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Yes. Being a soldier shouldn't mean you suffer for the rest of your life to the point that you cannot really participate in life. Not all soldiers who wind up with PTSD have committed atrocities. You can be a medic and get PTSD. A translator. And so on. At the same time, some of those folks that do horrible things do not always wind up with PTSD.

Not only that, but such things take a toll on society. Their families suffer - children, spouses, parents, siblings - and it is a drain on medical care. Why would we not make it so folks can lead a better life?

I'm not even a supporter of much of what a military does. They war, and rarely do the rebuilding or giving back to the community outside of a PR stunt. (NASA gets a break here, they don't seem to be a warring segment). But that doesn't mean the little folks on the ground need to suffer for life. I don't think most folks are happy about the thing that gave them PTSD, but that's not what the drug does. (Side note: I've taken this particular drug). It simply makes it so you aren't caught up on it and can get back to living in the present. That thing stops eating your brain and linking that thing to more innocent things in every day life.
Hi HN! I've been working with the Stellar blockchain recently and I found it hard to get a simple, open and transparent wallet that would let me keep my accounts on my local machine. So I wrote my own and made it available for everyone.
I've tried to keep the code simple and clean and I would appreciate any feedback. The goal is it should be a simple, powerful wallet that any dev can pick up - be confident how it works and be able to hack in 5 minutes.
> The truth is that some places are nicer to live or visit than others, and if you don't have the money to play the game then you aren't welcome.

Yes, and in the good old days, that niceness was a local property: The rich got the nicest places in the area and the poor got the shittiest places in the area.

I guess when globalisation is fully realized, according to this, the rich will get the nicest places globally and the poor will get the shittiest places globally.

Why do we want that future again?
> You are not modifying slack (their product)

Their product are the bits they ship to you and the code they run on their servers.

You're modifying a part of their product.

Since you can't modify their product, you also obviously shouldn't be able to use any web browser to view slack because those browsers take those bytes they ship you and interpret them in the context of the browser windowing system (its userChrome.css for example)... that's also clearly modifying the experience they delivered to you.

You also shouldn't be able to use a computer monitor that has color settings different from the web designers working at slack. If you accidentally have a monitor with slightly less blue than theirs, well, you just modified the slack UI to be a little less blue. Obviously a ToS violation and you shouldn't use them at all.

God forbid if you zoom in on the page to modify their product's resolution/size.
That seems relatively straightforward to solve chemically. Hydrogen can be adsorbed by many different materials. Or you could add just the right amount of oxygen to burn the hydrogen and then condense the water out.
IANAL but there's case law around maliciously causing a breach of contract.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
> I'm very outgoing, but I have love shyness or something like that. I basically don't date. I find the entire thing extremely stressful and unbearable. I've always been alone.

I can relate to this a lot. If I may make a recommendation - despite the awful name, Models[0] by Mark Manson[1] did a lot to re-frame my interaction with women I'm romantically interested in. It takes the refreshing approach that rather than learning tricks or lines like other male-oriented dating books this one comes from a place of honesty and vulnerability. He has a blog [2] if you want a taste of his writing.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Models-Attract-Women-Through-Honesty-...
[1] Better known for his book 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck'
[2] https://markmanson.net/archive
This is not my experience. If you overdo it, this can happen, but with the proper dosage there is no noticeable happiness hangover.
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Speaking of which, I'm also learning Spanish. Liam, I'm from the UK where we only speak one language. The one thing I really, really wish I'd done is to have learned another language. I'm doing it now, but it's so much easier when you're young.

It doesn't even matter what it is – pick one you like the sound of. French, German, Italian, whatever. When you bump in to someone later in life and you hear them speaking another language and you can interact with them, there's no greater satisfaction.

/off topic
You were downvoted and edited out your comment, but apparently you said something along the lines of survey monkey is not that impressive because it just hosts forms.

That's not how they make money.

They make money by getting people to answer the questions on the forms. You pay approximately $1 per response.

If you want to know if users think that they themselves are willing to pay more for electricity, you can just ask them.

That's amazing.
"...they could presumably just say "no"."

I wouldn't imagine that's the case. Especially if the investor came up with the number and agreed to it in a legally binding contract. It'd be an uphill battle in court to get around that. (yeah, you still need the funds to defend your company...)

Also, my anecdata says that most corporations have in their corporate bylaws (or whatever the right document is) the provision that they can forcibly recall shares at any time (presumably for current fair market value/409A valuation.)
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> creating a unique culture with a fully remote team and high levels of transparency, it now started to feel like we had to choose between those things. It was suggested that some of the fundamentals that I had come to value could be removed to create a productivity environment that would increase the growth rate. I refused to compromise on the transparency and remote work aspects of our culture, so we started to explore slower growth goals

In what way did "remote culture" specifically negatively affect productivity? How was this measured against the more traditional way of working? Or was this just a perception/bias issue, like "oh hmm the team is remote, so I guess that can be blamed on slow growth"
Terrific intro to Startup School v2.0!

In a similar vein to the question "Why do startups win?", which besides having a rich history of rigorous academic inquiry and to my thinking has never been adequately resolved.

One can ask, "Why does Startup School work?" And a chief factor is the imposition of an external hard deadline (Demo Day). As well as the tracking of performance metrics by a team outside the locus of founders.

To that end, a "Milestone Tracker" interface that is both public and designed with accountability in mind could be a key component in making things "real" for participants.

It also occurs to me that in a class of 15K startups, you are going to receive a lot of "offers" to try products and services from your fellow classmates. Just in the past hour I got $250 in credits from a cloud analytics startup, and a discount coupon from a crowdfunding platform for foodies ;)

Manageable for a cohort size in the low hundreds. But perhaps an issue at scale that may result in missed opportunities.

It may be a good idea to have a centralized site at startupschool.org/offers with a canonical list of "startup-to-startup" (S2S) deals.

Of course it would be differentiated from third-party credits by the likes of GCloud, AWS, Stripe, etc
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It does, as well as support for the other 24 letters. ;)
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What does "naturally" even mean here? Everyone these days seems to be giving their kids unique names. Some people name their kid Obi-wan Kenobi. That's not really any different than these people, is it?
I really like this! Searching for 'sea foam green' gave me exactly what I thought.

That being said, personally, I would prefer something original instead of "Google, but for colors.". just my two cents.
Huh? No, the investor agreed to an annual 9% interest rate, not a lump sump their equity could be purchased for.

It would be pretty funny if the legal norm among startups was that they can acquire their own equity back from investors based on their 409A valuation.
I like that survey monkey finds an audience and induces them to answer your questions.

I also know roughly how much it will cost.

I can't tell pricing from SurveyGizmo or Qualtrics after several seconds of clicking around.

This is their pricing tab:
https://www.surveygizmo.com/team-enterprise/

come on!
Go see a neurologist.
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that's actually a pretty terrible way of handling it. There are libraries a' plenty that achieve this without scraping google.
Yup, I noted in a separate comment that re-work (or any kind of maintenance, let alone mind-changing) with concrete is a significant con, at least beyond the slab.

I'm likely to use in-fill, as load-bearing just seems too much effort, too time-constrained in terms of dealing with random weather events, and too difficult to effect subsequent design changes.

I'm assuming the gunite mixture allows some breathing? I thought concrete mixes were typically avoided for this reason -- most people I've heard of that do these (I'm in AU) use a natural mix, mostly clay-based, IIRC.
Hi Hurundo thanks for your insightful comment.

You're quite right that there are a myriad of identified and yet unidentified affecting an individual's Kraft Pattern of insulin release to a particular food. For example,it's becoming clearer that foods like flours with disrupted macromolecular starch network can negatively sway the insulin incretin and subsequent insulin response; 2 foods with identical glycemic responses can stimulate GIP and insulin to significantly different degrees https://breaknutrition.com/episode-8-starch-digestibility-li... The point being though we're saying "you're insulin is going to be X in 10min after this slice of pizza", what we're doing is using empirical averages with all their limitations to teach people how pizza, donuts and fruit juices all cause you to hypersecrete insulin, and that's very very bad. Of course, the more advanced users will still be able to track useful dietary, exercise, timing and other metrics for their N = 1's.

You mention implantable insulin monitoring, and that's of great interest to us. I'm a molecular biologist by training and would've loved to work on bringing that device to market. Until we have that though, there are other metrics that are pretty informative. For example, our app is going to have a McAuley Index calculator which plugs fasting insulin and triglycerides into a formula giving a pretty decent index compared to the clinical SSPG 2-hour test https://breaknutrition.com/episode-34-metabolic-syndrome-ser....

Blood marker tracking is also going to be a part of our app but we're not going to introduce quite yet.

Thanks,

Raphael Sirtoli
For near mythological geek cred you should use a Babylonian water level :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_level_%28device%29
Oh man, I did not mean to type systemd! I ment docker.
Sounds interesting. Any examples?
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"...at the number they came up with..."

Maybe I've misread you here. Is this not a number the investors came up with?

As for the 9% interest rate, that starts sounding more like debt than ownership.
I used to work on the project, where we had a filter like this on people's names, to prevent abuse.

We quickly learned that showing message like "Name cannot contain profanity" is a bad idea, because we'd show this due to names that happen to be "questionable in some contexts". People get pissed off real quick, if you tell them they have "profanity" in their name.

We changed it to something like "you're using a word we don't allow" (avoiding mentioning of "profanity" altogether), PLUS, we added a way for users to quickly contact support, if they're in this pickle.
What about another 3 or 4 months to download a restore?
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Ah thats the bare metal cloud provider. They seem like a cool and interesting company too. I'm glad to hear they're involved. Cheers.
current projects are a lot easier if you can use modern syntax that will eventually be supported in future projects, and which can be transpiled in either way
Right. And ”hidden option” is perhaps the wrong word, but let’s say one that doesn’t prevent using the site/service in full.

Even supposedly serious outlets like WaPo does this. Full screen splash that says “by using the site you agree to targeted ads”. Why even bother with that when it’s so blatantly in violation? Isn’t it almost better to not look like you are deliberately in violation like that?

It’s not even a dark pattern, it’s just a big fat splash explaining how they don’t care about the GDPR and intend to show me targeted ads using tracking cookies.
When I first started using DDG, I had the same response, but I have found that my use of "!g" has steadily diminished over time, without making any conscious effort.
I think what you want is an encyclopedia article. Some (a lot) of us enjoy reading about people, places, and the narratives of their lives and struggles.
the situation becomes messy because the next question is, should any public official not be allowed to block. This includes Congressmen accounts or senators. If Twitter retains the right to revoke individual access to the site, then Trump should be able to do what he wants with this account. IF Trump were using a federally-funded social network, then that would be a different issue
> In a cold and dry room you can have your tapes sit for 3 decades and they'll work.

If you can find a working drive, and drivers, for a 30 year old tape. Look at all the problems NASA has with their old tapes. The tapes actually are fine, it's just a major effort to custom build a machine to read them.
That's probably when modern tourism began, in the post-war 50s and 60s. You had a bunch of things coming together: commercial airliners, cruise ships, better highway systems, etc. Disney World launched in the 60s to capitalize on the trend. I agree "people are people" and they don't change as much as we'd like to think...but I do also think that modern tech has made travel more frictionless than ever. You have GPS in your pocket, you can Yelp for good locales and restaurants, you can book flights in minutes, hail rides from an app, Google anything you're confused about, etc... So the number of people travelling nowadays is probably at an all time high.
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I deal with this too. An example I'll never forget: leaving my sweater at a friend's house, realizing half way home (on a bike, freezing), biking all the way back to pick it up, then riding all the way home without my backpack (I took it off to put the sweater on). I miss train stops, forget important grocery items, leave my car at the carpool and think it's been stolen, etc.

I notice drinking makes it worse. So does cannabis. I have good months and bad months. It makes me feel like I'll never be worthy of a leadership role or any respectable level of responsibility. Major impostor syndrome when I'm working with people. Gives me anxiety when I give talks because I am afraid I am forgetting something and will act my usual foolish self in front of everyone.

I had an MRI for an unrelated issue and it came back normal. That helped a ton! Hypochondria and being hyper self-conscious is certainly a part of it. Last month I presented a concept for a webapp and a research project I did and won a small internal pitching contest. That helped a ton-- when I feel like I'm killing it and making strides, I don't feel like such an idiot, and stop noticing all the little mistakes I make.
United States has been a financial oligarchy since the turn of the 20th century.
oooh, he's got them scared.

I guess this is because of his proposal to tax companies 100% of an welfare benefits their workers get?

Love that idea BTW.

> While Senator Sanders plays politics

god forbid a US senator plays politics.

This from the company that launched a massive and blatant astroturfing campaign last week.

> In addition to highly competitive wages and a climate controlled, safe workplace

Bet a signed dollar they stuck climate controlled in because of the old stories about them getting ambulances to wait outside instead of installing AC.

I'll believe the employees. Lets hear what they have to say, anonymously and candidly.
I suspect the real beef is with the name. In one swoop, it dilutes their trademark and makes the case that Slack is inferior to something else. Big no-no.

I bet the Slack top brass just told legal to throw the book at the guy because of the name, and so they padded the letter with everything they could find, including weak technical arguments that they don't even enforce on others.

(I agree on the confusion with Slackware btw, it took me a while to realize they had no connection whatsover with Volkerding or the distro.)
I was never any good at creating high resolution mockups before starting any development work, but I could always draw out which screens I needed for my apps.

I had the idea to create notepads with mobile and browsers that I could use to draw my wireframes. Then I had the idea to send those over to designers for high resolution mockups.

I'm excited to announce that I spent the last week turning this idea into a service. Let me know your thoughts!
It's the only way to be sure!
…or maybe just stop trying to play with the cat tail if you don't want to get scratched.

There is plenty of solutions out there to do chat messaging "kinda like" or maybe better than Slack. I'm using Slack daily and I can't find what this platform has something so magical about it.

I am personally building a communication client that can do IM, video-conferencing, file sharing, posting articles… all based on XMPP. It works in the browsers and we are proposing now apps for Android and macOS/Windows/Linux. It's way lighter than Slack, can be deployed easily on a VPS or in your company and is fully compatible with many other XMPP clients/bots (Github is proposing a XMPP bot for MUCs for example :)). If you want to try it out or know more: https://movim.eu.

If you don't like Movim, I still invite you to find open platforms that can be tuned/hacked/adapted to your needs, there's plenty of them in the wild ;)
Thanks.

When I was 15 I remember seeing my grandmother's glucose monitor values scribbled on her little notepad, their were big swings. I didn't know what I know now and I'm that, had she access to better information than what her doctors gave her, she could have better managed diabetes.

I hope this app helps diabetics do what I regret not having been able to for my (type 2) diabetic grandmother - reverse diabetes.
SM's audience product is good if you are consumer facing, not B2B. The costs are nice, and the revenue model for the people helps avoid garbage data. (SM donates to charity on behalf of the survey taker, rather than paying them directly). In B2B surveys that I run, I end up paying a lot more per complete (for, say, a VP of infrastructure at a company over 1bn) and I still have a high disqual rate and low incidence.

SM is a good product, don't get me wrong. The team is great, their support is great. The reasons I outlined above are the _only_ reasons I am moving away from them.
It seems to me that the nature of venture funding is such that it would be unusual for the investor and the CEO to be aligned with respect to the company's financial performance. This is true in public companies where activist investors push management to extract more value out of the business even when the CEO feels this will compromise employee morale and customer value.

I have seen companies in the same position described by Joel in this post where they fired the CEO, installed a "seasoned team" to get the numbers up, and then sold the carcass to BigCorp as an acquihire bailout.

So with that experience of one of the other ways this story could play out, I found Joel's story one of "success" in terms of sticking with the plan as opposed to selling out. I certainly respect that and wish him continued success.
>...sometimes don't like it if such suggestions are made

I'll admit to occasionally being frustrated by comments like this. It's important to remember that not everyone is looking to learn. Sometimes, they just need to get something done ASAP.

It's a bit idealistic to assume that everyone has time to learn the canned solution. The real world doesn't always allow for that.
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In hindsight it is a little weird that blocking exists as a concept at all. When you tweet from a public account you are putting that information out into the public. It seems silly to try to prevent certain people from seeing that content and it is trivially easy for a user to circumvent that block by logging out or creating a new account. Muting seems like the most logical way for people to control who they interact with on Twitter.
Yeah I'm sure the very rich had that luxury back in the day... But nowadays anyone can do it.
I’m not being a good platform partner basically because they make it impossible for me to be one.

I’d love to avoid reverse engineering their minified code and use well documented APIs. Unfortunately, that’s not possible nor planned (as they told me on a tweet I linked on the post).
Dude, the robots are coming for our jobs.
I guess I'm the only one here doubting that the combination of both this project and the language used in the comment replies is coming from a 12 year old.

Take it as a compliment if it's legitimate.
There's a shortage of nice places, so they will be rationed out, either by money or by politics and violence.
Those witty comments about the burden of kids are just humble bragging (I hope that is the right word).

I think having kids is the best thing ever. But try to also have time for them and connect. I think some dads struggle, who are hardly ever around.

For example I didn't expect the first year to be very interesting, but actually a lot of things happened and a lot of phases happened and then were over forever (like having the baby sleep on your belly), so now I pity dads who miss out on all of that.

As for wives turning unattractive - having kids is a great source for fights, it definitely can be a strain on the relationship. The problem is, it is easy to be forgiving about stuff concerning yourself. For your kid, not so much - if you believe ice cream is instantly going to give your kid diabetes, and the mum believes touching an iPhone will immediately fry its brain and forever turn the kid into a zombie, it is difficult to be forgiving.

Also, lets face it, the mother will have you by the balls, because she can threaten to walk out and take kids (and probably also the house) at any time.

Many mothers still look hot, but perhaps, once they have you by the balls, there is less incentive to stay in shape. I don't know...
I’d really like to give zulip a try... unfortunately, I don’t have voice or vote over that decision on my company.

Also, I love the company too much to resign over a such a small thing that can be fixed with a 20kb extension.
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