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by guynamedloren 5y ago
I’m surprised the YC application hasn’t been more of a focus in this discussion. The following questions are pulled from the application (perhaps an older version): What is your company going to make? Why did you pick this idea to work on?
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
"some mild stock appreciation".. quite an understatement. $250k (annual) appreciation in a year. Whew.
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
Small pedantic note: this article is authored by Claire Percival, not Tim Dodd. I'm not familiar with the working dynamic - Tim very well could been involved in authoring this piece - but, credit where credit is due. Edit: I partially
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
Admittedly I don't have many alternates to compare to, but it's wonderful. It's essentially the best parts of Rails MVC (M and C), which gives just enough out of the box (ActiveStorage for attachment management, ActiveJob for
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
Rails 6 API with React frontend, Postgres database, hosted on Heroku. I've been using some version of this stack for different projects, across companies, for several years and it's an absolute joy. It's only gotten more refi
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
As long as they eventually find the greater fool, the 2.5% cut is just the cost of doing (pumping) business.
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
> what’s stopping by people from pumping their own NFTs? Nothing. My outsider understanding is ... this is exactly what's happening.
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Pitch Drop Experiment(smp.uq.edu.au)
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
It's an infuriating experience indeed. I reached my breaking point a few months ago, and decided I was just done with googling recipes. After trying a few different highly regarded paid apps (recipe managers, NYT Cooking) and not findi
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
It's a portion of the content that's cloned: the question and subsequent answers or discussion. The styling is usually totally different, even the page structure is different, to the point that I don't realize I'm lookin
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
Not outrageous at all (except for the last bit, perhaps). I’d be surprised if there isn't some kind of data to back this up.
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
You raise a fair point here - good managers protect their employees’ time, however in this case, the the task was not a “personal task” but rather an initiative handed down from the parent company, without giving OP the proper resources an
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
Echoing others who have gone through the startup -> $LARGE_CORPORATION acquisition, and having been there myself: just leave. It won't get better. On the contrary, it'll get worse as those worth their salt see the writing on t
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AT-AT designer shows how to take it apart(brickset.com)
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
Those are population figures
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
I've been thinking about this as well. As Google search results get increasingly worse, I find myself subconsciously filtering out all the garbage and gravitating towards a small number of known sites; and, as many other HNers do, I fr
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
This confused me as well -- it's not totally obvious with the way that the information is presented. Per the "Sources" tab: > Incidence rate estimates: Weekly age-specific incidence rates by vaccination status were calcula
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
Would you mind explaining the difference between how these two scenarios play out, in practice?
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
> a civilization may only broadcast for 2-3000 years before new tech is used 2-3000 years is awfully specific. How did you arrive at that theory?
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
He did announce "Apollo, funding for moonshots" last year. I want to say it's a self-funded fund, but I may be misremembering. https://twitter.com/sama/status/1273315232367042560?lang=en
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Time Pyramid: a work of public art to be completed over 1,200 years(en.wikipedia.org)
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
Hey, excited to see Motor Admin here! My team has been using Motor for almost six months now, on a greenfield project at an early stage startup, and it has been absolutely phenomenal. It does everything we need it to, saves us loads of dev
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
> But do it with your own things then. Don't bother anyone else or touch anyone else's things. You're really oversimplifying here. Something tells me this highschooler doesn't personally own the breadth of commercial
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
> Why do we tolerate pranks? Pranks can be an outlet for creativity and learning that might not otherwise happen. The post concludes with: > This has been one of the most remarkable experiences I ever had in high school and I thank ev
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
Fun story! Such incredible attention to detail and thoughtfulness, all the way up to automatically sending a pen test report to the district's technical supervisors, and sharing a presentation after graduation. This kid was one step
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
> When my wife and I moved we completely changed what we were looking for in a house/community. We wanted a Main Street style town. We used to love master planned communities with huge houses. In our small, Main Street style town al
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
Super impressive. With a young LEGO builder who has cranked through every set and every instruction booklet he gets his hands on, I recently delved into the world of MOCs thinking that’d keep him busy, but even with sites like Rebrickable
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
I don’t understand this. Does the hypothetical low risk person hypothetically work from home and rarely go out.. forever? If no, when/what is the trigger that changes this behavior?
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by guynamedloren 5y ago
No mention of recovery. I wonder.. are the containers ever recovered, or is it prohibitively expensive, or, logistically near impossible?
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by guynamedloren 6y ago
Another upvote for AmazingRibs.com and Meathead. The BBQ pseudoscience debunking is particularly interesting!

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