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by timoth3y 4y ago
An interesting aside the Cotsworth Calendar is such an obvious approach to the months problem it makes me wonder why it was not adopted in the first place. We have 13 months of 28 days each. The 9th is always a Monday the 19th is always a T
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We should be skeptical of these announcements. Over the past few years, we've seen a steady stream of companies issuing press releases about these kinds of experiments showing a four-day workweek is just as (or more) productive. The fi
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“Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct, plausible — and wrong.” -- H. L. Mencken
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by timoth3y 4y ago
I mentioned this on another thread, but it's work repeating here. The acceptance of the term "Quiet Quitting" tells us a lot about how we currently view the relationship between labor and management. Somehow we have accepted
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by timoth3y 4y ago
The general acceptance of the term "Quiet Quitting" tells us quite a bit about how we currently view the relationship between labor and employer. Somehow we have accepted the idea that showing up when you are supposed to and doing
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What is most absurd about Energy Vault is that simply using water (a kind of mini-pumped hydro) would be orders of magnitude cheaper to build and far more efficient. Gravity storage is not new. It predates the electric motor by centuries. Y
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The article presents an engineering answer to s sociological question. The reason technology did not advance in Middle Earth is because innovation was not rewarded. Innovation and experimentation were punished. Mine a little too deeply? You
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This book really it me hard when I read it as a kid. When I re-read it as an adult it was still amazing and a very different, more subtle work. I think the reason it resonates so much with the young adult audience is that Charlie represents
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by timoth3y 4y ago
> Hopefully we'll end up with a new word for "decentralized ponzi" to differentiate them in future. We don't need new word. We already have words like "pump and dump" or "irrational asset bubble" o
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I know it's a losing battle, but I'm going to tilt at this particular pedantic windmill. Not all financial scams are Ponzi schemes. Most are not. Ponzi schemes involve the operator deceptively using incoming funds to pay out early
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> Did you ever get around to writing that article? It sounds interesting I have not, but you know, I got that request a lot back in 2016 too, so it sounds like i really should write that article. I promise I will get it written this year
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by timoth3y 4y ago
Hi. Tim here. I first published in on my podcast site and then on Medium and LinkedIn a few days later. https://www.disruptingjapan.com/turned-500k-pissed-off-inves... It seems that far more people will click on a Medium or
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> This is the main reason that I'm glad he pulled the plug: >> and the team ready to quit their day jobs Me too. I'm happy to report we all ended up on good terms with each other once all the drama settled down.
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Hi, author here. I'm surprised (and delighted) to see this back on Hacker News. I'm happy that people find value in the article, and the process writing it forced me to put my thoughts together and helped get me through an emotion
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by timoth3y 4y ago
Alito's logic on this is troubling. "... the case raises questions of “great importance” concerning a “ground-breaking” Texas law that addresses “the power of dominant social media corporations to shape public discussion of the i
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by timoth3y 4y ago
> If you ARE a victim, then it's delusional not to feel as such. Even if you are a victim, by adopting a "victimhood mindset" you inflict further harm upon yourself. Probably the best book written on this is Viktor Frank
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by timoth3y 4y ago
My apologies. That sentence should have read "does not seem to have had anyone accuse him of being..."
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The answer to the question in the title is contained in the title. For a number of reasons, we seem to have reached the point where hyperbolic, emotional statements get attention and calm, rational discussion is ignored. A world where every
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by timoth3y 4y ago
> whose commercial paper? Perhaps it's in the form of debt from exchanges. Tether could buy short-term notes from the exchanges paying them in Tether -- maybe at a slight premium to make sure the exchanges go along. The terms would
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by timoth3y 4y ago
Your situation is pretty common, and there are standard ways forward. It sounds like what you have is a "trade secret." If so, there is no need to reveal it or patent it. You can raise money and even expand globally without ever r
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by timoth3y 4y ago
Desantis won't says "oops". He's a much better politician than that. He will point to ballooning state deficits, scream that his opponents want to waste even more money, and demand cuts to education and public services.
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"If you go out trying to find a friend, friends are scare. If you go out trying to be a friend, friends are everywhere." -- Zig Zigglar
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Who did you build your SaaS product for? Start by talking to them. Once you have customers and revenues it's relatively easy to talk with VCs and take things to the next level. If you don't know anyone in your target customer grou
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by timoth3y 5y ago
>> you could be joyful but think your life is worthless > I find this hard to believe. Albert Camus developed the philosophy of Absurdism around a very similar idea. A gross oversimplification is that in the grand scheme of things,
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by timoth3y 5y ago
We can demonstrate that we are more than a decade away from usable AGI. Processing power is not an issue even today, because consciousness does not have to be simulated in real time. If you needed 10,000x the compute you could have a large
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by timoth3y 5y ago
Unpopular Opinion: Celebrities should be held legally accountable for the products they endorse. If a "reasonable person" can look at the info the celeb or influencer had at the time and consider it a scam or untruthful, the cele
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by timoth3y 5y ago
I don't agree with this article. Being supportive is not being nice. Being supportive can be cruel. I do a lot of mentoring for startup founders. I usually get asked to help with pricing and positioning strategy because it's hard
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by timoth3y 5y ago
Alternate take: The Socratic method does not work particularly well. Socrates was not able to convince his jurors of his innocence. And after he had pled for sentence, more jurors voted to have Socrates put to death than had voted to find
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by timoth3y 5y ago
> “There’s no compassion with people with their clothes off defecating and urinating in the middle of the streets, screaming and talking to themselves,” said Newsom, a former mayor of San Francisco We should still show compassion to the
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by timoth3y 5y ago
> Someone wants to ban Maus, someone else wants to ban Joe Rogan. Both parties want power at the expense of "freedom". There is an extremely important difference between these two examples. The first was the government forcin

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