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by nlh 4y ago
Related discoveries/improvements I've made: 1) Soap/Shampoo: I stopped using fancy perfumed big-brand shampoos (Dial/Dove/Pert/etc. filled with things like Methylchloroisothiazolinone which, despite being an e
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Two related tips while on the subject: 1) Salt your pasta water! Pasta is meant to be cooked in salty water that, according and excellently-put by Samin Nosrat (Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat) - "is reminiscent of the sea". 2) Save and u
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I'm in the space in that I co-founded a company called Connect The Dots (ctd.ai) that certainly has the potential to solve this problem, but we're not focused on the PRM space right now (see point above re: unwillingness to pay).
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Yes yes absolutely 100x. That's another problem with the existing tools - they're a lot of work! You can say "we'll solve the duplicate contacts problem by ignoring it and letting using de-dupe themselves" welllll
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Yes. Having been in this space for a bit, there are a few reasons why it hasn't worked (yet): 1. The problem of deduplicating contacts is tough (but solvable). If you don't solve it well, then the utility of personal CRM goes w
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Just want to say you took the words out of my mouth on this one. I was given the exact same advice re: Parisian croissants, and I feel exactly the same way about Arsicault in SF. I’d I’ve never had a better one in the US, let alone SF. Note
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The realities are brutal indeed BUT we should all be using the right terminology here: This is all about cashflow. When you say: > So you use money from the 60k in "profit" to buy inventory, leaving you no profit. That is inc
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Ok, so this appears to be over the fact that Pixelfed copied the names of the Instagram filters 1:1. They are not generic names like "blur" or "enhance" -- they are very specific names that Instagram has associated with
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Ahh I remember Kali - thanks for the reminder. For others who have a tinge of memory on this, the Wikipedia article has a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_(software)
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It's infuriating for sure, but unfortunately it's the reality. If you gained from a Ponzi scheme that means you literally were given other peoples' money (directly). I fully empathize with the absolutely epic degree it must
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It may happen but the benefits of being secretive are lower than the benefits of sharing an idea and getting constructive feedback. One of the earliest fallacies I learned as an entrepreneur is that ideas need to be protected lest someone
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That's awesome! MtG didn't make me any money but it got me into MIT, so I love sharing this story: I was super into the game in my later high school years (1994-96), right when the market started going absolutely bonkers (relativ
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IPO, smutty short stories, and kids' apps. You win the most-well-rounded award! ;)
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Gold, in the end, is a physical, shiny metal that people find aesthetically appealing and there's a limited amount of it out there. For thousands of years people have desired gold things and valued it. Sure, people could collectively
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HUGE fan of Kemal (and Crystal as a whole). I started, as many do, with a full-featured batteries-included framework (Amber, which is also awesome and super easy to grok), but later realized that I much prefer being closer to the metal and
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The Unnatural Evolution of the Galápagos Islands(neo.life)
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You make a great point about the (de)evolution of marketplaces. Does anyone have any thoughts about how marketplace operations could prevent this sort of race to the bottom rot? It does kind of feel like an inevitability these days and I w
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Yeah this is a freemium product’s dream post. Of course these products are all inexpensive because of the free tier, which is the point. Segment, for example, can VERY quickly become a $2000/month expense just by itself when you get
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Agreed. Never underestimate the value of convenience. If USPV had better hours, better tech, and was more convenient than a bank, why wouldn’t normal people use it? It honestly sounds quite appealing to me - quick trip to a strip mall, acce
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Just want to say THANK YOU for this insight. It never occurred to me, and I just checked out one of the big sites that I scrape for a side project and, lo and behold, you are 100% correct. Found their origin in Censys in about 30 seconds
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If you're a UI designer and you work on a remote team, Figma makes it incredibly easy to both build and share your designs with your teammates. It runs entirely in a browser and was built from the start for sharing, so you can jump in
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> K-219's full complement of nuclear weapons was lost along with the vessel. I looked for more elaboration on this point but didn’t see anything: Presumably, they don’t just shrug and say “oh well so much for those nukes” when a los
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It's funny I have the exact same instinct / reaction as you do (and I certainly would do that if it were my company I were building). But I think we're probably both naive. Some thoughts: * Most companies are not software co
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Awesome - thank you! I'll explore further.
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Yeah it seems those are still kings of the hill. One newbie question maybe you can answer: Can XGboost/LightGBM handle out of band data predictions? The specific regression problem I’m tackling involves price predictions on tabular d
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Sometimes I just absolutely love hacker news more than words can explain. I am knee deep in a personal project exploring machine learning on tabular data and it’s been consuming my off-hours brain for a while. And I pop open HN on a holida
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I’m going to partially agree and partially disagree with you. Agree that Stable Diffusion seems a bit over hyped. It is very cool! I am definitely going to play with it. I’m not sure really how much it’s going to change the world - there w
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Nice work and great write up! I’m a huge fan of treating one’s blog as a “homelab” for exploring new (or old) software stacks for the web, so this idea resonates a lot. One thing I’d like to try (has anyone tried this?): eschew the idea of
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WAG: I think in general people think building any kind of email distribution list can be monetized, even if it's not being done immediately. Either sold off wholesale or directly monetized through adverts / affiliate links.
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Great question. Fakes are a huge concern when it comes to the rarer ones. For example, this guy: https://coins.ha.com/itm/byzantine/ancient-coins/ancients-me... Sold for $216,000 because it's both the

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