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by heurist 7y ago
As others have mentioned, the important thing is to start. Build something and get it in front of potential customers, figure out what is wrong about it and revise. But these helped me as I built a SaaS startup over the last few years: Obvi
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by heurist 7y ago
I know of one coffee shop that closes to the public during SXSW and makes enough from private events to pay off their entire year's lease. Maybe an outlier but there is definitely a benefit for local small businesses.
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by heurist 7y ago
Would depend on the insurance policy. Probably no coverage for sxsw straight up cancelling without government requirement.
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by heurist 7y ago
That won't last. China will feel a need to dig itself out of a hole and ramp production beyond normal levels to make up for it.
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by heurist 7y ago
I have found the facade of control that technology presents is easily punctured by a few days outside of cell range in rugged wilderness. Being alone in emergency situations also reveals our total lack of control over the whims of fate. Bas
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by heurist 7y ago
FWIW, I've found GCP a pleasure to work with in comparison to AWS.
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by heurist 7y ago
I don't think they're talking about clever code, more about challenging solutions. Plenty of problems that have challenging solutions, though they are not often easy to recognize.
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by heurist 7y ago
It's definitely possible, but when I have looked at the movement data myself maybe 0.5% of houses in my city had any pings. Half the time there is no way to tell if the pings come from residents or visitors. So the odds of being one of
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by heurist 7y ago
I've directly sampled a lot of mobile location data. The data is sparse. Most people do not have their location data distributed, and of those who do most have very few pings, and with Apple/Android now explicitly asking for locat
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by heurist 7y ago
Criterion Channel has been great for this.
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by heurist 7y ago
Trust your intuition, but don't be a dick. Pick your fights. Software is more art than science. Learn from those who have gone before you. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86phiV8w2M
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by heurist 7y ago
Have you experienced frailty before? I have had a chronic illness that intermittently puts me out of commission as a relatively young person. Imagining living that way as an already aged senior sounds like torture.
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by heurist 7y ago
Sometimes people need to feel the sting of a wasted effort to understand that they work on a team. Don't want to waste your time? Don't waste the team's time.
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by heurist 7y ago
That part seemed odd to me, neither hosts or guests can see the others' reviews until after both have submitted (or the review period expires).
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by heurist 7y ago
We're doing things all wrong now but we largely know what needs to change to achieve sustainability (hint: it's not more computers). Should a collapse come the transition will come quickly as well, depending on the style of collap
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by heurist 7y ago
But will they pay you to figure out what the brain is doing, or what the brain is doing that increases margins?
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by heurist 7y ago
Amy idea of their signing bonus outside of new grads? I'm wondering what they offer people with real experience if they give that much to people without any. Relevant for me because I'm interviewing with a large financial firm tha
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by heurist 7y ago
I'm in real estate analytics and know that at least for my area, they used a real estate broker to find properties like anyone else would. Brokers know f-all about AI/ML/analytics (I tried to sell it to them for years all ove
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by heurist 7y ago
Nope, have had a couple offers from small and mid-sized cos with signing bonuses in Austin. Not anywhere near FAANG-sized signing bonuses, mind you, but they exist. I am curious about standard Bay Area FAANG signing bonuses for mid-senior l
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by heurist 7y ago
Y'all emailed me without me giving you my email address. Please don't do that
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by heurist 7y ago
> disturbing predictions on how all these personal data warehouses could be used to digitally enslave us When I read about trends like the one discussed in this thread, I feel that those who exclude based on technology preferences are mo
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by heurist 7y ago
Have worked with very successful people who smoke cannabis daily. Had no idea until they told me after we were no longer working together. Moderation in all things.
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by heurist 7y ago
The selection is limited but they're around. Most recently I've listened to Robert Greene, Joseph Campbell, Walter Isaacson, Jan Swalford, Peter Frankopan, among others. My favorite in the last year was "The Rise and Fall of
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by heurist 7y ago
Listen to more challenging content. I can only listen to dense, information rich texts, anything else feels like a waste of time.
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by heurist 7y ago
I drive a lot and audiobooks are how I pass time. Usually I can stay focused. When I find myself losing focus and unable to get it back I switch to music. Still, I find it a lot easier to focus on audio than text on paper these days. I&#x2
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by heurist 7y ago
All of Los Angeles/most of southern California was a desert, wasn't it? Massive water redistribution is the reason tens of millions of people can live there. Much of California's agriculture comes from the same water redistri
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by heurist 7y ago
Seriously, 5 years of savings is the giveaway. That is a dream scenario for anyone starting their own business. Also reminds me that regardless of how much one has to live on, there's always a nagging doubt...
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by heurist 7y ago
Auto companies promoting mass construction of roadways and suburbs last century are a big reason for urban sustainability issues today. Cities that grew around cars are struggling to shift toward a more economically sustainable pedestrian o
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by heurist 7y ago
Not sure complex systems researchers have gone that far into the practical issues yet, but Luis Bettencourt and Geoffrey West are the current leaders in urban growth/sustainability as far as I can tell as an interested outsider. Strong
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by heurist 7y ago
Seems to mostly be "get out of my neighborhood" more than city, though the city part comes from not allowing growth in neighborhoods.

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