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by staunch 8y ago
I consider it a point of pride that I can understand virtually anyone speaking English no matter how strong their accent is. I assume it's from being around a lot of people that learned English as a second language. It would make sense
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by staunch 8y ago
A reasonable definition of the current usage might be that toxic means extreme. "This gaming community is toxic" could be read as "This gaming community is extremely obscene" "This forum is toxic" could be read
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by staunch 8y ago
"Find your genius" may be intimidating but it may also be more honest and accurate. It certainly appears that some people's brains are full of passionate intellectual curiosity and most people's aren't. It seems ent
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by staunch 8y ago
The iPhone has a "Bedtime" feature that might help. There's no trick to it though. It's just a matter of committing to living in a healthy way. There are like six factors: Do: diet, exercise, sleep. Don't: drink, sm
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by staunch 8y ago
I've read Caesar's Gallic War (Commentarii de Bello Gallico) and Civil War (Commentarii de Bello Civili) probably ~300 times but I don't have an exact count. They're relatively short texts. I've re-read them non-sto
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by staunch 8y ago
Tesla should have an internal whistleblower program. Elon Musk should run it himself with a dedicated email address that strips "From" information to anonymize the sender. Really, any CEO of a large company should do this but he&#
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by staunch 8y ago
Seems like a good thing to have another VC firm that actually tries to make its own decisions. It doesn't seem particularly new or ambitious though. New and ambitious would be attempting to beat YC at its own game. Competing head-to-he
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by staunch 8y ago
There are much more effective ways you could protest the TSA. Mouthing off to random employees in a grocery store was clearly not chosen based on effectiveness but laziness, so don't lie to yourself about the lack of venues. It's
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by staunch 8y ago
Politics in this context clearly means internal politics but there are many different causes of war. Many wars have been fought in self-defense, for example to challenge a foreign invasion.
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by staunch 8y ago
It's the exact reason the Roman Republic failed! The powerful political actors realized they could just physically intimidate and impede their opponents with gangs. No one that believes in a functioning society should support political
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by staunch 8y ago
That's incredibly cowardly of you. You're using "fighting words" which is not speech that is protected under the first amendment. The common response to fighting words like this is a fistfight. In this case you're m
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by staunch 8y ago
The advantage of a great technology company is its ability to continue innovating, make hard decisions, and maintain a commitment to quality. You could take all of Tesla's IP and hand it to any company and they couldn't do anyth
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by staunch 8y ago
It sounds stupid but I first learned this concept from the movie "White Men Can't Jump" in 1992 when I was just a kid. I don't accept the idea as a hard rule but I do think it's a valuable perspective to understand.
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by staunch 8y ago
Seems less like an answer to "How do I change the world?" than a rough description of what almost any intelligent person does in an idyllic environment. It's very common for successful people to over-analyze their specific be
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by staunch 8y ago
AFAIK the closest thing we have is the very recently released USS Nimitz incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident And even this example is very very far from being enough evidence to believe extr
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by staunch 8y ago
What made reddit so great is that it was an underfunded company. What will probably be its ruin is that it is now an overfunded company. It should be run like a public service, for the benefit of society. It's now being run like a busi
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by staunch 8y ago
I absolutely grant that Livingston was crucial to YC's success but it would be wrong to ignore the reality of what holds most people back: lack of opportunity. The opportunity that Paul Graham gave Jessica Livingston is being massively
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by staunch 8y ago
Yet another example of people being confused by statistics. This story has been written and posted on HN a hundred times. It's always a failure to distinguish which type of business is being discussed. The data for innovative technolog
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by staunch 8y ago
> "My numerous calls to Management were never returned." > "They completely disregarded that I am a CONSUMER and deserve answers." This is where I start suspecting there's more to the story than the author
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by staunch 8y ago
> If there is another “crypto winter,” we’ll keep investing aggressively. This is how the good investors win. They have real definable thoughts of their own about technology. The truth is that most VCs aren't much more than bad mo
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by staunch 8y ago
I think it's after developing and running a few real world large systems over the course of years. I was an extremely technical "junior" engineer, and I often knew things that "senior" engineers didn't, but the
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by staunch 8y ago
> Mr. Schulte had been charged last year in New York with possession of child pornography. The fact that they found child porn on his computer is the scariest part. Almost any technical person could frame almost anyone else with CP pos
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by staunch 8y ago
> safety agencies now limit Dreamliners powered by one of the Trent 1000 engine models under scrutiny to flying no more than 2.3 hours from the nearest airport — down from 5.5 hours previously. This seems like what these agencies shoul
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by staunch 8y ago
Technology will help the citizenry destroy these evil megacorps. It's just a matter of time and some improvements in technology. The world where ABC/CBS/NBC/NYTimes/Time/etc could control what people think is o
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by staunch 8y ago
"The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." Google is headed for a total crash on its current trajectory. Almost the entire business is built on an anti-user model. At some point there
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by staunch 8y ago
It's likely that Alexander would have taken over Italy had he lived a couple more decades. He definitely could have done it. Rome was not yet the powerhouse it became and he knew how to lead an army better than literally anyone in hist
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by staunch 8y ago
It's a good suggestion but the luxury of the nice glass bottles and great taste makes me enjoy it more. I recycle all of the bottles. It's a bit of a vice but not a bad one as vices go.
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by staunch 8y ago
1. Stopped drinking diet coke at home. I had a relapse on this but now I'm back to not drinking it anymore. I'll drink one with pizza but won't stock it ever again. Glass bottles of Pellegrino sparkling water is my replacemen
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by staunch 8y ago
Employment contracts and more equity may be the answer. Contracts are already a feature of some companies for some employees. It would be very interesting if all good startups started doing this for all employees. It might make them a lot m
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by staunch 8y ago
It's very easy to get attached to a particular name. There's some deep psychological aspect to it. You can become attached to even a very bad name. It's really weird how quickly it can happen. I'd recommend coming up wit

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