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by sequoia 6y ago
He's saying "this makes you more likely to win at the game, perhaps you want to teach your kids this skill so they can win." He is not saying "the game is fair."
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by sequoia 6y ago
Sometimes referred to as “transgenerational trauma.” It’s something Jews and Native Americans/First Nations people have in common, probably along with most populations who suffered genocide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by sequoia 6y ago
My interest is piqued. What 8 meals did you make in 15 minutes? Did you purchase already cooked food?
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by sequoia 6y ago
> Yellow sticky notes on a wall are awesome. They're a great deterrent to keep the PHBs from generating reports and dashboards for bothering people with KPIs. Wow! You should buy a .io domain name throw up a landing page and start s
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by sequoia 6y ago
Because you can frequently avoid account creation, setting a new password etc if you click “sign in with google.” It’s a tradeoff but if you don’t see any value in it you maybe haven’t used it- it’s convenient.
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by sequoia 6y ago
I totally get it, my dad moved to Tennessee for a professorship, and I followed him a few years later while in highschool. It wasn't my first choice! But after a month or two of grousing about what a shitty little 2-bit town I thought
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by sequoia 6y ago
> in a state which mainly grows corn and racism. He sounds like a condescending prick. He even admits as much. Why did he apply to work somewhere where he would be surrounded by people he considers so infinitely inferior to himself? One
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by sequoia 6y ago
> Here is more viable freelancing Implying his approach is not viable is weird, given that what he's doing is demonstrably working (at least at the moment). He's making free software and then selling subscriptions to training c
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by sequoia 6y ago
Yeah, "Apple Scrambles to Head Off Antitrust Prosecution" is the shadow-headline here.
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by sequoia 6y ago
"unsubstantiated feelings" heh, that's a pretty ungenerous/rude way of putting it. Here's a better way: "Can you explain why you like Windscribe? You say you've used other providers, how is Windscribe diff
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by sequoia 6y ago
"For example, over 70% of early Beta-testers say that the VPN helps them feel empowered, safe, and independent while being online." What have these "feelings" got to do with anything? This is a measure of successful mark
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by sequoia 6y ago
I'm not clear where slippery slope ends and generalizing a question such as "how does GH/MSFT determine who to do business with?" or putting a decision into context begins. I don't see this as being at "the top
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My question is not so much about ICE, who I personally feel would be reasonable to refuse to do business with in the current circumstance (caveat: I'm not an expert here and could be wrong). My question is about next "unethical&qu
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by sequoia 6y ago
Fantastic write-up, thanks!!
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“ In July, New Food Economy reported that Grubhub was buying restaurant web domains without restaurants’ knowledge or consent, and though Grubhub argued it’s technically allowed to do that in the contract , it was still a bad look.” “In th
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by sequoia 6y ago
Can Grubhub do this phone scamming thing if the restaurants don’t agree to work with Grubhub? If not, it’s on the restaurants to figure out they’re being scammed and cut off Grubhub. I agree it’s extremely sleazy but if restaurants opt into
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by sequoia 6y ago
To curate a collection is to be an editor, determining what to include and what to exclude. From a curated selection of tools, I expect to see a selection of the best tools, chosen by a knowledgable curator who has evaluated the tools in
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by sequoia 6y ago
> A curated list of awesome pipeline toolkits Is this "curated"? It seems like an exhaustive "dump" of toolkits.
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by sequoia 6y ago
> If you’re working on Wi-Fi at home, that means your job is literally up in the air. This statement is hyperbolic and meaningless enough that I'm comfortable calling it "stupid." I've been working remotely for a long
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by sequoia 6y ago
I'm struggling to understand what you mean by self-hosted. What does AWS Lambda do in this scenario? Surely not host the blog, so it must be the "cms"? At that point I'm not clear why you'd rule out netlify, as it&#
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by sequoia 6y ago
Used this years ago for twitter https://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ It was amazing... everyone thinks you're working with the terminal open ;)
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by sequoia 6y ago
Related: September 25, 2019 | https://torontolife.com/city/inside-shopifys-new-nine-floor-... > Canada’s tech darling Shopify—the online platform used to sell everything online, from wallpaper to roasted almonds—has
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by sequoia 6y ago
I say this in order to share constructive feedback, because I know a lot of people on HN are not great at "tone" and sometimes appreciate an explanation why their comment might accidentally offend: This comment is very condescendi
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To me, suggesting that I save money by not buying coffee for fifty years is extreme frugalism.
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> It really doesn't matter how much you earn. Real wealth is in not spending it. Have to add on that this is definitely not correct. Yes you must not simply inflate your spending to match your 100% of income if the latter increases,
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> More time to enjoy life! What if I enjoy life by buying a fancy coffee & drinking it on my walk to work? The downside of your formulation of "why buy coffee? you could be enjoying life instead!" is that this worldview enc
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by sequoia 6y ago
I forget, probably online. I was one of the many after Trump's election who thought "oh dang! I'd better start actually financially supporting the news reporting organizations upon whom I (and the nation) rely!" I later
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by sequoia 6y ago
I'm not suggesting that the NYT corporation didn't have their bases covered legally, I'm sure it said somewhere that my subscription would autorenew, but I assure you it wasn't plain or obvious. In fact that is not w
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by sequoia 6y ago
Watch out–if you signed up with a CC they take that as consent to re-subscribe you year after year. They did this to me, when I called they said "you authorized re-subscription when you paid by credit card. Paying by credit card automa
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by sequoia 6y ago
I am a long-time Node.js user. My question about Deno is "is there any indication that this project will have a different trajectory from the node.js project (also started by some of the same people as Deno), or should I expect Deno to

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