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by nugget 4y ago
Many children of the UHNW families I know are raised by a rotating cast of nannies and emotionally neglected by their parents. It's heartbreaking to watch the psychological damage being done. Given a choice for my embryonic self I&#x
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by nugget 4y ago
My understanding is that the US President (currently Biden) can unilaterally ban oil exports and that this would immediately drop US oil prices to $70-80/barrel and spike global oil prices by 30%+. I wonder how bad domestic gas prices
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by nugget 4y ago
What did you move to after Okta?
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by nugget 4y ago
Even with bulk pricing, the current enterprise providers are quite expensive. I'm a YC founder working with some others on a solution to this that brings the cost way down. If you're interested, send me a quick email and I'
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by nugget 4y ago
You're comparing Putin as of April 22nd, 2022 to Hitler at the end of his life. We have no idea what Putin's next steps are.
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by nugget 5y ago
States are useful little laboratories of democracy in situations like this. California's CCPA was conceived and funded by a lone real estate developer with enormous personal conviction in privacy. Consensus was that his personal crus
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by nugget 5y ago
I run a startup that is working on some of these specific issues, and how to make data privacy rights in general more actionable in the real world - if you (or anybody else) is interested in chatting, please reach out.
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by nugget 5y ago
Yes, happy to talk with anybody involved in similar efforts so definitely reach out. My contact information is in my profile. We are mostly sourcing supplies from the US at this point. Tampa is our pack/repack and pallet departure p
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by nugget 5y ago
My partners and I have a couple hundred employees in Dnipro, Ukraine. Most of the employees have relocated to Poland or western Ukraine, some are sheltering in place, some are fighting. We started to source supplies last week, especially
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by nugget 5y ago
I recently heard an experienced psychologist claim that in 30+ years of clinical practice he had never seen anyone "get away with" anything. I was surprised by the statement. This would be Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
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by nugget 5y ago
Property taxes and maintenance costs are not, however.
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by nugget 5y ago
Does that mean the new site will be for profit and owned by the mods?
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by nugget 5y ago
I remember hearing Matt Damon protest that CEOs made 100x more than their lowest paid workers. I did some quick math based on production crew salaries and at $20m (plus residuals) per movie he was making around 800x the lowest paid FTEs, e
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by nugget 5y ago
The people I know who live in the Bay Area don’t particularly want it to expand. Part of the value of living there is its relative exclusivity.
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by nugget 5y ago
Grades traditionally measure mastery of material on an externally imposed timeline under some amount of externally imposed pressure. I support moving to simply measuring master of material in most cases, but it's important to recogniz
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by nugget 5y ago
Your experience is not unique. Even when data is returned, it's sometimes incomplete or (purposefully?) made near impossible to read. I’m working with a privacy lawyer and a couple other engineers on some tools that would allow users
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by nugget 6y ago
As someone a few years ahead of you, what you may want the most is flexibility - the flexibility to decide to work from home when you want, but the option to hot desk in an office when you just need a break or distance from hectic home life
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by nugget 6y ago
I don't worry about easy nukes but I do worry about easy viruses, especially now that we've seen what a pandemic can do. Virus construction is only going to become easier over time, and at some point, you could imagine any run of
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by nugget 6y ago
Given China’s political structure, wouldn’t it just take one participant (President Xi) to wake up and decide “party over” if it became politically favorable to do so?
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by nugget 6y ago
Isn’t “a Catholic lay priest” how you’d best describe the person, in colloquial terms, to a readership that wasn’t familiar with the definition of catechist?
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by nugget 6y ago
Hypothetical house in New Hampshire, north of Boston: $600k purchase price 10% ($60k) down $540k interest-only mortgage @ 2.25% = $1,012/month payment $12k in property taxes and $3k in insurance (annual) = $1,250/month payment Eve
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by nugget 6y ago
Wouldn’t this neuter the most useful Chrome extensions? Cash back/coupons, adblock, etc.
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by nugget 6y ago
I'm advising a team that is working on this problem right now; it will be a crowded field, but there are multiple distinct approaches. I'd describe the challenge as equal parts technical, legal/regulatory, and marketing&#x2F
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by nugget 6y ago
Could you expound on how different amino acid profiles impact your performance, and how that knowledge impacts the day to day food choices you make?
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by nugget 6y ago
Art school is a series of project-based classes that culminate in a portfolio of original work that the student can showcase, and that system seems to make perfect sense to everybody. I don't know why other disciplines have been so res
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by nugget 6y ago
Maybe there's been a positive drift in that aspect of the community over the last couple years. Take this thread from last week about GlacierMD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825917 IMO the discussion was at
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by nugget 6y ago
You're already in one of the best communities there is: Hacker News. Don't underestimate what you can learn just by carefully reading the threads here. I went from "idea in my dorm room" to interviewing and hiring execu
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by nugget 6y ago
My takeaway from all that research was the same. Almost everyone benefits from universal coverage but the system has to incentivize patients to shop around for the optimal balance of price, quality, and convenience. This can be accomplish
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by nugget 6y ago
In 2015 I did several months of due diligence in this market - price comparison for diagnostic imaging - before concluding that it wasn't feasible to build the product we wanted to build. This new law provides the data that we were un
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by nugget 6y ago
Another potential consequence is that if the price of your house falls more than the down payment you invested, you may be incentivized to simply walk away. The price could fall for any number of reasons: a market crash and country-wide dep

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