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by keithwhor 4y ago
Nicotine is a systemic toxin. I don’t think there’s really an ethical high ground to being pro-vape and anti-tobacco. It’s all bad. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/
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by keithwhor 4y ago
It's truly surprising to me how cartoonishly evil everybody in the tobacco / nicotine industry seems to be.
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by keithwhor 4y ago
If people are interested in this, we automatically host Twitch chat apps for you on Autocode and provide a simple, stateless API to work with Twitch chat. We host the chat infra for you, you just write serverless functions to handle webhook
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by keithwhor 4y ago
... in mice.
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by keithwhor 4y ago
I'd love to see indie game developers use these tools in combination with DALL-E to recreate the style of the PlayStation-era Final Fantasy games. 3d characters in 2d pre-rendered worlds. Presumably with the right tooling -- creating i
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by keithwhor 4y ago
Taken at face value, what the DK data shows without autocorrelation is that more skilled people are, in fact, better at evaluating themselves than unskilled people. The correlation is positive. It's only when you introduce the differen
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by keithwhor 5y ago
Simply categorizing human beings as conventional vs unconventional and passive vs aggressive, and then establishing an enemy in one quadrant is an example. Unconventional people are the victims, aggressively conventional people are the othe
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by keithwhor 5y ago
Aha. Great observation; what you interpret as anti-collectivist / pro-individualist I interpret as misanthropic. Admittedly this is probably cultural on my part; growing up in a working class Canadian family bestows different social id
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by keithwhor 5y ago
The biggest problem I have with Paul’s writing on these topics is the misanthropic undertones. The classification of folks as “conventional minded” mirrors other socially reductive language like referring to people as “simps,” “NPCs,” and m
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by keithwhor 5y ago
Depends on how much the rest of the board really feels like arguing with Elon. Keep in mind these people have jobs outside of Twitter. https://investor.twitterinc.com/corporate-governance/board-o...
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by keithwhor 5y ago
You can totally build first. Developers always do. The problem is you have to sell at some point , if it's not customers to begin with then it has to be investors, but invariably you will be selling to customers. Products do not sel
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by keithwhor 5y ago
What I don't like about posts like these is they "infect" those serially susceptible to misinformation that refuse to look at statistics and raw data. So I did it for y'all. First, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are corre
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by keithwhor 5y ago
How can you be sure this isn’t wash-trading organized by the largest owners so they can attempt to profit at the expense of individual retail investors?
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by keithwhor 5y ago
I don't think there's anything more rewarding than building things with people you care about and are invested in the success of. Wins are amplified, losses are overcome more readily, there's a level of trust that extends bey
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by keithwhor 5y ago
I actually got a real word, albeit with an incorrect definition. adjective. nonexclusionary nonex·clu·sion·ary of or concerning people or organizations that don't receive due respect "nonexclusionary criticis
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by keithwhor 5y ago
I think you may have just inadvertently invented the concept of Meme drive [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive
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by keithwhor 5y ago
The armchair quarterbacking in this thread is ridiculous. This was a great, and really human, take on pitching that 99.99% of founders miss. Pitching VCs (or YC) is only ostensibly about raising financing. Pitching is about refining your id
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by keithwhor 5y ago
An undergraduate degree won't teach you to be a good engineer any more than it will teach you to be a good executive, or dentist, or doctor. It's why Waterloo's co-op program is almost universally regarded as the best trainin
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by keithwhor 5y ago
There are a lot of comments here that echo my sentiment. Simon, I am a Canadian founder. I got my first job offer in the US (San Francisco) at 25 years old. I took it right away. It was not FAANG, though I was interviewed there many times:
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by keithwhor 5y ago
joel nailed it, xml was clearly peak internet
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by keithwhor 5y ago
The same thing was said about every programming abstraction to ever be introduced. How do we expect people to build memory-efficient applications when they become reliant on a garbage collector?
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by keithwhor 5y ago
This is a pretty interesting take. Sort of an, "accelerate every country through their inevitable industrialization and all that comes with it so we can help them get past it faster." I wonder how much of the US defense budget cou
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by keithwhor 5y ago
Yeah I agree with you, that's what I was saying, I feel the same way about LotR. First book was a snooze and couldn't finish the rest.
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by keithwhor 5y ago
Ha -- I made another post summarizing the contents of this paper, but read another poster suggesting that it could be correlated with cigarettes, as nicotine is an appetite suppressant. The authors of this paper suggest that the obesity tre
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by keithwhor 5y ago
I only read the first chapter of LotR and I don't understand what the big deal is. Hobbiton is a pretty shitty place to stage an adventure novel, seems boring.
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by keithwhor 5y ago
This is a really neat and well-researched paper. If you're looking for the summary, the most likely contaminants contributing to the obesity epidemic as identified by the authors are: (1) antibiotics in livestock that accumulate in bot
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by keithwhor 5y ago
> Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the Universe: they weigh about as much as the Sun, yet measure only around 10km across, similar in size to a large city. I'm going to be the Hacker News pedant here and say that thi
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by keithwhor 5y ago
I think this is a good article. I also think generalized fundraising advice mostly sucks. You're looking for a believer in you and your company. That's it. If you're lucky enough to find many believers in parallel you can use
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by keithwhor 5y ago
It terrifies me that we're asphyxiating ourselves and increased CO2 can seriously impair human cognition. At a global, population-level scale this is almost certainly statistically significant and it scares me that we could quite liter
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by keithwhor 5y ago
> “Yeah none of the partners here have a dog and [X head partner] actually really hates dogs” Please, please, please name this firm. For the good of all founders.

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