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by idoh 6y ago
I’m into to 3d printing. It seems to be in that post early adopters trough. I’m long on it it though - distributed customized manufacturing with revolutionize retail, supply chains, and more.
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by idoh 6y ago
Soon a writer sitting in a coffeeshop with a laptop could make a full feature length film with no comprimises to their vision.
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by idoh 6y ago
Under the hood (legally) there is no ban on cookies per se. It is rather on tracking of personally identifiable information. It is Ok to place a cookie without explicit permission if it tracks something that can be applied to a wide range o
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by idoh 6y ago
Clearly yes - if you have an interesting take on the world or some corner of it, then please share it. We will all be the richer for it. I don’t know if a traditional blog is the thing to do anymore, but there are so many ways to self publi
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by idoh 6y ago
What ineptitude?
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by idoh 6y ago
50-55 degrees at the moment in the Outer Sunset, on the coldest edge of SF.
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by idoh 6y ago
Can you suggest some Democratic candidates that would appeal to a libertarian?
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by idoh 6y ago
That’s tough, it is very hard to compare a spoken language where everything is ambiguous to a programming language, where (almost) everything is unambiguous. As an example, in my family, there is no general agreement as to how many “holes”
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by idoh 6y ago
It’s not a new trend, it is common in non fiction writing. Everything Malcolm Gladwell writes is in this style, and the same for many non fiction business / self help type books.
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by idoh 6y ago
Amazing read, thanks for the link!
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by idoh 6y ago
Snap’s 60 billion dollar market cap disagrees.
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by idoh 6y ago
Would it be crazy to talk to a lawyer? Most lawyers will talk to you for free, and you can see what your options are.
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by idoh 6y ago
Converting knowledge into action. E.g. I know that eating sugar is bad, but I do it anyway.
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by idoh 6y ago
"Mille" is French for 1,000. So MM = 1,000 * 1,000. M is also used in advertising, like CPM: Cost Per Mille.
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by idoh 6y ago
Some contrarian ways to understand economics: - Naval’s How to Get Rich (without getting lucky): https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936?lang=en - Attempt for yourself to make $1 on the internet
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by idoh 6y ago
Some formatting issues: - the right alignment of the dates is too far to the left - the phone number / email header is not aligned correctly - if you have a date range, then it should look like 2010-2012 and not 2010 - 2012 BTW I’ve li
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by idoh 6y ago
How about the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, which has $100 million ARR, and seems to be run by two people?
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by idoh 6y ago
PoF was founded and run for a long time with one founder, but when it sold it did have employees.
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by idoh 6y ago
I agree that the world is better with independant journalists seeking and speaking truth to power. However, I disagree with your conclusion that the way to get this is basically state funded journalists. State controlled media is a sign of
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by idoh 6y ago
Can’t have an article about Nicolas Bourbaki without bringing up the mystery of nickb on Hacker News. Who was he? Paul G? A group of power users? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10535620 https://news.ycombin
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by idoh 6y ago
From a USA perspective, we have freedom of press / speech, which means that the government is not allowed to interfere / pass laws. I feel like this is reasonable. Other than that, truth can't be a basic human right in the se
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by idoh 6y ago
Trump talks like an authoritarian, but his actual actions have been mainly to reduce the power of a central government, like appointing federalist judges, dismantling federal departments, etc. So the opposite of what an authoritarian would
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by idoh 6y ago
I hope it is true but doesn’t seem likely. Biden did support war with Iraq, and seems cut from the same cloth as Obama / Clinton / etc.
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by idoh 6y ago
PBA = police officers’ union (for those like me who didn’t know)
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by idoh 6y ago
This really overstates the case. Government-funded R&D programs only really kicked off after the Manhattan Project. There was a lot of innovation before that, like the entirety of the industrial revolution.
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by idoh 6y ago
Props to dang and the rest of the HN moderater team for navigating the election cycle really well.
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by idoh 6y ago
I think it's really hard to fully close an old email address. I migrated from one email address to another ten years ago, and I still get personal correspondence sent to the old one. I told everyone I know that I'm using a new ema
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by idoh 6y ago
Before covid rents in SF were among the highest in the world, which implies very high demand. I’m confident that many people still want to live in SF, e.g. single people like to cluster next to other single people. In other words working in
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by idoh 6y ago
Good idea but sadly impossible for San Francisco because San Francisco cannot even convert places that are zoned for housing into housing.
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by idoh 6y ago
cracking the pm interview book, then get an interview coach to grill you.

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