breakpointalpha

I've been Social Sober for 20 days now. I didn't delete any content from FB, since I had been using a fake name on there for 5 years. I just deactivated the account and haven't logged back in since.

I honestly haven't noticed much of a difference in my life. I still work all day, come home and watch Netflix or play my Switch.

It's ok to not "know" what's happening. Just do it!

Without reading the article, this is exactly why I gave up on my last side-project.

The subscription box business is great for consumers, but nearly indefensible against competitors.

Dollar shave club was hugely successful because it was a first-mover. Now Gillette and others are offering direct subscription services.

There simply is no moat if you don't own the base materials in the package and can control for manufacturing costs.

I thought I was weird for getting irritated when my gf's mom sticks a camera in my face unannounced.

I think the intent of the second amendment was also very much about a man being able to defend himself when police forces were not around.

That being said, it's wrong to assume that a popular revolt would automatically lose an asymmetric war against the US military. History is full of examples of local rebellions winning against greater numbers of professionally equipped soldiers. See: American Revolutionary forces vs the British Empire.

It's illegal in Florida to conceal carry in a bar or any establishment that derives more than 50% of it's revenue from the sale of alcohol.

Also, it's a big assumption that gun ownership = gun carrying. There are a lot of people who have 2-3 guns (shotgun, rifle, pistol) at home, and never carry them unless specifically heading to a shooting range or hunting.

Also, as others have pointed out, personal firearm carrying is highly restricted on active duty military bases. You'd probably find more guns in cars at a Texas Walmart than you would at a Texas military barracks.

Start here: https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university

I wouldn't recommend going back to school. You already have a Master's in Physics, which should give you all the math background you need to understand CS algos. I'd even encourage you to start to "translate" your Physics knowledge into code.

Google, FB, Microsoft, et. al. are more concerned with your ability to explain CS concepts at a whiteboard than your degrees.

Have you considered SpaceX? http://www.spacex.com/careers/list

They are usually very interested in cross discipline candidates.

Opening Hacker News 15+ times a day.

Seriously, "Focus" is the hardest thing to do when I have the entire internet and my phone right in front of me.

How do you manage?

Not to take away from what is being done in this project, but I had to read the HN comments to figure out that this was a set of software for printers.

The project could really use some better copy on the landing page.

As a country, we can land a rocket back on the launch pad, but we can't run a train faster than 80mph. Sad.

That seems a bit extreme.