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Eradicating Infectious Disease: Can We and Should We? (2011)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by estreeper 5y ago|0 comments
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by estreeper 5y ago
For testimonials from some of the people living in these Toronto tiny shelters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdbmLKaGleg Some interesting notes about the shelters from the video: - they are on wheels, and because they&#x
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The Mother of All Demos(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by estreeper 6y ago|0 comments
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by estreeper 6y ago
I updated "many" to "tens of thousands", since the word "many" is too subject to interpretation.
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by estreeper 6y ago
I spent 3.5 months backpacking in India and Southeast Asia. I saw incredible places and stood in a hundred postcards. For me though, people are what had the most impact. Tens of thousands of Hindus come to die in Varanasi each year. If you
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by estreeper 6y ago
The string output from the bcrypt function always contains a 22-character salt embedded within it, so these are salted. This is placed after an initial algorithm identifier (i.e. $2a$) and an adjustable cost used to generate the output stri
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by estreeper 6y ago
For what it's worth, as a non-YC company, I found the GCP onboarding process to be far superior in every way, and my experiences were essentially reversed. For context, we started with GCP for Startups 1.5 years ago when we were just g
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by estreeper 6y ago
They didn't, it moved under its own power! However, trains can't steer, so according to a user in the forum this article is based on, they used a crane to lift the ends into place to aim it.
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by estreeper 6y ago
There may be a problem with the way this site is laid out because another thread thought the same thing, but this is the carbon footprint from a single BTC transaction.
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by estreeper 6y ago
The layout is a bit confusing, but that's the amount of energy used for a single transaction.
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by estreeper 6y ago
I might add a #11 on to this: ensure that the financial incentives of your platform align with those of your creators. I think that a lot of problems arise for creators when these are not aligned, for instance, in many advertising-driven mo
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Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (1998)(tools.ietf.org)
2 points by estreeper 6y ago|0 comments
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by estreeper 6y ago
What a tremendous loss to the startup community and to the world. Tony was an innovator not just in terms of product vision, as almost all successful founders have to be, but also in the very idea of what business should be. It is striking
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by estreeper 6y ago
> there are still limits to what can be done with a mobile web browser This is true, but perhaps not as many as some may think! Progressive Web Applications can now do quite a lot on mobile and tablets, with a notable exception of push n
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Eradicating infectious disease: can we and should we? [2011](ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by estreeper 6y ago|1 comments
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by estreeper 6y ago
Manure and synthetic fertilizer both have similarly severe, but somewhat different, environmental impacts. Synthetic fertilizer requires large amounts of energy to produce, but manure generally needs to be applied much more inefficiently to
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LA Unified will not reopen campuses for start of school year(latimes.com)
2 points by estreeper 6y ago|0 comments
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by estreeper 6y ago
I know that this is an incredibly difficult time for you, but I want to congratulate you on your remarkable achievements. You've put $670,000 into the pockets of your partners, because of an app that you built. But that's just a m
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by estreeper 6y ago
Could you elaborate on what your experience was and the pushback you received? It would also be interesting to hear a bit more about what you built!
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by estreeper 7y ago
Receiving investment, or not, or making money, or not, has nothing to do with whether or not a company is a "startup" (at least in the YC sense). Startup = Growth http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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by estreeper 7y ago
I would just point out there are very valid use cases for these things, i.e. push notifications are very useful to me (from certain apps). The problem is one of consent.
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SXSW Cancelled Due to Coronavirus(techcrunch.com)
188 points by estreeper 7y ago|83 comments
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by estreeper 7y ago
> First employees should get ~1% equity, more if it's an employee-owned co-op. I would be interested if anyone knows more about how the co-op idea would work, also assuming you took investment. Would a corporation be formed as well
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by estreeper 8y ago
> their UI has sucked Would you be willing to elaborate on what you find frustrating? We're doing work in a similar area.
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by estreeper 9y ago
> one time payment of $2,000 to $5,000 Wow, that is very expensive. > But as for places that are solidly in the comcast network, no There are a couple of things which, if they happened, I think could make SpaceX very competitive. The
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by estreeper 9y ago
Great points, but... > This is by no means going to hurt Comcast. Well, it could , couldn't it? Satellite internet does have the potential to make regional pseudo-monopolies go away, which means Comcast now has price competition. E
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by estreeper 9y ago
I have a startup in a state which is very much a flyover: so much so that our license plates read "New Mexico, USA", to assure people that we are, in fact, part of the union. I moved from LA to Santa Fe a year and a half ago and s
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by estreeper 9y ago
> I'm not sure I see the point in using Meetup at all anymore. Just like any social platform, I think the advantage of using Meetup is that you'll get to a different audience than Facebook. In my case I've found the audien
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by estreeper 9y ago
As far as finding spaces, I've found that local bars/restaurants/coffee shops are usually quite happy to host events during off-times like Monday through Wednesday nights. I always ask nicely, thank them in the event descri
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by estreeper 9y ago
> Are there any examples of a full blown GraphQL server Sure! But here's the thing to know: the meat of a GraphQL server is in the schema. Every server implementation you see will have you define a schema, and then will execute quer

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