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by m_ke 4y ago
Airbnb is doing great right now, wouldn't be the worst idea to let wework tank a bit more then acquire it at a discount and do a bit of rehab. A ton of business travelers would probably like to have access to office space on their trip
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by m_ke 4y ago
I was trying https://github.com/sfu-db/connector-x and hacking around with this https://github.com/spitz-dan-l/postgres-binary-parser but it turned out that a COPY to csv using asyncpg and then co
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by m_ke 4y ago
This might end up being the best way to etl postgres tables to parquet. From everything else that I tried, doing a copy to CSV and then converting to parquet was the fastest but can be a pain when dealing with type conversions.
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by m_ke 4y ago
If that grinds your gears check these out: - https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/tech/snapchat-evan-spieg... - https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/finance/brian-armstrong-...
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by m_ke 4y ago
I prefer the bullet point list that he started with to the long form essay that buries the message.
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by m_ke 4y ago
Should probably mention mdx since it's a much better alternative that has been available for a while
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by m_ke 4y ago
After playing with it for a few hours I'm sold on it soon replacing all blog spam media and potentially flooding etsy with "artists" trying to pass the renders as their own art work. Here's some of the stuff I generated:
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by m_ke 4y ago
Yeah I just saw this tidbyt display on the verge and was looking for a way to make something similar with eink. ( https://tidbyt.com/ ).
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by m_ke 4y ago
I’ve lived in the US for over 20 years and have been to more than half of the states, including all of the east coast, west coast and large parts of the mid west. The states I haven’t been to are way more rural than the ones that I’ve seen.
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by m_ke 4y ago
Pittsburgh suburbs were just an example, there's plenty of nice walkable spots all over America, what I was talking about are car centric sprawls where you can't really go anywhere unless you get in a car. Having traveled most of
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by m_ke 4y ago
Some people think New Yorkers live in Times Square or the Empire State Building.
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by m_ke 4y ago
NY has one of the lowest suicide rates in the country ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/... / https://khn.org/news/among-u-s-states-new-yorks-suicide-
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by m_ke 4y ago
Yeah I actually really liked proper Pittsburgh and was impressed by all of the bike lanes and greenery.
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by m_ke 4y ago
No, my point was about the car centric bend of a large portion of suburban / rural America. I wrote that message at like 1am, see my comment here for what I meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32355777 Compare P
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by m_ke 4y ago
NYC is not midtown manhattan. Please go check out Queens or Brooklyn next time you visit, I promise you it's safe and full of walkable and bikeable streets.
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by m_ke 4y ago
I was actually born in Poland and spent the first half of my childhood on the outskirts of a mid sized town, 2 blocks from a huge forrest, and enjoyed it a ton, as a 10 year old I was able to walk or bike to any corner of the town on my own
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by m_ke 4y ago
As a New Yorker driving around middle america is super depressing. I can't imagine growing up trapped in my own home on a street with no sidewalks, only being able to go where my parents take me and finally growing into driving age so
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by m_ke 4y ago
He turned his youtube lectures channel on self driving into "MIT AI Podcast", which helped him get a ton of top ML people on and then pivoted that into "Lex Fridman Podcast" with a lot more IDW style crackpots mixed in,
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by m_ke 4y ago
Not to hate on him but the credentials are not really there. He taught a fluff seminar course on self driving at MIT and used the brand of the university to line up a ton of great guests for an AI podcast that he then pivoted into a persona
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by m_ke 4y ago
I wonder how that compares to all of the sports gambling going on these days.
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by m_ke 4y ago
I’d love to see someone brave enough to marge north east jersey and lower Connecticut into NYC and connect them with proper transit, pretty much merge LIRR, Path and MTA under one NYC administered transit system, then add some high speed ra
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by m_ke 4y ago
You have that backwards. Bloomberg rezoned the queens and brooklyn waterfront for his real estate investor buddies, which gentrified the shit out of these neighborhoods and brought in a ton of people that would have never dared to cross the
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by m_ke 4y ago
Because I grew up in Brooklyn and Queens and saw what all of the new development did to the demand. The street that my grandmother used to rent an apartment for in the early 2000s for under $1k/month now only has units that go for $5K&
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by m_ke 4y ago
I'm no NIMBY but places like NYC will never be able to build enough to outpace demand.
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by m_ke 4y ago
Which of these "affordable" options are you too good for: https://housingconnect.nyc.gov/PublicWeb/search-lotteries Also recommend checking out this video about Vienna https://www.youtube.com/
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by m_ke 4y ago
Mobx solved all of the state problems properly a long time ago.
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by m_ke 4y ago
I got to test out one of the standard CGMs for a wellness app, which required installing an abbott app to setup the device, it was shocking how my online universe transformed into 24/7 pharma ads for the next few weeks. It was depressi
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by m_ke 4y ago
A few years ago I went for an initial screening to 3 different dentists and was shocked by the gap in suggested treatments. One wanted to do major work on like 11-12 teeth, another just fillings on 2. It made me lose all trust in American d
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by m_ke 4y ago
DuckDB would probably be a way better option and works amazingly well on top of parquet ( https://duckdb.org/docs/data/parquet )
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by m_ke 4y ago
Absolute BS, VCs knew years ago that all of this would come crashing down at some point but still raised insane funds because they could live off of the fees and knew that were other clowns down the line ready to mark up their deals. There&

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