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I feel like we'll laugh at posts like this in 5 years. It's not inaccurate in any way, it just misses the wood for the trees. Any new technology is always worse in some ways. Smart…

My experience of having kids is very similar to yours. But I will say that I'm starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. My kids are now 8 and 4, no more diapers or waking up…

Firstly, I'm not from the startup world, have never been in one, and dont know all the standard models, so forgive me if this sounds naive. But I'm working on a startup idea. I'm l…

When did you start noticing this? I'm 39 and dont feel this at all. I have less motivation and energy for lots of things. But that stems from a jadedness and pickiness. It's differ…

Can you spell out why is that fundamentally bad? I'm asking in good faith not to be oppositional, apologies if its a stupid question. But if you were buying shares in a company it …

Another alternative (not self-hosted or open source) is Fibery.io More powerful than Airtable, and has some Notion-like capabilities.

RSS being awesome is the one thing that everyone on HN seems to agree about. Every couple of years I give it a try but for some reason I'm struggling to get into it. Something prev…

Easy for everyone to point out that its unhealthy to be money focused. But that's missing the point. The author is clearly aware of this problem. The question is how to get out of …

I just drank a Tab. Can still on my desk https://imgur.com/a/hFo0Gl7 I'm in South Africa.. I generally chose it over the other diet Cola drinks.

Yes, I want to know. Please enlighten and provide sources?

I'm looking into setting up an ISA fund in South Africa so I was researching the ISA market globally to help me build the business case.

I've made a MUCH more comprehensive list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wiuf6EXWJrtd9NWF9w7a...

In a way that makes the experiment more interesting. You're kind of forced to try make things work under very sub-optimal conditions rather than some artifical text-book version of…

I dont think the proposed policies put forward by the climate movement are benign. Remember the yellow shirt protests in France arose because working class people resented the incr…

I dont have a strong stance one way or another on the climate debate because I haven't familiarised myself well enough with both sides of the argument. But your points above speak …

There is money on both sides of the argument though. The following is from https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-07-24-the-d... As climate scientist William Briggs obser…

I think that those that believe in Bitcoin as a store of wealth, believe that its volatility is temporary. The assumption (or hope) is that its taking a volatile path upwards and w…

Brilliant

SEEKING WORK South Africa Remote yes Agile product manager / leadership. UX minded. Product research, planning and execution. Bridging the gap between technical and commercial. Web…

In South Africa the traditional real estate commission is getting disrupted www.leadhome.co.za propertyfox.co.z

Have you got experience or thoughts about the remote working equivalent of "cycling through" your team? Cycling through implies (to my mind) casually being around your team, checki…

I've thought about this concept before and I would tackle it as so: For every subject you need to list: - the pre-prequisites - the subsequent subjects one can learn on top of this…

Do you mind sharing your age? Also, what programming language/s do you code in and what level have you reached? Finally, how did you actually start coding?

As a manager at a large corporate the process for incurring expenses drives me nuts. There is an annoying approval process, expenses have to be logged, I have to look up the expens…