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carabiner

8,986karma·2,607submissions·July 23, 2020
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I want to do whatever Costco people do.
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Every damn time. The debate used to be idea vs. implementation. Today, it's all about implementation vs. audience/distribution. You can have 50 different people sell the exact same thing wit…
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I was following it pretty closely for anthropological reasons. There wasn't a single clear photo of a drone, just planes and helicopters, over the most densely populated area in the country. It w…
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Remember those new jersey drones that were all commercial planes?
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These apps never worked for me at my gym. The app successfully (it seemed) scanned my barcode on my gym card, but the gym's scanner never was able to pick it up from my phone's screen at max…
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Joby actually claims their business is viable without significant advances in battery energy density. We'll see. I think this will be closer to an Eclipse Aviation business case than SpaceX.
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Japan did the same with tsunami records.
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Drones killing drones. No lives at stake any more. Like burning piles of money on the sidelines until one side runs out.
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Many factors in this. Heat islands from urbanization in Kyoto, different species bred for earlier blooming, etc.
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What about funding political causes with hundreds of millions of dollars? Same thing?
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Yeah this is annoying. Ten years ago hearing of Google cofounder turning right wing would sound like hell freezing over. I think this is deeply interesting to see how tech has been captured by big mon…
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Every damn time, for chocolate, coffee, and red wine "studies."
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Lockdown was such a massive mistake. Masks are good, vaccines are good, shutting down everyone's lives in hopes of protecting already extremely unhealthy people, to which effectiveness was never …
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I'm from 2207 and it's not a big deal.
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Naming software has gotten so much worse. We're just at full on random words now. Looking forward to next project management software called "Dumbbell" or something.
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It's not much worse than all the tracking adtech used by FAANG industry. Smartest people in the world working on these systems.
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The guy probably owns like 4,000 of these plugins and has factored in that 5% will get caught per year and makes bank from the rest of them.
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I think it's good. I've definitely seen resource inflation exactly that OP is alluding to in enterprise. A desire to have some huge cloud based solution with AWS, spark bla bla when a python…
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In Mexico you have quincenaras with like 500 people and a dress that's worn for 1 day that costs like $2,000.
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This is what humans should be doing with their lives, and not spending 8 hours/day staring at screens. I'm so serious.
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Is there any quick test I can do to see if I can innately determine tones like this? If I fail said test, I can know that I'm not cut out for guitar.
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He's absolutely right, and that's not just insightful, that's prescient.
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Look at this series of tweets from her: > One interesting observation I’ve noticed is a lot of top founders did oddly strong at math from a young age. https://x.com/kocalars/st…
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Bye-bye tweet from founder: https://x.com/kocalars/status/2040262537166618887 Notably YC hasn't wished them a farewell.…
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