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by siruva07 5y ago
The same observations are made on container deposits and recycling rates in the USA. There are 10 states in the United States with container deposit legislation. The US overall container recycling rate is ~ 33%, while states with a $0.05 co
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Most gig workers should be given the opportunity to become franchise owners, not employees and lose their independence. That could also solve the equity discrepancy, and give the workers real ownership upside.
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How not to write cold emails to investors -- lessons from a serial founder whose companies have raised $150MM+. TL;DR Don't chase. Be chased. 1. Don't write cold emails to investors. You automatically give the investor the upper h
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by siruva07 5y ago
Maybe not. Conceivably, everyone could be on payroll as contractors except the founder.
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by siruva07 6y ago
Atmospheric Water Generators
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How to Start a New Country(1729.com)
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by siruva07 6y ago
I mean IPO’d with one employee - the founder
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by siruva07 6y ago
Has there ever been a one-wo(man) SaaS founder to take a company public?
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Currency Demurrage might be the best way to preserve forests and capture carbon(captainplanet.substack.com)
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"Take away the goalie’s eyes. If he can see it, he’ll stop it." One heckuva instigator, NY Ranger Sean Avery, figured this out in the 2008 playoffs against NJ Devils Martin Brodeur. video: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by siruva07 6y ago
Great ideas and spectacular visuals. Good luck finding a new position!
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by siruva07 6y ago
From the title of the post, I thought he launched his own VC firm. FWIW It's a good name.
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Show HN: A Water Search Engine(findtap.com)
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Welcome to the Oasis(twitter.com)
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by siruva07 6y ago
Got it. Looks like I pulled my figure on a quarterly basis which syncs with this annualized math. FB is on the high end of ARPU. Most other services are cents to low dollars. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/01/fa
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by siruva07 6y ago
Since Twitter has effectively moved the default away from chronological order, what is really the purpose of a retweet? An upvote is naturally a positive interaction for “suggested tweets my followers should see”
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by siruva07 6y ago
A time or engagement based restriction would prevent this, i.e. having 3-5 minutes to edit the tweet, at which point the edit button is locked. Revision history would still show. "Undo Send" a la Gmail, but for tweets.
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by siruva07 6y ago
<sigh> I hear you. But Twitter is an incredible service. From the Arab spring to people like @balajis who broke COVID (for me at least) before major news networks. The only interactive we have as users is positive (a heart or retweet)
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by siruva07 6y ago
Why does an edit button not make sense for a service like Twitter? How would it be abused? Deleting and reposting hurts and would eliminate engagement statistics. From a product experience, edited tweets, similar to Slack, could show an &qu
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by siruva07 6y ago
Excellent acquisition. Twitter will definitely compete and take marketshare from Substack with lower fees from 20% to 5%. I hope this acquisition is actually a stepping stone for Twitter to become a much better service. Twitter could absol
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Reverse osmosis is wasteful. The next goldmine is atmospheric water generation. The atmosphere is the largest untapped reservoir of clean water on Earth, and mother nature has already desalinated the water through evaporation. Far less ene
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by siruva07 6y ago
Similar values in Judaism. Maimonides, the Jewish Philosopher, formulated a list of eight levels of giving, correlating to the degree to which the giver is sensitive to the needs and feelings of the recipient. The second highest level is gi
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by siruva07 6y ago
I think atmospheric water generation at scale is the solution
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by siruva07 6y ago
The incentive is to start pricing water appropriately. When water is priced appropriately it will be valued. When it is not priced appropriately, it is wasted and misused. We should treat water the same way because water is a human right, a
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Show HN: PodSnacks – a CliffsNotes email digest of the latest podcasts(podsnacks.substack.com)
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I made this product because I'm on a mission to eliminate the single use plastic water bottle by connecting water to the internet. Today marks the 1,000th day anniversary of my pledge to never drink a single use plastic water bottle ag
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Launch HN: Tap (YC Startup School) – An operating system for reusable drinkware(findtap.myshopify.com)
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Bottled water sales have significantly increased in the last 10-20 years. “In 2000, each American was drinking 53.7 gallons of carbonated soda a year, equal to 573 12-ounce cans a year, 11 a week. Soda consumption in 2015 was down to 38.9 g
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They do. One of the reasons the bottling companies were decentralized was because consumers preferred the taste of their local water. Fountain machines have a sophisticated filtration system that is supposed to completely standardize the ta
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by siruva07 6y ago
Plastic, unlike aluminum, cannot be infinitely recycled. ~75% of all aluminum ever produced is still in use today. Where as only 10% of all plastic produced has been recycled. The shift will be back towards reusables. Coke was once served i

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