willholloway

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by willholloway 8y ago
More than 62 million Americans voted for Donald Trump, maybe they were the ones up voting stories on 4chan and Reddit because they agree with him.
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by willholloway 8y ago
Maker Time is an alternative time keeping system I designed after being inspired by this essay. http://willholloway.net/makertime.html
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by willholloway 9y ago
You know you are in a regulation bubble when the caution and judgement of the most highly trained professionals in our society is reflexively concluded to be inadequate and inferior to that of bureaucrats even when said professionals are wo
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by willholloway 9y ago
Me too.
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by willholloway 9y ago
Personal happiness doesn't factor in to it, missing very early bitcoin was a result of flawed thinking, which I intend to correct.
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by willholloway 9y ago
Be careful with these negative HN comments, they have cost me millions. I first heard about bitcoin right here, when it hit $3 per coin for the first time. That was a huge event. I had my own reservations about investing in bitcoin, but rea
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by willholloway 9y ago
What I got from reading Paul Graham's own writing on the genesis of YC, was that his key insight was that VC's should be funding more companies, and earlier, and giving founder's much more control. The other key innovation wa
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by willholloway 9y ago
Check ebay, packs from hover boards that got recalled are available. The cost can be $1 a cell, a pack might have 20. Each cell might be 10-12 watt hours. It takes 3 cells to produce 12 volts.
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by willholloway 9y ago
Jehu Garcia's Youtube videos are definitely worth checking out, the guy is doing cool things with 18650 lithium ion cells. He converted a VW bus into an electric vehicle. My main takeaway after watching his videos and others in the sam
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by willholloway 9y ago
A major problem with anonymous sources is not just the inability to verify the claims, even more troubling is the inability to assess the motives of the source and their context and agenda. The phrase "American officials" connotes
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by willholloway 9y ago
What is really dangerous is the mainstream media (NY Times, Washington Post) running stories based solely on anonymous sources. The public has no capacity to vet the credibility of anonymously sourced claims. Almost all of the current media
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by willholloway 9y ago
Yes but in the universe of knowledge work, what is work and what is not-work? Do we count work as "being in the office/lab"? Or do we count work as thinking about the problem? If one were building a company like Tesla for exa
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by willholloway 9y ago
Agreed, a tremendous work with a dream like quality, a phantasmagoria contrasting vapid American consumer culture, against bloody reality in the lands the great powers toy with. Also interesting observations on William Gibson's work a
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by willholloway 9y ago
I think you can look at the alleged Russian hacking of Podesta's emails and the subsequent releases as an example of that perhaps. But I wouldn't hold out too much hope for an outpouring of democracy and more equitable relations b
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by willholloway 9y ago
"It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and o
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by willholloway 9y ago
It's not about short-term masochism, it's about focus. The human brain is non-scalable neural network.It only has so much bandwidth. The things that create/capture enough value to make big money are almost always non-trivial&
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by willholloway 9y ago
It's very inspiring that you were able to build out an idea like this on a hobby level and get it into YC. Don't let the negativity in this thread get you down. You will work out all the problems listed in this thread, and zoning
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by willholloway 9y ago
Many places treat these types of dwellings as mobile homes, and there is probably no form of development that is more widely banned than mobile home parks. Even putting one of these on your own lot as an accessory structure is going to be v
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by willholloway 10y ago
Buy, rehab, rent, refinance distressed residential property. I also manage two commercial properties. I was born into it, but then didn't want to do it after college. I got back into it because I saw an opportunity that was too good to
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by willholloway 10y ago
Well there is Bigger Pockets, and some of their video podcasts on Youtube are quite good when they interview a knowledgeable guest. They are pretty honest about things, but I feel like there's kind of a similarity with their messaging
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by willholloway 10y ago
It's definitely worth looking into, look for good deals and the money is there if you can find a good enough deal, if you have some wealthy contacts looking for an opportunity. High income earners are in need of three things: 1) Opport
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by willholloway 10y ago
I took a break from coding/ops for other people for money a couple years ago to pursue a startup idea I had. It was a cool project but I decided it wasn't a great business idea due to regulatory issues with the field. After that I
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by willholloway 10y ago
Why is this the default answer to any discussion on topics such as these? I look at it as Vaudeville acts vs Hollywood films. Or local hack community college professor vs Youtube Stanford Machine Learning Course. The legal and tax situation
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by willholloway 10y ago
This man speaks the truth, downvoters. Anyone who has ever done any significant renovations on an old house knows the problems with aging housing stock. I would go even further and say 1950s is still a pain in the neck. It's really nic
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by willholloway 10y ago
"I am far more disturbed by someone who claims to be in the opposition but rather than publicly opposing continues to give every sign of being in fact a quiet supporter of the administration. Why should I have to worry that that's
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by willholloway 10y ago
You are so wrong here. Trump beat the entirety of the Republican and Democratic machine with a totally new playbook in American politics. He didn't have a traditional ground game in states. He didn't spend money on the traditional
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by willholloway 10y ago
I have created a skeleton project I use for new sites made of Pure CSS with a grunt workflow. I run jinja2 templates through Grunt and it: * Optimizes all images - this saves megabytes upon megabytes * minfies css, html and javascript * the
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by willholloway 10y ago
AirBnB has entered into tax collection and information sharning agreements with State governments. Can we not add a system for sharing information for legitimate police noise complaints? I think we can. I would like to see us come up with c
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by willholloway 10y ago
Thats a nice straw man you created there and then argued against. Of course we can fine people that live in other jurisdictions as we do with speeding tickets, and no one is dragged off to jail and fines are not collected on the spot.
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by willholloway 10y ago
The United States Conference of Mayors disagrees with you [1] Short term rentals are residential use from a zoning perspective. A vacation rental is not the same thing as a hotel. There are key differences. A hotel has a front desk and is o

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