peterkshultz

"...in the United States, the commerce departments of state governments generally prohibit or restrict the use of certain words in the names of corporations unless those corporations are legitimate chartered banks. For example, words prohibited by the state of Louisiana include bank, banker, banking, savings, safe deposit, trust, trustee, and credit union" [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banq_(term)

Balds are some of America's hidden treasures.

Jane Bald through Hump Mountain was my favorite section on the Appalachian Trail, except maybe for a few sections in Maine.

South of downtown was the first one, yes. See "The History of Costco" at: https://www.costco.com/about.html

Highly recommend "Hard Landing" by Thomas Petzinger Jr. if you're interested in this sort of subject.

Unit economics for commercial aviation have changed substantially since the industry's inception.

You should check out the book "On Bullshit" by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt. He develops a similar theory.

That accountability doesn't work for everybody, of course.

I learned in school that gyms sell more memberships than their facilities have space to support. People think that by buying a membership, they're locking themselves into going and working out because they're paying for it.

Sometimes, however, people conflate paying for the gym membership as actually going to the gym, and then don't go at all.

But yes, as you said: it boils down to accountability.

I disagree with the idea that the market has room for a finite number of millionaires.

See Paul Graham's essay on wealth, specifically the subject about the pie fallacy. "...although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. You can make more wealth. Wealth has been getting created and destroyed (but on balance, created) for all of human history." [1]

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

Appalachian Trail? I did it too!

Fritos and Nutty Buddies were my go-to. I added a few notes about my trip here: https://pkshultz.com/at/

I would call what you're experiencing the sunk cost fallacy [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Loss_aversion_and_th...

Anybody interested in this might want to check out EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) communication: point an antenna at the moon, bounce a signal off of it, and coordinate with someone back on Earth to receive it.

More details here: http://www.moonbouncers.org/

Had I not set up a keyboard shortcut for this a week ago, I would've been using your site at least a dozen times a day.

Clean and functional. Well done!

When Amazon Go was first announced, my guess was that they were using RFID tags on every item in the store.

I now understand why that was misguided: the cost of RFID tags would scale linearly with the amount of goods sold. With Amazon's camera/ML technology, they can reproduce this store wherever they want for just the cost of the hardware and maintenance.

I really appreciated the article for explaining that.

I'm willing to wager that this number has dropped in the six years since the article has been written.

Vertical integration at its finest.

I feel that this will only embolden people who claim Amazon is becoming a monopoly (even though the numbers don't support it).

Amazon announced plans to open up a Detroit tech office a few years ago [1].

[1]: http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2015/09/2...

Does anyone understand how too much money in the fund can lead to diminishing returns?

Any password manager recommendations such that people don't need to deal with 1Password's cloud-based storage?

A study by NASA found that the optimal time for a nap was 26 minutes.

The lengthy study can be found [here](http://www.jetlog.com/fileadmin/downloads/NASA_TM_94_108839....).

"It's exceptionally rare for startups to be killed by competitors—so rare that you can almost discount the possibility."

- Paul Graham (http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html)

Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus is a great read for anyone interested in these types of problems.

Depends on the type of hacking. A lot of hacking doesn't fall under any specific law.

USC § 2511 says that for intercepting traffic on a wifi network without permission, you can get up to five years in prison. [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511]

The site isn’t going to mean anything unless people in power use it for their decisions about policy.

I sometimes think that half the reason political polarization has gotten so bad is that politicians aren’t citing the same data. One lobbying group can provide one dataset, and that’ll get picked up by Democrats to support their idea. Another lobbying group will provide another dataset, and that’ll get used by Republicans for their counterarguments.

If this site could become the definitive source of data—the one that both sides of the aisle trust—there’d be a common data source in policy talks. That could lead to consensus much quicker.

In most circles, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft are collectively considered the "Big Four". Some throw in Amazon to round out the "Big Five".

Do you think he left Microsoft out on purpose?

Reminds me of the game Lose Lose. When you defeat an alien, a random file is deleted from your computer.

Please don't play it.

https://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/lose-lose-game-deletes-f...

My two cents:

- As a fan of pick-up basketball games, I could definitely imagine myself using this (in fact, I've read people ask for this exact app). I wouldn't use it unless there was a good deal of activity in my area. Try and incentivize first-time downloads.

- It'll be difficult for people to find your app with the name Sportal--it's the name of a Bulgarian sports site. Aside from ease of discovery via search engines, there might even be a copyright issue.

- Try to get on to iOS as soon as possible to expand your audience.

My guess is that they trained the model for this with the data they collected from [Quickdraw](https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/)

I think different tests are being run based on the version numbers: the dev test is v1.25.2, whereas the production version is v1.24.4

I've thought the same thing, but the people interested in using such an extension would get their news from places other than Facebook.

Self-selection bias greatly reduces the efficacy of such an extension.

I'd imagine at least part of Twitter's rationale for doing this was to make users contrast their proactivity with Facebook's stalling on labeling or removing fake news. Twitter looks more on top of things as a result.

I agree. I've opened Automator with a naive optimism that I can learn it and become more productive. I've been wrong each and every time!