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koverda··on The End of Employees
paywall ladder: http://archive.is/XirsP
koverda··on The Source of Dr Seuss’ Lorax?
Breaking news: Cat in the Hat breed discovered: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1f/d9/18/1fd918c5fa38d794847cd5dc4...

It's a 'Tuxie'

koverda··on Riving, a Viking-age woodworking technique
Reminds me of a scene in "Happy People", a documentary about life in the Russian taiga, where the hunter fashioned a pair of skis by splitting a tree.

Link if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cPhWpprLmM

koverda··on Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster
check out Nike Shox: https://store.nike.com/us/en_us/pw/shox-shoes/9ifZoi3
koverda··on Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster
carbon fiber doesn't get tired
koverda··on 55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Debt with More Debt
I believe it is those who own US Treasury Securities.

These are the foreign holdings: http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt

From what I understand, the rest are citizens & US based funds.

koverda··on 55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Debt with More Debt
What happens if the US inflates away the national debt?
koverda··on PCB Placement Stencils
This is really cool. I wonder if it would make hand assembly worth it for small runs of products? PCBs are already so cheap that assembly is by far the biggest cost of making anything on a circuit board.
koverda··on ArenaNet ‘folded like a cheap card table,’ says fired Guild Wars 2 writer
It seemed like Derior was engaging her in a respectful discussion, and the GW writer took it as a gendered offense for a reason that I can't seem to figure out. Maybe it's because Derior is a man? Either way, I do think that it's pretty ridiculous to get fired for something like that, I'd guess that ArenaNet wouldn't fire someone they though was truly valuable for an offense like this.
koverda··on Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up
I believe this is the relevant bit:

" As we learn from Andy Grove, former Intel CEO and author of the book High Output Management, it is also important to define and track counter-metrics to provide necessary context, because metrics are sometimes optimized to a fault.

For example, engineering tickets will vary in importance, so if your engineers have closed the critical tickets, they’re doing better than if they close most tickets but only the easiest ones. Similarly, if the half of candidates that accept your job offers are less skilled than the half that decline, then you’re doing worse than the raw percentage indicates. "

koverda··on The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)
Nice that we live on a planet with low enough gravity to get off of it. The article states that if the Earth was about 50% bigger, chemical rockets wouldn't be able to achieve escape velocity. Any species on a planet like that has a much much harder time getting into space.
koverda··on Content Snare: Leaving a job to build a SaaS business
Gotcha, keep it up!
koverda··on Content Snare: Leaving a job to build a SaaS business
$1k per month? Is that revenue? Doesn't sound like it's doing too great.
koverda··on Instagram Lite quietly launches to find a billion more users abroad
Maybe they should have just written it right the first time! /s
koverda··on Ask HN: Founders who were established engineers. How did you make the change?
1. Start networking to find a co-founder.

2. Think about problems in your life that you'd like to solve. Talk to potential customers to validate.

3.Transition slowly from one thing to the next. Use the golden handcuff money to fund the initial steps of your venture.

koverda··on Amazon's Alexa now at Marriott hotels
Just tear off a piece from your hat.
koverda··on Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
Tinfoil hats are this way.
koverda··on Apple sets up iPhones to relay location for 911 calls
Increased pay.
koverda··on For $1B, Elon Musk’s Tunnel to O’Hare Would Be a Miracle
This is short sighted. Do you think technology improvements in building out public transit won't make it out to the mass-market which addresses the needs of the general public?
koverda··on For $1B, Elon Musk’s Tunnel to O’Hare Would Be a Miracle
I strongly disagree with you.

If this project manages to reduce the cost per mile of building public transportation, the public as a whole will benefit greatly in the years to come. I'm not rich and I would love there to be many more subway lines built out in our cities.

It's the Tesla Roadster of public transit: an expensive proving ground for a technology with a mass-market demand. I'd rather the government give breaks to something with at least a sliver of hope of helping the common person - rather than tax cuts to wealthy, etc.

koverda··on Ask HN: Acquihire early stage bootstrapped SaaS advice
Is this a common practice?
koverda··on Press Warned about USB Fan Given Out at Trump-Kim Summit
I'm curious to see if they end up finding anything.
koverda··on Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2B valuation
what makes you say that?
koverda··on Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2B valuation
That's an insanely fast rise in valuation.
koverda··on Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
keep the puns on reddit
koverda··on Mortgage rates have been rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years
Can someone with a background in econ / real estate weigh in on this a bit? Curious to hear some opinions on the housing market within the context of rising rates.
koverda··on Could the DNA of these ‘super seniors’ hold the secret to healthy aging?
Goes to gym, plays sports, active social life.

I'm sure those contribute to healthy aging.

koverda··on Show HN: Avoid GDPR by blocking EU visitors
This is pretty appealing. A quick and easy CYA to keep you out of trouble while you work on compliance (or not).
koverda··on The myopia boom (2015)
What if we make cellphone screens which emit 10,000 lux? Boom. Problem solved.
koverda··on Gerontopoly: Homeownership, wealth, and age
What if you factor in rent on the other side of the equation?
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