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Comments like these are why I lurk on HN. Genius solution. As a birder I have thousands of bird photos and would pay for this service.

YC backed: https://makesunsets.com/

This would be primarily aimed at the large number of students who have to take organic chemistry as a requirement. For organic chemistry graduate students and professional organic …

On one hand I love this level of nitpicking. On the other hand, by the standards of what an undergraduate organic chemistry student is looking for from a free online resource, and …

A childhood friend of mine invented the Lumitone, a microtonal keyboard with colored backlit hexagonal keys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfNIxTiApig About 10 years ago I visite…

Started in 1924 and still going strong 100 years later. The gold standard for organic chemistry procedures. "If you can't reproduce a procedure in Org Syn, it's YOUR fault" - my Ph…

https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com Been doing this 12+ years, mainly focused on teaching sophomore organic chemistry. Started as a blog, don't know if it really qualifies anymo…

Similar situation here.

Put "Pieces of me" in quotes and I get reddit discussion. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pieces+of+me%22+is+actual...

Having read both the book and the article, I think the article was sufficient in getting the main point across.

Bought a World Book set at last year's Berkshire Hathaway meeting, for something like $650 including shipping. Awesome deal. My kids (10, 8) earn "check marks" for each 20 minute c…

>Also, there is the third category: Small business. Few grad students, and relatively low pressure. These can be the saddest cases in my opinion . Lower downside, but lower upside …

Two most extreme stories I am most familiar with (did not experience first-hand) were of a PI throwing a chair in the direction of a postdoc, and of a PI having a screaming fit dir…

It's pick your poison, like choosing a startup vs BigCorp. My observations pertain to organic chemistry specifically, I'm less familiar with other fields. With an assistant prof yo…

An early stage lab has a lot in common with a startup. The PI is given seed money to validate an ambitious idea and has limited time and resources to do it. The work is extremely l…

If I understand correctly, you are saying that the parent comment is evidence that the core algorithm for self-selection and other-exclusion are similar regardless of what group th…

I attended the annual meeting last year and though I historically love the company, came away less than impressed. I can see how people in the past would take a pay cut to work clo…

This is an investment by either Todd Combs or Ted Weschler, not WB

Would be interested in learning more on poor management of BRK companies, do you have a source?

Wow. That's not something you want to have an oopsie with.

I run a fairly well-known organic chemistry website. Occasionally I receive notes from amateur chemists who want advice on various aspects of lab prep. Sometimes they are amusing, …

I pass along this amusing advice, no doubt familiar to you, but probably not to the general HN readership. "Gattermann (Ann. 357, 318 (1907)) recommends that the operator smoke dur…

I would start by just publishing articles to a Wordpress site. You'll get long-tail SEO on articles and often helpful feedback. Build up from there and eventually you'll find you'v…

Backward rather than forward-looking, so slightly off topic, but for a high-level understanding of US crop production, nothing beats the US Crop Production 2021 summary. [Here - ht…

One can start with an already tame population of foxes/dogs and select for aggression. Aggression would be a useful trait in a breed desired for protection/guarding.