jlevers

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by jlevers 7y ago
My understanding is that once you start cloud seeding, you can't really stop...if you stop, you'll have runaway warming at a significantly accelerated rate[0]. I'm pretty wary of geoengineering, just because we don't rea
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by jlevers 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Boston, NYC | Remote I'm a full-stack software engineer. Primary experience is with Javascript (ES6)/Node.js/React/GraphQL, Python/Django, and Postgres (and HTML/Sass/CSS). I'm comforta
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by jlevers 7y ago
While I generally agree with you that products can scale much higher than consulting income-wise, when you say it's impossible to scale what you're doing past 300k/year due to time constraints...why not charge more for your t
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by jlevers 7y ago
> I find for example that my imagined conversations are a lot more hostile Yes, this! I sometimes find myself getting slightly mad at someone for something that I imagined them doing (or thought they were going to do), because I then had
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by jlevers 7y ago
I'll definitely start hitting reply, thank you! That's a really interesting, but sensible, conclusion to come to. It seems to follow that generalists would make great business/personal coaches, as they're good at pointin
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by jlevers 7y ago
Patagonia's also done a great job with this. I have no idea if all their advertising around not buying things you don't need has increased the number of items they've sold, or just the price they can charge for them.
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by jlevers 7y ago
Wow, I just looked up light-fields. That's a super cool idea. It would be incredible if it were possible to make a 3d light-field camera, so that the person watching it in VR could look all around them.
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by jlevers 7y ago
I'm extremely interested, but I don't see your contact info in your profile. My email's in mine, if you want to get in touch.
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by jlevers 7y ago
Interesting, I'll look into LXDs. Thanks for the pointer!
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by jlevers 7y ago
I remember reading that post and the surrounding discussion, and thinking it was a really tough (and worthwhile) challenge. Good luck, and I'm excited to see the first version when you release it.
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by jlevers 7y ago
I dig it. Problems don't have to be world-changing to be interesting.
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by jlevers 7y ago
Don't discount how important those problems are! Kudos to you for being intentional with them, and good luck. I wish you the best.
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by jlevers 7y ago
That sounds super interesting. You should absolutely write a book...or, if not that, a blog. I'd read it.
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by jlevers 7y ago
I'd love to read some of what you've written, if you're willing to share.
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by jlevers 7y ago
I'd love to chat -- we have a lot of common interests. My email's in my bio if you're interested. I particularly like your idea of keeping your entire net worth invested in the problems you're focused on, and I'm cu
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by jlevers 7y ago
That's enlightening, thank you. I was unaware that the type of medical care (within a specialty) can change the financial incentives of the doctor. As someone who was just told to get my wisdom teeth removed, this makes me want to seek
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by jlevers 7y ago
I'm guessing you already know about them, but you might be able to get some useful ideas from Eat This Much[0], who I think is the biggest competitor in this space. It's a very complex challenge -- good luck! [0] https:/&#x2F
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by jlevers 7y ago
This is a great idea. Rediscoverability is a big problem, especially with the growing popularity of personal knowledge systems (Notion, Roam, etc), which have been discussed a lot on HN. I take a ton of notes on Notion, but I worry that I&#
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by jlevers 7y ago
Would you be willing to explain what the applications of (2) are? I'll admit that I only undersetand a fraction of what you said in that section, but I'm curious what you're using it for.
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by jlevers 7y ago
> I'm a diplomat working on international norms for cyber and information warfare. I didn't know any such norms existed. What are some of the existing agreements, and if you can talk about it, what are some of the new ones you&
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by jlevers 7y ago
Amazing! It would be awesome if people living far from traditional agricultural areas could access fresh greens without insane transportation costs (both financial and environmental). Are your farming systems fully automated? If so, has tha
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by jlevers 7y ago
Why would a new upper reservoir need to be so wide and shallow, rather than having much less surface area and being much deeper?
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by jlevers 7y ago
I'm not sure how to do it scalably, other than by becoming the host for that data, which is why I included my second option. It seems much easier (and much more profitable) than figuring out how to access the data in its existing forma
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by jlevers 7y ago
> There are extremely moral and extremely immoral people. Some of them are dentists. Absolutely true. However, it seems that other areas of medecine have better systems in place to prevent abuse, and dentristry would do well to follow su
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by jlevers 7y ago
I've never heard that said before, but I'm interested to hear more. Do you have any sources on that? My understanding was that solar panels last quite a long time.
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by jlevers 7y ago
That's a good point. I think it seems likely that given the relatively larger storage capacity per unit[0] with pumped hydro vs. batteries, that the overall maintenance costs -- including the environmental costs of materials needed --
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by jlevers 7y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that. Are there practical ways to decrease the amount of loss? Do you know what the actual loss percentages are for each?
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by jlevers 7y ago
Whoa, I just signed up for your newsletter a couple weeks ago. Small world. I'm enjoying it so far, keep it up! I too have really broad interests...I find basically everything interesting, which is both a blessing and a curse, as I&#x2
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by jlevers 7y ago
I just started trying to track data about myself for the same reason, but I've run into the issue that there are basically infinite variables, and I don't know which ones to choose. How have you approached that problem? You must h
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by jlevers 7y ago
I'd love to have this, specifically for YT guitar lessons. Please let me know when it launches!

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