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by yojo 5y ago
My wife and I once visited a friend of a friend who was “living like a king” in northern Thailand. He had a walled compound with a Mets baseball theme, a half dozen Burmese slaves, and had recently downsized from multiple wives to 1. He exp
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by yojo 6y ago
Seems like a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” kind of scenario. If you don’t pause the rollout, there will be news articles that the government ignored deadly side effects, resulting in lack of trust and vaccine hesitancy. If you do
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by yojo 6y ago
I also used/loved NFSN, but I have a habit of neglecting pages for years. I have had more than one site go dark for months before I realized they’d run out of budget. Now I use GH pages so I don’t have to think about it. If you’re acti
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by yojo 6y ago
Not useful for your current case, but I recommend using a password manager to fill random phrases for security questions. That way they’re easy to read out over the phone to CS reps, but are more secure than literal answers, which can often
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by yojo 6y ago
Before starting SLIT I was unable to spend more than an hour outside in the spring before I turned into a disgusting mess (this is with daily OTC pills). Now I can go play with my kids all day in the sun. $99/mo is well, well worth it.
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by yojo 6y ago
I’ve been doing SLIT in the US for ~2 years. The drops themselves are off label, and no insurance will cover it. I’m allergic to basically everything and the drops are $250 for a 90 day supply. So that’s $1k/year already. After copays
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by yojo 6y ago
This is still done today with some premium milk in the US - e.g. Strauss milk: https://www.strausfamilycreamery.com/simple-faqs/what-should...
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by yojo 6y ago
Honest question: have you found something better? Or do you just do all your own research now?
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by yojo 6y ago
Yes, they will never recommend something they can’t monetize. But they also do some basic product testing and I’ve yet to get actual crap buying their recommendation. If I’m getting something under $100 they get me a good enough solution an
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by yojo 6y ago
Unless it’s a really big ticket item I’ve given up on product research as the investment is just not worth my time. I just buy whatever Wirecutter tells me to; usually they’re not too wrong.
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by yojo 6y ago
I’ve quit coffee twice now. The first time I went cold turkey and had terrible headaches for about a week. I don’t recommend that route. Last year I used a digital scale and stepped down my intake by 5g every 3 days (starting at 40g/da
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by yojo 6y ago
IANAL, but as I understand it the ingredient list is not copyright able, though the description may contain sufficient creative content to qualify. There’s even an FAQ covering it. https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq&#x2
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by yojo 6y ago
I threw out some numbers to set a baseline of “this can’t go on forever.” I don’t pretend to know when it starts to transition, or the speed of the transition. The fact that the rate of growth will someday slow means assumptions you make a
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by yojo 6y ago
It is unclear if the Earth’s carrying capacity reaches a trillion, that’s certainly in the high side of forecasts. It does not look like we’re on a trajectory to hit anywhere near that. I also question the value of genius at driving GDP gro
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by yojo 6y ago
I’m skeptical of the closing claim that exponential growth keeps happening forever. Yes, you can grow GDP 2% for 200 years, that results in an economy 50x the start size. Expand it to 1000 years and you’re talking about an economy 400 milli
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by yojo 6y ago
Not necessarily true. I was a mid level product engineer at a recently IPOd company (joined 2 years pre IPO). My base salary was $200k, and the stock and bonus more than doubled that. There was a little bit of “pick the rocket ship” gamble
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by yojo 6y ago
To be clear, I agree that it often makes sense for the code to be “off” on initial deploy. By “default”, I mean what does the code do in absence of feature flag data? Put another way, my specific concern is “what happens when the flag syste
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by yojo 6y ago
In my experience the “off” path is only well tested the day the feature is released. Once the feature is out in the world the old tests go stale, and manual testing in effect never happens. It gets worse when a new ungated feature is built
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by yojo 6y ago
In many cases you are better off using a kill switch than a feature flag. This may seem pedantic, but the way your system fails (on vs off) can protect you from disaster when your flag setting framework has a bug. On a large codebase it is
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by yojo 6y ago
One nuance here is someone making $31,200 is barely getting by. It might only be .77% of their salary, but 50% of their annual savings. The difference between saving $500 and $750 is substantial. E.g. if you’re trying to put together 20k fo
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by yojo 6y ago
> Also, I thought climate change was pretty much a problem of social coordination. What exactly do we gain from building better model of climate change? Knowing where it's going to hit us hard? I supposed that could be useful, but e
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by yojo 6y ago
Sleep: - blackout curtains, blackout rod, and white noise machine. - latex hybrid mattress. I settled on Luma's version of this. Exercise: Mini home gym settup - Bowflex SelectTech dumbbells with stand. Power blocks would be equally go
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by yojo 6y ago
Great explanation! I’m surprised you didn’t mention the two reasons I always thought YC pays for my news: 1) YC company friendly marketing channel. Reasonably good posts from YC companies get upvotes here, which means eyeballs and potential
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by yojo 6y ago
Being a parent helps build a skill set that can help you level up your career - if your employer values them. It can also make you less interested in that advancement. My own anecdote: I have two kids (3 and 1). I’ve experienced a bit of a
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by yojo 6y ago
Would it be tax fraud if you’re still in California? You record your address when you file with the state, I don’t think the state cares where you get your mail. I guess the employer could have some contractual terms requiring your address
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by yojo 6y ago
I’m surprised they were still handing out options - don’t most later stage startups switch to RSUs? I’d hate to have to decide whether to exercise today, cliff or no cliff.
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by yojo 6y ago
I would assume the crew of a military ship are substantially younger and healthier than the general population. Since both health and age seem to play a key role, 50% is almost certainly an upper bound, with the true number lying between 17
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by yojo 6y ago
This is a common arbitrage tactic. Seller carries no inventory, lists multiple products on eBay for slightly higher than the Amazon price, and buys/ships from Amazon if anyone buys the eBay listing.
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by yojo 7y ago
It’s not just about you getting sick. By practicing social distancing you delay the spread of the virus. Even if the same number of people end up getting sick, distributing the sickness in time helps reduce the load on hospitals. If you ins
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by yojo 7y ago
There are actuary tables of average life expectancy given a base age. If you are a 70 yo female, you’re expected to live 2 years more than a 70 yo male. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html It’s possible t

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