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To be a pedant it might be a plurality (biggest one), but not a majority (>50%)

> Protection from other companies selling our work I'm not against these sorts of licenses. But we should all be aware that companies like this (and Mongo, Elastic, etc) are a step away from t…

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I’m frankly conflicted. Ignoring news seems good for my mental health. But is it really the news? Or is it the reality? For example when you dig into the Trump administrations policies or behaviors it…

I disagree that people aren’t tuning out of news. I talk to people in real life that keep news at a distance. They don’t want to engage, they know it’s a black hole anxiety inducing clickbait. It seem…

Won’t your company be incentivized to let loose tech recruiters on the meetups?

It's also going to make it more likely companies that want to market to developers will pay to have a lot of 'meetups' that are really mini conferences for that company w/ lots of …

Academicia is suffering from a disease of uselessness where papers are written from a standpoint of getting credit. It’s not about other people understanding, reusing or learning how to use what they’…

Isn’t the placebo effect strong here? It’s hard to have any kind of sham Mediterranean diet for the control participants. The dieters know they are dieters, doesn’t that knowledge- “I’m doing somethin…

Could this be applied to cut down on the drugs we need to give cattle?

The Trusted Advisor (a book about consulting)

Not really. Having tried to use hotels for meetings, they are unreasonably expensive and do stupid stuff like “the whiteboard rental fee is $500/day”

There IS a market for a WeWork like service. A WeWork-like model has appeal to someone like me that would love good coffee and an office/hoteling space! Especially as I travel a lot and sometimes…

Trump lending his name to “getting tough on a China” is probably a sure fire way that “getting tough on China” will be in the political wilderness for the next 10 years.

But does it have higher customer retention over the long term? Conversions are only one piece of running an online business

Booking is obsessed with maximizing conversions, which just leads to dark patterns. One lessons from all these things is they maximize for what’s easiest to measure, not what’s most important. Convers…

Part of the problem with trust in the medical community is how inconsistent doctors themselves can seem. I’m on my 6th doctor (2nd urologist) and finally I think I have a diagnosis for a long standing…

More libraries need to sell coffee :)

I feel confident "someone like me" is going to weather unexpected medical expenses or a kids textbook far better than someone making < $50K a year facing the same thing.

Yes for sure, but for the many other upper middle class people like me most likely the $220 is gone to sit in a bank or spent frivolously.

I just got a $220 check in the mail from the state of Virginia related to the US Federal tax changes passed in 2017. I have $10s of thousands in the bank, and my wife and me have a combined > $200K…

I think there could be something to economies of scale, but in the How I Built That podcase, they brag about every space is bespoke! I’d pay for a version of WeWork that let me camp out for $10 get se…

The “How I Built This” on WeWork[1] was fascinating. Basically the 2008 financial crises increased vacancies in trendy places a lot. WeWork grew up with the trends in coworking. But really has turned …

Absolutely not. I want to own my content as much as possible. Tech startups like Medium seem to have a habit of silently changing TOS and eroding my rights. Jekyll / Wordpress are not THAT hard t…

It is - but what you're describing isn't available from experts at "every grocery store" scale

Honestly if simple banking is handled by automation, isn’t there room for differentiation for more “human” banking that empowers people to understand and use more complex financial instruments?

Be a full time stay at home parent. Possibly including being a foster parent.

There’s nothing that can prepare you. Just take a deep breath, enjoy it, and don’t overprepare. One piece of advice though: ask for help. Don’t be shy. Western culture prizes independence. This is not…