DeBraid

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by DeBraid 3y ago
> Caribou are herded This is literally the purpose of a stone wall: herding the animals in a specific direction, to a specific location. > not sure why you would make a wall to hunt them Because 8500 years ago hunting tools were prim
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by DeBraid 3y ago
> A prehistoric structure reminiscent of England’s iconic Stonehenge has been uncovered in Grand Traverse Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan on the western shore of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. > ... discovered what appears to be a dry land
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by DeBraid 3y ago
Strongly recommend this deep dive podcast from Acquired https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc
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by DeBraid 4y ago
Friend who spent time there 2008-10 has a great line: "the air is a prison".
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by DeBraid 4y ago
Wilful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper https://www.cbc.ca/books/wilful-blindness-1.6136088
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by DeBraid 4y ago
I have the exact opposite experience. My first time ever wearing a helmet on the slopes I slammed head-first into a tree. Got up, laughed it off, and rode away. Better lucky than good.
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by DeBraid 4y ago
For anyone missing context, joke refers to the fabulous TV show `Detectorists`. Well worth your time to watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detectorists
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by DeBraid 5y ago
This. Nextjs / Vercel is amazing. React + Typescript for building (Nextjs), Vercel for devops (hosting, dns, CI/CD). Excellent DX and customer service (the CEO/devrel will reply to your tweets for goodness sake).
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by DeBraid 5y ago
High Output Management by Andy Grove (Operations, people mgmt) Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey Mackay Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jerry I. Porras and Jim Collins
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by DeBraid 5y ago
pg and others commonly cite founder divorce as reason startups fail. If Tiny et al can workaround for this (liquidity + recruiting network), they can unlock value that would otherwise get destroyed by shutting down a nascent startup premat
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by DeBraid 5y ago
There are several initiatives in the hunting and fishing community doing this, aka buying land, managing the wilderness, and making it available to the public. * The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, or TRCP, is a non-profit 501(
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by DeBraid 5y ago
> that nature is there to be economically exploited. Does a species run up a loss? Extinction is its fate. Nature will do what it wants, so I can't speak for the wolves. Humans on the other hand, at least in US and Canada, operate
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by DeBraid 5y ago
Related, an excellent podcast episode by that name "Landscape of Fear" from Meateater: https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-162-landsca... Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Kevin Monteith, Dr. Ma
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by DeBraid 5y ago
This is fascinating: > Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/mind-cont... the study for those that prefer primary sources: >
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by DeBraid 5y ago
While morbid to some, pet crematoriums are potentially great business for 3 reasons: * service that humans require in perpetuity * luxury status good * no one wants to own/operate such a business (few competitors) https:&#x
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by DeBraid 5y ago
And, it's back up per OP. https://twitter.com/Twotafkap/status/1443250484458962953
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by DeBraid 5y ago
The drama with Google has to be mentioned as major part of their company history. They also had a famous fight with heroku https://genius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-annotate...
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by DeBraid 5y ago
> Heat shock proteins are produced by cells in response to exposure to stressful conditions (heat, cold, UV light, and during wound healing or tissue remodeling) > Many members of this group function to stabilize new proteins to ensur
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by DeBraid 5y ago
Came here to post something similar, "I don't experience this problem..." and realized this is due to my age (approaching 40yo) and having the good fortune of curated great group of friends who enjoy each other more than doom
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by DeBraid 5y ago
Very few firms want to hire juniors, while nearly all firms desire senior-level talent. This manifests inflated job vacancies because so many firms have an evergreen job posting for "Senior Full Stack". Because talent is scarce t
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by DeBraid 5y ago
IIRC, in this[1] video Andrej Karpathy mentions radar was mostly redundant, and in addition was occasionally harmful (sending conflicting signals vs. video), so they got rid of it to reduce cost and complexity. [1]: https://youtu
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by DeBraid 5y ago
Likely because of the outliers. If you live in a "nice quiet neighbourhood" and an airbnb party house emerges, everyone freaks out. Horror stories on sites like https://www.airbnbhell.com/ are remarkable. Clearl
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by DeBraid 5y ago
Agree. They own the company, success or failure is on their name. A 2-person team on brink of failure doing week or two of 18-hour days to rescue the business (and reputation to lesser extent) is reasonable to me. By contrast, salaried f
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by DeBraid 5y ago
A few charts showing 20-year quit rates via FRED: * ALL Non-Farm: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSQUR * Professional and Business Services (which I believe captures software) https://fred.stlouisfed.or
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by DeBraid 5y ago
Canada is widely known (internally and among allies) to be an easy place to launder money (relative to other similar countries). > The U.S. Department of State has designated Canada a “major money laundering country” where foreign drug-t
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by DeBraid 5y ago
> since the tax was imposed in April 2017 Base rate matters here. They are measuring `Sales subject to foreign buyers tax`, not the impact of foreign buyers. This percentage of foreign buyers THAT ALSO pay their taxes. The foreign capi
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by DeBraid 5y ago
Not saying what is / isn't a bubble, but enjoyed this discussion here on Aussie / Canadian RE bubble. https://youtu.be/2MLZxJuzT5E?t=2802 Joe Walker: "Sydney and Melbourne are 2 of the most expensive cit
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by DeBraid 5y ago
Clean money can buy financial assets like foreign stocks. Dirty money cannot. > Canada is a great place to launder money because of our lack of ownership transparency ... criminals can park large amounts of illicit cash in real estate a
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by DeBraid 5y ago
Majority of mortgages in Canada are fixed rate and do not float month to month. > 73%: Percentage of mortgage holders with fixed-rate mortgages in 2020 Down from 74% in 2019 > 22%: Percentage of mortgages that have variable or adjusta
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by DeBraid 6y ago
Back in the day when arrows were handmade from natural materials with primitive tools they were scare and highly valuable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

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