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by ponker 6y ago
Even if this person has a different mother tongue their English is clearly excellent and not likely explained by “ESL tendencies.”
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by ponker 6y ago
Would be interesting to see this data by sector. Female founders are much more prevalent in some sectors (eCommerce, Health) than others (Infrastructure, Blockchain)
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by ponker 6y ago
Thanks for speaking to these guys in the tone that they deserve.
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by ponker 6y ago
Switzerland is an ethnostate which doesn’t even grant citizenship to “foreigners” after a lifetime spent in the country. It works for them but would not be a suitable form for a country that was formed out of hodgepodge immigration.
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by ponker 6y ago
The Sacklers lied to doctors and told them that OxyContin wasn’t addictive. They and their henchmen should be strapped to a gurney and sent off with a IV drip of OxyContin.
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by ponker 6y ago
No no no. The entire concept of ballot measures is insane since the electorate is not qualified to govern. The core concept of the Constitution is that the voters pick someone they trust and that person makes the decisions for them.
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by ponker 6y ago
I’m not sure I agree with your assertion. My parents heavily rely on Uber after they lost their last good set of eyes.
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s not axiomatic that Uber is supposed to exist. I think it should, but that is a matter of opinion. It’s like Walmart saying, “if we pay a living wage we’ll become unviable!” Well, maybe you should be. Maybe stuff shouldn’t be that cheap
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by ponker 6y ago
Surprised that a parent of a child lost to opioids hasn’t put a Lapua Magnum in at least one of these guys.
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by ponker 6y ago
Not everyone has this flexibility but if I had a job that made me feel like I needed to do this, I’d hand in my badge that day.
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by ponker 6y ago
But how much of that land was actually "owned" by the people who actually first settled it? Didn't they have their own disputes and conquests? Anyway the idea of land "ownership" is kind of stupid in the first place
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by ponker 6y ago
Absolute pitch like your friend has is hard to learn and relatively uncorrelated to musical ability. Musical training largely works your relative pitch muscle.
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by ponker 6y ago
Anyone should understand that every product has a business model, and if it's being given to you for free the company is going to be making money in some other way. I do support the company having to clearly disclose, on their home p
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by ponker 6y ago
That’s because the Quip toothbrush company actually knows how to do marketing.
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by ponker 6y ago
Honestly for this kinda hype I expected something more beautiful. This is way behind beautiful.ai
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by ponker 6y ago
Face detection is really valuable to me. I have cameras on the front of my house and I get an alert on my phone when someone unrecognized comes up to the house. It sometimes false triggers on me and my wife but it let us know 1) when a pack
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by ponker 6y ago
VR is already widely used in industrial training. Send a forklift driver through VR training and the safety lessons might stick a little bit better, so your insurance company will cut you a discount and it can pay for itself.
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by ponker 6y ago
Like all hype bubbles except blockchain, AI will be big in 10 years, it’s just hype because it’s too early. Web 2.0, e-commerce, mobile, etc all grew into their hype.
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by ponker 6y ago
Almost all Internet users have an organization between them and the people they would communicate with. Hell, your registrar can punt you for your content, which means that it's a vanishingly small number of people, those on the dark
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by ponker 6y ago
Interesting, thanks. I wonder how much of this will be replaceable by good robots that can use smaller amounts of electrical power. Bug picking seems like a good candidate, watering too. Fencing not so much, etc.
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by ponker 6y ago
This is kind of inconceivable to me. Is it because I’ve never done enough manual labor to eat 65 potatoes in a day? I can’t imagine even finding the time to cook and eat them.
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by ponker 6y ago
What does labor do for crop yields? What do you actually do to change the crop yields?
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by ponker 6y ago
No, but California state government is by far the most responsive to single individuals. Sometimes this sucks when one NIMBY can block a major project by filing some bureaucratic objection or invoking a rare salamander. Sometimes it’s aweso
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by ponker 6y ago
Yep. For a property that I intend to live in until I die, outside of California I wouldn’t have wanted the property prices to go up too quickly. Here, all appreciation was hated before I bought and loved after I bought.
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by ponker 6y ago
In the aggregate this may be true but the public markets don’t need any given investors. There are hundreds of thriving startups that simply would not exist today if ten people who did invest had chosen not to invest. No public company is t
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by ponker 6y ago
Try running Cat6 through one of these walls. Hard pass
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by ponker 6y ago
Do what makes ya happy — as a homeowner in a safe town with a good school district I ain’t gonna worry but I don’t begrudge you seeking your best life.
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by ponker 6y ago
The problem is self perpetuating. I went from YIMBY to NIMBY as soon as I spent 5x my net worth on a Bay Area single family home.
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by ponker 6y ago
Seriously. My buildings elevator started acting weird to the point that I didn’t feel comfortable bringing my son on it. Building was completely unresponsive to complaints. I called the state elevator inspection board and the guy was there
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by ponker 6y ago
If you lost the primary key to a database row, how would you find the data? You’d have to iterate over every piece of data you have. For a physical operation this can be as good as permanently lost.

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