RyanHolliday

At my company (StoragePug) we use:

-HubSpot for sales CRM, for email marketing, and for our website. Easy to set up email templates and automated follow-up sequences, and there's a huge benefit to having your sales CRM be the same system you're using for email marketing & website because you have a really granular view of what a lead has engaged with that isn't there if you have a separate email marketing tool.

-JustCall for dialer/phone system.

-Canva for presentation decks (a designer can set up great templates that will look good even when folks like me who are design-challenged are building a new deck)

-Zoom for discovery calls / product demos (and Zoom webinars for marketing events)

-Loom for video sales letters (and for internal training videos)

-Google Workspace

Doesn't your explanation mean saying we live in a simulation is _exactly like_ saying there are millions of invisible unicorns?

I don't want to discount your experience, but as with a post advocating for fasting, you need to put a personal experience/your mileage may vary disclaimer on here, because your experience isn't going to be what everyone will experience.

I've done fasting in pretty varied ways. The longest was for eight days. What I usually do now is a 24-hour fast: dinner, skip the following breakfast and lunch, and then dinner.

When I fasted for eight days, I dropped about ten pounds. On a 24-hour cycle of fasting, I will drop between 1 and 2 pounds a day depending on activity level. I have never had the experience of gaining 20lb after fasting, nor have I ever felt like I was in famine mode. I think I gain weight a bit quicker than before I started doing the 24-hour fasts, but at the same time, it drops off quicker, too (it's true that fasting changes how your body stores and uses fat).

If you go from fasting back to junk food binges three or four times a day, yes, you will (unsurprisingly) gain the weight back. If you're putting 6k calories a day in, nothing about the effects of that are going to go away after your fast. If you go from fasting back to a reasonably balanced diet, the weight isn't coming back--if you aren't overeating, how could it?

This has been my experience. Your mileage may vary. I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice.

It's not particularly easy but it's not particularly hard, either. When I started doing 24 hour fasts, I would get shaky, tired, and as you mention, suffer headaches. For the first few times, you will likely not feel great. In my case, I adapted pretty quickly, and I don't feel "off" at all while fasting any more.

I'd also recommend the schedule that I use, which is to eat a normal dinner, and then skip the following breakfast and lunch, and then eat dinner at your usual time. You get 24 hours of no food, but it doesn't feel like a whole day. You also get a beneficial side effect: if you have no food intake in the morning, you don't get nearly as hungry later in the day. It's much harder to eat breakfast and then skip lunch and dinner than to eat dinner and skip the next two meals. Drinking a lot of water throughout the day will also help alleviate the "empty" feeling.

I'm not a doctor, this is not medical advice, consult your healthcare provider before undertaking any diet or exercise routine, blah blah.

I'd like to point out the hypocrisy of holding Germany up as a bright and shining alternative[1]. Regardless of what you think about the state of government in the US, nothing you say about the Holocaust here will you get imprisoned.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial#G...

What will the ruthless cofounder be pitching? It's an app, but an app for what?

And even if it isn't charged, you just need a standard micro USB cable, not anything proprietary. I can use the same cable (including the car charger!) for my phone and for my Kindle and for a number of other little peripheral devices.

That, and the only time I've ever had my Kindle go dead on me was when I accidentally left the WiFi on and used it constantly for like three weeks.

The thing that's important here is the definition of "durable goods," I think. It makes the discussion a lot simpler if we avoid the "doesn't wear out quickly" definition and use the "yields utility over time."

The thing of it is, there really aren't many (if any) goods purchased by consumers that are genuinely durable goods under that definition. Houses, possibly, but we clearly know that can turn out badly. Everything else. . . . well, everything else depreciates, most often quickly. Cars, televisions, appliances, and so on.

There just isn't a return on investment in terms of dollars and cents for consumer purchases that justifies the use of debt. If a business borrows money, they're just leveraging to increase profits. If a consumer borrows money, it's typically because they're not patient enough to wait until they have the cash (been there, done that, know from personal experience).

Anyway, the point of everything I said is to say this: I don't think there's good leverage for consumers, with the possible exception of student loans and a mortgage (for a reasonable house!). Everything else is just impatience.

EDIT: Given my school loans I'm actually pretty skeptical of the utility of student debt, too.

I don't know that I'd assume there's nothing more middle class _in China_ than skiing.

It's not misogyny because, according to Merriam-Webster's 11th edition, misogyny means "a hatred of women," and the original comment wasn't about that at all.

And it has nothing to do with a segment of society. You're complaining about someone half-jokingly calling us all whiny babies.

Is this overreaction and appalling misuse of the word "misogyny" really needed for satisfying self-expression nowadays?

Well, Mitnick was kept in solitary because they were afraid he could start a nuclear exchange if given access to a phone. I think a bit of paranoia is common procedure for hackers because what they do seems like magic to most people.

As for the taxes, that's entirely dependent on your behavior. There have definitely been stand-offs between tax protesters and armed law enforcement personnel.

Also gives you wings. That's a plus.

They may be part of the landscape but that doesn't mean taking them at face value is good journalism. And I think the reliability of journalism has a large impact on how aware and informed it's even possible for a reader to be.

Isn't it possible that this is why it comes out of the military industrial machine? Surely a lot of advances in trauma treatment, bandages, surgery, and all kinds of other medical advances have come from the military industrial machine as well.

I don't see the need to politicize this, and I don't think the numbers associated with the wars would be little known to people here.

Played with it a bit a few years ago. For what it is (free 3D software), I think it does fine. But at the same time, I think there's a reason it's not really being used professionally in the film industry (disclaimer: it wasn't the last time I looked, anyway).

If you wouldn't recommend individual stock picking, mutuals, or ETFs, what investment vehicle would you recommend? I want to invest but feel like I really just know enough to get myself burned.

I'd never heard of Messiah Studio before, but heck, I've dabbled in 3D enough to cough up $40 for professional software. Fingers crossed it hits the goal.

The difference is that my grandparents aren't on Second Life.

Interesting article, but I don't understand this: "The male brain has the enviable ability to essentially switch off emotions when desired--in part because it’s hard for a man to think clearly in the face of emotion."

"For a man"? Wouldn't it be hard for, you know, anyone, man or woman, to think clearly if they're over-emotional at the moment?

Thanks! This looks great, really comprehensive.

Good point. Initially, what I'm looking to do is to learn enough to put together, at least in a rudimentary fashion, the ideas that I have for apps or startups. Right now I'm one of those people with ideas and no ability to execute, and I realize how pretty much useless that is.

Of the two, does it matter which one I start with, or are both equally suitable for an absolute beginner?

Which is actually so much less annoying than captcha. Seems less secure (probably trivial for people you know to break in) but it's certainly a novel approach.

This is great for HN readers. For most people using Google, not so much, I think.

I don't know that the $1-$2 price point is really the important thing. I have no idea if a search engine would make a profit at that price point.

There's no product as of now. I have no idea about storing the terabytes of data, or data visualization, or filtering. I'm not qualified to solve most of those problems. I'm just curious if anyone feels that this kind of search would be worth paying for.

DMOZ doesn't really have user voting, though. But it's definitely a reasonable comparison.

Ad supported is a workable model, I agree.

The question if you would pay for it is directly because of Jason Cohen's post. If it's not worth paying for at some level, it's probably not a problem that's really screaming for a solution.

I'd pay for Google, for example. The fact that I don't have to pay for it is nice, but I'd cough up every month for it if it was a premium service, because it does something I absolutely need.

Yeah, there's definitely a major technological hurdle. I was more curious if anyone is actually willing to pay for search. So far, it's been running on the ad-supported model.

Also, I don't have any illusions about killing Google at this point. You don't need to kill Google to make a niche search business that produces a profit, was more my thinking.

Mahalo comes to mind (there's some useful content, but there's also a massive amount of things scraped and barely cited or not cited at all). It may be unfair to call eHow a scraper site, but it usually ranks high for the terms and is very light on actual content, and again with the barely cited or not cited. Beyond that, I run into a lot of seemingly one-off sites that are geared toward a specific keyword combination, have no real content, but somehow manage to rank.

It's easy enough to ignore the big, repeat offender sites, but not so much for the one-off sites, and avoidable or not they're still there cluttering my SERPs.