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by visakanv 11y ago
> Why all the praise when the goal will look nothing like it looks now Because the media machine needs to keep spinning. Rather than give a balanced statement now, which takes more effort to put together, it's easier to post "W
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Hahaha, I'm replying to all your comments: > A good investor would have said to the Homejoy team "we believe in you and will back you in any viable business venture, but the home cleaning market is not a problem that will be so
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> It is fine for the team from Homejoy to be wild optimists, but not the VC investors. Hmm... I don't know if I agree or disagree. I think a VC's experience must be pretty unnerving– she probably turns down seemingly lousy deal
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> If you're an entrepreneur building the business, your attention was probably elsewhere, and it's likely that the you didn't even think about the things that killed your business. Great point, and it also explains the &qu
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> I wish we would see a reasoned explanation from the investors of why they put their limited partner’s money into Homejoy. "There's a 0.1% chance we could 10,000x'd our investment. It might be the next Uber or Airbnb or [
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I agree with every single thing about your comment. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if these guys go on to do other things, try again, fail again, try again, fail again, and eventually build something that actually works. It might n
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This (both the post and the comments here) are very interesting to me from a "some people are intrinsically optimistic and some people are intrinsically pessimistic" point of view. > Homejoy and ‘fail’ have gotten tethered toge
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This is great, and maybe every ToS should have a plain English version next to it? Shopify does this wonderfully: https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms
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I use Byword, works for me, but if I weren't already very comfortable using that, I'd probably try using this. Nice.
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Bye! All the best.
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> Some writers are too writerly, some are trapped in journalese or legalese, most are too vague. But better than any -ese is being able to communicate complex ideas to intelligent outsiders in a shared, common language. Agred. And this i
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The best part of PG's advice is actually this: > "After writing the first draft, try explaining to a friend what you just wrote. Then replace the draft with what you said to your friend." This is the single best thing you
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by visakanv 11y ago
Gaining weight is a part of it, but I'm also curious about understanding things like, the relationship between low blood sugar and brain function, low blood sugar and sleep, stuff like that. Will be happy with anything you can point me
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Yep!
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> People tend to overestimate their own abilities, knowledge and skills. For example, if you ask 100 people if they are better than average drivers, then you might not be surprised if more than 50% of them reply “yes”! Also people don&#x
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> While talking to anyone at work, I have to act like a ditzzy vally girl or hippy of some type. If I don't do this, I'm pegged as a threat. That's hilarious. I'm just sitting here imagining a bunch of hippies and val
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What was your startup about, and what happened?
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Also I think things like who's in your friends list, etc.
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Interesting. What do the serious nutrition folk recommend? (Also if there's anything specific for skinny low-appetite folk...)
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> For a person who wakes up around 7am the fast should begin around 5pm in order to let the sugars deplete around bed time. There is no reason to have readily available sugars while sleeping. And then in the morning break the fast. I can
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> 6000 calories worth of peanut butter in one shot WHAT?! Please make a YouTube video. I will show all my friends and family. The amazing Peanut Butter Eating Hero.
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Even if I didn't know about the Coke association, the problem I would have with a 10 week study is that it's a 10 week study. It's not evidence of sustainability. 10 weeks of changing your diet in general will probably lead t
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by visakanv 11y ago
Fellow skinny guy here who's working my way out of it. I don't know if you relate to this, but when I used to eat french fries and fast food, I would have bouts of lethargy and mental dullness. I just sort of thought that's h
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by visakanv 11y ago
> You'll lose weight on a calorie restricted diet almost no matter what you eat. The problem is, a calorie restricted diet alone isn't always sustainable. Eg if you're eating crap, but so little that you don't gain we
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I also recommend reading Gary Taubes' Why We Get Fat: http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259
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> Because it still sounds like he only ate twinkies and lost weight. The problem is that nobody can seriously eat only twinkies at a caloric deficit indefinitely. He was getting his caloric needs from sugar, and he was avoiding weight ga
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> Humans have been eating fats and carbohydrates ever since the dawn of men. It's part of our identity as omnivores. I'm curious to hear a list of carbohydrates that humans have been eating since the dawn of men. Surely not gla
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> The American overweight problem is cultural and not an issue with eating high or low glycemic foods like the article states. Why not both?
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Correct. Big sugar in particular is the major influence to watch out for. They used to literally have ads suggesting that people eat sugar as a pick-me-up: http://cf.collectorsweekly.com/uploads/2012/08/sugar-
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by visakanv 11y ago
Very often, broad calorie restriction leads to constant hunger and even malnutrition, and isn't sustainable over a lifetime. It makes a lot more sense usually to restrict sugary/refined carbs– soda, donuts, bread, buns, etc.

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