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by shartshooter 7y ago
Disease research isn’t about avoiding mistakes, it’s about taking chances and exploring avenues that look promising. Failure is essential to learning.
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by shartshooter 7y ago
I run two companies, one is a passive income SaaS business and the other is a CRM consulting business. Inbound inquiries into the SaaS business have dropped off. That business helps drive sales but traffic is basically gone because business
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by shartshooter 7y ago
A lot of the herd will be thinned out for sure. Customers of ours are starting to lay folks off. Ultimately, it's a question of how long and deep the downturn is. A couple of months and VC-backed companies already losing money may be o
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by shartshooter 7y ago
A company growing as aggressively as AirBnB wasn't taking a 20-30% profit and paying out shareholders. They were taking that 20-30% and reinvesting back into growth. That means people, offices, tech, marketing, audits of homes, process
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Like anything as complex as a pandemic the answer is, it depends. Are we overreacting? That depends on what your definition is on how to react to a pandemic. On one hand we don't freak out over influenza in the same way. Let's loo
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Ask HN: What are the best charities to support in response to Covid-19?
1 points by shartshooter 7y ago|0 comments
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by shartshooter 7y ago
the median compensation for a Facebook employee is $228,651 It’s not clear if Facebook will also give a bonus to contractors who are content moderators Kudos to Facebook for trying to help their team weather the storm. Hopefully the fol
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by shartshooter 7y ago
As long as the money is given to folks who need and/or will spend it, it feels like this is the exact situation where the federal government steps in for stimulus. There’s no pull yourself up by your bootstraps talk right now and the
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by shartshooter 7y ago
We’ve been fortunate in the US to not have to shelter in place for an extended period of time in our history. We’ll get through this, just like everything else. It’ll take time, too many will die, but instead of remembering that most folks
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Agreed. The fallout from this, beyond loss of life and impact to day-to-day, will be really interesting and will seem obvious in hindsight.
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Only police and fire departments, hospitals, grocery stores, gas stations, banks and pharmacies and restaurants serving takeout and delivery customers will be allowed to remain open under the shelter-in-place order Fingers crossed for eve
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by shartshooter 7y ago
The primary goal right now is to flatten the curve so the growth doesn't stay exponential for any longer than it has to. Once that flattens out and the growth rate slows or decreases a concerns is that folks will head back out, assumin
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by shartshooter 7y ago
key line Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine
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by shartshooter 7y ago
This is a good move. We’re obviously moving slower than we ought to and only time will tell how late we are. The one thing we, in the US, have been consistent in this is that we’re too slow to act. There’s obviously a risk of the pendulum s
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Stopping production for a significant period of time was the first gut punch covid is throwing. The second one seems to be landing on Europe and third will be North America. This means China will have a head start on getting supply up and r
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Food, talent, energy - yes Traffic, expensive everything, too much focus on work - no
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Silver lining in the epidemic that more folks might get used to biking to work over the next few months due to social distancing, so that becomes more normal and cities start to adapt even further. General city traffic will be way down and
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Both of my parents I really consider generally smart in that they knew a little about everything. They didn’t have fantastic memories but they could talk really about anything with some basic knowledge. Having inherited that skill it’s fe
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by shartshooter 7y ago
I was making the typical hour trek from San Francisco to Mountain View for four years, every day. Decided to move away and started working remotely 100%. Not having the eight hours back in my week was life changing. Habits, health, relation
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by shartshooter 7y ago
I read a comment on HN or Reddit a while back about how some molecules were found in a meteorite that were left-handed where every molecule on earth is right-handed or something to that extent. If my memory serves it was as if molecules fit
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by shartshooter 7y ago
I can remember my high school science teacher sometime between 2001-2002 telling us about this project and you'd see this running on his computer any time he wasn't using it. I always wondered what came out of it and how cool it f
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Artificial shrimps could change the world(economist.com)
43 points by shartshooter 7y ago|11 comments
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Going the Distance (and Beyond) to Catch Marathon Cheaters(wired.com)
2 points by shartshooter 7y ago|0 comments
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A New Nonprofit Is Betting on Psychedelic Therapy(outsideonline.com)
1 points by shartshooter 7y ago|0 comments
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by shartshooter 7y ago
This is wrong. Deadlifts can be as safe as any other exercise if done properly. Find a coach, practice, maintain form and take your time.
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Atomic Habits[0] is a great book on this topic. [0] - https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break-eboo...
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Why do lawns even factor into the equation when the reality is that industry, farms, etc. own the majority of all water usage? I live in a desert area and hate seeing lawns watered in the middle of the summer but its impact seems trivial.
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Gimbal Video of U.S. Navy Jet Encounter with Unknown Object(metabunk.org)
1 points by shartshooter 7y ago|0 comments
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by shartshooter 7y ago
I stumbled upon this forum a while ago that seems to go into extreme depth trying to understand the gimbal videos/purported UFO sightings https://www.metabunk.org/threads/nyt-gimbal-video-of-u-s-nav...
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by shartshooter 7y ago
For a site like Reddit is there a better way to measure growth/success than MAU? - growth rate of users receiving an upvote? - growth rate of users leaving 2+ comments? - something else? MAU feels like a vanity metric to me but I'

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