jdcaron

"Is Revenue Model More Important than Culture?" is a very interesting read, I read it twice, once yesterday, once again today while taking notes about it. The "dominant term rule" is concept that is similar to what you are describing Eric with the concept "financial gravity". Which is is similar to the [[large object theory of history]], explained on the podcast episode [[The War on Cars: Tony Kushner on The Pushcart War]]: >[[large object theory of history]] is that all human misery is the product, not of some sort of general malevolence, equally distributed among the human population, but located among certain people who feel that they have to basically get into a gigantic truck and run over pushcart peddlers in order to be safe and secure in this world.

You frame corruption as financial gravity, fixable by governance design at the firm level. But the dollar's strength has been reinforced for fifty years by oil trading in dollars. Tying our money to a conflict asset implicated in war, pollution, and enormous suffering. Can any company be incorruptible inside a monetary system that isn't?

I wish you the best, my brother-in-law (also a close friend) lost his fight against cancer in 2019, it changed my perception of life forever. What we live is a bit like how we die, I had some of the best moments with him while he was more aware than myself about how we are all going to die, he changed my perception of caring much more about the uniqueness and the present moment. One of my favorite quotes is from Buckminster Fuller, "You belong to the Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you ... (see full quote on Wikipedia)". Thank you so much for all the creation you have done in this world Sid, just for Gitlab it's plenty. I am a long time & very satisfied Gitlab customer, I switched a long time ago for its superior CI/CD integration and its super inspiring handbook. Another favorite quote is actually from you ... "My reasoning was I got to tell everyone what I do, and I want it to be a really good story." Lately I fundamentally changed my perception, the most important computer of all is the planet Earth, you seem to be aligned with this vision as well, correct me if my perception is wrong. I hope you keep going on with all those beautiful stories, we are lucky to have you with us.

As long as banking works with web browsers, I think the future looks good for this usage, but I could de-bank my phone and still have plenty of useful things to do with it.

Yes, and second analysis by an independent party: https://socket.dev/blog/npm-provenance

This tool make it easier to use: https://github.com/lynaghk/sandboxtron

Vegans are and were as happy as vegetarians to eat non-processed vegetables patties. I could push this point further by stating that a high percentage of vegans are turned off by the meatiness of those fake meat products. Those who pushed or asked for the product are companies and clients with an environmentalist motivation. It also appears that the product is easier to manage for restaurants which is also a reason why most restaurants are picking this product. The meat-like is really just an industrial product designed to please the largest crowd as possible which also includes vegans. So please, don’t say it’s the vegans that pushed all “real” options off the menu because the situation is much more complex than that.

“Veganism is making being Vegetarian increasingly harder.” This is a bold claim. Those people you met needs to chill because the problem you described is light years of being a “real” problem. Adding or removing ingredients is possible in most restaurants and quite easy: “Please can you substitute the absence of cheese or the vegan cheese for real cheese.”

This guy is a car salesman, no wonder he wants to force an in office working policy.

It’s all virtue signaling in the end so we could just call it that.

It's absolute bonker, the patent got granted. The current state of the patent system is a complete joke.

Exactly, this kind if import without a hash validation is a big no for security reasons (unless you 100% trust your import source). This feature exists on the browser side with the script element: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...

Projet N95 is a legit organization. They were an official member of a project I volunteered for at the beginning of the pandemic: https://c19coalition.org/directory

Eric Ries (The Lean Startup, LTSE) was a co-founder of this coalition. Him and the other stakeholders of the coalition worked to make sure the coalition members were legit.

We use it as a flow designer, we export the graph data it produces to handle real procution code. It's open source, highly customizable & well made.

I'm very happy about this, an official support to run Workers locally. I invested some of my personal time to get this tool, I submitted a patch on a community project (since Cloudflare wasn't officially supporting this). I think it was a very important missing piece for me to consider Workers a serious development tool.

https://github.com/gja/cloudflare-worker-local/commit/ce6004...

It's already possible to move money between accounts without cryptocurrencies: banks, payments systems (example Paypal), fund transfer services (example Interac). The transactions are reversible in case of a fraud or issues. What you mean is cryptocurrencies offer a way to circumvent the legal ways of moving money around.

Worldwide glaciers are shrinking: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

I don't know about your example or your source. When you refer to climate changes, you can't use one local sample as your proof.

I feel like sharing my experience I had with the YC Startup School program might be appreciated by some of you. I joined the program when it was first announced. It means I followed the program and I joined the soft-launched cofounder matching platform. I mostly have positive things to say about the startup school program, the curriculum is fair to the reality of starting a company. It doesn’t try to upsell you on doing it. It’s also covering the most important topics of starting an organization / project.

I had a less positive experience with the cofounder matching platform. I am trying to be as objective as possible here, the odds of matching two “ready” humans to work in harmony on an extremely difficult project are extremely low. The numbers are brutally honest here with 4500 matches and only two startups (.0004%) enrolling for the YC Core batch. Yes, that’s three zeros. So many fishes but so few working matches. My biggest grip against the platform was that barely anybody respect the hard requirements. I had very few but one was very important to me, the other co-founder had to be also technical. I received a flood of non-technical cofounder asking for a match. I felt pretty bad about leaving these folks unanswered, so I put the time to create a generic and respectful email to explain why I am set to match with a technical cofounder only.

It’s also mind blowing how many co-founders are already set on their ideas already. I consider myself quite flexible by bringing 5 potential ideas I would like to work on. I think I am also flexible in a way that I am also open to work on somebody else idea, as long as I would want it for myself. I matched with so many future cofounders that were already in a mindset that their project was the thing that they could not see themselves not working on it. I might be wrong but from my experience their progress as a company was almost nil (landing page with no clients). While most of the ideas weren’t ground breaking. So, prepare yourself to spend a lot of time on figuring out if something has any potential or not. It’s a bit hard on the morale to decline so many humans. I gave my 100% to do it as well as I could. Oh, and I won’t go too deep either into that subject but a lot of co-founders are in for either the fame or the money, not really my style either. Money is required down the line but it shouldn’t be the main target. Once again, prepare yourself to decline a lot of people if your profile attracts a lot of attention but it doesn’t match what you are looking for.

All in all, kudos to the team at YC. What they are doing is extremely hard and they did a great job. The complains about matchmaking being extremely hard is similar to stating that water is wet.

Oh and funky observation. When an organization like YC is building their own social network from scratch, it shows that in 2021 there is still no trustable social network platform to build upon.

I missed that detail. I personally would choose Vancouver over Ottawa but affordability can be an issue.

See the top rated comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27343109 Montreal isn't there because it wasn't rated. It would probably be above Toronto and Ottawa but below Vancouver.

It might be overkill but I'm managing my small business with ERPNext (from that list). I'm surprised by the quality of the software and its user interface design. It seems I'm the only one using it around my peers so I'm probably ahead of the curve.

ERPNext is built on top of the Frappe framework which is also an other interesting piece of software. How many times you kickstart a project and need to manage user access roles and database schemas on top of what mostly matter; the data schema and the link between it's tables.

Store of value like gold & crypto currency is an idea that has a clear side effect. There will be inflation, it's how governments move the economy around. Yet, bankers and crypto fans keep talking how gold or bitcoin can help you evade it. Which it means, even more pressure will be put on people who don't have the ways of escaping inflation through such ways. It will be the poor that will pay the highest price while rich people will go around it.

Skip Certbot and use the more powerful and versatile tool acme.sh

http://acme.sh

Unused cars & parking lots take a lot of space in cities.

It's hard to believe you made such a comment without including more doubts in your claim. I will leave one link, I hope it changes your mind and people mind if they agree with your comment. But there's more science supporting that a good nutrition help the brain: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/nutritional-psychiatry-y...

Are you really trying to say that promoting a nutritious diet supported by physical activity doesn't work for "most people"? You call that engaged advocacy?

What he claimed is true and backed by multiple studies. Doing a healthy dose of physical activity with a healthy diet can only be beneficial, no downside whatsoever. It's quite underrated I guess. Too many humans wish for a magic pill, they delude themselves into thinking that it must be better than healthy living habits, since it's more modern. People are looking for the lazy fix.

You are long on the new transportation model for taxi like rides but is Uber the right horse to bet on? I personally think not.

I have been using screen for almost 10 years now, is it worth switching? I know it's not much learning but why switching when screen is not broken? It feels like there's more important stuff I can learn.

It's open source and extensible.

it's explained in the parent link, OpenAI

I think you guys should change the behaviour regarding the focus of the text box. If I start typing in the chat window, and my cursor didn't activate the text box, it doesn't type.