seahorse

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by seahorse 11y ago
Can you say more about how you got the idea people want to be scheduling meetings? I find I often want to bail out of meetings, not encourage them.
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by seahorse 11y ago
What if there was an AI that hand-picked resources for me to read?
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by seahorse 11y ago
Is "basic food" enough without "basic shelter"?
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by seahorse 11y ago
Maybe Gmail does, but not all mail services do. It wouldn't be that hard to add a 1x1 invisible pixel in the message footer and see how well it works.
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by seahorse 11y ago
I doubt Zach himself agrees with his article's title. Because the title isn't his point. His point is, and I quote: "What I think is bad is that there’s so much pride and focus on The Best of the Best of the Best, With Honor
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by seahorse 11y ago
Clickable link: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=effusive Serendipitously, someone submitted a similar story just 3 minutes before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9573862
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Ask HN: What happened to 'effusive' in 1866?
12 points by seahorse 11y ago|11 comments
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by seahorse 11y ago
The Elements of Style - W. Strunk Jr. and E.B. White http://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/S...
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by seahorse 11y ago
An optimization is to notice which side you wish the coin lands at before it lands.
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by seahorse 11y ago
It's not about economics. It's about foresight. If you are working on something that will grow big 10 years in the future (like AI), and it takes you only 6 to get there, why can't that be a success?
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by seahorse 11y ago
What happened to "you'd better get a co-founder"?
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by seahorse 11y ago
> it doesn't matter who invents a thing, what matters is who uses the thing to bring actual change to people. They both matter, and you need both. They come with a different price to pay, and a different reward.
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by seahorse 11y ago
Breakthrough business model? With a great house, you can make more money from several bids at $150 than you would from a market using neighboring prices against you. The buyer doesn't have to be local, and they can sell it afterwards a
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by seahorse 11y ago
> I thought that's the essence of good-faith negotiation, when either side [...] walk away. The essence of good-faith negotiation isn't to leave. It's to explore the options. More often than not, neither party does. One or
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by seahorse 11y ago
Try S3fuse. It saves you from writing that driver and the caching. https://code.google.com/p/s3fuse/