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Walmart Macbook at $649.

Is this really true? How does it actually work? You donate $5800 then give them a call and ask for a meeting? I assumed that would take a lot more.

The people who used to watch an "Oscar Movie" want to watch independent films right now.

Two of the best people who are not selling anything are Tom Anhalt (http://bikeblather.blogspot.com/) and Robert Chung. They both post a lot in various forums like Weight Weenies (which is more about rolling resistance and aerodynamics now that we know that they are more important) and Slowtwitch (more triathlon focused but has a lot about general bike tech).

Josh Poertner from Silca is also good but has things to sell.

Of course what everyone is saying above is right -- fitness and rider weight matters the most. But it is fun to look at this stuff especially once you have achieved some level of fitness.

It is very odd that the New York Times hasn't published an obit for him. Maybe they will take some time to do so but I always thought that they had these things pre-baked.

I heard about his death elsewhere this morning and was surprised I didn't see it before. They have a ton of obits for less consequential people.

https://www.nytimes.com/section/obituaries

This is very cool but I just wish the NYFD would stop being so ultra-conservative and start allowing home batteries like the Tesla Powerwall in NY buildings.

This was something I always heard before I experienced it but the truth is it wasn't so bad. You definitely weren't sitting in a full First Class seat (which were smaller in any case back then) but it was still perfectly comfortable especially for the relatively short duration.

And because the overall experience was so cool -- board directly from the lounge, the led display showing how fast you were going, seeing the curvature of the earth (sorry flat earthers), arriving before you left, etc. -- you never thought about the seat. I'm sure if you took it all the time you might care but most people it was awesome.

Ah, I totally misunderstood the current state of thing. But happy I asked -- thanks for all the info.

Apologies for the slightly off topic question but can anyone point me to the best test/comparison of Alkaline batteries vs. the new Lithium rechargeable ones? Older rechargeable AA and AAA batteries were terribly short lived and so mostly useless but I assume Lithium ones are much better?

Not a book but an article based on some experience. This reads a bit more definitive than I actually feel about the subject but I do tend to think that this design is actually best for software/services startups.

https://riverin.substack.com/p/the-canonical-startup-org-str...

There are a couple links to other articles and book on the subject in there too.

There is one of these in Cambridge MA (or was until recently when someone crashed their SUV through it): https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/05/15/cambridge-mass-car-cr...

Some more context and backstory from a senior Amazon architect: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2018/11/1227/

I've seen a lot of cases of people's accounts being cloned and then being used to re-friend their friends. I've always wondered a bit about what they are going to be used for and I suspect this is one of the potential options.

It stopped working for a while but the re-implemented it recently.

The Pencil stylus is actually active and our palm rejection works quite well.

Totally fair feedback. We'll work on it.

Paper is the app. Think Kit is the new set of tools for whiteboarding.

I work for FiftyThree.

As Gregory mentioned, he used Paper for part of these. If you are interested in trying it out, I recommend this video put together by Brad Ovenell-Carter - he does a great job of giving tips even if you aren't artistic: http://www.ovenell-carter.com/uncategorized/sketchnote-prime...

So what is the place?

Pencil isn't designed to only work with Paper. Anyone who is interested in an SDK for Pencil should let us know what they are thinking about.

business AT fiftythree DOT com

Don't assume there won't be an SDK for Pencil, too.

Yes, Pakistan too.

Yes, we do ship to Malaysia. Shipping does cost an extra $5, though.

I work for FiftyThree (the people who worked with Greg to make this). We're hearing from a lot of people interested in doing this - here is another example of a book made from sketchnotes: https://vimeo.com/75830198

Yes, the basic idea is that if a founder has, for example, 25% of the equity in the company but is subject to a 5 year vesting they just don't get the shares that would have vested after they leave. If they move on after 2 years, that is 15% of the company that is no longer outstanding equity and therefore everyone else's stakes (VCs, other founders, employees) are proportionately larger.

In the original AVC post he hints about this by talking about doing the right thing and accelerating the vesting in these scenarios, but that could obviously mean a lot of things in terms of actual amounts depending on the situation.

From the summary:

  - 37signals has 40 servers, and a total of 125 OSes running.
  - 3 Server admins work at 37signals.

That is insteresting. Most orgs would consider that a pretty low ratio of servers/admin.

Apple is definitely not "minute" in the smartphone market, although obviously how you define the market is key.

It is an interesting thought experiment to think about what would happen if the iPhone OS did start to head up in market share (e.g. if Apple actually released iPhone minis or something of the sort). As they approached dominance, there would be a whole number of things that they all of a sudden couldn't do. Blocking Palm from iTunes, exclusive App Store, this restriction, etc. Strategically if they started to head towards large market share it might even make sense to slow it down to preserve their freedom to operate.

My recollection of a mathematical finance course I took was that early on we spent about 30 minutes going through the caveats you mention and that were covered in the article, and then they were promptly forgotten or ignored for the entire rest of the semester. I always found that very odd, particularly considering that the course was the start of what was considered (I think) a pretty good MA in Mathematical Finance, with a lot of alumni ending up at well known places on Wall Street: http://www.math.columbia.edu/department/mafn/page5.html

To me one interesting thing about this article is that -- relating specifically to the question of whether you can get rich by picking a "safe" job -- it is actually incorrect. The changes in corporate compensation practices are such that, particularly in financial industries, you can work in a everyday job and end up rich, even by the definitions he uses in this article. It will be interesting to see if that continues after the current crisis. I would have guessed no a few months ago, but now it is seeming more likely to continue.