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love the idea but how is this better than iCloud privacy emails?

Increasing price would just move up the demand curve (less people willing to spend the increased amount on fixing their broken car) and the mechanic would earn more.

ofc overtime it's likely more mechanics enter the market to compete, but that wouldn't be instant. and when it does happen the table stakes would be that everyone's phone call get's answered

idk I feel like i'm missing something basic here

Why don't the mechanics increase their price?

Could he not just increase the price until the number of calls matches the time he has?

I know it's not that simple, but my gut says theres value to at least hearing out the people taking action to call you. Especially if that's automated and low cost to you.

I've had an increasing amount of interactions with other professionals who send me a clearly copy/pasted result of their own chat session without any effort to give clarity that I wanted to define a term to describe my pain.

Is there any hard fork scheduled in the near future for Bitcoin, with more important upgrades?

It seems that their calculations use metformin. At what age should we start using it for health-span extension? I'm already using it to avoid glucose spikes, even though I'm not even prediabetic, but I'm curious if it's known how powerful is the health-span effect is younger humans.

It was crazy how the same time this was happening there was a space shuttle battle going on over on the dark side of the moon because the Americans were bringing nukes and the Soviet’s were also launching a spec ops raid on the American lunar base to recover a potential defector. That was one crazy day y’all.

Down syndrome continues to be the most common chromosomal disorder. Each year, about 6,000 babies are born with Down syndrome, which is about 1 in every 700 babies born.

Between 1979 and 2003, the number of babies born with Down syndrome increased by about 30%.

Older mothers are more likely to have a baby affected by Down syndrome than younger mothers. In other words, the prevalence of Down syndrome increases as the mother’s age increases. Prevalence is an estimate of how often a condition occurs among a certain group of people. To estimate the prevalence of Down syndrome, the number of pregnancies affected by Down syndrome is compared to the total number of live births.

This is an interesting approach. Do you think some algorithm could be used instead or together with a human curator? What about generating images not completely randomly, but with some initial image / program?

States within the US are an interesting example however. The timber lands of southern states (e.g. Alabama, Mississippi) are some of the most profitable in the world, yet you have some of the worst poverty. I'm also thinking of the coal fields of Appalachia. And off the top of my head, major oil and gas regions are also relatively poor (e.g. Texas panhandle, the Dakotas, the Louisiana petrochemical alley).

I am not surprised in the slightest. One of the worst company on this planet.

This is outrageous:

NSO declined to sell Pegasus to Facebook, but it still built and launched Onavo without Pegasus as a spyware tool in early 2018 under the misleading pretense of being a VPN app.

The first thing they teach you about research, do not do it on the vulnerable population. It's not like people going to the public would matter; The Pixel 4's features and hardware all leaked way before the announcement.

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Oh, haha ok. My startup had the word "social" in it, so I think some not-so-subtle jabbing is probably deserved.

Appreciate you checking out the post! (and thanks for filling me in on the joke)

"Is it simply slang for not taking oneself too seriously?"

That kind of works actually. I'll see if I can get it to stick, haha.

Oh wow. My bad.

I meant to say "Disco ball necklace". I helped at a 70s themed charity event and ended up taking some home the weekend before the hurricane.

In the first picture you can see it, but here is a picture of a box of them.

http://distilleryimage5.s3.amazonaws.com/63d4661a4fb911e2aa5...

Related: do people "wear disco balls" like that where you are from?!

This makes sense, but I can definitely see how I could get caught up thinking that with just "a few more" months I could get something to happen. By default, don't you have to ignore some data in a startup that says your failing and push on?

Otherwise you'd stop at square 0. I know there is a continuum of bullshitting yourself involved there, but it's certainly a grey area.

We were living on the upper...upper east side. We might have been able to find a cheaper apartment in the bronx, but FWIW I was paying less in the last apartment than I was when I was living in Charlotte, NC.

It was a good trade off between being close enough to the "scene" and far enough away where it was cheap enough.

Fair. For real though, is Ryan Howard's character really into himself?

Don't want to be that guy who doesn't get the joke but I am totally the guy who isn't getting the joke.

IS THIS SOMETHING RYAN HOWARD WOULD SAY?!

It really is difficult to chug a gallon of milk, don't knock it until you try it.

I see what you're saying though. Thanks for checking it out anyway.

Thanks for having my back!

I can understand how it might look if you don't know me and there's probably a lot of people who thought the same thing.

Looking back, it was just a coping method. In the same way that I make lame jokes when I feel nervous, this was just a reaction to the idea that my life just got flipped upside down.

And I totally posted it directly to instagram. Spade is a spade, I guess.

100%, thanks.

There is more than one way to skin the old meow meow. Getting over myself enough to realize that was the big take away from all this.

Thanks! I didn't notice there were so many at first, but now it does seem kind of vain.

NOW IM QUESTIONING EVERYTHING.

The dream is still very much alive.

There is more than one path, and admitting that I could use some help and a few tips here or there from the people who have already found success was a big lesson for me from the last 6 months.

If you succeed, it's success. If you fail, it's experience towards success.

No, sorry.

I hadn't thought of it that way, but you raise a good point. At what point are people enabling you and at what point are you just being prideful (if you take it or not). Obviously you have to have some discretion, but I've always struggled with that line.

I spent the few months doing what I described in the post - pretending it didn't happen. It's amazing what you can convince yourself of.

When I finally decided I was being an idiot, I started to focus on finding a job. It was way harder than I thought it would be (there is a theme of being arrogant here - another post another day).

I'm now working at a startup as a software + product guy. Learning from some really smart people and loving it so far. In lots of ways, the storm was the best thing to happen to me.

I can only say that because I really have a lot of great people around me. It made me appreciate all the opportunities I've been given and can sympathize more with people who haven't had the same support.

Thanks for checking out the post.

There are plenty haha! I have a few extras if you want one.