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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
My "criticism" of Soylent is that it's essentially protein powder / vitamins / mass-gainer-type stuff with some other non-perishables, except marketed to geeks who have never stepped into a gym and thus have no idea
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Not a fan of this. I think the OP exhibits some toxic mindsets. > As a final station, I'd like to describe what online freelancer markets look like for people like me. On freelancer.com and oDesk, you compete with hundreds of lowest
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
> Then, he met his co-founder Maria De La Croix, through a feminist organization. As part of that movement, they protested the average pay gap between women and men by burning the extra wages he hypothetically earned because he was a man
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
This article completely misses the point. Musk is not a great presenter. He stutters, mumbles, goes off topic, etc as others have pointed out. Do you know what makes his presentations more worthwhile than pretty much anyone else in the Va
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
> However, if it is simply a fact that males are generally more variable than are females on many traits, why is this true? > Since a male can have more offspring than a female--but also has a greater chance of being childless... natu
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Well I think it's pretty standard for these types of companies to start as a small project, as a founder's inkling of something people would want. It's not like millions of VC money is being raised before that even happens. E
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
> Can anyone explain, what is the rough amount of runway that a company should need? Depends on your goals. If you want to dominate the market and become a monopoly, then you need enough to outspend all your competitors while surviving.
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
So you mean to tell me that rediscovering older work with faster computers and strategically referencing (or omitting references) to make yourselves look like the founding fathers of a resurgent field is a good way to get your university-fu
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
It's your call man. As another poster mentioned, it really is all in the execution. If you don't believe you can compete and out-execute on some worthwhile dimension, then give up. Otherwise quit second guessing yourself and get b
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
I believe you're missing the point of my comments entirely, probably because you got offended at my tone. That's alright, I realize that I write provocatively. To quote what I wrote above, >Can the right medication help a smal
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
>That works both ways. zxcvvcxz just denounced someone for suggesting medication. Given the context of trying to use it to cope with a job that makes one miserable. Is that really so difficult to understand? Obviously I don't deno
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
The notion that one should consider pharmaceuticals as a solution to not deriving happiness from a desk job really is outrageous. And that's just from a statistical standpoint. It's very unlikely to be the "right" soluti
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Oh yeah, I totally agree. My point is that limiting yourself to the basic necessities that cost $$, while reducing your wage slavery, will enable a much more fulfilling social life. How many times have you bailed on friends, or skipped meet
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
An interesting comment I saw in this thread is the suggestion to take medication [presumably to make working a job easier / more manageable]. To this I say -- are you fucking kidding? Working like we do is already fairly unnatural. Tak
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Here's a story. I interviewed for Amazon a while back, online whiteboard (laptop + phone interview). They asked me to code up some esoteric binary tree algorithm that I definitely didn't remember. In "real life" I would
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
I find a lot of irony in people's anecdotal "I did the uberman sleep schedule, it works." Key word: did. As in, past tense. Clearly it does not work better than the alternatives, or you'd still be doing it. Don't mi
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Since you're saying it without saying it, let's simplify and summarize: > furthermore, society interprets "men" as the top (physically, socially, financially) 20% of men, the men who make a real dent in the world and
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Say what you want about the particular policy, but I'm glad Tony has the opportunity and authority to implement it. "Management by committee" is the best way of reverting to a non-spectacular mean. It's much better to ha
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
Even perfect performance reviews doesn't entitle one to be promoted. Why does everyone have this idea in their head, that if they cross all the t's and dot all the i's the world is going to reward them? Are we really going to
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
Good for Kleiner. It seems their reputation was being dragged through the mud on a merit-less case of "she said they said". No factual evidence was presented justifying Pao's viewpoints. Before you downvote, please provide fa
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
Dude, YC is not obligated to do anything for you, or anybody. They're not a college, and even those aren't transparent with selection criteria. Christ, checklists out of 10? Life is a crapshoot. People need to also stop thinking t
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
What? Nobody is entitled to their audience being "more encouraging". I'm sorry but if you can't handle an investor being short with you, how can you possibly handle building a business? This is also completely analogous
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
By "technological growth", I mean creation of a novel and innovative nature. Stuff that goes "0 to 1" as Peter Thiel says ( http://www.meaningfulhq.com/zero-to-one-by-peter-thiel.html ). The first group of
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
Should employees at larger, established firms be able to demand parental benefits? For sure, it's healthy for the organization to help their employees (often the more senior and experienced) achieve their life goals of starting a famil
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
A lot of these 'problems' and 'lessons' seem to come as a byproduct of being a part of a 'scene' to do with startups, particularly uninspiring web and mobile startups. 'Uninspiring', to me, means peop
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
It's mind-blowing how much money and value is creating from teenagers wasting time.
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
A practical math topic I think all computer science (and engineering, really) students should take is convex optimization. Often a problem in engineering or computer science can be phrased as minimizing a cost function over some data and&#x
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
Yes, this is in the best interests of those creating platforms: help other people get their business on your platform. The incentives make sense. More internet means more people on facebook means more ad revenue from Zimbabwe or where ever
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
As someone mentioned, looking at only divorce rates doesn't paint the clearest picture. The data isn't as consistent as I led on. It would be more accurate, and pretty much equivalent to the discussion, to cite the declining marri
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by zxcvvcxz 12y ago
Based on the headline, did anyone else expect this article to be about "deep learning"? Seems like everyone and their mother is using machine learning to do X these days. My concern would be that neither the founders nor the inves

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