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by igammarays 6y ago
How does one zero out the profits? Pay yourself as a contractor?
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by igammarays 6y ago
My personal magic trick is learning to speak almost fluently in a second language (Russian) in about a year. However, when people ask me how I do it, they quickly get turned off when they realize it's just a grind. You need to know abo
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Anyone heard of a One Man SaaS unicorn, i.e. a product that scaled to $10m+ ARR with only a single founder right till the end?
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This all feels very Soviet. I’m reading a book Mosaic of My Life by Larisa Zalesova about the life of a young girl during Soviet times. One of the chapters in the book almost reads exactly like this account. The No Fly List is equivalent to
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by igammarays 6y ago
> well known Well I didn't know, until now. I saw the bug bounty page at Apple before, was dazzled by the numbers, and didn't think twice about approaching them if I found a bug. Now after this article I know better than to tru
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by igammarays 6y ago
If all of your money is going to rent, health bills have bankrupted you, and you don't have the energy and clarity of mind that comes with healthy food and a stable home, you're expecting such a person to have the mental energy re
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by igammarays 6y ago
Ok, remind me never to approach Apple directly if I happen to find a vulnerability. Zerodium (or a 3-letter agency) it is!
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by igammarays 6y ago
The Brain That Changes Itself. Life changing book. One of the surprising studies there shows how kids with all kinds of learning disabilities can be radically transformed just by being given cursive handwriting exercises. Brain development
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Does anyone know if disk resizing works from the Digital Ocean console when the disk is full? Kindof worried now.
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I doubt the mere presence of the phone itself is distracting, but rather it's the fact that putting it somewhere far (or allowing it to be taken from you) requires a conscious intention and is sufficiently absurd that it triggers the n
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I've been rejected from YC several times. Now, I actually have a profitable company with real growth, and this time I've decided NOT to apply. Because I don't need it. Unless you're in an industry which is fundamentally
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Of course they should NOT be profitable, because remote routes are not profitable to operate, yet it is in everybody's interest to prevent overcrowding and excessive density. Give me one example of a successful metro that was built on
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They should've claimed to be AI-powered, then nobody would've called their shit. Things get especially murky with AI, as no one understands it, and it's hard to prove outright fraud. I've seen this firsthand: a YC-backed
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I wonder if we would go to war over chocolate, like we would over other brown sticky stuff. Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a coup in Ghana soon, not least because a lot of rich exporters will be angry.
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Don't underestimate the seriousness of this. Comms infra is incredibly vulnerable to a small group of highly motivated attackers. A few guys with sniper rifles could take down substations, jeopardizing the whole grid. A few years ago B
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It's actually quite ridiculous, I actually thought YC is starting to feel like a pyramid scheme. I took a look at the recent batches of YC companies and more than 70% of them seemed to be of the "meta" type, startups selling
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by igammarays 6y ago
You know what I don't get about website live chat buttons like Intercom? The fact that you need to stay on the website to continue the conversation. Why not just provide a link to open a conversation in existing channels, like email, T
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The best part? Every penny of that $11M ARR is yours to spend however you wish. Nobody's going to question you if you take your company's money and spend it on a private helicopter or a summer beach home in Cyprus (all easily affo
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by igammarays 6y ago
Yup it’s a slow steady stream, landing page has been up for a year collecting emails even though it only launched last month.
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My experience with Sufi and secular-buddhist (Headspace) meditation teachings is that the psychological breakdown is expected . Meditation is supposed to tear you down, and then build you back up again. However, some people get "stuck
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by igammarays 6y ago
I'm working on something similar (Airtable-based finances), though it stopped being a side-project when dozens of people started signing up and I got carried away. Very modest income still, but ramen-profitable -- I have no other sourc
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by igammarays 6y ago
The hardest thing about implementing notifications for me is not the UI, it’s the rate limiting (avoid bombarding users with duplicates), intelligently handling state changes, and figuring out when to escalate to an email/sms channel.
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by igammarays 6y ago
I have a love/hate relationship with Airtable. On the one hand, it's a true general purpose tool that anybody can use. A few simple Airtable integrations can replace a LOT of special-purpose business software out there, from CRMs
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Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270m Series E(techcrunch.com)
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The amount thieves have gotten away with (several $100m+ crypto heists) is comparable to the total amount that has been legitimately spent using crypto for actual goods and services (not counting “investing”) in the entire crypto economy.
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As a person who literally works on the Airtable API for a living, and founded an Airtable-based startup, I knew this was coming. Airtable deserves to be replaced by a good open-source alternative, for the way they've treated their cust
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The number who are actually fluent and culturally embedded is miniscule. I personally know some graduates of this program.
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Monogamy increases sexual scarcity for the highest value males, while decreasing it for almost everyone else. I would argue that's actually an ideal situation for everyone, a progressive tax.
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Scarcity increases value. We often artificially enforce the scarcity of things in order to preserve its value. That's the reason why patents, IP and copyrights exists, for example. "Marriage" and "fidelity" are a me
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I'm not talking about ethnic Russians/Ukrainians, I used "native English speakers" as a codeword to refer to "real" Americans, i.e. people who are have deep ethnic and historic loyalty to the American cause. Yo

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