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by flybrand 5y ago
Continuing on with the firearm analogy: If I’m hunting, and a misfire causes an accident, it matters how it happens. If it is the gun maker’s fault - I don’t purchase from them anymore. The origin story matters if we depend on a dishonest (
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by flybrand 5y ago
At the outset, I agreed that research into the origin is misplaced. However as time went on, a scenario emerged that made the origin story important - it’s about the ethics and integrity of the system. If the people and institutions at the
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by flybrand 5y ago
Which employers are taking as a green flag to terminate those who don’t get it. Maybe legally wrong, maybe they get compensated in a few years.
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by flybrand 5y ago
I also came to rave about the Coros battery life - I've now had it for nearly a year and it is as advertised. Apple Watch is a great starter smartwatch, but if battery life matters - the Coros is a better product.
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by flybrand 5y ago
Aren’t the BBC heavily influenced by the 77th?
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Having worked in filtration, aerosols and the built environment - this has been known for years, the challenge was creating broader understanding of the value of better iaq.
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by flybrand 5y ago
In 2007, our one year old son was tossing them food while we’d turned around. We were on a 9th floor patio and hadn’t seen the bird join us. We just avoided him getting pecked!
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“Attack rate was 0/6 among persons with a previous history of COVID-19 versus 63.2% among those with no previous history (Table).”
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by flybrand 5y ago
This sounds a little bit like the people who didn’t fight in the UFC because they wanted to keep their art ‘secret’.
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by flybrand 5y ago
We’ve got a family love of the Fast and Furious movies - we got a big group to go see it yesterday. The movie is awful, it could be my last experience ever in a theatre.
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by flybrand 5y ago
Good point. Elite overproduction could come from changing the definition of an elite; we may have lowered the bar w the Internet, self-publishing, etc.
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by flybrand 5y ago
Who benefits from a hit piece on a retailer that is one of the few willing to put new stores in these areas?
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by flybrand 5y ago
Vonnegut does this a lot too - toying with an idea over and over again until he feels it is fully explored.
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by flybrand 5y ago
There are a lot of great things about being in a startup, and many people have done well financially and personally with that career path. It's also true that a great deal of the promotion of this career path is propaganda that benefit
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by flybrand 5y ago
I agree - lifting could be a tangential market that is actually bigger.
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by flybrand 5y ago
I agree w others saying focus online retailing. For local / consumer input - What do your local climbing clubs, outdoor stores and indoor climbing gyms say when you approach them? Outdoor Retail has big trade shows - ISPO in Europe.
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by flybrand 5y ago
> There is a level of confidence in your post which is wholly unwarranted given how complicated the human body is. Thank you for saying this, there is a great deal of over confidence bias in the approach to this virus.
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by flybrand 5y ago
> incredibly valuable Same. And I don’t worry about having enough work, or whether or not my big idea will work. Pick the achievable ideas and make sure your team delivers. As capability improves, goals can get bigger. Life is good.
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by flybrand 5y ago
I was excited to come across this today on Audible and held off buying it for these same reasons. Several points in that description - politicized for the masses - were right then wrong then right again, and blamed based on voting patterns.
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by flybrand 5y ago
> We watch Star Trek and marvel at their post-scarcity world. We are living in a post-scarcity world now, but all the benefits are being funneled by wage slaves up to the 0.1%."
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by flybrand 6y ago
I checked one of these out in Prague after seeing this in a past HN posting. Pretty cool. Definitely some safety concerns, but it beats the stairs in an old walk-up.
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by flybrand 6y ago
It looks like OP could get jobs, the challenge was not quitting them.
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by flybrand 6y ago
Go to Reddit, create an account. Join r/relationships. Give advice to people with the goal of getting to 10,000 karma. Then you will know what to write, which will make it easier to say the correct thing when it happens in person.
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by flybrand 6y ago
As someone who has failed as a CEO - I can’t write about it, because it would have a bad impact on my former team, who is still working away. Not only must you find someone willing to document their failure (I am), they have to be free and
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by flybrand 6y ago
Is he a derivative of that? He’s covering - his beat is - the current media’s stoking of culture war as a commercial reality of modern media tech.
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by flybrand 6y ago
Technically he would have counted deaths, if I recall correctly. I agree w your idea though.
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He goes into it in some detail in the book - the math goes beyond my ability to summarize. He looks at conflicts / murders / etc per year.
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by flybrand 6y ago
People who are less violent can easily become violent because they don’t understand the cost and destruction of force escalation.
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by flybrand 6y ago
Idle hands among those who have far reach will eventually do things that lead to conflict.
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Elite overproduction happens in several ways - with tech, new services, new hardware, we all have the capability of an elite from a few decades back. We’ve lowered the barrier to being an elite, to having that reach. Also, we’ve made it pos

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