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by meric 11y ago
Or go to the pharmacist. There's a few products that you can drip in your ear for ear infections and you'll save a doctor visit.
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by meric 11y ago
The additional profit from active investing and price discovery will come from timing a market where momentum from index funds has clearly overshot fair value to risk. I think we're over that point, or perhaps I'm rationalising my
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by meric 11y ago
By flowers advertising, it means, flowers look pretty to attract insects and animals, who will get stuck with the pollen and help the plant reproduce. He's diluting it down to "attracting something, someone on a visceral level for
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by meric 11y ago
Hey, I think the least we can do is remove means testing so we don't penalise people for bothering. We've got a higher effective marginal tax rate earning the first dollar of the year than the 100,000'th and I think that&#x27
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by meric 11y ago
Ask HN: What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone? ... but decreasing the cost of living as well . I note decreasing the cost of living is by definition deflation . Preventing deflation is an explicit objective of central
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by meric 11y ago
Brown dwarfs are substellar objects [1] Perhaps if it doesn't make it as a star, then it's not binary? It's not quite a planet system, but maybe one can call it a "Solar system"? [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by meric 11y ago
I agree. I think it's fine to wait till you're getting issues from your wisdom teeth before thinking about removing it. If it costs nothing to delay a major surgery by a day, you should do it.
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by meric 11y ago
If one wants to get a sense of how far things are, it's probably more helpful to imagine all bodies besides the moon as being infinitely far away. At 4km per hour, it takes 11 years of continuous walking to walk the distance between Ea
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by meric 11y ago
Perhaps postrationalizaton is still useful? Could empathy and mirror neurons help transfer some of that deep learning? Two weeks later the student faces a similar situation, and they get the same gut feeling their teacher did, and that help
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by meric 11y ago
This whole business of the universe spawning humanity to generate billions of revenue required no effort or cost on its part. All the effort was spent by the life forms it allowed to happen. What you said reminded me that time I rejected a
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by meric 11y ago
Have you found this to be the case at all? Is it more difficult to avoid bugs when writing in Lua? Good questions. - variable name typos (undeclared vars are nil), There's a linter to catch undeclared variables. https://
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by meric 11y ago
Let’s login. For some reason, on the login screen itself, I can choose if I want to authorize with just a username and password or also do a 2-factor authentication by SMS. This is mind boggling. I logged in with just my username and pas
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by meric 11y ago
I see it as a set of web framework construction tools. You can roll your own isomorphic web framework in two weeks, whereas ember.js and angular.js took years to build. We build the framework that's suitable for our company. Once we go
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by meric 11y ago
Wow that's crazily bureaucratic. I speculate the different attitudes of the agents vs the government could be one or both of: 1. Shenzhen is a special economic zone, with a clean bureaucracy, while the agents may have gained their expe
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by meric 11y ago
If I had a year to live, I'd quit my job and finish what I've been working on at night. Plan one month to visit family & relatives.
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by meric 11y ago
I don't think investing in gaming startups is about getting a return from a 100m or 1b company. It's about investing in games . I think an individual game is analogous to the typical startup. Minecraft is a $2.5b one[1]. Here&#
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by meric 11y ago
I have been programming Python by day and Lua by night my entire career for the past 7 years, and I find the main difference between the two is, Python has the overwhelming advantage in its package manager providing ease of access to thousa
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by meric 11y ago
That's the biggest issue I have with the new npm. I wonder how many developer-days it has wasted already.
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by meric 11y ago
Thank you for the writeup. I loved the charts and the writing.
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by meric 11y ago
We still have debt forgiveness. It's called chapter 11 and bankruptcy. We still a wave of these every few years or so. The Asian financial crisis, dot com bust, GFC, and the latest wave of commodity producers going bust, are all prime
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by meric 11y ago
Also gambling between two people - though one party loses the exact amount the other person gains, the time spent to place the bet and to watch the result costs time. One could argue they both gained utility in terms of enjoyment, but in te
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by meric 11y ago
I agree with you for companies that require a lot of capital. In technology companies where, often, ideas, perspectives and vision are assets, I think you want someone in the company who can give you that guidance, to tell you what the cust
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by meric 11y ago
I got promoted into a team lead once - I told my employer I wasn't ready, and he told me I was underestimating myself. I took advice and decided to give it a shot. I hired some great people to join the team. We finished the product in
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by meric 11y ago
Sometimes the person an employee talks to most in the company is their manager. Could it be in some cases, the manager was good, and the manager left, and the employee now feels like the person who had best listened to him is now gone from
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by meric 11y ago
I customise mine so it's not as red - just apply enough tint to match my lightbulb. Without Flux the screen feels off because every other light source from inside and outside the house has a warm tint; The screen just stands out too mu
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by meric 11y ago
Sysadmin & business owner
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by meric 11y ago
In game development, I'd say it's on the A-list and you'll asked "Why did you do that?" if you chose to embed Python or Ruby into your commercial game instead of Lua, especially if your company is a large enterprisy
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by meric 11y ago
I've found many of the users the other comments mentioned quite inspiring in their own way, each towards some aspect of life. A little embarrassed to say this, but sivers is the user I would nominate because he's a person who in
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by meric 11y ago
But if he didn't think it would be true he'd bet the other way. Of course he's going to put his money on what he thinks/thought was going to happen. I can see how it's not true but I think it's likely he believ
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by meric 11y ago
In that case, Ruby, Python and Lua wouldn't be in your B-list of 1999 either. I think it's going to take time, that's all.

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