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by kenneth 5y ago
My favorite US airport for food outlets is Austin. Nothing beats getting Salt Lick before your flight!
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by kenneth 5y ago
I also fly 200k a year (pre-Covid). But it's usually a long-haul trip once or twice every week with a mix of shorter hops; not a 3h flight every day. Mix of an active travel lifestyle, living in hotels full time, and a lot of work meet
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by kenneth 5y ago
Before I left the USA, I would special order stacks of $2 bills by the thousands and use them for tipping (particularly at bars) and to hand them to friends and acquaintances. It's crazy how much more people appreciate being given a $2
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by kenneth 5y ago
Is there actually a popular site that uses WASM / WebGL the way you mention it?
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by kenneth 5y ago
Considering that the top quartile venture capital as an asset class generally performs at ~20% IRR and outperforms public markets, it's empirically not true that the system funds hustlers over builders. The better VCs fund builders. If
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by kenneth 5y ago
Taiwan is an island, Ukraine shares a flat plateau border with Russia and has a large separatist population. Taiwan is also uniquely important to the west in a way that Ukraine wasn't. Taiwan is a LOT harder to invade than Ukraine. Not
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by kenneth 5y ago
All ketchup is actually pretty bad. (Controversial opinion, European here who'll pick aioli over it any day)
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by kenneth 5y ago
As an expat who lives in China and loves Chinese food, it makes me incredibly sad that in the Western world Chinese food is basically greasy bland cheap garbage generally inspired by 19th century Cantonese immigration (chop suey, fried rice
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by kenneth 5y ago
That's not exactly how it works, but close in spirit. When you invest in Republic, you are entering into a contract called a CrowdSAFE. It's a convertible instrument much like a SAFE, but instead of converting into the next priced
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by kenneth 5y ago
You misunderstand it. The holding is not illiquid. It's fully liquid, it's just that Peter and Max's access to the cash proceeds aren't. If someone buys the shares in the Roth, their position is fully liquid: they can se
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by kenneth 5y ago
I wouldn't take the claims of suicide at face value when McAfee has literally stated that if he dies of suicide it's probably a setup. https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/131680121508322509... htt
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by kenneth 5y ago
The CCP prevented the British from enacting democratic reforms and any self-determination in Hong Kong, under the thread of military invasion. This isn't on Britain, they tried decades prior.
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by kenneth 5y ago
Hong Kong was built from nothing by the British. Before the British arrived and settled HK, it was but an empty jungle mountains sticking of an estuary on the Ocean. By comparison, the powerhouse of southern China, Guangzhou, was plenty pop
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by kenneth 5y ago
A simpler example: Today you buy $100 of Theranos and $100 of Uber. Tomorrow your Theranos is worth $0 and Uber is worth $200. You put in $200, you still have $200, you use the Theranos loss to offset the Uber win. This is good, this is how
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by kenneth 5y ago
Signal is funded by a $50M donation from Brian Acton, who made billions selling WhatsApp to Facebook.
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by kenneth 5y ago
We invest in global companies and usuals see Delaware C Corps. On occasion we'll fund a foreign entity but we do look for jurisdictions with a developed western legal system. I would say the most common after Delaware is Hong Kong and
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by kenneth 5y ago
I feel like it's likely a larger proportion of weed-users have it affect their productivity and motivation to grow in life than the proportion of drinkers who become dangerous alcoholics or end up with cirrhosis. I don't have data
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by kenneth 5y ago
Similar: one day in 2012 I quit soda cold turkey. It was supposed to be for 4 days as a challenge (I was drinking probably 2L+ a day of full-sugar cola / red bull at that point). I just didn't restart, and haven't had a glass
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by kenneth 5y ago
I'm a regular drinker, but I do a dry month every year. I make it a point to not let it change my social life at all — which means still spending plenty of time at bars and socializing with people drinking. I typically drink non-alcoho
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by kenneth 5y ago
Cannabis is in no way healthier than alcohol. It's hard to quantify the damages done by one vs. the other; but there are very serious social and psychological downsides to regular cannabis use.
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by kenneth 5y ago
Not OP, but I drink quite a bit too. I discovered ZBiotics and it's made a very large difference in my experience with hangovers. I was also starting to feel worse hangovers as I aged (from being practically immune in my late teens &#x
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by kenneth 5y ago
Pretty impressive result for a vaccine that's been shown to barely have the 50% efficacy threshold to make the cut (and with doubts about its results due to no releasing of trial data). Shows high promise for countries using mRNA vacci
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by kenneth 5y ago
How is this different than a missile that is programmed to hit a specific target and computer-guided to its target. We don't tell to call missiles drones, while quadcopters are, but in essence there's not much difference, and the
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by kenneth 5y ago
I've worked like this since way before Covid. Unfortunately the lockdowns have pushed me more at home than at my usual haunt of cafes and bars (or occasionally the beach). I'm completely incapable of getting anything productive do
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by kenneth 5y ago
Influenza can cross species boundaries and that's what tends to make it generally more dangerous than the natural mutations in seasonal flu. The "swine flu" pandemic of 2009 involved bird and pig influenza viruses mixing gene
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by kenneth 5y ago
There are very little consequences to promiscuity today as long as you're not gay. Heterosexual vaginal sex is very low risk, especially with birth control being widely available. There's a bit of a gender disconnect in risk, but
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by kenneth 5y ago
Even if they weren't, people would elect a Mayor on a progressive no-prosecuting-crime platform who'd then hire an awful DA… The problem isn't with the position of DA, it's with "progressive" voters.
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by kenneth 5y ago
Actually, no, the problem isn't so much with the police as with the district attorney's office. The police can arrest these people, but it's entirely pointless when the DA won't prosecute them and they're back on th
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by kenneth 5y ago
>My story originally happened to run on the same day the New York Times did a piece on the growing problem of shoplifting in the city and the reluctance of local law enforcement to police minor thefts. Clearly, this is a trend that will
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by kenneth 5y ago
I think you misunderstand venture. VC has two broad categories: experimentation and growth. As a VC I'm happy to invest in a company with zero revenue, in the promise that they'll figure out something valuable. If I'm investi

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