presidentender

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by presidentender 3mo ago
Strangely only "Kimi" has accurately heard of me. Gemini thinks I'm a German-language version of the stuff I do in English, Kimi recognizes my long-defunct blogging about technology and economics.
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by presidentender 7mo ago
I got one of those dongles from my insurance company that plugged into the ODB2 port and reported my driving habits. I was a bad driver. It would frequently beep at me to let me know that I had braked too hard. I was mystified. "What s
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by presidentender 1y ago
One of my mom's best friends when I was a kid had Huntington's. She was a few years older than mom, and her sons were a few years older than my brother and I. One of them chose to get tested. The other chose not to. I remember thi
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by presidentender 1y ago
For a time in the years around 2008 I would sign my credit card receipts "Ron Paul," which eventually resulted in a sternly-worded letter from Wells Fargo that carried no legal weight but did lead to me discontinuing the silly lit
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by presidentender 1y ago
One of my favorite... solutions, I suppose, was to find a break (not a leak) in a pipe by running current through it and using some sensor (I think the vocabulary is "signal generator," but I do not know). Current does not run fur
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by presidentender 1y ago
Are there similar optimizations available for basketball? Shoes can only do so much.
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by presidentender 2y ago
If the company is employee owned, how do you propose that an investor even could back it? Investment results in an ownership stake.
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by presidentender 2y ago
Luddite technologists. What a time.
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by presidentender 2y ago
It doesn't preach so much as it explores. The author strikes me as being more economically literate than Rand or LeGuin, but not as good a writer as the latter. The real and staggering excellence of the series is the speculation - it&#
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by presidentender 2y ago
One of my favorite science fiction novels deals with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain
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by presidentender 2y ago
It would surprise me to learn that Steve Yegge had deferred the opportunity to type a lot in favor of using an LLM to generate natural language. I'm biased in his favor, but I recognize that brevity is not among his virtues.
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Ask HN: What to do with my defunct startup's domain?
4 points by presidentender 2y ago|5 comments
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by presidentender 2y ago
I'm prone to plantar warts, and the only success I've had has been from surgical removal. I have not tried duct tape, though. Once I went to a podiatrist who injected bleomycin, a chemotherapy drug. My foot hurt for several days a
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by presidentender 2y ago
Those of us who have the foresight to make such sacrifices should also have the foresight to structure our investments to make them resilient against redistribution.
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by presidentender 2y ago
Fractal seems to have addressed the entire market they had identified. It doesn't appear that they're still recruiting founders. I was in their pipeline and interviewing potential business cofounders, but chose to go the tradition
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by presidentender 2y ago
If you live close enough to the property and you've built the right relationships with your tenants the matter is trivial. If you live far away and rely on third party managers, the matter is also trivial, but the outcome is opposite.
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by presidentender 2y ago
I started something and failed catastrophically. We returned the remaining cash to the investors. VCs are beating down my door to discuss the next thing, and they're introducing me to their portfolio companies to see if I'm intere
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by presidentender 3y ago
More Texans will buy NordVPN subscriptions and the world will keep turning. It's a waste of legislation.
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by presidentender 3y ago
You can still go die in the forest. One fellow had a book written about him for doing just that.
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by presidentender 3y ago
This is just delightful, but is no one else bothered by the honey bear mustard bottle?
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by presidentender 3y ago
I drink heavily. Sometimes it occurs to me that I need a break. These breaks are sometimes months long, but after just a few days I feel amazing. I haven't gone for eighteen months as the author describes, but it might be interesting t
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by presidentender 3y ago
It is possible that the sixty-one percent tip for a vanishing but nonzero minority of rides.
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by presidentender 3y ago
"the author needed to grow a spine" cuts to my soul. I was the technical cofounder of a startup. We spent a similar amount of money on a similar agency, on advisors to tell our designer he was doing a good job, and on content writ
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by presidentender 3y ago
Even if the subsidies that drive increasingly sophisticated models evaporate, we'll still have the existing models we can run on commodity hardware. Some of those models will be good enough for the risk-tolerant low-value applications.
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by presidentender 3y ago
I just shut down my startup (we raised a huge seed and we weren't gonna find product market fit with the original thesis; pivoting madly would have been a poor way to justify our valuation). I am doing standup comedy and blacksmithing
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by presidentender 3y ago
Bench press wasn't a popular lift until the late 50s, so it's unlikely the man ever performed the motion, much less in such a way that anyone wrote down a PR.
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by presidentender 3y ago
During my year and a half there I had to wash poop off my shoe once. It took me a few minutes. My rent was several hundred dollars per month cheaper than any other place I lived in the Bay area. I'll wash anything off anything for a th
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by presidentender 3y ago
I lived on Turk between Hyde and Leavenworth. It has all the bad things. The advantages are, to my reckoning, overwhelming.
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by presidentender 3y ago
I quite liked living in the Tenderloin. It's close to transit, it's cheap, and it's got great restaurants. I wouldn't live there if I had a cohabitating partner or kids, though.
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by presidentender 3y ago
My MIP was a factor during the background check for my security clearance in my early 20s. Since then nobody has cared.

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