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Startup Graveyard(startupgraveyard.io)
2 points by marto1 4y ago|0 comments
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by marto1 4y ago
Some years ago Sweden actually limited mortgages to 105 years https://www.thelocal.se/20160324/sweden-limits-mortgage-loan... . And the word "mortgage" roughly translates to "till death" since that&#
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by marto1 4y ago
What works best is small steps, I believe. First deal with your smartphone access. Delete all, but essential apps(e.g. your work) in your phone, you can still visit whatever you want on another device you don't carry around with you ev
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by marto1 4y ago
As in, it would've solved it in 2017. Good luck solving it these days :-)
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by marto1 4y ago
All this is true, but you missed a crucial piece, addressing your "need to engage" - political energy capacity coming from the young. I'll be more than glad to be proven wrong, but I don't think young people have driven
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by marto1 4y ago
The author compares TikTok to Google, but comparison to Youtube is maybe more appropriate. I can easily see how TikTok can be much faster at showing you a tutorial for doing a drum roll for example.
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by marto1 4y ago
Go for a repeatable offline physical activity that engages all of your attention, e.g. chopping wood, hunting, fishing, a lot of sports fall into this category as well. Try to go for something that is easy to organize so you have more oppor
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by marto1 4y ago
Which implies less country travel?
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by marto1 4y ago
What about anything that's not last-mile transportation and/or requires carrying heavy/bulky stuff ?
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Ask HN: How are young people going to afford buying/switching to EVs?
1 points by marto1 4y ago|11 comments
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by marto1 4y ago
Here's my method: start by drawing on a piece of paper. Doodling helps with focus and is something you can’t really screw up. Do that for a while until your brain becomes more single-tracked. Helps me every time.
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by marto1 4y ago
Does anyone even know what a high performing data scientist looks like ? We know about the 10x dev meme and how highly paid they can be, but has data science defined it's niche enough to demand higher salaries ?
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by marto1 4y ago
You can also try the first page of an empty search. That will show you the most popular articles of all time: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by marto1 4y ago
> It's also interesting how common it is for people to create replacement servers for popular MMOs I believe it might make good money as long as you can dodge legal issues, but I might be wrong.
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by marto1 4y ago
Well, I mean fundamentally you’re either moving bytes or crunching bytes. And I think someone did a study recently where moving bytes dominates more and more in terms of operations being executed on modern hardware. So it's only logica
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by marto1 4y ago
I'm the last one to defend crypto, but a bunch a professors declared a technology useless so we just drop it ?? Sounds even more dubious than crypto itself.
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by marto1 4y ago
> All this panic about tech layoffs seems a little premature given we haven’t even begun to see the impact of rates hikes on quarterly earnings yet. Many companies still have open recs and budgets to keep hiring. I think that's the
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by marto1 4y ago
> tighten belts and reduce cash burn and on a macro level what's the point in reducing cash burn in a high inflation environment ? Driving even more inflation ?
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by marto1 4y ago
Ah sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension as the meme goes.
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by marto1 4y ago
I'd also add another major factor is age. With age requirements tend to change quite a bit and as one gets older things like healthcare really begin to factor in.
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by marto1 4y ago
Pictures and it used to be really annoying while taking exams in school. A page with the answer would pop up in my head, but the only clear info on the page would be the page number :-(
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by marto1 4y ago
Very insightful. Thank you.
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by marto1 4y ago
Precisely! I always get an eerie feeling seeing threads like "How to get my 4yo into programming?" reach the top of HN.
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by marto1 4y ago
I think what you have written is very valuable and has to be taken into consideration. There is, however, a difference between the “scorched earth” entrepreneurship you’re talking about and the more organic type rooted in smaller(often self
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by marto1 4y ago
Dear shareholders...
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by marto1 4y ago
> I've never met the people who want these clownish surveillance things I'd guess the much older folks that don't use any of these means of communication wouldn't be strongly opposed and will probably be voting for so
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by marto1 4y ago
Didn't you just describe most silicon valley VC funded startups ? I feel like you can replace Netflix with a lot of other companies, throw in their well known weakness and it would still make sense.
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by marto1 4y ago
> especially due to the complicated usage. Said he while using find, dd, rsync, tar and others every day. But in all seriousness new cmd tools should be given a chance, it sometimes feels like people believe posix tools were perfected in
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by marto1 4y ago
SaaS is super difficult to maintain long term unless you know exactly what you're doing. And not having a network is definitely not helping. If you feel like you check these boxes go for it, but I'd much rather build a network fir
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by marto1 5y ago
say it as it is: standardization of the education for the "undesirables" so they hopefully get in line with the program.

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