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by staunch 8y ago
He was the primary funding for the company throughout its early life and then personally saved the company from failure. Without Elon Musk the company would not exist at all. The DOE loan probably did save the company, but before Telsa ther
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by staunch 8y ago
I think what we all want is a lot more more Elon Musks to push the world forward more quickly. But he was only able to create Tesla and SpaceX because he gained a massive windfall from PayPal. That payout could have easily been an order of
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by staunch 8y ago
It's very common to over-analyze and generalize the specific behaviors of successful people, rather than acknowledge the stark reality of what truly separates them from others. There's a tendency to focus on the "symptoms&quo
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by staunch 8y ago
What about calling for the big tech companies to move to a blind hiring system? You wouldn't see a candidate's face, name, hear their real voice, know their educational background, what economic class they're from. You would
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by staunch 8y ago
You should contribute to humanity in whatever method or quantity you're able, and not sweat it too much. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try hard. It just means you shouldn't get too stressed out about it. Some people ar
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by staunch 8y ago
Crossing my fingers for verification. It seems like the Nobel committee should have waited for multiple third-party verifications of LIGO's results. It would be pretty terrible if we found out the detections were mistaken or even fraud
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by staunch 8y ago
I actually think supersonic is the opposite of the direction to take air travel. The current speed of 500mph is already incredibly fast given the size of the planet. Even 200mph is sufficient. The real problem is comfort. Planes are incredi
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by staunch 8y ago
Giving open source software to the world is a great contribution to humanity. Thank you Shaohua Li.
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by staunch 8y ago
Maybe just try with a much lower volume? Volume definitely makes a big difference in how immersed I feel. I usually like it to be fairly high so I have "good hearing" in the game but it can be excessively stimulating at times.
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by staunch 8y ago
One of the funny and snarky things Jordan Peterson has said is that he "figured out a way to monetize social justice warriors". Which is true in some sense. He's become well funded through donations and book sales even as gro
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by staunch 8y ago
"In Japan, the criminal justice system has a conviction rate that exceeds 99%, including guilty plea cases. This has been attributed to low prosecutorial budgets impelling understaffed prosecutors to bring only the most obviously guil
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by staunch 8y ago
> ...FIT IN - DONT BRING CA ATTITUDE WITH YOU All American citizens are free to bring whatever attitude they want wherever they want in their country. They're not required to "fit in". No citizen gets to tell any other c
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by staunch 8y ago
Also explained very well by Jessica Livingston in "Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing" > "So why wouldn’t all founders start by engaging with users individually? Because it’s hard and demoralizing. Sales g
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by staunch 8y ago
Buying an adjustable headrest for my aeron chair solved the problem for me. Also: exercise and proper corrective lenses.
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by staunch 8y ago
Only if he didn't want to stay. Apple has a history of keeping around the CEOs of acquired companies and Musk would be the best they ever got. Just because the peanut gallery is on the Elon Musk sucks train doesn't mean everyone i
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by staunch 8y ago
Elon Musk crashing and burning is not a good outcome for the world. He's right on the cusp of sustainable success but there's a chance he won't get over it. Steve Jobs knew how to hire people that could do a lot of the stuff
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by staunch 8y ago
Rob Pike did a number of interesting talks on concurrency in Go. If you search "Go concurrency" on YouTube there are more good talks. Go Concurrency Patterns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs Concurrency
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by staunch 8y ago
It's interesting that this free exchange of ideas, and group dissent, inside of Google is exactly the power that the Chinese people lack over their own government. It really shows why the Chinese government is so afraid of it. And why
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by staunch 8y ago
Between this and his "pedo" comment I worry Musk is simply not sleeping enough. Even worse, he may be taking drugs to keep up the pace. I've been following him for 10+ years and never worried about his judgement until these i
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by staunch 8y ago
I checked just a few items and saw 910mg, 1220mg, 1430mg, and 1760mg of sodium per serving! That's an incredibly high amount of sodium. It would probably be unhealthy for most people to eat one per day, let alone 2-3. Maybe you can do
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by staunch 8y ago
Mary Beard's documentaries are some of the only accurate ones on ancient Rome. Luckily some of them are available on YouTube. Pompeii: Life And Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0zBG5R7TXU Meet the Romans https:&
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by staunch 8y ago
> ... and don't hire sysadmins. People you hire can be vetted, fired, sued, and even imprisoned for violating your users' privacy. Blindly handing over your users' data to a third-party includes none of these protections
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by staunch 8y ago
Yes, options A, B, and C are technologies that shouldn't be used where user privacy is highly valued. They violate the fundamental concept of end-to-end encryption. In practice, a rented VPS or dedicated server that terminates its own
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by staunch 8y ago
1. High energy music. 2. A programming environment I've mastered. I find it's very difficult to enter the flow state if I'm not listening to the right kind of music or while I'm learning a new platform, language, or fram
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by staunch 8y ago
IMHO You're only a pawn if you're trading hours of your life for amounts of money that can't buy your freedom. So you're not a pawn if you run a company and you're not a pawn if you're an employee with enough e
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by staunch 8y ago
Why would a company that values their users' privacy have Cloudflare man-in-the-middle their traffic in the first place? Cloudflare decrypts the traffic, which in many cases includes personally identifiable information like names, emai
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by staunch 8y ago
What's the best argument against Trump's trade war? It's one of his few policies that I've not heard a good argument against. It seems like it's only fair that major countries have (roughly) equal trade. And fair t
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by staunch 8y ago
I listened to your Kara Swisher interview recently and one part stood out above everything else. You admitted that if you had not been accepted by YC, you would likely not have had the success you've had. That kind of honest self-refle
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by staunch 8y ago
The answer is obvious: anti-drone drones. Military units and major political figures will need to have swarms of anti-drone drones patrolling their vicinity. Things like auto-targeting lasers might work too, but the way the way to fight tec

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