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by reubenswartz 3y ago
I make a salad most days for lunch. Some variation in ingredients, but I can have a healthy meal in < 5 minutes that I actually crave and I have good energy through out the afternoon. If you had told me when I was younger that I do this
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
Intriguing, but I think if that were the case, you wouldn't see the relatively homogeneous and very cold background radiation we see.
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
Except India is ~1.3M square miles...
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
It's wonderful that anyone can create a blog, YouTube channel, podcast, etc. At the same time, the math means that at some point you'll have so many creators that it's hard to get the attention of an audience. And a lot of th
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
Yup. Three pedals to one (plus what’s effectively an emergency break). I miss shifting at times, but the overall experience is much better.
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
one of the more interesting books I've ever read. And I've even gone back to reread parts of it, which almost never happens.
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
Stephenson is one of my favorite storytellers and one of my least favorite writers. It’s quite maddening. :)
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Are blue whales as big as animals can get?(vox.com)
1 points by reubenswartz 4y ago|0 comments
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
Horizontal gene transfer. Because biology isn’t complicated enough. :)
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
There are lots of mitochondria in a cell (almost always, ignore red blood cells, for example), and the mitochondria have their own mechanisms for detecting when they need to divide (exercise and the resulting stress being one of them, which
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
One of my favorite (perhaps that's the wrong word?) quotes, that explains so much.
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
These are all good, but I want to reiterate the 3rd point about refunds. It happens occasionally. And it's wrong. And it drives you crazy because it's wrong. Consider it a cost of doing business, and move on.
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
Don't define your target market as "we just need to get 1% of this $100B market". Define your market as "for this $XM sub-niche of a sub-niche, we are the 800 pound gorilla that is the obvious choice." You can alway
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by reubenswartz 4y ago
Amen. Some mindset shifts I found helpful: - Get excited about helping people solve the problem, not just your product. - "Teach" people how to solve the problem, instead of "marketing" your product. - "Help" s
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
My geeky tips for snowboarding: 1. Remember gravity. If your weight is towards your back (uphill) foot, gravity will try to make that the front foot and bad things will happen. The natural inclination (no pun intended) is to shift back when
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
I love the idea of fusion and certainly hope people make progress, but given advances in solar and wind, I’m starting to think the best location for a fusion reactor is 93M miles away.
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
Well, I am attempting, maybe not succeeding. ;-) The nucleus is a result of the endosymbiosis, not something that just picked up some extra fuel cells...
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
If life somehow hitched a ride from one planet to another, it seems far more likely that it would have gone from earth to Mars, than the other way around. ;-)
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
Eukaryote does mean "true nucleus", but all* eukaryotes have mitochondria. They only became eukaryotes via the merger. Again-- archea (and bacteria) have existed for billions of years, and never became "complex", even by
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
> The arrival of mitochondria is kind of a red herring by comparison, in my view; we know cellular endosymbiosis has happened a bunch of times so it's not special. The arrival of mitochondria, or the "merger" of the bacter
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
> Twitter is not run by Jack Dorsey, nor that other companies are run by their CEOs. Companies are run by boards. FB (Meta?) is run by its CEO. He controls the board. This is rare, of course (and perhaps unique for a company of this size
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
I don't know if people gloss over it, or it's just a good place to start. It's like if you were wondering how a giant Lego set came to be, you might start with the pieces.
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
"top of their game". ;-)
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
Haha. I can’t even bring myself to check that assertion. :) But for people in any domain at the top of their game, what else is as fulfilling?
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
LeBron has plenty of money. Why is he still playing basketball? :)
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
There are actually far more domestic livestock now than there were bison back in the day. Just a lot less roaming. Pigeons don’t produce methane the way ruminants do AFAIK. And, methane from livestock is only part of humanity’s climate alte
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
It doesn't work well in rain, snow, fog, dust, etc. It's great in good conditions, but you either have a car that can drive only in good conditions, or you need a car that can drive safely without LIDAR. (Or someone needs to inven
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
The counter-agent is that it's fictional. ;-) (We hope.)
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
Aside from the many interesting answers in this thread, one thing that struck me when I visited was someone telling me that the terrain was more mountainous than some of the countries to the north, making the plantation economy that the Spa
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by reubenswartz 5y ago
Thanks for the mention, BjoernKW. :-) Chief Nerd Reuben Swartz here. I found it very helpful to stop thinking of "selling", and instead think of "helping". Plus, stop thinking of "marketing" and start thinking

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