Kevin_S

I think aiming for YC long term is smart, but YC doesn't really take ideas anymore as far as I know. To increase your odds of getting in you still need to do all the things that you would do anyway: build a prototype, get some users (preferably paid). You have to show the ability to execute to get YC on board these days.

Google Calendar and Tasks - the integrated one.

The trick to making google calendar work is putting literally everything on there, from work to personal tasks, to events, to little notes for later. Tasks works especially well with recurring tasks - for example I have vaccuuming and cleaning the kitchen as a recurring Sunday task

I dunno, that kinda makes sense to me if you think about the structure of a business. An elite CEO makes the most critical decisions that can be easily worth billions either positive or negative. An elite engineer makes a stellar project sure, but they work on a team etc. An elite engineer that makes elite decisions becomes an executive, and doesn't stay an engineer.

You have a 14 person family? Good lord my man.

I'm an academic researcher that studies nonprofits and trust me, you are not alone in thinking this. But the problem with charities constraining themselves to their original narrow mandate is that this leads to tiny nonprofits trying to solve the greatest challenges facing humanity (poverty, disease, etc.). Tiny nonprofits simply cannot impact the world significantly.

Sure there are examples of egregious shadiness in nonprofits, but an above comment mentioned the Red Cross basically putting 375m/500m of donations toward the programs. Honestly, if they send every dollar received straight the beneficiaries, they would have raised significantly less than 500m. Would it be better for the programs to receive 375m/500m or 25m/25m? Sure we don't know how much they would have raised without all the fundraising, but this issue is more nuanced than people think.

EDIT: I read the Red Cross article from NPR, and it appears that example falls under legitimate questioning of the use of funds. My larger point still applies in general though.

Do any of these tablets sync with Endnote? I am an academic and organize research using Endnote, and I would need the tablet to pull and sync with my endnote.

Ok but the last 6 years the market has generally only gone up. If you are doing technical analysis, you would expect to actually be profitable in an expansionary period. The problem is if you trade the same way in a deflationary period you will lose all of your gains.

All it means is that they can use the funds as they see fit. There should be a breakdown somewhere on their site of what % of funds go toward development verse admin/fundraising as they are a 501c3.

is anyone doing this on windows? this looks really cool and useful.

Dems problem with requiring ID is that it just so happens that those proposals are always alongside attempts to make it more difficult for poor people to get IDs in the first place. Dems would have no issue requiring ID if republicans would agree to give every US citizen an ID for free.

Voter ID laws are simply an attempt to keep poor people and minorities from voting and honestly it's sickening.

I knew someone that used the vidangel service, but I don't really get it. If you remove the cursing/sex/violence from much of the works that use them, does it not remove context that is necessary? You mention ASoIaF, which is littered with all three right? How can you consume a "patched" version and still retain the themes and messages of these works?

If you don't want to be exposed to these things, why not just only consume content that does not have them in the first place?

I dunno, I have an intense fandom for certain artists and when they release new music I like to listen with my higher quality headphones, at home in peace and quiet to really take it in as fully as possible.

Though this is only for maybe 3 projects a year so it isn't how I listen to all new music.

I had an extremely easy gov contractor job that paid really well, used my skills, and I worked with great people. I still was living for being off work.

Decided to pursue a PhD, which requires about 20x effort but I like coming to the office every day to work. Huge difference for my mental health.

As I understand it, the recordings are just being shown as crickets. They are not disputing that the medical issues were not real, just that this piece of evidence was crickets. That doesn't mean they are saying that the attack was crickets.

I learned I'm more capable than I imagined. I was a mediocre student through HS and undergrad, and managed to talk my way into a really good PhD program I started this fall. All the other students were stellar students and just seemed so much more qualified, and I really doubted if I could make it.

I did well enough in my fall classes (hardest math I've ever taken, skipping multiple pre reqs) to move on and I feel I've found my research interest at least for now. I'm excited every day to work on my research/coding and honestly am 100x happier than I was at my old job even though I'm working about 5x the hours.

I was really worried from the get-go I would not be able to pass the hard classes. But shit, I did it! I feel I can just do so much more.

Sorry for the ramble haha.

Typically non profits will advertise this type of thing, essentially a program ratio of 100%. This is positively correlated with total donations.

Usually the way to work around this is to have a large benefactor that agrees to use their funds for overhead/admin/advertising, and then they can say 100% of your donations goes to programs.

A sort of necessary pain for non profits because a "bad" program ratio costs them donations.

Come on.... this argument that athletes should make less is ridiculous.

Unfortunately I can't recommend any particular book to learn economics alone. I don't learn best this way and I feel I got basically all of my knowledge through my coursework. I'd honestly recommend a course. Even an online one may be workable.

I could've written this exact comment after I read this book, but I actually wouldn't recommend this. I read it right before I did my economics degree, and it really warped my view of the "right way" to think about econ.

It does give you a starting point, but the Austrian view isn't in the mainstream for a reason. It introduces just a bit too much bias into novice readers for my taste.

They should both be important is his point. And measurements for IQ (and EQ frankly) aren't very reliable. His point seems to be that "smart" is not really measurable as we don't include EQ and our measurements of IQ are poor as well.

I've subscribed via RSS.

I am required, but I am not technical. Financial consultant for a government client.

If you have to, I suggest getting the best pants you can afford. I wear dress pants that are slim fit but have some stretch to them, making them infinitely more comfortable.

It sucks horribly. I am very into fashion and dressing up and buy nice clothes, but holy shit ties on a daily basis are the worst thing ever. And I don't even get to wear fun formal wear - I am stuck in conservative colors and such.

I am going back to school this Fall and am looking forward to dressing more casually day-to-day.

I played Runescape for over 10 years.

For the first 7~ or so I was a bad player that progressed slowly.

Maxed my combat, and eventually became a force in the duel arena. Made bils, got bored, left the game.

Nothing hit my beliefs in the face like realizing infinite money in a game like that ruins the experience.

It actually ruined me for video games to be honest. I played LoL for a year or so before getting bored, and spent a small amount of time with CoD on the Xbox, but no other game has ever captured me like RS.

I still follow a few content creators, and get the itch to start a new account once a month or so, but I won't let myself get into a game like that ever again.

I like Feedly, been using for like a year.

Only thing I really want at this point is to be able to filter out for certain keywords, but it's a pro feature. Does a different app offer this for free?

I've spent 2 years doing 8-5 and it just doesn't work for me. I'm going back to school and becoming an academic. The requirement to be here is what hurts the most, I'll happily work more hours as long as they are flexible and on my own accord, in my own space.

I am counting down the days.

I'd advise against this space. There've been hundreds of startups trying to do exactly that. Not many successes as far as I can tell.

Do you live in California? Cause that would explain things.

Very little, 3.1 GPA and I'm in accounting, where GPA actually is important for internships and first jobs.

Got a job with Deloitte in consulting.

Now an incoming PhD student.

GPA means nothing if you have an ounce of personal skills.

Being overweight is bad for your individual health.

We know certain things in society have an impact on how overweight people get.

Identifying and fixing those things is worthwhile.

No one is insinuating that we should force people to become fit or anything, as you imply here.

As I understand it, the idea that people are "naturally" overweight and cannot change that is a complete myth with no scientific backing.

In some cases, certain diseases/medications can cause a very small weight gain but nothing significant.