john_yaya

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by john_yaya 4y ago
Bytedance/TikTok are ignoring US law, as we saw in the news last week.
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by john_yaya 4y ago
The CCP at a minimum abets the shipment of fentanyl to the US. It aggressively collects personal information on every US citizen and resident. It relentlessly steals private and corporate intellectual property from the West and provides it
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by john_yaya 4y ago
Huh? The EU’s GDP and population are significantly greater than the US.
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by john_yaya 4y ago
I really wanted to like FreeCAD, but I’d say out of the five or so times I’ve attempted to use it, it crashed and lost my design four times. I picked up Fusion360 instead, then OnShape, and never looked back.
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by john_yaya 4y ago
“companies like Amazon and Tesla that have a net positive effect on society” Citation needed.
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by john_yaya 4y ago
My severance don’t jiggle-jiggle, it folds. Converted it to fiat, you really oughtta see it.
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by john_yaya 4y ago
The same Larry Summers who famously ruled for Zuckerberg against the Winklevoss twins.
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by john_yaya 4y ago
Same here. I was never sure if it was a man or woman, I don't think they ever specified (I could be wrong). But they were always fairly upfront about their problems with alcohol. For a while I wondered if it was an alter ego of Scot
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by john_yaya 4y ago
I never read "Lean In," but one of my favorite blog posts of all time[1] did a truly epic takedown of it, exposing it as a thinly-veiled manifesto for white-collar women to become miserable underpaid status-chasing workaholics. [1
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by john_yaya 4y ago
Excuse me, but there's an enormous difference between working with erroneous source material, and making factual errors when the correct data are already and widely available. And, I reject your repeated assertions that because you hav
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by john_yaya 4y ago
Facts are the foundation that such writing is built upon. If a piece of historical analysis contains a number of basic factual errors, that foundation is shaky at best. How can you or anyone go on to claim that the conclusion of the piece
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by john_yaya 4y ago
Please be kinder to yourself. You need to be your own strongest advocate, and that's not incompatible with being humble. You have plenty to contribute to this world, and the vast majority of us appreciate what you have to offer.
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by john_yaya 5y ago
This is true, and I'd add that the more fluid and dynamic those meetings are, the better. To me, it seems like video meetings are anything but. Lots of people either interrupting each other or trying too hard not to. Obnoxious repet
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by john_yaya 5y ago
Another technique is to print in ABS and then give it an acetone vapor bath - you preserve details much better, but setting all that up is a pain and a little dangerous.
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by john_yaya 5y ago
Senior homes and assisted living centers are a national disgrace. They are entirely about profit maximization (what business isn’t?), and as such hire people at the exact minimum and have well over 100% yearly turnover. The staff commonly
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by john_yaya 5y ago
> I have no idea how christmas is going to work. As a cultural Christian, I’d love to see Christmas work as a holiday where people spend time with their families and contemplate the gift of everlasting life. And, also, eat simply and not
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by john_yaya 5y ago
I worked on the Freestyle Libre, I’m thrilled to hear it’s at least a workable solution for you. When I was working at Abbott, I often volunteered for testing finger-stick devices, which made me appreciate a small part of what people with d
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by john_yaya 5y ago
The problem is that companies with less-experienced upper management think that they can save money by handing out awesome new titles instead of more money. In the short term, they’re right, it’s an old trick that will always work… on certa
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by john_yaya 5y ago
I would say they’re following Zymergen’s business model… except that model turned out to be “defrauding the investors.”
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by john_yaya 5y ago
Very similar thing here, I live in the Bay Area and have a flat, bright white roof. On an 85 degree summer day, it’s a wave of cool comfort to walk through the front door, and I pay nothing for it.
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by john_yaya 5y ago
That’s not really accurate. Celera ran in parallel to the HGP, and (at least for a while) generated superior results at 1/10th the cost.
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by john_yaya 5y ago
Thanks for this. Like so many people, I’ve long believed the myth that they removed it - though I can hardly be blamed, since A-list tech media have reported it as true.
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by john_yaya 5y ago
At least they were honest about withholding equity. Lots of startups do effectively the same thing by granting RSUs that become worthless via an assortment of underhanded mechanisms.
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by john_yaya 5y ago
$100K ARR is not really that out of the ordinary for something like this, I’m inclined to believe them without verification. One thing that bugs me, though, is that his solutions are in already very crowded spaces. It seems like it would b
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by john_yaya 5y ago
I’m not sure the race between government entities and the private sector always favors the former, even when it comes to R&D. A prime (no pun intended) example of that is the race to sequence the human genome.
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by john_yaya 5y ago
It’s time to rename “Unlimited PTO” to something more honest and realistic. Of course, HR will still call it that, but giving it a better name will help people see it for what it is. I propose “Vacation By Request” or maybe “PTO TBD.”
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by john_yaya 5y ago
Seems like bootstrapping isn’t just about the money for many bootstrappers, perhaps including you. There’s a type of person who would much rather grind out $150K ARR at something they create and own than pull down $450K/yr at Netflix.
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by john_yaya 5y ago
The magnets are a problem to solve, but not the biggest problem by far. Solve for neutron embrittlement of the reactor parts, and then you’ll start to have some credibility.
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by john_yaya 5y ago
One of Purdue’s specific misdeeds was lying to doctors about the addictiveness of OxyContin and leading them to believe that it had a very low risk of abuse. Much of the litigation against the company focuses on this.
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by john_yaya 5y ago
I have a System76 Gazelle. The trackpad tends to freak out when I reboot, issuing random clicks and cursor jitters - so I usually have to reboot again, or deactivate the trackpad in Ubuntu. Multiple firmware and OS updates haven’t fixed thi

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