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Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019(techcrunch.com)
6 points by shartshooter 7y ago|4 comments
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by shartshooter 7y ago
$0. I'm a veteran with a disability rating of 40% after several deployments overseas. This means I get free healthcare for life through the VA(although my family is not covered through the VA, instead through my wife's employer).
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Psilocybin doesn't stay in your body for years. The impact to you was likely due to the experience while tripping on psilocybin.
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Build something you’d use. Doesn’t matter what. The first app I built scraped a food delivery site that looked for big deals and sent me a text so I could confirm a purchase and have dinner at home. I learned about web scraping, database st
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Because it’s also the least effective strategy. The reality is getting nearly everyone to change their behavior just isn’t gonna happen. Even if everyone in America went vegan, showered once a day and biked everywhere wouldn’t change much
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad. Learning facts are great if you’ve got an hour but really understanding should take time. I’d say if you have an hour that is free try to be
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by shartshooter 7y ago
I grew up in a rural PNW town where hatred of Californians was a way of life. I ultimately ended up in California for the start of my career which gave me the kind of upward mobility I’d never have had an opportunity to achieve. Call it sur
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Population growth is already slowing due to decrease in fertility, increase in education, etc. Is the absolute value of the population the issue or is resources used/carbon output, per capita, a more significant problem? Between 2019
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by shartshooter 7y ago
“In general we have a concern if companies merge because of data,” Vestager told a news briefing at Web Summit. I'm no fan of Google buying up Fitbit but how are you going to prove that an acquisition/merger is due to data? You&
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by shartshooter 7y ago
I've got a team now...growing. We do have both retainers and hourly rates
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Both. You've got to work with the client to get an understanding of how they want to use their CRM, guide them on best practices and then pull the levers to configure things correctly. You can niche out and focus on one of the three ar
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by shartshooter 7y ago
It's possible he's terrible at devops, terrible at selling himself or was generally barking up the wrong tree. I wouldn't recommend taking my comment as a nudge away from getting into devops consulting but just that a friend
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I started a consulting business doing CRM work on nights and weekend about five years back that’s now running close to $100k/mo. It all started from a former colleague who’d moved onto a new role and asked me to help them set up their
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by shartshooter 7y ago
70 percent of voters supported the new regulations. The new restrictions allow homeowners to rent out portions of their homes as long as they’re present during a guest’s stay. But they prohibit renters from listing their apartment and bar
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by shartshooter 7y ago
“It is not possible to make inferences about the geographical origin of modern humans in Africa based solely on patterns of variation in modern populations. This is because humans migrate over long distances. They migrated out of Africa an
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Practicing with no repercussions(100) is the best way to level up. If you’ve written down 100 ideas that add value to someone else you’ll start getting better at finding ways to add value. I’m sure practicing chess moves intentionally with
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by shartshooter 7y ago
becoming a craftsman and getting to the 99th percentile has major trade offs. In order to survive as a business you need to create value and capture the market faster than your competition can. To do that you need to do more than your craf
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Within a 16 day test period, 47.7% of the ingested Styrofoam carbon was converted into CO2 and the residue (ca. 49.2%) was egested as fecula with a limited fraction incorporated into biomass (ca. 0.5%).
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Biodegradation and Mineralization of Polystyrene by Plastic-Eating Mealworms(pubs.acs.org)
1 points by shartshooter 7y ago|1 comments
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Parent didn’t say it was the only source just said that rates correlated. The fluctuation year to year may be due better growing seasons so farmers use more, but potentially so do golf courses and lawns. The usage of the others may definite
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Could you bury something like this in the ground all the time since the earth is ~50° at 11’[1]. You could have those plates touching the earth which would conduct heat away from the plate. 50° is pretty cool and would be running 24/7.
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Receiving the prize of $1MM and everyone referring to you as Nobel laureate feels a lot like winning a Nobel prize to me.
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Great question...my response wasn’t super clear on that. I’d say 80th percentile of people who do a given activity. That’s, of course, pretty vague but this is just a guiding principle for me.
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I’ve had a feeling for a while that getting to the 80th percentile in everything I do should be my goal. Imagine a person that is the 80th percentile in distance running, powerlifting, swimming, basketball and Nordic skiing. That person wou
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by shartshooter 7y ago
Looks like it was originally named for the creator(Halligan) but I'm guessing someone people made the mistake of calling it hooligan and there wasn't enough pressure to correct them.
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It's completely reasonable for a customer to ask for my time logs, it happens all the time. They often want to just understand how a given invoice is tied to work that was completed. However, consultants do work that isn't typing.
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If a customer asked me to use this time tracking software I'd be outta there in no time. Any customer who's singularly focused on you not shifting them and not the value you can bring is gonna be the worst customer you've eve
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He says: refraining from consuming animal products, argues Foer, is one of the most significant actions individuals can take to help prevent global warming, along with driving less, flying less, and having fewer children. But, Agricultura
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by shartshooter 7y ago
I love the concept a ton, as of right now it's not executing to what I was hoping for. Landing on a bunch of Five ways to X your Y . Looking forward to seeing it improve
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Easier way to open a smart door lock in 3 seconds...use a hooligan tool[1]. For $150 USD a SWAT team(or someone who practices for a few hours) can be in your room in no time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halligan_ba

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