el_nahual

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by el_nahual 3y ago
Verbatim, from his diaries.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Anyone who likes Shakespeare--or anyone who wants to like it--should watch this marvelous BBC Series called "Playing Shakespeare": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2VnxiW3oqk&list=PLboSQWmG70... It's prod
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Not as much as you'd think! In many places in the yucatan peninsula topsoil is only a few inches deep; it's not rare to see no topsoil at all! The limestone bedrock is exposed to air. Most mayan ruins have vast sections that are
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by el_nahual 3y ago
My grandpa (a consummate tinkerer, mechanic, and life hacker) taught me the best trick for laundering socks. Keep a small box of big safety pins by your hamper. When you take your socks off, pin the pair together then toss them in the hampe
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by el_nahual 3y ago
How do stock buybacks enrich investors at the cost of employees ? They are (almost identical) to a dividend, which yes, enriches shareholders but a) that's kind of the point of a business b) especially in startups employees are ofte
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by el_nahual 3y ago
There's lots of alts that don't post any text (esp nsfw alts, which I assume is where most of the "dirt" will be).
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Unfortunately this often results in a shadowban on Reddit. So it's fine for lurking but not interacting.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
A usernames -> hashed ip table would be enough to doxx anyone that accessed both burners and pseudonymous accounts from the same computer.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
I don't think this is a case of "commoditize your complements." What's the complement to AI that meta owns? I think it's more of a case of "commoditize your competitors ".
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by el_nahual 3y ago
a) Vastly different currencies/policy exposure. Argentina is an economic dumpster fire while Chile (and/or Uruguay) is kind of the "Singapore of south America." b) Even together they are tiny. Chile is 25% the GDP of Mex
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by el_nahual 3y ago
LatAm has two issues. The first is demographics (and "demographics is destiny"). There is not an expected population boom the way you have in West Africa. There will be tons of growth (look at Mercado Libre, a 63 billion dollar co
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by el_nahual 3y ago
Bitso out of Mexico/Brazil is about as serious as any company can be IMHO.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
I can tell you about the experience with "housing first" approaches in Chicago and some of the hidden subtleties that make us all have a bit of dunning-kruger here. There are a few hotspots in Chicago that have resulted in "e
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by el_nahual 3y ago
How on earth is this "winning the lottery"? Sure, there is an element of luck involved, but this is quite clearly a translation of work/sweat equity + understanding technology + exectution. The opposite of a lottery.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
An autobiographical observation about burnout which perhaps can help someone. I enjoy working hard. Long hours, difficult problems, etc etc. On some occasions this has resulted with me either flirting with burnout or actually experiencing i
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by el_nahual 3y ago
A private chef is about a order of magnitude cheaper than a private jet.
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by el_nahual 3y ago
The creation of Google Photos was basically an act of mutiny by David Lieb. He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway. Eventually resorting to back-channeling to Larry in order to get him to champion the project
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Are you sure that's not due to better sound proofing of the cabin? I'm referring to the noise outside the vehicle. As for handling: The hummer EV has a 0 - 65mph time of 1.4 seconds...and a stopping distance from 70mph of 200 fe
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by el_nahual 4y ago
At highway speeds, tire and wind noise dominate over engine noise, even for ICE cars. That "roaring" sound you hear emanate from a highway is actually due to those two factors. Tire noise in particular is affected by vehicle weigh
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by el_nahual 4y ago
I wouldn't buy one because they are such profoundly antisocial vehicles. Size, mass, and racecar like acceleration do not exist in a vacuum. They destroy pavement, they are dangerous to basically everyone around, difficult to control,
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by el_nahual 4y ago
One avenue is to go through the VCs. 1. Choose industries you like (fintech, hospitality, consumer, whatever) 2. There are ~5 or so VCs in each industry that are absolutely leaders 3. Often these VCs have roles for "Platform" or &
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by el_nahual 4y ago
The startup opportunity is to have an adversarial chatbot argue on your behalf. Feed it the terms and conditions of your policy, claim info, and then have it duke it out with the insurance company.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Because otherwise you force the innocent to go through a lengthy (and expensive) investigation that is not necessary for the guilty (who would be ok with paying a fine)! "I didn't do it, but I'd rather pay the fine than go to
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Trees and an ebike.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Right. On a bike.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
There's plenty of copies of public domain works available for purchase on Amazon. It does mean that AI digital art will fetch commodity prices, but not that it won't be sold. Sort of like hotel art.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Have the FDIC rates actually changed or is this a hypothetical. It's relevant because the FDIC limit has not actually increased--it's still de jure $250K. The fact that the FDIC said they would cover 100% of deposits at SBV coul
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by el_nahual 4y ago
I was under the impression that the submission title had to match the title of the linked page/paper. Agree this is a much more relevant summary/title.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Public facing working paper here: https://blocksandlots.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Do-New-...
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by el_nahual 4y ago
The paper has evidence to the contrary: "I show that new high-rises attract new restaurants, which is consistent with the hypothesis about amenity effects. However, I find that the supply effect is larger, causing net reductions in the

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