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predictmktegirl | 4 years ago | on: 6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan, Italy and Sweden?

How does a “6th generation” fighter still have a human inside? What’s so generational about it?

predictmktegirl | 4 years ago | on: Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse

$0.5 queries?

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT

It's like you get to pay to be part of a joke with John Cleese. I think it's worth something too.

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is startup PTSD real and possible?

I shut down a successful, profitable startup once because I realized it was growth capped and I didn't want to spend the rest of my life doing it. By many measure it was a success, but I spent almost 3 years in utter depression for not being the next Larry Page or whatever rock star technical founder.

I think it all comes down to expectations. Whatever they are, if you one day wake up and realize you will never fulfill them, it can break that dreamer part of you in an unexpected way. That startup abyss some people talk about is real and feels like shit.

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are leaving San Francisco

We left about 9 months ago. I'm not going to pontificate and judge people. From our point of view, the policies seemed to be designed to incentivize us to leave, so we left. We'll miss SF, but we were never welcome.

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: Aquafaba

I always assumed that the water packaged with can beans would have tons of lectin seeped from the beans and therefore should be discarded. Is it safe to use?

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: Smart contracts on Bitcoin

Honestly, I like the idea, although I'd prefer a pure L2 for security rather than a sidechain, which is what this appears to be. Unfortunately, I don't think this is a tech problem. How do you get the devs to move en masse from Ethereum back to BTC? The network effects are just so enormous, it feels like a catastrophic failure needs to happen to Eth at this point.

I'll check it out and play around, will never say never. I'm just generally skeptical of sidechains because why can't Eth just be a sidechain to BTC, or various incarnations of the same end like atomic swaps, BTC collateralization, etc?

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

People treat you with contempt and ridicule if you complain about being unfairly treated. They hide behind objective processes that give cover to be biased. If process A, B, and C are objective, A+B+C can still yield terrible, biased outcomes. Witnesses and data simply doesn’t matter without empathy and understanding.

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: An upcoming story about Coinbase

We didn't accuse anyone of being racist. Just sharing our disappointment. When that disappointment is so widespread that the NYT is writing an article on your company, it's more than a coincidence, no?

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: An upcoming story about Coinbase

Yes, after employees walked out.

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: An upcoming story about Coinbase

They walked out because he wouldn't say, in private, that black people's lives mattered. It was simply outrageous to see that in this age. Do you really think it is political to say that a human's life is important, in private?

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: An upcoming story about Coinbase

[edit: Not going to risk retaliation for my family, not sure why I bothered]

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: Coinbase Pro Disables Margin Trading

Kraken is destroying them in margin/derivatives and their margin product is quite bad. Not saying there is a relationship, but it is a good trade for Coinbase if Kraken has to shutter theirs as well.

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: CBP Refuses to Tell Congress How It Is Tracking Americans Without a Warrant

I disagree. Let's move fast and break things. Status quo is not going to improve our welfare in either the literal or policy sense. Economically speaking, immigration is the most profitable policy decision a government can make.

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

The story was certainly interesting, but the lack of conciseness was brutal.

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

Doesn’t using the website id in the hash mean the key is no longer PII since it can’t follow you between websites? Or is being identifiable within a single site enough the threshold?

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: Oatly: The New Coke?

I'm not convinced that Oatly is so tremendously bad, all things considered, and I forgive a little marketing-speak so long as they are being honest and forthcoming when engaged. That being said, I find the amount of "good for you" literature and products out there to simply be overwhelming. Do I want to know about what I put in my body? Sure. Do I want a PhD in nutrition? Umm...

There is a simple rule I follow which I, probably erroneously, call the Law of Nature. If you want to trust what goes in, make it yourself and make it with whole foods that you can see and touch. Why is a food refined? To make it easier to preserve, store, and transport or to modify it's consistency, taste, or nutritional characteristics. 99% of these refinements lead to a product which is less nutritious for you and likely bad for you in some way. Indulge occasionally but realize that most forms of modern food refinement is not natural, and our bodies have evolved over tens of thousands of years to efficiently consume what occurs in nature. If you need a lab or the bacteria doesn't seem to manifest magically, it doesn't meet my definition of natural.

I know this basically sounds like a Paleo plug, but my purpose isn't to define a practice you should follow. My main problem is information and deception. I don't have time to vet an entire grocery store of products, so I trust my evolution as a default. I want to feel comfortable and confident about what I consume rather than building an ideology out of it.

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: Palantir Announces Confidential Submission of Draft S-1

It’s hard to watch the stock market right now as an underpaid employee at a pre-IPO unicorn. Who else here is desperately hoping the next S-1 post is about their company?

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: HSBC moves from 65 relational databases into one global MongoDB database

And it’s gone.

(Sorry)

predictmktegirl | 5 years ago | on: Shopify Goes Digital by Default

I can easily eat $1000 worth of KIND bars in a year, if they're free!