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by nugget 6y ago
I'm prototyping a dietary/nutritional counseling platform. My background is software development (CS @ MIT) and I was co-founder of a startup with a 9 figure acquisition, but am always looking for help from ambitious and sharp te
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by nugget 6y ago
I liked this article about Gemstone 3 https://gizmodo.com/i-had-my-first-kiss-in-gemstone-iii-1845... which shows the powerful and lasting impact that some of these multi-player text games had on the people (particularly ki
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by nugget 6y ago
How meaningful is the claim that indoor, vertical farms need/have zero pesticides because it's a totally contained environment? I'm not sure I'd pay 5x for "taste and the feeling of eating local" but if it&#x2
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by nugget 6y ago
Another way to look at it is the number of different jobs a certain person could do, if necessary. A surgeon can operate, but if needed, also likely fill in as a nurse, CNA, phlebotomist, and could of course sterilize a room. That's
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by nugget 6y ago
Check out Kumospace.com. I attended a virtual holiday party there this week. Same basic web tools and pixels rearranged, but felt like a fundamentally different (and fun) type of experience with a lot of potential extensibility; whether i
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by nugget 6y ago
Same here. I think most of the logistical overhead of a traditional small restaurant will be commoditized and abstracted away by cloud kitchen providers, a marketing/rewards layer, and delivery companies. The barriers to entry will c
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by nugget 6y ago
Investors want to "buy the future" and seem to have placed an enormous premium on companies that are disruptive to the status quo. It's hard to say whether it's a bubble or not, because value is always part perception.
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by nugget 6y ago
I believe that whatever the user wants to do on their own device is allowed; this is why adblock is legal, regardless of what a website's EULA says, for example. If I had a local software client that automated posting of content to Red
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by nugget 6y ago
Given that the US courts have definitively ruled web scraping legal, doesn't that present a risk that third-parties could create their own APIs to interface with Reddit, especially as it relates to fetching content? I think if Reddit
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by nugget 6y ago
I’d be curious what odds people would venture that within 10 years, Amazon becomes a unionized workforce; and qualitatively, what the impact on their operations would be if so. Consensus seems to be that the tech monopolies have become so p
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by nugget 6y ago
How do you think Europe/France solves for the Bezos-WaPo "problem" whereby wealthy individuals can convert money into political influence indirectly by controlling media companies?
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by nugget 6y ago
All New York Times content (including front pages) from 1851-1925 should be in the public domain. Are there any projects to scan, publish, or otherwise make them available to people? This format, combined with the ability to hop around in
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by nugget 6y ago
Other positions aside, I’ve found most rational people have a natural distaste for hypocrisy/double standards, especially when it’s institutionalized. I read Tom Cotton’s op ed about civil unrest in the US and then Regina Ip’s op ed ab
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by nugget 6y ago
Do you think that the more profit available to pharma, the more capable the workers attracted to the field will be? And therefore the faster results will be achieved? I don’t mean just the bench scientists, but all the other people - prog
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by nugget 6y ago
People in tech do seem to value time which may explain why they are disproportionately drawn to the "Financial Independence, Retire Early" (FIRE) movement. The tech industry continues to be much more supportive of 80 hour weeks
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by nugget 6y ago
At what point does the responsibility shift to the University Presidents if they can predict with confidence (and then confirm with data) that their students will never comply with their directives?
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by nugget 6y ago
Your definition of freedom is just anarchy. The obvious question: What's to stop somebody from murdering you and taking your wealth? The same objective (or subjective, take your pick) morality that discourages robbery-murder can effor
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by nugget 6y ago
Remember that Tencent owns about half of Epic. Once this dispute is resolved, if Apple were to try and “punish” Epic, they could encounter some pressure from the Chinese Government. There seems to be a lot of dependent relationships invol
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by nugget 6y ago
You need 2 things to bring down health care costs (without resorting to rationing): first, introduce price transparency so that consumers can find the low cost providers, and second, provide an incentive for consumers to balance cost vs qua
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by nugget 6y ago
Like an addict, Mozilla became dependent upon the revenue they earned from their Google and Yahoo search deals. Search compliance requirements then prevented them from innovating in the areas you mentioned (and others). Mozilla had an opp
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by nugget 6y ago
The "smartest" (most accomplished?) experts within a field will often disagree with each other - sometimes on very important topics. I've encountered this first-hand. It's more common in certain fields than others, bu
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by nugget 6y ago
It would seem obvious that housing prices should drop in the near term (and I hope they do), but I can't totally square that with falling mortgage rates and rising asset inflation. If the Fed rate stays at 0% then I've been told
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by nugget 6y ago
I understand why we’d want to save the airlines (for instance) from extinction, but why bail out the current equity holders as opposed to an orderly, Government-backed restructuring in bankruptcy court?
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by nugget 6y ago
I’ve seen first-hand how the density of talent and capital in Silicon Valley supports these “mafias” in the tech world. Coronavirus is causing a short-term exodus as people “temporarily” uproot for other cities. I’d like to think that the
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by nugget 6y ago
I'm less concerned about inflation between currencies and more concerned about the "hyperinflation" of financial assets due to ZIRP, low debt yields, and extreme multiple expansion for equity. In particular, I'm curious
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by nugget 6y ago
I think it's possible, but usually non-cost-effective because it has to be done on a 1:1 basis and therefore doesn't scale well. For example: I can intensively audit a developer's code for a couple weeks (in real time) and u
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by nugget 6y ago
Most companies do a very poor job of accurately measuring employee productivity/output on an individual basis. It seems to me that “40 hours per week” made sense for physical jobs where output was a multiple of hours worked, and then
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by nugget 6y ago
Every morning M-F, TSA publishes daily traveler numbers for the previous day(s): https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/passenger-throughput It’s a good snapshot of the state of air travel in the US. Yesterday’s volume was 2
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by nugget 6y ago
40% of vaccine recipients experienced fever after administration. I'm not sure people would rush to take the vaccine with those odds, if only a few months of immunity is conveyed. There's a psychological element to this beyond w
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by nugget 6y ago
This law would establish de facto unit economics for some to-be-defined unit of news/content consumption. Clever entrepreneurs could then scale up new properties focused on the optimization of whatever that unit is, with much lower ov

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