realbarack

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by realbarack 4y ago
Yep, basically this $250k is on the exact same terms as $375k of the YC $500K. (The first $125k of YC is for 7%, the next $375 is uncapped mfn.)
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by realbarack 4y ago
It's on an uncapped mfn safe, so the amount of equity will be determined by your other investors.
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by realbarack 5y ago
It's really not. These bells aren't that loud, you really only hear them once the cyclist is maybe 50 yards away. It's an incredibly important safety feature on low-visibility singletracks.
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by realbarack 6y ago
A toy for speaking with a synthetic personality and generating synthetic audio: https://uberduck.ai/ It's more like 10% baked, but it sort of works. It's much better with GPT-3 but hasn't yet been submitted t
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by realbarack 6y ago
I mean, the sitting president urged his followers to storm the capitol in order to reverse an election result. That's pretty much the most clearcut possible grounds for impeachment that exists.
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by realbarack 6y ago
I've been a Reddit user for about a decade and I really love RPAN, the streaming broadcast you refer to. I often find really interesting music made by talented artists, and I appreciate that the performances are done in a kind of off-t
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by realbarack 6y ago
I won't weigh in on your "is it better" question, but if you make 450k a year in the Bay Area you definitely do not need to commute hours each way and you can probably afford to buy a home if you want.
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by realbarack 6y ago
Because it has an offensive slur in it
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Credit Without Risk: An Anti-Cancel Publishing Model(blog.zachwf.com)
1 points by realbarack 6y ago|0 comments
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by realbarack 6y ago
I attribute it to mortality denial as well as general anti-technology sentiment across the board.
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by realbarack 6y ago
Vegas is not bad for outdoor activities either. World-class rock climbing, good hiking and mountain biking, 2 hours to the Grand Canyon, 2.5 to Zion National Park, 5 to Mammoth (not close but no worse than Los Angeles). Alex Honnold owns a
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by realbarack 6y ago
Note that "that person" is not actually a specific person, but merely your image of one.
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NBA Top Shot(avc.com)
3 points by realbarack 6y ago|0 comments
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by realbarack 6y ago
Nice post! I love hacking around with PostGIS. While I'm not normally a huge ORM advocate I do like the GeoDjango API for this sort of thing [0]. There hasn't been enough experimentation with geospatial social applications. (There
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by realbarack 6y ago
I don't think this has much to do with imposter syndrome. A person who can scale their knowledge across an organization is simply a more valuable employee than an equally-skilled person whose knowledge is mostly not shared.
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by realbarack 6y ago
I really appreciate posts like these that chronicle the challenges of pre-PMF life. Thanks for writing it.
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MIT non-senior undergraduates will be remote this fall(covid19.mit.edu)
9 points by realbarack 6y ago|0 comments
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by realbarack 6y ago
Are you willing to share or privately discuss any more detail about what you're working on? I'm interested in this area as well.
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by realbarack 6y ago
This is one of the points of geohash, right?
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by realbarack 6y ago
Apparently they recently got a "$150 million cash injection": https://decrypt.co/34598/crypto-social-media-platform-voice-... . And voice.com cost $30 MILLION!
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College Towns Are Suffering During the Coronavirus Pandemic(nytimes.com)
5 points by realbarack 6y ago|0 comments
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by realbarack 6y ago
Yep, I know a number of freelance writers who pay the bills with content marketing. It's a tried-and-true path.
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by realbarack 6y ago
> decomposing bodies are a critical part of the ecosystem Is this true? Most human bodies (at least in the US) decompose in cemeteries (not exactly verdant ecosystems) or are burned. Plenty of other organisms will continue to die, there&
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by realbarack 6y ago
Could you describe what you think the spiritual and mental costs are? I love life (I've been fortunate to live in health and relative privilege) and would very much prefer an additional 150 years before eternal nothingness, assuming so
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by realbarack 6y ago
I like the idea and have also noticed the rise of the public Google doc. I see it as a part of a greater trend of people flocking to semi-private internet spaces. (I'm in various semi-public Slack channels and Discord groups.) Bringing
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by realbarack 6y ago
I don't understand why a rational person would describe an astrology app as their "dream dating app," but clearly it's reasonable to allow it in the App store.
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by realbarack 6y ago
Nice piece. Not the main point, but I deeply resonate with the brief aside on in-person meeting: "I sometimes suggest it would be helpful if we all wore banners". There is still low-hanging fruit for software to improve in-person
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Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year(wsj.com)
207 points by realbarack 6y ago|526 comments
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by realbarack 6y ago
I'd certainly rather jump into a codebase with a great test suite and crappy commit messages than a crappy test suite and great commit messages. But these are apples and oranges. Keeping a great test suite is a constant fight against t
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by realbarack 6y ago
I agree. Note that I don't want this to happen, but I don't share the GP's confidence that it's impossible.

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