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giltleaf
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About giltleaf
Washington, DC based.
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Comment #14362663
How much water would this process need to make enough energy for this to have an impact? Presuming we wouldn't use up our fresh water resources for this and that it would come from…
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Comment #12408218
I'm not a developer, I'm a researcher. However, a big take away from the book for me that I'd imagine would apply to developers as well was not answering emails or going to meeting…
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Comment #12398778
I essentially used the 4 hour workweek script and am somewhere in the middle of that timeline, setting up my business now. 1. Figured out how to get all of my work done super fast …
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Comment #12080136
Woah, interesting article. The perils of a litigious society geez.
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Comment #12010699
I'm about halfway through the process as described in an underpaid non-profit position (ie, going remote, setting up automated systems, wasting less time in meetings/emails). Altho…
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Comment #11911551
"You can prove anything if you pretend wildly improbable freak situations are somehow representative of reality." That's true, but what is represented in the comic is far from "wil…
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Comment #11910443
You seem like just the type of person I wanted to read that comic when I decided to put that in. You're fully missing the point (forest through the trees type of thing) with those …
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Comment #11905297
You can always give them a heads up too.
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Comment #11905280
Nonprofit researcher with web design/management responsibilities Side project: vertical farming startup and website: https://urbanverticalproject.wordpress.com/ Hydroponics install…
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Comment #11905263
Frustrated by the people who are claiming that this piece or the company is racist/unexceptional, or that this man's success is due to exclusively hard work. They are missing a gre…
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Comment #11552625
My science fair experiment was literally building a cannon. I lit hairspray on fire and shot potatoes at a wall and don't even remember signing a waiver.
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Comment #11407609
Good idea, but unfortunately I have several thousand followers that I don't want to go through the trouble of amassing again.
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Ask HN: Mute all Twitter follows?
I'm not a big fan of lists and I don't want to unfollow users that I'd occasionally check up on, so is there something out there that I could set and forget that would mute everyon…
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Comment #11376962
Really enjoyed this. I'd often get in political and fiscal discussions with my friends and found that it just really wouldn't click with some people. They'd get mad and things woul…
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Comment #11362014
What does "unschooled" mean? Did they just test into a GED/college, or have they never been in an educational institution? What do they do now (feel free not to answer that kind of…
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Comment #11224324
Yeah, I know about THC honey, so what's the difference between this and that; how is that made differently from above?
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Comment #11223931
Thanks for the insight into the competitiveness of the terms. 99% sure there won't be an IPO for this company so I would need to ask him about his plans to sell or dividends I beli…
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Comment #11223900
I just wrote all of those down to ask when we get back to the table. Thank you very much - sometimes the forward question is the best question.
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Comment #11223895
Thank you very much, that makes a lot of sense. It seems like I would want to angle for dividends or the terms that would require the company to buy back the vested shares. It soun…
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Comment #11218009
I think the poster was asking more along the lines of "there is something I want to boycott, what tools are out there that can help me make it a movement" as opposed to just wantin…
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Comment #11218000
They recently had a petition that was partially responsible for getting Mars Chocolate to stop using artificial colorants. The organizers went this route instead of a boycott and i…
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Comment #11217982
Yeah I would definitely not do it. Even my nonprofit (not tech related at all) included language that says they own anything I make on a company computer.