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Guilty Displeasures 5 months ago

Dogs - I know they are good for humanity with getting their owners for walks, loyalty, etc. But have no idea how people get hooked on them with the picking up hot feces and 25% chance of getting a barking/jumping lunatic that you have to rearrange your life every 6 hours around their bathroom habits...

The Jeff Dean Facts 7 months ago

I am only semi technical so most of these go right over my head, but after watching a ton of Jeff Dean interviews, etc it is really fun to see how a 10-100x engineer can operate over such a long career (while seemingly a normal and kind person to boot)

This is great idea - I have a huge tree in front yard that will either cost be $5-10k to come down or was going to rent lift and do it myself - A few particular branches scare me though in terms of how they will come down... Bonus points for where to tie things off.

I wish they would have been more concentrated with their approach versus this spray and pray route (ie test chick-fil-a from different parts of the country and done it 1000 times so customers could actually impact a change to the biggest offenders). Would happily pay to crowdsource a much bigger project here.

Just listened to a podcast episode where they discussed this David Eagleman and Aza Raskin

https://pca.st/episode/3185257d-11b6-4d9a-ac9e-fea9531d491f

"If we meet extraterrestrials someday, how will we figure out what they're saying? We currently face this problem right here at home: we have 2 million species of animals on our planet... and we have no Google Translate for any of them. We’re not having conversations with (or listening to podcasts by) anyone but ourselves. Join Eagleman and his guest Aza Raskin to see the glimmer of a pathway that might get us to animal translation, and relatively soon."

I wish Denver (I live here) and other cities would just start their own subsidized bike networks to compete with Lime and Uber bikes.

+1 on Just the Hazy by Sam Adams - It would pass a blind taste test and everyone I have had try it likes it.

Another good brewery: https://rationalebrewing.com/

Guiness even offers a non alcoholic now that isn't bad.

I think Athletic is way overrated compared to the above though and wouldn't start there.

Dad of three young kids here.

Brain is definitely different.

So much of the disruption is dependent on your kids personality, any medical issues (and sleep).

If I had 3 clones of each kid and their personality my stress would range from minimal:

"this parenting thing is amazing with some difficult moments and changes of rhythm"

To if I had three clones of the middle child, I would be losing my complete mind.

After a quick browse through lists on both days:

- Where have all the IoT companies gone?

- Cool seeing machine learning being used inside applications (The audio analyzer to separate and boost voices for conference calls comes to mind)

- Surprised at how many "meh" reactions I had. Too many grocery/fashion and not enough bio/energy game changers and I left feeling mostly uninspired by overall visions.

More power to everyone hustling out there though.

I try to reserve judgement for only the most blatant of cases.

I just have some anti-American culture hate going on right now (I am an American). You can just feel the entitlement coming off some of these people.

My office is directly in view of all the handicap spots in a large commercial office buildings so watch this everyday. It is crazy how many people abuse the handicap parking permits.

And then you see the people who really need it and would make a difference if they didn't get those very front spots taken up by these folks.