call them and say “hey, we’re looking for a table of two, we can come in right now and we promise to eat quickly and have the table turned around in 45 minutes”. Deter
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by dtnewman 2y ago
Israel’s pager attacks did not change the world. They merely alerted the world to the possibility of everyday devices being compromised. What is true today was still true yesterday, it just wasn’t top of mind: we have to be very careful w
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by dtnewman 2y ago
This is just a guess, but I think it might be more about the government not wanting to put valuations on complex assets. Let’s say I own a network of dry cleaners in Los Angeles. It’s a private business with no public business to compare it
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by dtnewman 2y ago
I am decidedly not a prepper, but what is considered a good amount of food to have on hand in that community? 10 days of food gets you through almost any natural catastrophes. But what does 250 vs 100 days do for you? Perhaps the former g
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by dtnewman 2y ago
I might have been too far back :)
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by dtnewman 2y ago
A few notes in no order: - spaceflightnow.com has excellent info on upcoming launches and then streams most of them live. Highly recommended. - don’t plan a trip around a rocket launch. They get scrubbed all the time. Find something else yo
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by dtnewman 2y ago
+1 as well. Because the Aeron is so iconic, they seem to retain value much better, so they are expensive in the secondary market. Leaps are cheaper, but I personally think the Leap is a better chair.
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by dtnewman 2y ago
The HM Aeron has become to go-to office chair. It's definitely a good one and popular for a reason, but there are other great chairs too. Any HM, Steelcase, or Haworth chair (and I'm sure there are others) is likely going to be we
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by dtnewman 2y ago
I don’t think they’ve been horrible stewards. And the British Museum is delightful to visit. I’m just pointing out that it’s a bit rich to loudly proclaim that you are the best stewards of antiquities (that other countries might otherwise h
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by dtnewman 2y ago
> Every couple of months or so I get really annoyed when I see that someone built something I already thought of but dismissed as not good enough of an idea/problem or as a waste of time. Don’t pay too much attention to what other
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by dtnewman 2y ago
Parthenon (Athens), not Pantheon (Rome). As far as survival of arts and culture, the whole problem is that they aren’t the steward of historical treasures that threy claim to be. It’s insane that the British Museum, one of the preeminent mu
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by dtnewman 2y ago
1) Get your resume in order. I'm going to assume that you are in the US, in which case, as a new graduate, your resume should be 1 page long (rules vary in Europe and elsewhere). Having reviewed thousands of resumes, here's what s
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by dtnewman 2y ago
Apple does have the iPhone SE, which is smaller. I don't know how it sells, but it's been in their lineup for a while, so I assume it's doing fine. I personally own an iPhone 13 mini and I love it. Hope I don't have to
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by dtnewman 2y ago
> People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? Yes, they will. You just have to google "dumbphones" and you will come up with a number of options on the first page. If you go to Amazon, you will find even mor
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by dtnewman 2y ago
> I mean, if it's an actual, viable business, shouldn't one be able to just do it from 9 to 5 like it's a normal job? Do you have an example of a reasonably successful business that's a 9-5 job when getting started?
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by dtnewman 2y ago
I haven’t coded a b-tree since school. However, I do use my knowledge of b-trees on occasion when deciding on an indexing strategy in my database schema, for example. Same is true for a hash map… I basically never implement them but my basi
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by dtnewman 2y ago
N of 1, but I have never looked at a product and said “wow, this has keyboard shortcuts, let me try it out!” And unless you have users who login to your product every day (e.g. Twitter or replit), I doubt it matters for retention either. On
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by dtnewman 2y ago
I don’t love the analogy but I understand the point being made. That said, I might agree with something like microservices or k8s adding a lot of overhead, but at this point, I don’t really agree with single page apps being in the same cate
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by dtnewman 2y ago
> Your idea doesn’t matter at all, it’s just personality and some credentials. One of YC's overriding beliefs is that yes, your idea doesn't matter at all.
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Stochastic Gradient Descent (In Python)(github.com)
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by dtnewman 2y ago
No one gives away 20% of a company for advice. He gives them capital. Hopefully connections. And founders can take or leave the advice. Anyway, he is a successful entrepreneur having built AngelList. Sure, maybe he isn’t Midas, but a single
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by dtnewman 3y ago
About time. I once went to sign up for internet with what looked like a great rate, let’s say $30/month (i don’t remember exactly). After fifteen minutes on the phone as we are wrapping up the agent says “ok, so do you authorize me to
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Yeah, i looked at the proposal in more depth and it proposes 36 months from publication until the rule takes effect [1]. That does seem like a lot of time (the proposal itself notes that this is longer than usual). I guess the benefit to Sa
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by dtnewman 3y ago
I’m not utterly opposed to this regulation, but I do think SawStop stands to benefit. Even if the patents are open, it will take competitors a long time to develop new products. Meanwhile, SawStop will get the distribution that they don’t c
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by dtnewman 3y ago
I think you need to specify more information here. What are you looking to go to grad school for? If you want to do a PhD in renaissance literature, then the answers you're looking for will look very different than if you are applying
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Just look to Chess. The top players today are way better than any of the greats before, because they can train against computers and know exactly where they failed. That said, because they've gotten so good, chess at the top levels i
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Eh... The charging is an issue. I have been in a position to rent EVs before but opted not to. If I own a Tesla, then I likely have a charger at home (and possibly at work), so dealing with charging is only an issue on my rare long haul tri
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by dtnewman 3y ago
Calendly. He spent $200k on an MVP, but retained ownership and went on to be very successful with very little money raised early on. He eventually raised $350M at a ~$3B valuation, but that was after the product already had a lot of tractio

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