nibstwo

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by nibstwo 9y ago
I have noticed this too. I really hope that it is some kind of bias on my end and not the phone listening to serve ads. When trying to bait the phone it does not work though. Ie. having a fake conversation and then reviewing the subsequent
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by nibstwo 9y ago
I have found people typically have a certain way of paying. Some companies pay late on principal, some pay early on principal, some pay late due to dysfunction or cash problems, some pay on time on principal. Over time I think you learn to
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by nibstwo 9y ago
No. Mine were mostly cognitive. I mean, when I was a kid I had no tooth enamel (had to have surgery to install fake teeth) and puked up everything I ate that had wheat in it, but somehow no one diagnosed it until later. I just assumed it wa
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by nibstwo 9y ago
I have Celiac. Unfortunately immunotherapy is not currently done in a way that would make much of a difference for us. Celiac is typically an autoimmune response to Gliadin protein as a result of human leukocyte activation genes HLA-DQ2.2&#
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by nibstwo 9y ago
All school is private. Sometimes you pay tuition, which seems better for accountability, and sometimes you pay more for housing. That people send their kids to school is unfortunate. It seems like if you took the daycare out of it, school w
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by nibstwo 9y ago
I thought they didn't even need to own the land to build tunnels as long as they do it at the right depth?
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by nibstwo 9y ago
I had a startup that made software for meat processing companies. It is pretty horrifying being in meat plants but most people are not yet at the point where they can accept not eating it. In my experience I feel better eating occasional of
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by nibstwo 9y ago
I think he thinks differently and on a philosophical level that few in business admit to publicly. I respect the conviction and thinking different and integrity regardless of the content.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
If you feel guilty enjoying the product of your work, you were probably doing pointless zero-sum work that did not need to be done. It is fine to say you want other people to be economically empowered, but the amount of guilt flying around
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by nibstwo 9y ago
Brave New World not 1984.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
Prior to having read what was written, or seen the company fire him, people generally towed the line of "pro-diversity". Once it was publicly available, and after he was fired as a direct result of it, people took a step back and
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by nibstwo 9y ago
http://www.connact.com/~hom/blog/276questions.htm
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by nibstwo 9y ago
It is interesting how aggressively people cite science to back their politics (on both "sides"). IQ distribution by gender is inconclusive. There is structurally valid and statistically significant science backing a higher beta no
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by nibstwo 9y ago
We met at 10 years old and are getting married at 24. When we really started dating three years ago, about a month in we did a spreadsheet of ~270 questions about how we wanted to live. We blindly answered so as to not concede or compromise
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by nibstwo 9y ago
The platform building that functionality themselves. Vertical integration in the customer-facing direction. 90% of my apps are Google-made now.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
A barge in international waters where I would harvest organs from willing donors in third-world countries paid for in cash and sell them to rich alcoholics and whoever else wanted them.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
One philosophical question I have been wondering recently is whether this problem could not be addressed by removing "real life" identity from the equation. I don't think personalized ads would be nearly as obnoxious if I kne
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by nibstwo 9y ago
"For models, Musk could look to Google co-founders Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, who have moved in and out of daily management at Google." Submarine promotion announcement for Eric Schmidt to co-founder of Google. Good article. Mus
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by nibstwo 9y ago
<25.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
Musk and Bezos are clearly smarter than Zuck and Dorsey.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
In theory, one might think this just makes you hardcore and productive. In practice, it always seems to be people who are (merely) equally or a little less productive than people who don't work all the time. But the optics is so convic
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by nibstwo 9y ago
The good part about anti-kid people is they leave the gene pool.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
+ TextNow: https://www.textnow.com/
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by nibstwo 9y ago
Google Photos.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
Setup your custom domain email to work with Zoho Mail for free. Then use a free Gmail inbox to add that email via Pop3. Then you can use a free custom domain email for sending/receiving with Gmail as your email client. Bam.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
Does this affect customers? Alcohol somewhat, swearing in office but not with customers no. Therefore, no swearing is a stupid policy to change, limited cultural benefit high cognitive tax. Alcohol in the office has really harmed one compan
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by nibstwo 9y ago
This is what I did. It worked well (for me). I would recommend it to someone like me. If you are smart and hard working, University or no University you will eventually be reasonably successful in the right circumstances. If you want to do
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by nibstwo 9y ago
Could have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling learned machines.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
Options != Assets. Don't do it.
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by nibstwo 9y ago
2016 Ford Taurus SHO has an Ecoboost 2.5L engine with twin turbo and I chipped it and added high performance intake/exhaust. ~550hp, 25 mpg. My beater from 98 was worse on mileage at 150hp. Strange.

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