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by pcmaffey 9y ago
I've been journaling almost every day for 15+ years. I've a bookshelf of full, handwritten, unlined notebooks... When I journal with pen and paper, it's less about recording 'task and goals' or being 'productiv
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
This article fails to understand what components are in React. They are the building blocks for every aspect of an application. My data stores are components, my views are components, my styles are components. The author obviously comes fr
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
I'm pretty sure you just made an objective subjective about subjective objectives.
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"So wait a minute. What you're saying is that you want us to put water on the crops. Yes Water. Like out the toilet? But brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes."
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What's the point of a backup though if you can't restore?
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Or you know, we could just catch and eat all the wild salmon instead. Farming is not the problem. Unsustainable farming is the problem. We can raise and kill and eat animals humanely (oh irony), just as we can grow food sustainably. The pro
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
The arena for 'cooperation' has shifted from socio-political realms to economic ones. Business now is the primary vehicle for cooperative efforts.
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
Get paid now. Build a prototype. Test the viability of the product and the business partnership at the same time. If you're excited to double down on it all after initial experiments, then talk about a partnership / equity. (The c
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
No one can hijack your mind without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
Yup as the gp described, once you've made a decision the energy involved is all in implementation (and wasted worries). But actually exploring possibilities requires imaginging all angles and consequences as if they were real... at the
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
Most philosophers throughout history would laugh at their body of knowledge being measured in terms of utility. And then would become saddened that economics has become the dominant global value system.
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What if you're an apple vendor and someone gives you $5 bucks and an empty bucket, with the expectation that you're going to fill that bucket full of apples and give it back to them? In the moment where you have an empty bucket an
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
Any relevant prediction model should account for the probability of black swans existence, even if it may have no idea what a black swan might look like.
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This is the only reason I can fathom why their suggestion algorithm and search UX are so terrible. I always end up using instantwatcher.com instead.
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House rules: if you don't know what a word means you can't use it.
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
A better phrase would be 'Always be learning'. Unfortunately, the conscientious creatives at Airbnb are stuck looking through the lens of a VC-funded startup. And shameless plug, I just posted a Show HN for a tool that helps you &
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Show HN: Probabilities are the magic that enables us to see into the future(elfquiz.com)
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I can't wait for the day when a proof is 'discovered' that no one can comprehend.
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
> Salary cannot exceed the value provided CEO's of fortune 500, investment bankers, etc...
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
Salaries are a proxy for value, but how we measure that value in a capitalist society, is most certainly driven by supply and demand. We should be careful not to project the inadequacies of the measuring device onto what's being meas
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Of course you should. But if you anonymously contribute to society, who do you expect to pay you for it?
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Transparency always shows the ugly unfair side of things when the sheets are first lifted... That's the whole point. People adjust and systems adjust, and we figure out how to better work together. Salaries are a reflection of the valu
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
Has any research been done on potential benefits of widespread micro blood transfusion as a result of mosquitoes? The diseases are the obvious downside, wondering if resistances, etc may be an unrecognized upside.
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
Thanks Leo for the detail response. The problem with this analysis is that you're comparing a priced round to an uncapped note, but using totally different and arbitrary parameters (ie. 20% discount). I agree 20% discount is not an acc
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
Ease and simplicity is definitely the biggest reason notes have continued to be used. But their original purpose was to solve the problem of setting a price on early stage companies. I agree that 20% discount by itself is not appealing enou
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
Isn't the whole point of notes to address the uncertainty of valuation? In your example, what happens when there's no 'fair price today'? If you think there's a 30% chance Amazon will be worth 3k in a year, what pri
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by pcmaffey 9y ago
If an investor would rather own 5% of a $20m company than 3.3% of a $30m company, and specifically limits a company's growth to achieve that end, then it's likely someone no founder would want to work with. Make the pie bigger, no
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URLs are also inherently useful state managers, with powerful time traveling histories, when used well. cough cough
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Having apprenticed as a stone mason and then gone on to work with lime, I can definitely thumps up this post. For anyone interested, here's the supplier I found some years ago and have been very happy with: http://www.limes.
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> if I look back at the list of things I have done I am happy enough with myself. This is so true, and can be extrapolated on a micro-level, by tracking what you learn and accomplish on a daily (or whatever) basis. I've found traini

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