mikeg8

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by mikeg8 4y ago
I’m not saying that the MRI experience itself is unbearable. But have you ever done psychedelics? No sleeping/snoozing. Your mind is very, very active and it can be intense/emotional. The experience I’ve had with MRI and shrooms&#
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by mikeg8 4y ago
Doubtful. It’s not comfortable, you can’t move, and it’s extremely noisy to the point that no headphones would be able to drown out the mechanical sounds that would ruin a psychedelic experience
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by mikeg8 4y ago
Facebook was an incredible product 10 years ago. Just because they are not the same now doesn’t mean they never were.
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by mikeg8 4y ago
I'm pretty sure James Fadiman has said if it wasn't Leary, someone else would have probably done what he did - although his charisma made him particularly effective. Hard to imagine a world where humans were able to keep the mag
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by mikeg8 4y ago
You are severely overestimating peoples desire to have something strapped to their face all day. And no, not "everything" will go this way. People in tech want it to go this way, but when you step outside the tech bubble, most p
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by mikeg8 4y ago
Eh, my gut tells me it will look more like the 3D TV market when it comes to scale. Smart phones have way more main-stream utility than anything AR proponents have come up with IMO.
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by mikeg8 4y ago
> Even in the bay area the cost savings for high density units are substantial. If that were the case, than how do we arrive at the article's headline of ~$1M per unit? Affordable housing is synonymous with high density so I'm
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by mikeg8 4y ago
Great response to someone who answered your invitation for a specific example. But I'll die on this hill. I can totally understand requiring them in multi-family or town-homes where there are shared walls - but not in single family hom
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by mikeg8 4y ago
> Residential construction gets cheaper the more of it you build in an area. This is only partially true, currently. It definitely used to be the case that larger developments would leverage economies of scale so that the more you built,
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by mikeg8 4y ago
How is this harsh? It seems healthy to me.
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by mikeg8 4y ago
The largest portion of "unfettered stimulus" went to private companies in PPP loans... but that's rarely brought up, which I always find interesting.
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by mikeg8 4y ago
What a great non answer
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by mikeg8 4y ago
> - The kind of people who buy pelotons are usually not the people who worry about that amount of monthly charge and may keep it aspirationally I think this is a very limited market that may be getting close to saturation. Most people do
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by mikeg8 5y ago
I've noticed a lot of humility in your comments which is always nice, but you have truly done an incredible job design-wise. Like many users have said, it looks very professional and feels fast/snappy. I have an enormous amount of
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by mikeg8 5y ago
RE land-based vs ocean-based: true, ~70% of the surface is covered in a water, BUT most of that is relatively barren open ocean. The most bio-diverse and productive parts of the ocean are within a couple hundred miles of coastlines and unde
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by mikeg8 5y ago
Interesting, I've never heard of this. Do you have any links or references to teams testing out these biological innovations for the construction space? I'd like to learn more.
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by mikeg8 5y ago
Not if they are unlawfully occupying a space to begin with.
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by mikeg8 5y ago
I would like to publish a series of posts on my build process, including cost breakdowns, because I know there is interest after seeing some similar posts ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30193899 ) Without knowing much
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by mikeg8 5y ago
I work full-time as a subcontractor on commercial projects in the SF bay area and am fairly familiar with the costs associated with insurance, workers comp etc. We utilize union labor to install our projects. And you are right, it does cost
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by mikeg8 5y ago
You would think that the city of LA would be able to do something to alleviate the permit process that the city of LA created to reduce the building costs being funded/managed by city of LA.
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by mikeg8 5y ago
About right, might be saving closer to 35%. Land cost was $500k in 2018, but its 3 acres, had existing utilities, and I can re-build another existing structure on the property what was red-tagged and will be 2 bed 2 bath, ~1800sq/ft pr
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by mikeg8 5y ago
I'm finishing construction next month an 1,100 sq/ft single family home in the north bay area; a very high cost-of-living region. We started construction in Sept 2021, after an intentional delay of a couple months to let lumber pr
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by mikeg8 5y ago
No, they’re buying them up because rates are so low it costs them little to borrow/buy.
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by mikeg8 5y ago
First step is to thoroughly understand the building process and sequence of construction as well as all the materials, fasteners, tools, etc. Then for building, start small with a chicken coop or shed with relatively low risk if the build g
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by mikeg8 5y ago
I totally agree. Have recently decided to abstain from smoking on nights before work. I’m never as sharp the morning after and edger going several weeks without smoking, the productivity differences are pretty noticeable for me.
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by mikeg8 5y ago
You’re asking a great question, but at the end of the day, if criminals have no fear of repercussion, the “security” investments are almost equal to throwing money away.
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by mikeg8 5y ago
Call me old fashioned my I prefer regulations in the markets I participate in. I still fail to see how “permissionless market creation”, while impressive, actually solves a problem. Where is the demand coming from, besides people in tech??
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by mikeg8 5y ago
Ok cool, so basically just fancy ways for traders/investors to gamble and “create value” that doesn’t really benefit anyone besides themselves and others tied to the platforms. Got it.
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by mikeg8 5y ago
This is always the defense: “you obviously don’t understand it”. Or, maybe there is a good reason this type of article pops to the top of HN every other day. The skeptics have good reason to doubt the viability of all the hype.
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by mikeg8 5y ago
“Low slippage stable coin swap” is one of the most jargony things I’ve read on here in a while. Can you please ELI5 because I have no clue what this is or how it could be useful.

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