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by heurist 8y ago
The best startups and investment out here tend to be second-tier compared to the Bay Area. It's improving but still small and far from SF-level success. That said, second tier is great compared to everywhere outside of the Bay Area and
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In the book he says he chose the most prevalent to avoid meandering too much. His discussion of those disorders and the more general discussion of what is happening in the body when we sleep have helped me pinpoint some issues I have been h
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I've done nothing worth mentioning here, but I have received a couple emails asking detailed questions about things I'd done and forgotten about years ago or looking for early career advice, and I'm more surprised and honored
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I used to see that a lot on Amazon. I just bought an electric toothbrush, why would I buy another? Haven't been shopping much lately so not sure if it's gotten any better. My example is from last year, and I remember mentioning th
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Pretty much my plan, except I'm not going to work in finance and it's going to take more than a few years... All I need, really, is enough to pay my mortgage for a few years.
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I think having a browser is what keeps me hooked. I removed all my social media apps out of privacy concerns, install only utility apps as needed, but that pesky browser seems to always be open... I also spend more time on it when I haven&#
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> all efforts to test it in software have failed so far What does "failed" mean? Evolution is a universal concept with infinite potential implementations. Trying to measure "success" means nothing unless you have som
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In my area there's a market around finding used items at Goodwill outlets, fixing them up, and reselling through Craigslist/Offer Up/neighbors/etc. My wife and her mother find a lot of useful, inexpensive things at Goodw
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Is this sarcasm? Plenty of "kids" deal with reality long before 28.
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Yes, random mutations. Random mutations that cause cancer kill an organism and random mutations that make them more attractive to mates make them more likely to pass that mutations to offspring, who pass it to their offspring, and so on. Th
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No, that's just how existence works. Systems that perpetuate themselves are more likely to continue existing. Systems that don't perpetuate themselves stop existing. No intelligence required.
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Neutral theory is controversial in that it is unproven (or was when I last read about it 6 years ago). It is still a legitimate topic of research.
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I've had mostly negative experiences hiring new grads. So far, even though they were all smart with a lot of potential, they've all demanded more time and money than they were worth and left as soon as they felt any dissatisfactio
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A baseline would be making up for the employee's salary reduction with equity. If you're taking VC money then you have some dollar value per share to work from, otherwise base it on 3-5x annual revenue linearly projected from hist
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FWIW I've worked with "experienced" founders who also had no idea what they were doing (in many but not all ways). There's never a guarantee that you won't be working for people who will make you deal with their mis
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Software usually provides a unique service, so typically you'll want to charge for the service based on the value of your service's differentiator. But the exact pricing scheme will vary by industry/vertical. Some software ma
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For what it's worth, as an airbnb host in a residential neighborhood in a small tourist town that attracts a lot of young people in the summer I have never had poorly behaved guests. I've had a couple that could have cleaned up af
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Obviously effective carbon capture is preferable to no carbon capture. But I think there's a reasonable concern of a runaway market removing too much carbon, or the reduction of truly sustainable energy production due to the continual
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I imagine private companies will maintain connections between properties, and property owners will maintain the panels. Not so different from hiring a plumber or electrician. The incentive to network maintainers is the opportunity to sell o
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Buy a cheaper house
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The upfront investment on a mortgage is the down payment, which can be as high or low as you want these days. Buying a house for $310k vs $300k works out to ~$100/month going from on a 30 year fixed-rate mortgage, $10k down (depending
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The above is my only post in this thread as of writing this comment. If everyone can produce their own energy, then you don't need to extend a grid and can reduce its operations over time. Right now energy is going from renewable sourc
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$10-20k is very little a 30 year mortgage. If you're buying an expensive house than that then you can definitely afford the baseline cost of solar panels. If you live in an area with high housing prices and can't afford to buy the
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by heurist 8y ago
As a software developer who is familiar with Facebook's APIs I have not been happy at all with the recent NYT coverage. It's mostly been the kind of coverage I'd expect from the National Enquirer.
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The masses (especially boomers in America) still use Facebook, they've just retreated into groups, messenger, and marketplace. This behavior aligns with Facebook's product focuses. The Facebook killer does not exist yet. Personall
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My wife cares very little about money. She developed her own methods for getting the most out of life without it, and is always suggesting that I spend less of it. I've been able to show her the benefits of having extra money and she&#
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My wife prefers a career working with autistic children, and earns much less than I do as a software developer because of that preference. She is amazing and I want to enable her to do whatever she is happiest doing using the money I am for
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I don't think should be a reason to stop creative expression. I never had much interest in reading others' poetry but for about a year and a half I found it to be a tremendous boon to my own self-exploration and personal growth. A
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I'm so tired of fluffy, easy, popsci books. Give me dry and technical any day. Info-Ops grabbed my attention, at least. There's always a market somewhere. (On a related note, I'm trying to learn more about sales and marketing
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They launched around the same time as the Pixel 2, with similar price and slightly worse hardware. It was unfortunate timing.

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