ybalkind

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by ybalkind 27d ago
How is this useful?
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by ybalkind 1y ago
I feel like we'll laugh at posts like this in 5 years. It's not inaccurate in any way, it just misses the wood for the trees. Any new technology is always worse in some ways. Smart phones still have much worse battery life and are
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by ybalkind 4y ago
My experience of having kids is very similar to yours. But I will say that I'm starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. My kids are now 8 and 4, no more diapers or waking up at night. My wife and I are getting better at managing
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Is equity the only way to incentivise contributors in the absence of salary?
3 points by ybalkind 4y ago|11 comments
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by ybalkind 5y ago
When did you start noticing this? I'm 39 and dont feel this at all. I have less motivation and energy for lots of things. But that stems from a jadedness and pickiness. It's different to what you describe. I feel my mental faculti
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by ybalkind 5y ago
Can you spell out why is that fundamentally bad? I'm asking in good faith not to be oppositional, apologies if its a stupid question. But if you were buying shares in a company it would not matter if most the shares were held by the c
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by ybalkind 6y ago
Another alternative (not self-hosted or open source) is Fibery.io More powerful than Airtable, and has some Notion-like capabilities.
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by ybalkind 6y ago
RSS being awesome is the one thing that everyone on HN seems to agree about. Every couple of years I give it a try but for some reason I'm struggling to get into it. Something prevents me from checking my Feedly feed. Seems uninteresti
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by ybalkind 6y ago
Easy for everyone to point out that its unhealthy to be money focused. But that's missing the point. The author is clearly aware of this problem. The question is how to get out of this cycle..
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by ybalkind 6y ago
I just drank a Tab. Can still on my desk https://imgur.com/a/hFo0Gl7 I'm in South Africa.. I generally chose it over the other diet Cola drinks.
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by ybalkind 6y ago
Yes, I want to know. Please enlighten and provide sources?
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by ybalkind 7y ago
I'm looking into setting up an ISA fund in South Africa so I was researching the ISA market globally to help me build the business case.
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by ybalkind 7y ago
I've made a MUCH more comprehensive list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wiuf6EXWJrtd9NWF9w7a...
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by ybalkind 7y ago
In a way that makes the experiment more interesting. You're kind of forced to try make things work under very sub-optimal conditions rather than some artifical text-book version of what we think work-from-home should ideally look like.
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by ybalkind 7y ago
I dont think the proposed policies put forward by the climate movement are benign. Remember the yellow shirt protests in France arose because working class people resented the increased fuel tax which was raised as a way to fight climate ch
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by ybalkind 7y ago
I dont have a strong stance one way or another on the climate debate because I haven't familiarised myself well enough with both sides of the argument. But your points above speak right past the points in the article I quoted, and as
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by ybalkind 7y ago
There is money on both sides of the argument though. The following is from https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-07-24-the-d... As climate scientist William Briggs observes: “Global warming alarmism is big b
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by ybalkind 7y ago
I think that those that believe in Bitcoin as a store of wealth, believe that its volatility is temporary. The assumption (or hope) is that its taking a volatile path upwards and will eventually, like gold, reach relative stability at a muc
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by ybalkind 7y ago
Brilliant
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by ybalkind 7y ago
SEEKING WORK South Africa Remote yes Agile product manager / leadership. UX minded. Product research, planning and execution. Bridging the gap between technical and commercial. Website: yonibalkind.carrd.co
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by ybalkind 8y ago
In South Africa the traditional real estate commission is getting disrupted www.leadhome.co.za propertyfox.co.z
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Peter Munnings and the SARB Blockchain Project Khokha Project(thinkwtf.com)
2 points by ybalkind 8y ago|0 comments
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by ybalkind 8y ago
Have you got experience or thoughts about the remote working equivalent of "cycling through" your team? Cycling through implies (to my mind) casually being around your team, checking in, and helping where needed. Working remotely
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by ybalkind 9y ago
I've thought about this concept before and I would tackle it as so: For every subject you need to list: - the pre-prequisites - the subsequent subjects one can learn on top of this one You then have a map of learning. That&#x
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by ybalkind 9y ago
Do you mind sharing your age? Also, what programming language/s do you code in and what level have you reached? Finally, how did you actually start coding?
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by ybalkind 9y ago
As a manager at a large corporate the process for incurring expenses drives me nuts. There is an annoying approval process, expenses have to be logged, I have to look up the expense policy, justify the expense, track it against budget etc e
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by ybalkind 9y ago
I've just read his self help book "How I found freedom in an unfree world", interesting approach, hardcore libertarian. I think he would like the decentralised aspect of crytocurrency.
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by ybalkind 9y ago
Really interesting article. How far does this logic apply? Can I use very basic styling like bold, ordered lists and href links just to make the text more readable? Or do advocates of the plain email philosophy generally suggest 100% plain?
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by ybalkind 10y ago
Oh wow, great to get such direct feedback, thanks! Interesting to hear that you use PHP. Although I'm not a developer I lurk on forums a lot and it seems PHP gets a bad rap so interesting to see a site that is well known in HN circles
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Ask HN: What langauges to learn if I wanted to build a site like nomadlist.com
5 points by ybalkind 10y ago|7 comments

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