ryanmercer

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by ryanmercer 3y ago
That's sad. I imagine Crunch will be next.
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
I'm up at 5:25 anyway (even when not working), works for me! I've never had a job that worked from 9am-5pm anyway. Instead of I've worked 6am-2pm, 7am-3:30pm, 7:30amm-4:00pm, 7pm-4am, and then all the random retail hours.
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
But how many startups receive any appreciable amount of VC money? How many are operating on the savings of the founder(s) and/or money from family and friends rounds? How many founders are going into personal debt to fund their startup
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
I don't know if it has been shared in this thread but Mark Rober did a video earlier this year about drones actively doing medical deliveries in Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNBu9DkU
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
That you don't want people with suicidal ideations flying planes. There are plenty of medicines that warn against operating motor vehicles or heavy machinery, off the top of my head some blood pressure meds like Losartan and HCTZ becau
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
But, won't most anything startups be out of business in 3 years? Data from the BLS shows that: "approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during t
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
I'm guessing because a Google search of "Adderall side effects" immediately returned this: "Rare but severe side effects of Adderall can include emotional instability, psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular events. Add
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
Doesn't surprise me, they didn't give me a cost of living increase for over a decade and new hires were making almost as much as I was when I quit after 15 and a half years (office job), along with about half the office quitting w
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
>You can get brand new Atari 2600 cartridges in boxes and everything. Yup, new titles still being made. There's even Halo for the 2600. Tons of titles currently being manufactured for a lot of vintage consoles/computers: https
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
I love it!
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
Neat!
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
>Wow! Reddit as a business does a disservice to mods by not compensating them for the effort they put in to keep these communities safe and functional. No one is forcing us to mod. We mod because we value the communities we mod and like
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
>The thing is that there's a lot of valuable information that I don't think we should just delete like that. Agreed. In the past 2 days I've been overly annoyed as both days I've had multiple google queries dump m
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
>What is your stack? I'm not an SE. Remote, I live rurally.
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
Not a bad idea!
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Those of you months into a layoff, how are you surviving?
8 points by ryanmercer 3y ago|6 comments
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
"Hello moneybags, I have this idea for an app, it's super niche and wastes almost as much time as doing the task without the app except we get to charge them for it! Our costs are really cheap because we mostly pay in equity and w
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
Well, they couldn't exactly run realistic and viable computer models in the years of 1949-1969... so they took a harmless, commonly used model organism, and conducted tests. Something science teachers do as a simple experiment now (wit
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
>pushed it into my sub, *their sub.
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
>I'm using reddit for ages and never even considered anything besides their website. Same. I have never used anything other than old.reddit on a proper computer, with the exception being when I need to edit the new.reddit sidebars f
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
>I bet some subreddits will go permanently private or delete themselves over this. It's my understanding that Apollo users make up a fraction of a percent of active users. Reddit almost certainly doesn't care. Fact is they&#x27
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
Seems foolish to build your company to be entirely dependent on the generosity of free API access, then rage quit when you have to start paying instead of, you know, charging your customers more. Also I see no evidence that he was accused o
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
As a long time user, and moderator, I do everything via old.reddit (and the only additional thing is mod toolbox, which I could live without) on a proper computer. I just can't fathom any meaningful use of Reddit via a phone app. To me
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
Or just put voip phones in every classroom for emergencies and ban mobile phones for students. 99.99999% of teachers have a cell phone anyway in the event of a proper emergency.
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
If my wife and I had children, we would 100% keep their phones at home every morning. They would not go to school with them, period. They're an unnecessary distraction during the school day (and my wife is a high school teacher).
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
>, yet I think schools (generally) do a good job of keeping them away from kids during the day. When I was in high school 99-03 you couldn't go into the bathroom without seeing someone smoking a cigarette or a joint, I even had a te
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
Yeah, good luck with that. My wife is a high school teacher, parents get livid if you confiscate their kids phone for even a single period citing "I need to be able to reach him/her!"
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
All you have to do is go out to your garden, find stuff that has flowered, and watch a bee work to come to this assumption on your own as one will methodically visit every flower (often of an individual species), sometimes spending less tha
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
>and not the commercial pilots Because they don't want to lose their job when their employer thinks they're nuts and shouldn't be flying hundreds of people.
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by ryanmercer 3y ago
>There are 3 comprehensive possibilities I'd say there is a 4th comprehensive possibility: these are one or more natural phenomenon we've yet to document and may have no intelligence behind them at all.

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