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ryanmercer

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About ryanmercer

Just a guy, find me at https://www.ryanmercer.com/

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    Comment #36801259

    That's sad. I imagine Crunch will be next.

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    Comment #36776700

    I'm up at 5:25 anyway (even when not working), works for me! I've never had a job that worked from 9am-5pm anyway. Instead of I've worked 6am-2pm, 7am-3:30pm, 7:30amm-4:00pm, 7pm-4…

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    Comment #36770774

    But how many startups receive any appreciable amount of VC money? How many are operating on the savings of the founder(s) and/or money from family and friends rounds? How many foun…

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    Comment #36770648

    I don't know if it has been shared in this thread but Mark Rober did a video earlier this year about drones actively doing medical deliveries in Africa https://www.youtube.com/watc…

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    Comment #36770547

    That you don't want people with suicidal ideations flying planes. There are plenty of medicines that warn against operating motor vehicles or heavy machinery, off the top of my hea…

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    Comment #36770540

    But, won't most anything startups be out of business in 3 years? Data from the BLS shows that: "approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 4…

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    Comment #36746647

    I'm guessing because a Google search of "Adderall side effects" immediately returned this: "Rare but severe side effects of Adderall can include emotional instability, psychiatric …

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    Comment #36492397

    Doesn't surprise me, they didn't give me a cost of living increase for over a decade and new hires were making almost as much as I was when I quit after 15 and a half years (office…

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    Comment #36320685

    >You can get brand new Atari 2600 cartridges in boxes and everything. Yup, new titles still being made. There's even Halo for the 2600. Tons of titles currently being manufactured …

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    Comment #36320607

    I love it!

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    Comment #36320486

    >Wow! Reddit as a business does a disservice to mods by not compensating them for the effort they put in to keep these communities safe and functional. No one is forcing us to mod.…

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    Comment #36320427

    >The thing is that there's a lot of valuable information that I don't think we should just delete like that. Agreed. In the past 2 days I've been overly annoyed as both days I've h…

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    Comment #36269592

    >What is your stack? I'm not an SE. Remote, I live rurally.

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    Comment #36263867

    Not a bad idea!

  16. story
    Those of you months into a layoff, how are you surviving?

    I'm curious, those of you that have been laid off this year/late last year, and still haven't found employment, how are you surviving? (mentally, financially, etc) This is entirely…

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    Comment #36260328

    "Hello moneybags, I have this idea for an app, it's super niche and wastes almost as much time as doing the task without the app except we get to charge them for it! Our costs are …

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    Comment #36257309

    Well, they couldn't exactly run realistic and viable computer models in the years of 1949-1969... so they took a harmless, commonly used model organism, and conducted tests. Someth…

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    Comment #36249072

    >pushed it into my sub, *their sub.

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    Comment #36248850

    >I'm using reddit for ages and never even considered anything besides their website. Same. I have never used anything other than old.reddit on a proper computer, with the exception…

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    Comment #36248837

    >I bet some subreddits will go permanently private or delete themselves over this. It's my understanding that Apollo users make up a fraction of a percent of active users. Reddit a…

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    Comment #36248819

    Seems foolish to build your company to be entirely dependent on the generosity of free API access, then rage quit when you have to start paying instead of, you know, charging your …

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    Comment #36240011

    As a long time user, and moderator, I do everything via old.reddit (and the only additional thing is mod toolbox, which I could live without) on a proper computer. I just can't fat…

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    Comment #36225823

    Or just put voip phones in every classroom for emergencies and ban mobile phones for students. 99.99999% of teachers have a cell phone anyway in the event of a proper emergency.