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XKCD 369 [0] strikes again :)! [0] https://xkcd.com/369/
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I'm surprised to hear you lost your job because of health issues in ... Finland? That kind of wrongful termination sounds like something that would happen in the States not Europe. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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> They just don't use competition as an exclusionary criterea like many VCs do. YC, originally started as Summer Founders Program [0], was an experiment to help PG & JL allocate seed capital differently from the norm. So the
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> A blockchain is just an ordered series of files, each of which contains a hash of the previous one in the series. Mentioning the hash is an implementation detail -- it is what gives blockchains their immutability property. So I'd
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ULA = United Launch Alliance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Launch_Alliance
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> His take on the Tesla scandal is hilarious. If you are curious as I was, here is the link: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-13/funding-f...
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Interesting links. For a moment there, I thought the ad by Motor Institute of America shown on the page of Popular Mechanics you linked to, was also present in your second link to the The Ladies Home Journal , albeit with a different ad
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> It's true in any business where the primary risk is understanding what to build and not how to build it. I really want to believe that your statement is true, but it appears to be eliding 4 dimensions into 2. All businesses, reg
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I used to think of competition as depressing too but the reality is that, competition is necessary for many of today's technological advances. As long as humans continue to have disagreements around ideas, which stem from differences i
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As we advance as a civilization, our tools have evolved along with us. The invention of electronics combined with electricity meant that we could augment or replace tools that traditionally were mechanical in nature, and thus required some
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Baremetrics itself has its numbers publicly viewable at: https://demo.baremetrics.com/
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> Most successful companies have to execute perfectly AND have an some of those extrinsic factors, such as family money, personal connections, good timing, or dumb luck. Humans are imperfect so I'm generally wary of characterization
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Private markets is also the route that Elon Musk is considering with Tesla, similar to how SpaceX is structured where employees and sophisticated investors can sell shares every six months [0]. This will also solve his constant antagonism t
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> They introduced it as ISPs were starting to inject advertising via their own DNS ... This is mentioned in TFA, along with a Wikipedia link [0] to an entry mentioning several errant ISPs who "use DNS hijacking for their own purpos
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Apparently the chinese company is called PTH. http://www.putianhouse.com/
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Here is Jan Koum, at Startup School SV 2014 [0]: "... our iPhone app was paid and our other platforms were free." Other platforms being Nokia and Blackberry. He further explained that it may sound somewhat counter-intuitive: the
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by sah2ed 8y ago
OT: There's a related question on StackOverflow where the same program had different runtimes on different terminals. https://stackoverflow.com/a/21947627
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> I fought with him over stores as did virtually everyone on the board of Apple, and it turned out he was right. He actually goes into depth about why Apple stores were necessary in a talk he did at MIT in 1992 [0][1]. Was it that he was
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Not sure why your comment is dead, but I vouched for it since it appears you are the author of the original article everyone is commenting on.
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> They don't want pornography on their website. They wont allow it because they thoroughly understand the effects of positive feedback loops if they had allowed a tiny bit of porn even partially. See Tumblr.
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Thanks for the pointer to Peter Sarnak's advice. I believe this is the history of ideas advice you were referring to on pg 1008 (1031 in pdf): When learning an area, one should combine reading modern treatments with a study of the ori
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From the same author, but longer: https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006907969760473093/ph...
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Prior to the crack, the tablet responded to touch gestures differently than my iPhone -- I have to re-apply pressure for gestures to register sometimes. Also, I am unable to register tap gestures on the device with sweaty palms unlike on th
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Exactly. Those little details, as insignificant as they seem, can magnify into an enormous difference in failure situations. For instance, even after getting a hairline crack on my iPhone, I haven't bothered to replace the screen becau
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Is that even a thing? What exactly would they do with Aged Amazon accounts? Setup a FBA storefront?
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> Android being open at all was already a fight inside Google, this decision will essentially make it impossible for anybody win that fight in the future. I can't see why anyone would risk making an open platform again. It was a c
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Indonesia mob slaughters nearly 300 crocodiles in revenge killing(bbc.com)
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Edsger W.Dijkstra: Train toilet problem (1973)(cs.utexas.edu)
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> Most people who complain about not being able to learn how to deal with people are afraid to or just don't want to put themselves in the position. I wouldn't use the word most, more like many. But regardless, you make it soun
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Your link does a good job of highlighting most of the important things needed to fall asleep everyday like clockwork, but is light on the rituals of resolving the anxiety of not falling asleep after lying in bed for 30 mins. Anyway, thanks

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