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I remember reading that Dancing blows aware meds and exercise. So why isn't that treated like real medicine?

So let me get this straight... technical founders are providing limitless access to their IP, and this is supposed to be a positive indicator that they would be a good founder? Tha…

There are many ways to create "sticky" products, even commodity products (e.g. coca cola, starbucks, etc). Network effects are just one. Regarding Price to Earnings... I'm not sure…

I wrote a related article here: https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/good-soldiers-find-wars/ There will always be new, hard problems to work on. AI will not, and can not eliminate t…

Agreed, but we should be honest, the internet today is far from healthy

Audiobooks are just a different medium. I don't think people should pretend that an audiobook is a book. You process the two in completely different ways. This doesn't imply one is…

Totally depends. Lots of people assume that the valuable thing is the direct business, but a business can be a lot more than that. A competitor may buy you for your engineers or sa…

yeah, the production lines are in Reno, NV

definitely cool. nice work peterdemin whoever you are

I like postgres. I use it for lots of projects. I like other databases too. I think thats okay. Here's Malcom Gladwell discussing spagetti sauce which feels oddly relevant: https:/…

thanks I'm going to have to check whats going on with my setup then

Is there something wrong with their certificate? Chromium is saying https isn't valid

No, this is 100% battle tested. I can't drop numbers but we just did a study at work comparing referrals to non-referrals... its night and day. Referrals are out performing across …

Yes. Figure out who your top performers are ask them for referrals. Some people will recommend "meh" people, but more often than not your top performers hang out with other top per…

well, thank you for kicking ass and doing great work!

Eric, really interested in how you pick the things you work on. I'm a really big fan of the concept of the Long Term Stock Exchange, but projects like that seem to me at times like…

- shrimp scampi - Old Adage - chai tea - Naan Bread - Rio Grande River - Lake Tahoe - PIN/ VIN number - ATM machine - GPS system - Panini sandwich

Correct. We actually don't play "football" properly as a street sport either though... its typically a flag style football (two hand touch, etc) but the main sports are (generally …

The comments here are wild. Uh the answer is football/basketball/baseball. We send our best athletes into football, basketball, and baseball. They don't play soccer. I would argue …

Yes, Code Monkey jobs are gone... I can assure you though that there are plenty of hard problems that reduce human suffering which still need humans to solve them.

Stuff like that is risk tolerance... its not strictly codified and its more akin to probability. Different companies at different stages, in different industries will all interpret…

It was made famous by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Incerto.

I don't really see that many ads to be honest. I'm not on social media (except HN), I use Adblock, plus I just don't consume a lot of the media that the general population does. I …

Beautiful poem. Well said and hard cutting

They are working on installing a new data center in town, a bunch of the townsfolk are going all NIMBY to try and stop it, I'm trying to understand why? I've toured a datacenter in…