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It is basically the vegetarian version of an unhealthy burger.

If you wouldn’t normally eat a whopper for health reasons, then you have no reason to start eating this.

I'd hope so man, but the issue here wasn't that you don't invest "everywhere", it's that a man was profiled based on his name and quickly turned away. I'd try to figure out why that happened.

They covered this scenario where you start with a $200 million dollar business and turn it into a $100 million dollar business.

I think the gripe is that they were extremely racist: As in they took one look at his name, decided he must be Indian, and simply told him off that they do not invest in India... or Indians (though not so direct).

Just a note, but it is possible for anyone to become hardened to cold weather with gradual exposure over time. I used to feel cold like death but now I easily walk around in casual clothes in 30 degree weather.

tl;dr: They got absorbed by Warner Bros and killed.

Personally I have found it a bit sad that in the recent decade people have been so lured by the wealth and glamour of popular startup culture that we have forgotten the value of being in service to others. To master one’s craft for the benefit of others is an egoless endeavor that enriches the soul and not just the wallet.

Starting a tech company because you want to get rich is a fine reason to do so, it just shouldn’t be the only reason. When you have a goal of actually making good money it will force you to build a successful company on purpose from the ground up, not by “accident” (i.e making a simple product or app to fulfill some need and then it just happens to spread virally and become a huge success).

I’m not sure what the point of supporting most small business retail is. If you are just selling things I can buy online, you have no reason to exist, and are just taking up space that can be used for other service like businesses.

I cringe when I see these kind of comments because for the heavy vim users it becomes clear the OP simply doesn’t get vim.

The uninitiated always stumble around with vim like bumbling bafoons wondering why anyone would use something so antiquated, but in the right hands vim becomes an elegant weapon for coding at the speed of thought.

A pity that for want of a GUI, most will never feel the power.

I would like to use FreeBSD myself on my laptop, but I really need those intel WiFi drivers to support 802.11ac

Yes, how dare somebody buy something expensive with their own money!

Because of your tasteless marketing tactics I guarantee you I will never use your product.

That’s nice for you, but some of us suffer from disorders that lead to shaking hands and poor coordination, such that plugging in a device to such a small port is a grueling, sometimes impossible task. What then?

I don't even know why they bothered making the AirPower so complicated, especially for its first version.

Do people even care about device orientation or communication of charge levels? 90% of the purchase decision is based on just having an Apple branded power mat.

The short answer is no. I find people that attempt to do this without having worked in the valley always end up with some milquetoast quality to them that people in the valley can always pick up on. You could maybe fool people who are not from the valley, but you will never fool the valley.

The much longer answer is yes, but I do not have the time to explain it.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm prepared to open up a huge short position when Lyft gets to about 90. No way this thing will keep going up.

The point is to stimulate rage by showing that some people make more money with less effort than others.

I have to conclude I hate cyclists. This isn't something that just happened, but rather has been due to a long history of bad experiences with cyclists.

My earliest contempt for cyclists began in elementary school, where cyclist kids would just jump on their bikes and ride home while I had to slog through a long bus drive. Cyclist kids felt they were just better than others.

Then in college, cyclists going to and from class on their bicycles were annoying as hell. How many times I would just be walking minding my own business and a dude on a bike out of nowhere weaves through a crowd and just cuts across me nearly hitting me, and at an unsafe speed. I'm sure when you're riding a bike you have no idea how fast you're going, but as a pedestrian it's easy to see how close these individuals were to disaster. What if I had suddenly stepped in a different direction into the path of the bike?

As a careerist adult, cities are no better. I distinctly recall one time in New York City where I was about to cross an intersection when suddenly I heard someone shout, a cyclist was heading straight for me downhill and I jolted myself backward narrowly missing the bastard. He could have easily struck me down.

And then of course on the roadways there is always an anxiety when I see a cyclist. I have to make sure I move aside at least three feet and slow down considerably because I know if I hit them I'll probably be spending time in prison. I don't have a problem if you want to risk your life but you should have to accept the responsibility of your actions all on your own at that point.

Too late for that now. These debts can never be discharged without grave consequences for the economy.

Maybe I’m daft but it seems like the premium is for cases of theft or damage not caused by driving. Seems pretty clear to me.

I would encourage developers to first build out their applications as a CLI. Then add just enough UI for the masses.

But still release your CLI version. Ordering food or managing stocks on the command line is fantastic!

Eh, with cars you can only be driving one at a time so it doesn't make sense for insurance to double or triple just because you now have two or three cars.

With family members, they are all absolutely living in parallel and at the same time.

Tuition will not drop until we see a tightening on student loans. As long as lenders are giving out vast sums of money to kids with no job and no credit, there is no reason to drop tuition prices.

Higher tuition wouldn’t really be a problem if it weren’t for the fact that many people who take on these massive debts are later unable to secure high paying jobs that let them pay it off in a timely fashion, turning them into debt slaves for the better part of their life (or maybe all of it). That’s the risk you take though.

Sorry, but you are not entitled to a house or any loans. This is not "elites shaping the behavior of commoners", this is just common sense. Loaning money to people is an investment and giving money to people who have no history of even paying off a simple credit card bill doesn't make sense.

It's like being 20 years old and creating a new startup then wondering why investors don't want to give you any money so you can hire out staff and build a product.

It's not inherently impossible to get a loan with no credit history, just really difficult to do without something else to inspire confidence.

And frankly, considering how easy it is for any Joe to build a decent credit history from just using credit cards I'd say most lenders are actually doing consumers a favor by lending them such vast amounts of money on such a basic premise. I know if it were my money I'd be way more conservative.

Anyone going to pick up stock at IPO?

I don't need to live in a van, but I have thought about building out a van that I could drive around the country to different cities and then leave there and fly home. This way, if I ever wanted to fly out to that city on a whim I'd already have a place to stay. Might even be useful to have two such vehicles on opposite ends of the country.

I'd probably keep some cameras hooked up so I could drop in and see what's going on around the van remotely, and maybe a server I could ssh into and run some commands for the vehicle.

Only question is finding suitable places to park it that don't require a long commitment.

If you had $13k to spend and felt like making a wild bet I'd just dump it all into AMD right now and sleep like a baby for the next few years.

That's very cool, especially for 1994. I'd love to play a VR game where you get to breed and play with such creatures, kind of like what Spore should have been.

And here's a genetic walker you can grow in your own browser: https://rednuht.org/genetic_walkers/

Meh, after seeing a presentation on how genetic algorithms were used to figure out the most optimal walk for a dinosaur with a given skeletal structure, this does not seem that impressive or scary, especially since we probably have way more computing power now for machine learning than we did almost a decade ago.

No programming necessary, just throw in a bunch of variable settings for bone sizes, lengths, and weights, spawn hundreds of dinosaurs firing random muscle movements, and breed only the ones that manage to walk the most distance by pure luck with each generation, until you get descendants who are very good at walking thousands of generations later.