montrose

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by montrose 9y ago
Because I like to work. People who don't like to work often misunderstand this when looking at the stories of successful people. They think successful people force themselves to work hard in order to be successful. In fact successful p
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The Famine Ended 70 Years Ago, but Dutch Genes Still Bear Scars(nytimes.com)
113 points by montrose 9y ago|56 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
Now that companies go public so much later, this sort of really large, really late stage fund is basically occupying the space some mutual funds did 20 years ago. Which is quite a big change for Sequoia.
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Gut Microbes Combine to Cause Colon Cancer, Study Suggests(nytimes.com)
228 points by montrose 9y ago|52 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
A design principle this article illustrates by violating it: Don't use Javascript to make reading an article less random-access.
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by montrose 9y ago
If you don't have something you want to do, find something. You can't know about all the things there are to do in the world. Go explore some you don't know much about. There are heuristics for doing this. You don't have
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by montrose 9y ago
I don't think that is meant to be an ordered list. The text of number 18 says explicitly that it isn't.
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Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|1 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
vi
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Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Disrupt Health Care(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why does High Sierra break so much stuff?
21 points by montrose 9y ago|36 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
Focus on whatever will get you growth this month. From what you say, that is probably sales. Focus on development when you reach the point where missing features make it hard to grow at a sufficient rate, and not before.
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Scientists Discover a Bone-Deep Risk for Heart Disease(nytimes.com)
45 points by montrose 9y ago|8 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
The more common response to NYC's setback laws was what Lewis Mumford called the ziggurat, typified by the Paramount Building: https://needled.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/paramount-buildi... That stepped look
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by montrose 9y ago
I believe that. But a day of ordinary CPU must have some value, however small, and I'm curious what it is.
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Ask HN: What is the market price of a day of CPU?
5 points by montrose 9y ago|10 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
Users like it.
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by montrose 9y ago
Whoah. I wonder if that's what he meant. It's so mind-bending that there's a chance you're right.
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by montrose 9y ago
I gave up after it wouldn't let me create something without giving it a title.
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by montrose 9y ago
Notice what's at the very end. The head of Dutch intelligence says that because Trump is president, he shares less with the US: "AIVD director Bertholee stated that he is extra careful when it comes to sharing intelligence with th
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by montrose 9y ago
Graffiti on the sky. Ironically, to serve as a "reminder to all on Earth about our fragile place in the universe."
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French Companies Have Newfound Freedom … to Fire(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010): http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html
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by montrose 9y ago
This reads a bit like the sort of things people say when breaking up so as not to upset the other person too much. You're a great person, but you're just more of an asset than a medium of exchange, and what I need in my life right
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by montrose 9y ago
It is rather an exaggeration to say Sequoia helped YC "get off the ground." YC was 4 years old before it took any outside money and had already invested in Dropbox and Airbnb.
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by montrose 9y ago
You might like McGee's On Food and Cooking, which answers a lot of these types of questions.
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by montrose 9y ago
Is your goal to go to college to study CS? Though admissions officers may care whether you have a piece of paper saying you graduated from HS, most professors don't, and they have the ultimate power (at least in good universities). So
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A.I. Has Arrived in Investing. Humans Are Still Dominating(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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Fireball Cuts Through the Sky Over Michigan as Meteor Falls(nytimes.com)
1 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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Smart Thermometers Track Flu Season in Real Time(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments

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