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by spanktheuser 3y ago
VC is a tricky business. Most operating at scale see more variety in their deal flow than they could hope to understand in any deep way. This is one of the reasons team & traction matters so much more in early funding rounds (1); eval
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by spanktheuser 3y ago
A quick search suggests there are 335 million Americans but only 37 million Canadians. https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/canada.united-st...
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by spanktheuser 3y ago
I’m curious whether the government certification / reporting process is punitive in nature and perhaps provides incentives to fabricate compliance. I’ve led a fintech startup through IT security audits mandated by top US banks and fou
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by spanktheuser 3y ago
I’m curious why you feel the actions of a private group amount to a legal system. To me they seem quite different. In one the punishment amounts to expulsion from the group and damage to reputation. The actual legal system has more conseque
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by spanktheuser 3y ago
> When every personal grievance is seriously launched… That is quite a statement that I think you need to back up. How about you link to 3 examples. Remember, they have to be personal, and they have to be serious.
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by spanktheuser 3y ago
I'm a designer & product manager whose taste runs extremely strongly to minimalism, simplicity, and clarity in user interfaces. A late-in-life diagnosis of ADHD revealed why and linked it strongly (in my mind) to my ability to ente
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
Now now. Be fair. Some of us would be quite content with your ongoing persecution.
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
The trapped individuals are living are living in a location where these sorts of conditions are extreme. Prior to climate change they may have been unthinkable. People with limited resources don't devote them to mitigating once in a li
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
I'd love if there was someplace we could go to test this assertion instead of relying on unbacked statements. I'm not saying it's untrue, but there is a lot of ambiguity in this claim as things stand. Are you referring to abu
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
Has the causal and temporal relationship between cooking and modern brain development been firmly established? The last time I looked into the literature I could find (a decade ago), there seemed to be a tantalizing correlation but enough n
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
Rare footage of a 1999 performance: https://youtu.be/LiXg_70rMeM
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
And this is why UI design standards are 1) so important, and 2) must include exhaustive examples of how UI elements should and should not be used in every context that it's possible for them to occur.
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
One of my friends and colleagues had just finished a large, years-long IT consulting project with Marsh. Not long after the towers fell he received a request to join a group of people who had worked closely with some of their IT staff kille
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
Dear desert sun, It's your old neighbor the Midwest. Haven't seen you for a while. Not since you moved out to the sunny desert. Made fun of us for our high taxes and our unions and our dying manufacturing. Har har. Anyway, how&#x2
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
> knowing what they are getting themselves into I've noticed a real hesitancy to ascribe such complex reasoning to cetaceans. But these are thoughtful animals that in one instance led the creation of a complex and astonishingly coop
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
This certainly would seem to be the next logical move for the prestige journals. However, in the long term I think this decision to provide open access to the research allows new journals to compete on a more even footing, especially with t
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
As a teen I once demolished a single story 10'x30' wood frame building with one of these and a sledgehammer. Took less than half a day at a leisurely pace. If it wasn't for having to haul the debris away I would have done it
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
Plus you gotta factor in Gen Z's love of all things boomer. Legendary take.
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
Google is also responsible for the Android and Chrome platforms. In both cases, my impression is that they have long tolerated, if not promoted, ecosystems open to third party data collection of the more abusive sort. While Google may prote
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
Mass digitization would seem to have a considerable survivability advantage over paper storage. Fire, Russian artillery, flood etc could readily destroy this information. It's fairly common to have this happen throughout history - we l
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
I mean, that's a good thing, right?
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
I used this technique to teach my children about politics, business and governance. Essentially any domain characterized by imperfect information, imperiled by cognitive bias, or containing incentive for deceit. The larger lesson I hoped to
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
Where did you live? Right now I'm in the middle of Chicago with my elementary aged children sleeping peacefully. I don't live in the wealthiest neighborhood. I don't live in the poorest. It's pretty diverse (by the stan
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
The podcast is one of my absolute favorites.
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
It wasn't the first horror film my children saw (they watched Jaws, Alien, and Stranger Things) but the most terrifying and traumatic experience they've seen was the shipwreck scene in the Black Stallion. If you want to frighten c
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
I don't have an asshole test, but I do have a collaboration test I use when hiring for design or product roles. I match the candidate with the hiring manager and two peers. And essentially mimic the rapid sketching exercise from a desi
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
I do also wonder what people consider modern. As I sit in my flat-roofed 1880’s Chicago home. Surrounding block after block of flat-roofed residential buildings housing millions of people, largely constructed between 1872 and 1930.
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by spanktheuser 4y ago
Why? Do you feel humans should be born with a natural instinct for Mediterranean architecture, much as they are for the supremacy of iterative software development?
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by spanktheuser 5y ago
> The stock has gone nowhere since its IPO and Twitter has never paid a dividend. This is a terribly short-sighted and impoverished definition of stagnation. If Elon shakes things up and Twitter generates 2x the profit and 2x the social
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by spanktheuser 5y ago
The trend is created by a lack of government regulation of corporations in the United States. Europe controls the negative externalities of capitalism with powerful regulatory agencies; I've noticed an antipathy towards their activity

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