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by wheels 2y ago
At least in Berlin, there's a coming surplus of day-care spots. It's a difficult problem because the pay for day-care teachers isn't great, and training one takes several years, but demand is difficult to predict several yea
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by wheels 2y ago
I'd actually say the US is moving in the direction of Europe -- historically "left" in the US was social-democratic, whereas "right" was classical liberalism (again, these labels get wonky across cultures -- what Am
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by wheels 2y ago
That seems to literally just be restating what I said? Being one of the couple most accepted implies that there are other theories, and if it'd been found, it wouldn't be a theory, but simply part of the historical record.
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by wheels 2y ago
Kind of odd to see this turning up here: this theory isn't new and in fact is one of the couple most accepted theories about the origin of the gospels. It was proposed more than a century ago, and this article doesn't say anythi
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by wheels 2y ago
Erm, sure? Cast iron takes a little while longer to heat up because it's heavier, but it retains heat well once hot. It's even better on induction. I cook mostly in cast-iron and carbon steel and haven't ever had a gas sto
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by wheels 2y ago
It's not surprising that this feels different than Thunderbird as it's a completely separate app with a separate background just being rebranded with Thunderbird identity. There's probably some effort to make them play nice
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by wheels 2y ago
And if it was a 30% stake in OpenAI for that $7 trillion (kind of a standard VC round percentage) that would put OpenAI's valuation at about the same of all of the 7000-ish NASDAQ companies (including almost all public tech companies)
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by wheels 2y ago
One word of caution there (aside from other dangers of benzos): I had a friend use them on a flight from the US to UK, and apparently was still obviously intoxicated from them when arriving, and got rejected at the border, put in a holding
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by wheels 2y ago
I assure you that the kids that are struggling with severe dental problems are not drinking two liters of tap water per day. Maybe we should fluoridate Coca Cola.
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by wheels 2y ago
A fair point. But having the internet turn on you before you get any traction is also probably going to be a death-knell for an early stage company. It doesn't bode well for their ability to make or raise money.
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by wheels 2y ago
I voted the grandparent up about the license allowing it. But things being allowed isn't a benchmark for them being decent. I don't think we should stone adulterers. But I also think cheating on your partner can mean you're
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by wheels 2y ago
Private universities aren't. They get loads of research funding, tax breaks, people paying for their education with government backed loans. All American universities are to some extent public.
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by wheels 2y ago
It's true, but there are more well educated alternative country musicians than one might guess. Willie Nelson went to Baylor (but didn't finish) and Lyle Lovett has a degree in German literature from Texas A&M. Robert Earl Ke
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by wheels 2y ago
Honestly: it's not worth my time to keep arguing with you. You've not taken any accountability for the several demonstrably false claims you've made here.
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by wheels 2y ago
I wasn't comparing Sam to an Olympian; I was comparing you to one. Just because you were working in a donut shop at that age doesn't mean that that's the benchmark for achievement. Some people go to the Olympics. I honestl
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by wheels 2y ago
You're really just making shit up here. He didn't get $50 million for his startup within 15 minutes of meeting Paul Graham. YC's deal back then was for about $15k per startup for 7%. Loopt didn't even over its several
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by wheels 2y ago
I was going based on Wikipedia. Sam was 20 when his YC batch started, and also would have already been 20 for the YC interview. But it was close -- a few months, so it wouldn't surprise me if that gets elided in a dramatic retelling.
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by wheels 2y ago
Weridly this is the second time this has been repeated in this thread, but Sam wasn't even a teenager anymore when he met PG the first time (but would have just turned 20), and was 25 when Stripe was founded, so your story is obviously
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by wheels 2y ago
Stripe was founded when Sam Altman was 25. Loopt, Sam's first company, was founded when Sam was 20, and was Sam's mechanism for meeting Paul Graham, so this story is pretty obviously wrong at some level.
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by wheels 2y ago
Kind of like everyone's favorite interior design non-profit, IKEA. (Seriously. It's a non-profit. It's bonkers.)
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by wheels 2y ago
Well, usually in a realtime system you're required to produce something in a fixed amount of time. Designing the algorithms to not need variable amounts of memory is one of the challenges. Commonly you can have a buffer that's t
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by wheels 2y ago
There's some difference between user space and kernel. I don't have much experience in the kernel, but I feel like it's more about making sure tasks are preemptable. In user space it's often about complexity and guarant
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by wheels 2y ago
My apartment shared with three other roommates in that era was $750 (four bedrooms and a giant living room in a trendy neighborhood of a decent sized city). So $150 checks out.
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by wheels 2y ago
I'm pretty sure this is illegal under California law: https://starpointinjurylaw.com/articles/information/work-7-d... Startups don't fit into one of the excepted categories. When I started my company I p
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by wheels 2y ago
It's pretty revolting that you would turn this into a narrative of American exceptionalism.
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by wheels 2y ago
I didn't disagree with your point, just the way you supported it.
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by wheels 2y ago
I'd say exactly your argument is why it's hard to make changes. The US has this pretty weird civil religion where the constitution is the holy text and the people that wrote the constitution are prophets. Most other countries don&
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by wheels 2y ago
A friend of mine was doing Technics repair and customization and about 6 years back we started building a prototype of embedding a Pi with a 3.5" LCD in the body of a 1200. I build a custom Qt GUI for xwax that was controlled by a sin
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by wheels 2y ago
The Creatan stuff is raki, not rakı. Both the pronunciation (ı is 'uh') and beverage are different. Rakı is the basically the same drink as ouzo or pastis. Raki is the same as grappa.
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by wheels 2y ago
It's somewhat confusing since there are a lot of things based on the Arabic / Persian word arak (arak, raki, rakı, rakija, etc.) but they're not all that closely related drinks. "Rakija" would usually be translated

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