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by jstandard 8y ago
I still don't see this as a new phenomenon. Before Android phones there were Game Gears. Before those we had Tiger Electronics handhelds. Before those we had comic books. The only major thing that seems to have changed are the names of
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by jstandard 8y ago
Are there any studies or support you can give behind your claims? Just as you're skeptical of research in the area, I'm skeptical of people claiming to have seen "hundreds of people" cured of diseases by something as sim
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by jstandard 8y ago
Were the authors of this recent study the same ones releasing results in the 50s? From what I can tell is these are recent scientists conducting a study in Beijing with potentially disconfirming evidence of your claim.
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by jstandard 8y ago
I think this is a "humans" thing. Japan and other countries have their own share of cults and group-think. Every culture has people who, for whatever reason, don't feel like they fit in. There will always be others who rise t
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by jstandard 8y ago
This brings me back. While I didn't attend HedgeStock, I used to post on the Albourne Village forums of the "conference" organizer. They had a points system which I found a way to game, accumulating enough points to buy a Hed
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by jstandard 8y ago
You may have misunderstood the article and the Lean methodology. From the article: "Still, unless your startup has access to large pools of capital or have a brand name like Katzenberg, Lean still makes sense." Side projects, solo
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by jstandard 8y ago
The interesting point here is that they aren't doing an ICO. This reads to me more like a blockchain exploration of a rewards system from a large company. Far less likely to be a 'pump and dump' than the me too altcoin of the
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by jstandard 8y ago
Thanks, this makes much more sense than the author's strange example.
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by jstandard 8y ago
I deeply disagree and I'd wager anyone who has done any sort of sales or biz dev does too. Trying to influence a potential client to close a multi-million dollar software contract is anything but close to 'normal' activities.
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by jstandard 8y ago
Disinegenuous in what regard? What may seem like "eating and drinking" for sales and biz dev folks is a game requiring thinking on your feet, subtle negotiation, reading social cues, and constant strategy changes.
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by jstandard 8y ago
The person at Twitter about to press the delete button and a member of Facebook's developer relations team.
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by jstandard 8y ago
What are your objections to those?
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by jstandard 8y ago
If you're doing it mostly for fun with a side benefit of recognizing a few characters here and there, go for it. Just know you're choosing to learn in a way that's not really recommended for most. If your learning goals are m
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by jstandard 8y ago
I also felt this way. There is a large amount of "one weird tip" self-promotional blogspam in the startup space. Self-promotion isn't bad on it's own, we all have motivations at some level. But too often pulling back the
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by jstandard 8y ago
> But there is absolutely no evidence that saturated fat causes any of the diseases of civilization. Why should people limit their intake of it? This is indisputably wrong. There is a mountain of evidence linking the consumption of satur
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by jstandard 8y ago
Ideally yes, likely, no. From the sparse details we do have it sounds like there were some fundamental disagreements between the board and CEO. The board may have seen firing the CEO as the path of least resistance. It seems harsh, but with
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by jstandard 8y ago
> Human beings have been hunting and eating animals ... for hundreds of thousands of years, This seems a bad argument. Our lifestyles, diet compositions, bodies, ability to diagnose medical illness or cause of death, understanding of nut
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by jstandard 8y ago
Calling it gaslighting is uncharitable and dismissive. The Overton Window here seems to be generally around "big companies" and "ads" always being bad. In this case advertising other Netflix shows seems reasonable. It&#x
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by jstandard 8y ago
It sounds like all the same protections and uses you get with USD. I get the impression Coinbase may be moving in that direction if they haven't already. What advantages over USD are there for using bitcoin to buy domains or items from
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by jstandard 8y ago
I've often heard that problems with banks and private , centralized control of wealth is one of the fundamental reasons for cryptocurrency. I'm genuinely curious, what cryptocurrency related services would you want a bank to provi
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by jstandard 8y ago
We also do this coupled with project specific Trello boards. Solved many of the signal v noise issues we had.
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by jstandard 8y ago
These things aren't mutually exclusive. Local governments have many constituencies they need to support, small business being one of the most important. On the flip side of your rage are people who run local businesses having to shutdo
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by jstandard 8y ago
Techcrunch does this too. It's to encourage binge reading. The news equivalent of Youtube autoplay next video. The metrics likely suggest it's good for the site, but I'm also not a fan. It's very confusing for the reader
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by jstandard 8y ago
The article covers your first question. He blew the whistle on misleading investors by overinflating production numbers by as much as 44% and that Tesla is knowingly installing damaged or unfit batteries into cars, increasing their chance o
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by jstandard 8y ago
Thank you, the link is appreciated. However, it doesn't support your claim that "Cultures that had no issue breastfeeding started treating it as brutish". It does support the claim that formula makers are using underhanded ta
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by jstandard 8y ago
While I'm not as familiar with these issues, GP did at least attempt to cite sources. Can you cite sources which prove or suggest the contrary? In particular, I'm interesting in this claim: > "Cultures that had no issue br
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by jstandard 8y ago
I understand where he's coming from. Sometimes to create a big personal change you need to disrupt your routine in a big way. For me, a change in environment really helps me think or focus differently. New York may have been special in
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by jstandard 8y ago
What made it rise from $300 to current day prices? What price do you think reflects it's real value? Why is it worth that price?
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by jstandard 8y ago
I stopped reading after seeing the pricing tables. I really question their data source and calculation quality with items like this: Chicken Tacos Restaurant Price: 18.94 Cook at Home Cost: 1.14
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by jstandard 8y ago
>In regard to being determined, I know this sounds like survivorship bias but you really do get better at what you're attempting to do by sticking with it This is survivorship bias. You're a survivor and can look back on the se

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