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ButWhatFor commented on Moderna is announcing three new vaccine programs   investors.modernatx.com/n... · Posted by u/Osiris30
alexpetralia · 5 years ago
Is my understanding correct that a virus so deadly would quickly peter out because it kills its hosts before it can spread?
ButWhatFor · 5 years ago
It also matters how long it takes to kill - but yes. Assume it takes a month to a kill a person... that’s a lot of time to infect others, especially if say 10 days of that are asymptomatic.
ButWhatFor commented on Start with pen and paper   sethetter.com/posts/start... · Posted by u/sethetter
roland35 · 5 years ago
I used to worry that pen/paper wasn't the perfect note taking system because it lacks the searchability of digital notes - but over time I have realized that the primary purpose of notes for me isn't long term but short term. Writing something down, like the author states, helps me focus and accomplish the task at hand, and the more I worry about the long term value of the notes the less I take notes because I am worried about making the notes perfect!

What I do now is use a stack of nice small notebooks from Field Notes (no relation, just a customer), one for each project. I just scribble things in when I need and it helps me push forward!

ButWhatFor · 5 years ago
I also find that handwriting notes forces a kind of “hear or read, digest quickly, rephrase in a short hand way the keep points so I can pay attention to the next thing I am hearing or reading”

That forced summarization I think does a lot for the brain. I find handwritten notes are almost not needed after the notes are written... your brain already put the summarized information in your head because you had to work with it to pick what was important.

ButWhatFor commented on The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees   lawofvc.substack.com/p/12... · Posted by u/harveyesq
o_class_star · 5 years ago
It's a cuck test. They want to know up front that you'll take abuse. If you "fail", by standing up for yourself, then they'll just work with some other interchangeable would-be founder who's more of a "culture fit".

Legal fees are a rounding error to these companies. It's all about the "power move". They don't want to work with people who'll stand up for themselves over "a measly" $50K.

ButWhatFor · 5 years ago
I’m laughing too much at this. Agree “I’m making a $15mm investment I need you to cover my up to $100k in legal fees. If you can’t do that, deal off.” Has always sounded funny to me.

But if you need money it’s just one of those things you have to do.

I think what should happen is the whole syndicate should share in total legal fees pro-rata or something. That way the lead isn’t wearing all the legal fees.

Also think this is based some in the standard practice of banks passing through their legal fees to those they lend to.

ButWhatFor commented on Overcoming Writer's Block   blog.streetwriters.co/ove... · Posted by u/thecodrr
ButWhatFor · 5 years ago
I find that the “two minute rule” works pretty well.

Whatever you want to do, set a timer for two minutes. Hit start and do that thing for two minutes and really beleive that after two minutes you can stop.

Once you get going you rarely stop after two minutes. But telling your brain only twos minutes, and let’s see what happens, kind of let’s your brain give you two minutes to focus.

Oh, and go write without a computer. Get a pen and paper and leave ur phone on your desk - go somewhere else. You get to sit there and either write or do nothing. That tends to help too.

ButWhatFor commented on 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains   npr.org/sections/health-s... · Posted by u/respinal
elliekelly · 5 years ago
That's interesting. I thought I had read that older people perceive time more slowly than younger people but I wonder if that can be overcome by keeping our sense of time-telling "calibrated" by periodically checking our accuracy.
ButWhatFor · 5 years ago
I thought it was the other way around? As you get older your perceive time as moving more quickly? As you get older every hour is a smaller percentage of your total life, so that made sense to me?
ButWhatFor commented on Wobblepaint   lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=4... · Posted by u/polm23
makeworld · 5 years ago
If anyone else was unsure at first like me: Drag the left-most button downwards to access all the brush and paint options.

This is awesome! I should really check out the PICO-8, or maybe something similar but open-source.

ButWhatFor · 5 years ago
You are a legend - thank you sir (or madam)
ButWhatFor commented on It’s dangerous to think humans have a destiny outside Earth   techeffect.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/orenweisfeld
johnmorrison · 5 years ago
This is frankly a blatantly wrong and quite foolish argument. Space exploration has already created many significant benefits for humanity on Earth, by advancing hundreds of new technologies with terrestrial applications and launching satellite networks that support a safer, more peaceful world for humans, with improved agricultural efficiencies as well as advanced warning and a better understanding of extreme weather events and climate trends.

Also, spending on space continues to be and has been a very small expense, not only smaller than cosmetics, but entirely dwarfed by military spending and welfare, both of which are highly contested as to whether they provide net benefit at all to the people of Earth.

You'd have to be ideologically possessed or completely ignorant of reality to believe this anti-space bs.

> American citizens need to decide what they prioritize. Is it space exploration or is it a decent standard of living at home? Is it the moon, Mars, or Earth?

No they don't.

We can prioritize both, and frankly, life on Earth will be better the more we priotitize space exploration, not worse.

ButWhatFor · 5 years ago
Came here to say this - this has been the difficulty with things like science and research since the dawn of time... you study one thing and then hopefully if you have a lot of people studying multiple things one hugely amazing thing eventually falls out when one person gets lucky.

It leads to a very delayed gratification despite very real near term costs. So it’s easy to attack the costs and focus and prioritization...

But if you don’t invest in science as a whole, eventually you start running out of new things that improve life generally.

Space exploration is one of those areas where we learn and continuously bring back learnings to the rest of society.

ButWhatFor commented on The Stock Market Is on the Edge of a Historic Crash   forbes.com/sites/danrunke... · Posted by u/dankul1
ButWhatFor · 5 years ago
So, you’re telling me there’s a chance? Dumb and Dumber, got to love it

But in all seriousness, there was so much printed money thrown into stabilizing things by the Fed that a fear that the economy isn’t ready to pick itself up without that money being injected isn’t unwarranted... I just don’t know what you do about that concern...

u/ButWhatFor

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