icebergwarrior (u/icebergwarrior)

icebergwarrior commented on The only skin care that works? science video response (2020) labmuffin.com/the-only-sk... · Posted by u/olalonde

hbcondo714 · 5 years ago

> One group of ingredient that ASAP Science does recommend, alongside antioxidants and retinol, are palmitoyl polypeptides – if you use all three then you’re checking all the boxes for science-backed anti-aging skincare.

That paragraph sums it up but according to the article not all retinoids are the same. Read on for more scientific information on what's out there for your specific skin care needs.

icebergwarrior · 5 years ago

I wish they made some recommendations and application schedule. That statement alone makes is very hard to figure out which products are legit and which are not.

The average reader (me) just wants to buy 3 products, use them nightly, and move on, without doing hours of research.

icebergwarrior commented on Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees cnbc.com/2021/06/09/faceb... · Posted by u/lxm

dreyfan · 5 years ago

I currently have 10 fully remote engineering jobs. The bar is so low, oversight is non-existent, and everyone is so forgiving for under performance I can coast about 4-8 weeks before a given job fires me. Currently on a $1.5M run-rate for comp this year. And the interviewing process is so much faster today, companies are desperate, it takes me 2-3hrs of total effort to land a new job with thousands to chose from.

icebergwarrior · 5 years ago

The most unbelievable part of this is that you have 10 "mid-to-senior level in "must have" positions like Data Science or Data Engineering" that only pay $150k each on average. I do not believe you.

icebergwarrior commented on The “$20M to $500M” Question: Adding Top Down Sales a16z.com/2020/12/03/addin... · Posted by u/yarapavan

newbie578 · 5 years ago

What if your company is a B2C? There is no enterprise selling, what then?

icebergwarrior · 5 years ago

Three channels

1. Performance (Paying for traffic / leads)

2. SEO (People click through to your site after googling you)

3. Viral (Your users share you)

Other than that there's no truly scalable D2C growth channels. First round has an entire article on this https://firstround.com/review/drive-growth-by-picking-the-ri... Good luck!

icebergwarrior commented on The “$20M to $500M” Question: Adding Top Down Sales a16z.com/2020/12/03/addin... · Posted by u/yarapavan

thrav · 5 years ago

If you own any amount of Salesforce licenses, you can request a Salesforce Innovation Center (SIC) meeting, and ask them to teach you how they do it. They won’t hesitate to pull in a VP who has been doing it for a decade and they’ll open the kimono and tell you everything you could possibly want to know about their approach.

You have to sit through some pitches for this access, and it will include lots of talk about how Salesforce helps, but there is a ton of value in the exercise.

The exercise itself is its own lesson in enterprise selling.

icebergwarrior · 5 years ago

I would not recommend this. This will not help a founder with 2-5m in revenue and a team of 20-40 sell. This will be a waste of time.

If you want mentorship and you are a founder, I would directly message early VP's of sales and ask for help. Also, read the great Saastr blog by Jason Lemkin.

icebergwarrior commented on The longest train ride in the world (2019) basementgeographer.com/th... · Posted by u/admp

owenversteeg · 6 years ago

I've ridden trains in all the Western European countries listed, and taken a lot of the listed routes at least partially. If you actually want to do this, you can make that confusing list much simpler: Lisbon-Hendaye with an overnight sleeper, then TGV Hendaye-Paris (a beautiful route), then the sleeper train Paris-Moscow, then Moscow-Beijing sleeper, Beijing-Hanoi sleeper, Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh.

Also, you definitely don't want to get a Eurail pass for this trip. In general a Eurail pass isn't a good deal at all, with a few narrow exceptions. The specific country level passes, as well as buying discounted tickets, will nearly always be cheaper. This case is even worse, because even with an unlimited Eurail pass, you pay additional fees for almost every train on that list - Thalys, high speed, sleeper...

icebergwarrior · 6 years ago

France doesn't even honor / agree with the Eurail pass. So then you have to pay twice.

icebergwarrior commented on New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/... · Posted by u/apsec112

choxi · 6 years ago

Why don’t research groups just publish to their own websites or directories like arxiv? What’s the role of an academic journal in 2020?

Honest question, I’d love to see more blogging from hard science academics but I’m wondering if there’s a reason why that’s challenging or if it’s just academic culture. We should have a Substack/OnlyFans for scientists.

icebergwarrior · 6 years ago

While we're at it, why not make public whoever audited or referred the paper? Why does that need to be secret?

icebergwarrior commented on Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court californiaglobe.com/secti... · Posted by u/hirundo

nucleardog · 6 years ago

I mean, the obvious question is how do you know that you’ve only got legitimate items?

Some counterfeiters are of course, shit, so it’s pretty easy for most of us to notice when we order a board game and all the text on the cards is 20% off of centre. But you have to figure that somebody out there is capable of taking a high resolution scan of the materials and printing it without making obvious mistakes like that.

And like... in Apple’s testing over 90% of Apple accessories (chargers, cables, etc) were fake. Obviously they’re outwardly convincing enough that 90% of people aren’t returning them despite dropping $35 on a USB cable that’s worth about $4 from a third party. A lot of the counterfeit chargers are outwardly identical — unless you tear them apart to see where they’ve cut corners and risked burning your house down you’re never going to know.

icebergwarrior · 6 years ago

I've ordered clothes, furniture (desks, chairs), books, supplements, rugs, and probably a few other things. Everything shows up, seems to be exactly as claimed, is functional, and has worked.

So my initial question still stands on what people are complaining is rife with fakes and knock-offs. It seems to be quite niche electronics (huge hard drives, computer components, etc)

And if the knock-offs are so good (in your game example) that the end user can't tell the difference (and no one else can either), what does it matter?

icebergwarrior commented on Professional sporting events increase seasonal influenza mortality in US cities privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/... · Posted by u/elsewhen

fullshark · 6 years ago

So many forecasts i hear about the fallout of this, such as everyone living in private fortresses in the suburbs working from home, not going into large groups ever again, abandoning the cities, conferences, and universities for online vocational training seem dystopian to be honest.

icebergwarrior · 6 years ago

If you're a backend engineer without social skills this type of life style seems perfect and desirable. Everyone else can't wait to meet people and interact again. There's a reason cities have existed for thousands of years.

icebergwarrior commented on Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court californiaglobe.com/secti... · Posted by u/hirundo

ComputerGuru · 6 years ago

I’ve finally figured out how to buy non-counterfeit items on Amazon: try selling it yourself and see if Amazon says 3rd party listings are allowed. In the very few cases where you’re not allowed to proceed to create a listing, it is safe to purchase.

icebergwarrior · 6 years ago

I see this type of comment all the time, but I've never purchased anything but legitimate items off of Amazon. What are you buying that you consistently run into fakes / knockoffs?