Stronico

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by Stronico 2mo ago
Non paywalled link https://archive.is/g7HNV
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AI Napoleon and AI Duke of Wellington Debate the Iran War(substack.com)
2 points by Stronico 6mo ago|0 comments
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Plato and Pragmatic Philosopher William James Debate Vibe Coding(substack.com)
2 points by Stronico 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Stronico 2y ago
I can just give the logins to someone else. My current setup is a workable, optimal, but not clean solution to the problem.
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by Stronico 2y ago
I've got it down to 45 minutes a month, including a phone call to the venue.
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by Stronico 2y ago
All of those can be done on meetup - but then we would lose a lot of people who are not, and will not be on Meetup. The email list is probably the single most important part of the tech stack actually.
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by Stronico 2y ago
I run a discussion group that meets once a month - our tech stack is 1. A blog running WordPress that I use to announce meetings 2. A meetup.com account (free tier) that has the same information as the blog 3. A MailChimp account (free tier
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Nuclear Power and Hot Air Balloons(hwfo.substack.com)
2 points by Stronico 4y ago|0 comments
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by Stronico 4y ago
It's important not to overthink this - You're a specialist at being you, more specifically you have a bundle of skills, some of which will be useful to people with both problems and money. All you can really do is to isolate thos
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by Stronico 4y ago
1. Care about technical matters and show that you care about technical matters - if you're selling something technical it's good to have complicated opinions on technical matters 2. Someone who is difficult in good times will be
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Are nuclear weapons or Rogue AI the more dangerous risk?(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by Stronico 5y ago|1 comments
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by Stronico 5y ago
Risk is independent of prior events, habits are not - I think that was what the anthropologist story is about
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by Stronico 5y ago
Maybe I've just gotten better at what I follow/comment on, but the mood feels like it's gotten a bit better over the past few years, more tolerant, more heterdox, less shrill, more interesting, less combative, less "perf
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by Stronico 5y ago
I've done a fair amount of that - some mistakes I've made - 1. Not getting money up front 2. Extending credit 3. Open ended meetings 4. Being insufficiently explicit about what is being delivered 5. Working on a handshake (se
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China’s ‘artificial sun’ burns five times hotter than the real thing(the-sun.com)
2 points by Stronico 5y ago|0 comments
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Burn the Universities and Salt the Earth(hwfo.substack.com)
9 points by Stronico 5y ago|6 comments
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by Stronico 5y ago
Many things can be said but you will experience an emotional range like you've never felt before - the lows are really low and the highs are really high - plus a lot of your life will no longer be within your control, which always adds
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by Stronico 5y ago
It can be nice in big cities too, maybe a little harder, but still pretty easy - all you have to do is remove social media and the clickbait/outrage web and life becomes pretty normal.
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by Stronico 5y ago
Things I know I will need in the next month get scanned and sent to Notion - Tax Docs go to a folder on my desk Everything else I place in a large pile on the side of my desk - once it looks like it's going to fall over I go through ev
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Ask HN: What is the best step by step guide to launching a product?
15 points by Stronico 5y ago|6 comments
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by Stronico 5y ago
Nice catch actually
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by Stronico 5y ago
I've always found the "You can accomplish Task A by using Method B, but Method C is way easier and better in the long run" quite helpful, and rarely on stack overflow
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Want a Vaccine? Elect a Nationalist(hwfo.substack.com)
17 points by Stronico 5y ago|26 comments
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by Stronico 6y ago
Go for the bedrock with "Knowledge and Decisions"
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by Stronico 6y ago
A column or collection of random quotes will never adequately summarize a thinker - however his books "Knowledge and Decisions" and "A Conflict of Visions" both rank as masterpieces.
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by Stronico 6y ago
The categories were made for man, not man for the categories (as a wise man once said). If you can improve your lot without hurting someone else you should do it. The name of the problem doesn't matter if you have a solution available
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by Stronico 6y ago
More production per worker - due to automation and other efficiency improvements.
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by Stronico 6y ago
The book Never Enough by Judith Grisel is a good addition this field, and probably this book. Short version - your body longs to be at equilibrium/homeostasis and drugs (alcohol, stimulants, opiates, etc) upset that equilibrium, so you
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by Stronico 6y ago
I've found "How centralized is decision making in the company?" to be illuminating. The specific answer doesn't matter, but it probably hasn't been asked before and the answerer will have to think about the answer.
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by Stronico 6y ago
Valid - but building a crappy first machine is a great way to learn how to build a better second machine.

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