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Sounds like they're just commercializing the work done by the Dog Aging Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Aging_Project .
GitHub just commercialized git in the beginning.
DataStax Cassandra.
Armory.io Spinnaker.
AWS *
"How I did it " you mean "How we* did it". Too much self praise in this it's hard to read. It's a team effort, try creating a one person company and raise capital and then probably write this.
She did. The team she hired was possible after raising the capital as a solo founder..
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So far it doesn't look like Rapamycin will be very effective for human life extension. https://peterattiamd.com/richardmiller/
Doctor Alan Green[1] would disagree [1] https://rapamycintherapy.com/
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I think that's caused by the capital available to the US which made people adapt and learn how to use that capital to grow massively (see growth hacking). You also have generations of successful entrepreneurs staying in the US and teaching the next generation. Entrepreneurship in EU is mostly a joke, good entrepreneurs are hard to find. And still, despite of this, people working in Europe seems to be much happier (ev…
> You also have generations of successful entrepreneurs staying in the US and teaching the next generation. Entrepreneurship in EU is mostly a joke, good entrepreneurs are hard to find. Uh, what? Wrong, at least for Germany, which is littered with internationally successful small and medium-sized companies. Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand . Edit: Unless you were refering to the kind of "entrepreneur…
American entrepreneurial culture includes a strong dose of "It's OK to lose a million dollars a hundred times if the next one makes a billion dollars". Some think that's part of the reason the US is the country that generates the FAANG(M)s. They throw money at the wall and make big wins off of what sticks, if most of it doesn't.
It's arguable whether that's actually beneficial for the world (is there any of the MANGAFs you don't feel uncomfortable about?), but it certainly accomplishes something. If only making the US rich.
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> Despite the sex-baiting in the title, You've done the very thing you're complaining about, guaranteeing a flamewar. That breaks the site guidelines. Please don't do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I believe bad things should be called out.
"Good" in this context refers to the expected value of the subthread the comment leads to, as described here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
We're particularly trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here because it leads to more bad things; please don't practice that here.
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This would be a good comment if not for the word "just", which makes it sound like a shallow dismissal. (" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) The link to relevant other work is most welcome, of course.
"Just", because the blog post sounds like it was doing fundamental basic research on longevity based on brand new ideas ("I was chatting with some friends about how I thought I had an idea for how to make dogs live longer."), instead of commercializing on existing research. It wasn't my intention to be dismissive.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
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Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity https://hbr.org/2016/03/women-and-minorities-are-penalized-f...
Yeah, please don't post these piece of crap blogposts with such strong wording that "women and minorities *ARE* penalised". For a forum that requests scientific rigour for sometimes even the most trivial claims, HN really does let these affirmative posts get away without any scrutiny. No doubt ONLY because of fear of being labeled a racist/sexist/x-ist. The blog post takes some very controversial claims and tries to…
Because you aren't attacking data or methodology I have to assume your post reflects more issues you are struggling with than issues raised by the paper. Of course, I'm sure the data and methodology have flaws or need further research. It's not within my skillset to judge it. But these things are almost never perfect or the end all.
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Please don't take HN threads into generic gender flamewar. It's tedious and repetitive and inevitably nasty—not what this site is for. We want thoughtful, curious conversation about different things here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Why is a defense of a sexist accusation considered a flamewar and flagged, but the accusation itself isn't?
This article got a lot of user flags. That's bad—it's obviously a substantive article, squarely on topic for HN and not sensational, ideological, or predictable. Even a quick skim is enough to see that it doesn't break down along any of the obvious faultlines for this general topic. That not only means it shouldn't have been flagged, it makes it HN gold. If you've been wielding the flag club that indiscriminately...p…
I don't understand this comment. Below we see plenty of dead comments posted at an earlier time, which seems to illustrate some existence of fuel for internet drama. At this time the first 50% of the comment page does not discuss gender so it clearly turned out right, but they were posted after the dead comments. If a fresh article has the majority of comments being people warring about gender then the option given t…
If the article were garden-variety flamebait then it would be a different story (no pun intended) – but this was such a clear case of the opposite.
The best thing is to give us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com. That could be either "hey, there's a really good article getting unfairly flagged" (a user did that last night and it was extremely helpful) or it could be "hey, there's a really good article getting a lot of flamewar comments". Actually it could also simply be "hey, there's a really good article that hasn't gotten any attention yet". (People often send those for their own articles, but that's a little less noble and not what I'm talking about here.)
You can see the common denominator there: "a really good article". There aren't very many of those. Just as the most important thing for startup investors is not to miss the best startups, the most important thing for HN is not to miss the best articles.
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Yep. I'm from the US grew up in the Valley but lived in the UK for a startup for a short while. It's both a byproduct of career hierarchal corporate obedience and social success façade (see also: modern campus culture of Ivy Leagues and Pac12s). It's absolutely awful for mental health or getting things done. More practically, it's a problem when people try so hard to be liked that they throw away respect by being too…
Very nice very nice as borat would say but the big piece missing in the rant is mindless ambition. Thats what keeps the lights on when shit hits the fan. Whether people are superficial corporate robots or without real friends or follow all kinds of meaningless ritual etc doesnt matter if they are driven. Why? Because thats who you end up relying on when competing against other people who are mindlessly driven. How ar…
Stop looking at it as competing with others and compete with yourself instead?