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by ryana 5y ago
Realizing that I can keep running notes has been a great productivity hack for me. I have long been a heavy note taker but struggled at how to best tie them all together. Something like a spark file, or a single evernote file for interestin
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by ryana 5y ago
I’ve used podswap for my Gen 1 AirPods and it was fantastic. It took a couple cycles for everything to be back to normal (full charge, full volume) but they were up front that it takes a few recharges for everything to settle in. Absolutely
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by ryana 5y ago
Honest question, would a 3 year time-to-failure be considered imminent?
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by ryana 7y ago
We bought a Zinus mattress recently. $260 for a queen size and pretty great so far.
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by ryana 7y ago
Those are probably books from Academic Library partners, since they tend to have the rarest and most valuable stock. Every book that comes in gets scanned and assessed to one of a few possible streams: - List for sale across all markets -
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by ryana 7y ago
As a prior BWB employee (with no equity or outcome from this sale) I'm happy to respond to some of these concerns. "Very much enriched the owners" is quite a stretch. Especially considering pretty much every equity holder was
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by ryana 8y ago
I am always sad to see responses like this. Statistics is a very well-defined mathematical discipline, and any good research firm will use weighting techniques to adjust for demographic-based likelihood of response. The results they get fro
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by ryana 8y ago
> Of course almost all challengers have hacky tech under the hood because they don't have the resources. Tesla has a larger market cap than Ford, GM, or Honda.
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by ryana 8y ago
GitHub has something like 75 million repositories. GitLab seeing a spike of ~40k repos being imported so far would need to continue for 5 years to match GitHub's current scale.
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by ryana 10y ago
Thanks for the honest reply. I think that helps some of us square the circle on why you felt so strongly about not cutting ties. It does a lot to make sure this doesn't come off as "YC won't take a stand on political actors u
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by ryana 10y ago
So does Sam denounce the previous actions of YC banning companies who supported SOPA from demo day? Either YC is an organization that takes political stands or it's not.
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by ryana 11y ago
That's awesome. $200M per delivery seems a little tight to design and build 25 planes from scratch (the latest version 787 is ~$300M for comparison) but I'm sure they have smart people working on it.
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by ryana 11y ago
The data would say otherwise. See the graphic at the bottom of this page and feel free to peruse the linked dataset as well. http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/2015
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by ryana 12y ago
They were nice enough to provide some numbers, so I tried to figure out what's going on with Borderlands. First thing, they say that a move from $10.74 to $15.00/hr will cost them $28,000 (from +$3k to -$25k), which implies they&#
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by ryana 12y ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time in the non-profit and B-Corp space, I'm very interested to see how this plays out. It's an interesting idea and one that can definitely have a lot of value if it resonates with donors. Howeve
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by ryana 12y ago
> There are a lot of talented coders on HackerNews who could built any app currently on the market in a weekend. I see comments to this effect every now and then on HN (ie. any skilled team could build out Facebook in 30 days) It's
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by ryana 12y ago
Groupon may not have lived up to the hype, but they're still putting millions of people in restaurants each year. And part of the reason they didn't live up to the hype is because their deals are a lot better for the merchant now
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MBAs and Startups(blog.weatherby.net)
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by ryana 13y ago
"Look.. look at Amazon. That company has never posted a profit. And yet every trader I know is falling over themselves throwing money at them. It's the belief in investing in something"sexy", and "new"." T
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by ryana 13y ago
Just wondering, how often in the past have you purchased some kind of meal replacement shake to solve the problem? If never or not often, why will Soylent be different?
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by ryana 13y ago
$1.5B for a company started, grown, and still based in Atlanta. Great outcome for a growing ecosystem and hopefully we'll see the early employees from there start to reinvest in the community similarly to what we've seen from othe
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by ryana 13y ago
This post is 2 years old. Any reason to resurrect it? My first thought reading through was that treehouse had some recent layoffs or poor results and this was a "hah, look at you now" post. Thankfully I can't find news like t
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by ryana 14y ago
It's not any different from being able to do that to hardware. That's why cars have to meet certain standards in order to be legal for driving on public roads. It seems likely to me that making certain changes to a Tesla through rooting wou
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by ryana 14y ago
"In douchey-business-guy fashion he tries to put an entire community of transdisciplinary people in their place" I think his point is also that this type of thing is not just accepted, but encouraged within engineering circles when talking
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by ryana 14y ago
I noticed that there are no FOX Broadcast Company channels on their channel list. That's a shame because I'd really want to keep Fox Soccer Channel if I was switching. I would guess that has something to do with Google and Rupert Murdoch's
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by ryana 14y ago
Yeah, I mean there are some terrible players out there. But most of the losing players at the high end would be winners at the low end. They're playing high because either they have money to blow (Tony Parker and Guy Laliberte come to mind)
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by ryana 14y ago
Really how bad? "Bad" is relative obviously since you only have to be worse than the best 5-10% to not be making money once you start paying rake.
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by ryana 14y ago
FWIW, the entire example is flawed. Erasmus was 15 years old and he found the diamond under a tree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Diamond
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by ryana 14y ago
And all good ole' Erasmus would've had to do is figure out everything to do with the diamond industry on his own! Easy game, right? But seriously, if you stumble into a diamond mind worth a couple billion that does all the work for itself m
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by ryana 14y ago
I have much more experience with this phenomenon in poker than I do in business, but here's my viewpoint. I've seen a lot more people who think they have maximized their success and want to keep their "secrets" to themselves who end up cras

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