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stork19 | 1 year ago | on: Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate

Smart! That is an interesting application of contextualism.

stork19 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML

The search bar in Finder does a decent job searching for text (recursively) in files and PDFs.

stork19 | 2 years ago | on: Combating olive oil fraud with nuclear innovations

How exactly is spectroscopy a nuclear innovation?

stork19 | 2 years ago | on: Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold

There was an autonomous Lebanon of one form of another since at least the 16th century, though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lebanon_Emirate

stork19 | 2 years ago | on: Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold

Actually, a self-governing Lebanon existed in one form or another since at least the 16th century: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lebanon_Emirate

stork19 | 2 years ago | on: Leonard vs. Pepsico, Inc

More like $1.3M in today's dollars.

stork19 | 2 years ago | on: Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder

Fabulously written.

stork19 | 2 years ago | on: Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla

Noooo. Manuals are on average much more efficient. I drive a 1st generation Honda Insight, and the manual version gets ~10 mpg more than the automatic.

stork19 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is frugality underrated in startups?

Equity is actually the most expensive form of capital (measured by an investor's required return on capital). If a startup could raise debt financing, that would no doubt be preferable. However that's quasi-impossible with no revenue. I do agree with the other parts of this answer though.