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Comment #33184649
My friends and I once argued about the primary reason top schools "produce" overachieving students. She thought that at least a part of it is from better staff and student to teach…
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Comment #33108534
I wonder how much of this is a self fulfilling prophecy due to racially weighted admission. i.e Many Asian parents are painfully aware of how much the deck is stacked against their…
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Comment #27094025
I’ve always been taught to spend >50% time practice hand separate first, increase tempo one hand at a time, and only combine after much practice, which seems to differ than the pos…
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Comment #26560392
You can buy a put option on robinhood to put your bet to the test with limited downside risk.
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Comment #26544459
What interests me most about the FI community on reddit is how they split into two very different subgroups(leanfire and fatfire). Part of it is a difference in frugality, but part…
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Comment #26521345
I really like this approach for simplifying Kubernetes. A few projects similar to OAM in that it provides a higher level "Application" CRD: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel-k…
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Comment #26417598
Exponential growth is very counter-intuitive. Although it's been around forever the vast majority of users probably came onboard recently.
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Comment #26162232
Give that pg is someone who can walk away from running YCombinator to work on other stuff for fun, he probably doesn't care about maximizing utility or impact at this point.
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Comment #26149731
It’s like podcasting vs YouTube. Audio-only can be better under certain contexts
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Comment #26144354
Speak for yourself. I make my $$$ selling saas tools to people who make tools for people who invest in tools for ad peddlers.
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Comment #26121667
I agree with a few of the points, but it lost me at Tesla. I like my Tesla a lot because it’s a really well designed product, not because of some Elon Musk story.
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Comment #26019856
That has got to be the most frustrating landing page design... waiting 5-10 seconds for the slogan and the call to action to appear...
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Comment #26008193
I really like the system and it seems there's also a temporal order to the learning path: 1) Tutorials However as the video mentions, it's all connected in a circle, as perhaps hav…
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Comment #25932947
I personally alternate between taking courses and doing projects. Doing all MOOC is bad for some of the reasons the articles covered. But doing all projects is also sub-optimal bec…
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Comment #25920847
In other industries for example gaming and desktop tools, people eventually just ship a new version that existing users have to buy again. For continuously deployed web products a …
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Comment #25911241
This looks cool but I'd be in the market for a software solution that gave me "games, races, and programs" with a Concept 2 + iPad. If anyone knows of such a product please let me …
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Comment #25872677
That sounds interesting. Out of curiosity does AWS have streamlined support for vendor deployments? (I don't work in large organizations so have never seen how non-saas deployments…
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Comment #25872485
posthog looks like a great product. But it's interesting that a product offering with "open source" and "on your infrastructure" still has "cloud" as the first tab in the pricing. …
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Comment #25716092
Any thoughts on real estate?
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Comment #25519429
In the 21-80 section
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Comment #25503163
That figure includes the gains, and represents approximately how much college will cost in 13 years if trends continue. My point was that $600k for going to college sounds so ridic…
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Comment #25497485
Recently playing around with a 529 college saving plan calculator, it told me that for a 5 year old aiming to go to a 4 year private school, I need to save up $600k in the next 13 …
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Comment #25491289
I wonder what percentage of kids age 8-12 want to become a professional athlete. I bet it's at least 100-1000x than the amount of job opening at the "can make a full time income" l…
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Comment #25468414
This gen of console spec is exceptionally good vs PCs, see https://youtu.be/WebInZUvcGA
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