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by peterlk 7y ago
If you have not read _The hard thing about hard things_, you should. One of my favorites is this exchange when the company hits hard times: Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money." Ben Horowitz: "What's it about,
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by peterlk 7y ago
https://peterklipfel.com Remember when you were first learning to code, and everything was really hard? Things didn't fit together, and understanding why one tutorial worked and another did not required reading at least 3 o
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The two ways I got started were: 1) open a Robinhood account with a small amount of money ($100) ought to be enough. Buy in and out of stocks every day for a couple days until you can get approved for their level 2 trading. Then, start play
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I don't think they're saying that at all. My take was that we should treat the internet as a public space even if a web pace claims that it's private. Getting off of Facebook directly contributes to their premise that everyth
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by peterlk 7y ago
In case this gets lost to the depths of HN New, thank you very much for posting this. Awesome writeup.
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by peterlk 7y ago
It is worth noting that a user was recently banned for pumping a penny stock. Additionally, it seems within the realm of possibility that powerful people could use a shitposting forum to signal each other for market movements.
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By gum Scientists find new 110M-year-old treasure(eurekalert.org)
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This is a soapbox that I really enjoy standing on. I think there is a large number of game developers who have forgotten that the point of a game is to be fun. There is room in the world for hyper-realistic real-time raytracing games. But n
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DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes(peterklipfel.com)
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)(peterklipfel.com)
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by peterlk 7y ago
> I assume that the best part of the best books will surface in daily conversations, YouTube videos, CliffsNotes, podcasts, Reddit posts/comments, blog articles, etc I don't think this is true. In theory, you may be able to fin
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by peterlk 7y ago
That's true, but I think the point is that we're stifling exploration. I was trying to come up with an example challenge that would have been the right kind of experiment for me. The one that came to mind is as follows: $10 (pick
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> The laboratory work of introductory chemistry is closer to a cookbook than an experiment. Students are given incredibly precise instructions and told to find a certain result. If they fail to find the result, they are made to redo the
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by peterlk 7y ago
Warning: pure speculation ahead. Look at their stock price. I bet there are a lot of tense board meetings happening right now. Culture flows from the top down, and if executives are panicking about the stock price, it makes sense that they&
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by peterlk 7y ago
My notebook is a todo list. If your email/request/etc. doesn't end up in my notebook, I will probably not do it. This is a forcing function for me for prioritization, delegation, and escalation. It's become more relevant
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by peterlk 7y ago
I find it pretty interesting that this comment is on HN. A few years ago, I think it was pretty widely accepted in SV that the last method you mention was just part of the grind. Maybe not the most straight-shooting approach, but still acce
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by peterlk 7y ago
I have had this conversation with so many people now. If your (private) company has taken VC money, options are toilet paper. Treat them as valueless scraps. Now, maybe you'll get lucky, and make something off of them, but that should
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by peterlk 7y ago
I struggle to believe that this is a core concern, and not a response to other pressures. For example, being reliant on other countries for energy.
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I'm hopeful that the scientific community will be happy to colloquially refer to this as the FARTiscope
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For anyone who wants a concrete experiment to challenge your ideas of just how complex nature is, try making a cell. Just one cell. From scratch with nothing but ions and proteins. If you find that to be achievable (there's likely a No
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by peterlk 7y ago
I just finished up an introductory biology lecture series, and this suddenly makes less sense to me than it did before. What is it about the foreign cells that is identified as foreign by the host cells? The cells ought to be remarkably sim
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by peterlk 7y ago
Colorado has laws that give monopolies on the infrastructure to whoever owns it. But in order to get around anti-trust laws (or for some other cynical reason), so in your case, there is really only one provider, but they share their infrast
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by peterlk 7y ago
I don't think that your response is in good faith. Not everyone wants to spend a third of their life in school. And I have proof that it is not necessary in all cases by the existence of at least one counterexample: I have a friend who
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by peterlk 7y ago
This is only true in theory, not in practice. For example see the "education" that many student athletes obtain. As demand for college increases, and subsidies from the government continue, the incentive for colleges to offer a go
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I have a pet theory about this. Your whole life has goal posts laid out for you. You go to elementary school, get good grades so you can get into honors classes in middle/high school. And you do this again for college. Everything is qu
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This is one of the strongest cognitive dissonances that I have. And I have no idea why it exists. I know that rationally, tabs are really the better choice. Each user can choose how to display code in their editor. But I just hate using the
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by peterlk 7y ago
> This very American attitude of separating "business enterprises" from "consumers", which to me sounds like separating the noble and important from peasants or cattle, is utterly sickening I'm kind of on the fen
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by peterlk 7y ago
What is "the original memristor hypothesis"? What definitions of memristors would make them physically impossible? What hypothetical benefits are so compelling about the physically possible definitions?
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Are memristors real? I feel like I've been hearing about how memristors are going to revolutionize computing for as long as I've been paying attention (~10 years). And yet, they never arrive. I also recall some detractors who say
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by peterlk 7y ago
Here's how "Best Sellers" become a thing: Publishers count the number of books they sell. This seems pretty simple, right? It is, but as a consequence, easily gamed. Publishers don't sell to you and me, they sell to book

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