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Elofon Ask HN: Are books worth it?

I didn’t read books for many years for a lot of the reasons you list. 2019 I read 24 and am already almost done with my first book of the year. I think they are worth it.

Have you tried something like audible? I discovered that I get through and retain spoken content much better than site reading. Listening to content makes reading enjoyable and there are so many fantastic books

Elofon Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback

This just happened to me and I was kind of shocked. I haven’t taken a formal interview in a long time, but 0 feedback, not even a thanks for your time, seems potentially damaging as well. Especially in the long run. Word of mouth is a powerful thing and I’m definitely not going to say kind things behind closed doors after this.

Elofon Big tech companies have been at the cutting edge of corporate tax avoidance

I think the author is using Silicon Valley as a tech coverall. Which is silly, but doesn’t ruin the point IMO

Elofon ‘The Far Side’ Is Back, Sort Of

I have all my old copies of The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes in my library waiting for my daughter. Some of my most fond early memories are of Calvin and Hobbes specifically and it resonates with me in a completely different way now than it did then, obviously. I have to imagine there are other great works being made now that I might be missing out on because of my age?

One person that I think fits the bill, but isn't currently making comics is Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half is on the level.

Anyone have something new you recommend I check out?

Elofon Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook’s Internal Divisions on Politics

Or Thiel is a malicious libertian and wants to tear our republic apart to rebuild it in his image

Elofon Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch

Might still be the case. I use 1Password. It’s easy to upload passwords from chrome to 1Password fwiw

Elofon Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch

I exported all of my chrome settings and loaded them into brave. Easy to do and all my things are working as expected.

Elofon After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes

This. I’ve been hit 2x with major injuries, both times 100% the cars fault and one time I was in a very well identified bike lane. Cars are terrifying

Elofon Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

Isn’t the future inevitably created

Elofon Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?

You make it pretty hard to figure out where you work. Mind sharing?

Elofon Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

Would also love to check out an open source version.

Elofon Apple's AR Glasses Are Hiding in Plain Sight

Weird. Link works for me. Maybe a ad blocker or something

Elofon Ask HN: Have you seen group interviews for people who want to work together?

Yeah, I imagine it would be hard to do _unless_ the hiring org explicitely wanted to and put effort into figuring out how to make it (outside of acquhire). Honestly I would rather have the individuals pick the people they want to work with over the company picking a team. Not sure about you but I've only wanted to work with part of every team I've been on (or managed for that matter)

Elofon Ask HN: Have you seen group interviews for people who want to work together?

One example and of course it's Stripe: https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team

Elofon Uber lays off 435 people

Kinda interesting that they chose to do the layoffs during the Apple event. I wish companies would just own what's going on instead of trying to bury it.

Elofon Ask HN: How Do You Read?

My experience is that if you practice listening long enough it’s easy to focus. I’ve been doing it everyday for more than 5 years. I remember what you’re talking about but personally no longer experience it

Elofon Ask HN: How Do You Read?

I only listen to content for both short and long form. If it’s short form I archive the content if I don’t plan to return to it and put it in a folder if I would like to revisit. For books I bookmark, highlight and add comments. For most reading I listen around 450 words/min, but if it’s reading for pleasure I slow it down to 325ish. I’m dyslexic and find that I retain content far better and enjoy reading much more if I listen instead of sight read.

Elofon Ask HN: How Do You Read?

Have you every tried listening to content. I’m adhd and dyslexic and have found that I retain content I listen to far far better than sight reading.

Elofon The Law Isn't Ready for Psychedelic Medicine

Just happed in June in the Bay Area, CA. Alameda County, which includes Berkeley and Oakland. The law is for naturally derived psychedelics so it includes things like DMT and Ibogaine as well

Elofon What Newly-Minted Millionaires Struggle With

He’s speaking from experience

Elofon Giant squid caught on video for the second time

Anyone have a link that isn’t paywalled?

Elofon Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

StackPath has a startup program [https://www.stackpath.com/resources/propel-startup-program/] and a sandbox for testing out serverless scripts [https://sandbox.edgeengine.io/]

Elofon Cloudflare Workers

I'm a developer evangelist for StackPath and can confirm that our serverless product is also based on the Service Workers API

Elofon A list of every book Paul Graham has mentioned

I’m pretty sure Paul Gram has mentioned more books than that in a single tweet.

Elofon ‘San Francisco is rotting’ story is wrong: City is brimming with soul

Do you live in SF?

Elofon $2.34B fundraise gives Tesla much-needed breathing room

Filing - https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/f4c7fb2e-7dd3-4f53-bec2-2e...

Elofon New type of plastic is a recycling dream

The researchers also tested the physical properties of their “fresh” plastics by remaking them with recycled monomers. The results were good, with no change in their function.

The article claims that this process makes these plastics infinitely reusable with no degradation in quality. It can also create plastics of different types from the same recycled materials. The process also requires less energy than traditional heat methods

Elofon Gay Liberation in East Germany: The unexpected LGBT golden-age under communism

A gay golden age in East Germany reveals that Soviet politics were more dynamic than we admit—and that gay rights has less to do with democracy than we tend to assume.

Elofon Ask HN: Non-VC backed founders, any tips on growth?

I don't think taking the time to talk to investors as a hedge is necessary or adds much to business strategy. If you want to build a bootstrapped business and may be open to VC at some unknown point in the future VCs will likely only care about business metrics. If they speak for themselves than most VCs will gladly meet, and it will likely be relatively 'easy' to fundraise. If you aren't looking for early stage capital, don't waste your time talking to investors when you could be building a business...

Now, talking to potential acquirers at any point in the lifecycle of the business is a great use of time, in my opinion. If you are open to the idea of eventually selling your company get close to the companies that might be interested in buying your company and stay close. Partnerships, shared customers, deep understanding of their technology and so forth

Elofon Julian Assange Got What He Deserved

Looks to me, based on public facts, that there is a reasonable case against him being more than a hypocrite. Getting charged doesn't mean he will be convicted... which is why Lady Justice wears a blindfold.