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Great advice! Ya, in the end I am willing to make some sacrifices if it helps and we have some tentative plans. Cheers.

Thanks so much for the input! Ya I am currently in Philadelphia and like it quite a lot. But I never even took the leap to go out West. My sister lives there and shares your sentim…

So I am a contractor at FAANG in a major US city. I have participated in startups for some time, enjoyed it a lot, gotten to a YC interview once (sadly didn’t make it). One of my b…

I could not agree with you more, it amazes me the mental gymnastics some will go through in the quest to convince themselves otherwise of something wholly obvious. Sure, you could …

I mine Bitcoin in my basement :) two Antminer S17+ 73T/hs makes me almost 1k a month profit!

Ya and it’s amazing that people think it can be easily replicated. To get to that level you must be the one percent of the one percent of gamers typically. Most coders can be “prof…

Are you a pro League player? Because if not this is irrelevant. Even the difference between leagues is substantial. And I have played since beta if that makes a difference. Sure I …

I humbly disagree, and if you have not competed at the pro level in an RTS (Starcraft is another absurdly hard game that requires hundreds of actions a minute) then I believe your …

Wow, I love this edit, I’m agnostic myself but that seems rather neat. I remember reading about how Warren Buffet, despite not being particularly religious, has read the Bible like…

I have a solid CS background and tried once to read GEB and while very enthralling I could only get about a quarter through. I will have to try that one again. Cheers.

Fair enough haha, thanks this is a great list, Foundation has always been something I wanted to read.

One of my all time favorites!

So I’ve read Hitchhiker’s but was always curious about the others he wrote, any thoughts? Thanks!

Wow thank you for taking the time to write this list I really appreciate it! I have always wanted to read Don Quixote but had trouble figuring out which translation. This is awesom…

Awesome, this sounds super interesting, thanks!

*The review was a popular post on HN last night for anyone who has not read it, I rather enjoyed it :)

Life is too short to read crummy books. So after reading the review on Blade Runner 2049 which touched on PKD and Nabokov I have decided get Pale Fire . I am curious what you would…

I was fortunate enough at uni to have a professor who edited Dick’ Exegesis and had a wonderful talk on it. During the process, which took many, many years, he said it would often …

Wow I never thought of that bust so unique :D thanks for the stellar advice and bon soir!

I needed this. Thank you. It’s been all rah rah on my side of things but I totally agree. I want to make an impact on the world and with this accelerator interview, I have somehow …

So my partner has been getting really deep into transcendental meditation and it has really been seeming to help with him. I just tonight had him show me some of his methods and ju…

Sadly I have had great results but in the end have made a conscious decision to avoid benzos, simply too alluring. Thanks for the advice though, definitely a game changer.

This is great and I talked to the other founders today and this is about what we are going to do. My wife is actually a partner as well, she is a chemical engineer helping with the…

Thanks a ton for the reply and apologies on the late one on my part. I zonked out right after. I can see that but I do think appreciate the answer as it clears some up for me. Chee…