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jonbarker commented on YC W20 Online-Only Demo Day blog.ycombinator.com/yc-w... · Posted by u/mrkurt

mrkurt · 5 years ago

The risk isn't attendees dying, the risk is spreading a disease faster that we don't have the medical capacity (as a country) to handle. It's roughly like getting a vaccine, slowing the spread will help vulnerable people.

jonbarker · 5 years ago

And ongoing risk of an endemic new virus even after a vaccine is developed. Even though we have flu vaccine, it still takes its toll every year and is probably here to stay.

jonbarker commented on Ask HN: How do you manage your financials? · Posted by u/maith1

jonbarker · 6 years ago

I draw a big rectangle with a line down the middle. On the left is Assets. On the top right is Liabilities (aka debt, the remaining lease payments for housing, etc). On the bottom right is Equity. This is the number that must compound at an acceptable rate no matter what happens to the market, my income, etc (I'll leave it up to you to decide what rate you want to commit to in the near term). I have found that drawing and redrawing this on paper beats most software approaches. If someone asks, "what if my equity number is negative?" I say take steps to get it to positive. If you get it to 1 dollar, great, your first year ROE is going to be 1000% if you happen to save 10 bucks that year. https://awwapp.com/b/uybcpyttt/

jonbarker commented on A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties github.com/zcor/githubjob... · Posted by u/taariqlewis

jonbarker · 6 years ago

@ghall Is there a planned feature where one might generate a list of the most frequent keywords and market needs to guide one's self study efforts?

jonbarker commented on A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties github.com/zcor/githubjob... · Posted by u/taariqlewis

noitsnot · 6 years ago

Why are the bounties so low when a recruitement company would easily take 15-20%+?

jonbarker · 6 years ago

The reason is that arguably a traditional search firm is a broker, whereas an aggregator can introduce new efficiencies. This is how disintermediation typically happens. Classic example: travel agents vs expedia.

jonbarker commented on A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties github.com/zcor/githubjob... · Posted by u/taariqlewis

jonbarker · 6 years ago

Can we please call this project "git jobs"?

jonbarker commented on The Happiness Formula medium.com/p/a5a67098c01a... · Posted by u/ghall

jonbarker · 6 years ago

I can vouch for the addition of meditation and/or yoga to this regimen. No data to back it up other than qualitative reduction of back pain.

jonbarker commented on Annual Returns on Stock, T.Bonds and T.Bills: 1928 – Current pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adam... · Posted by u/hydroreadsstuff

jonbarker · 6 years ago

Which 30 year period you get to live and work in is what matters most, and the timing of the bad years. Which is why I recommend this calculator: https://firecalc.com/.

jonbarker commented on The LEGO Group acquires BrickLink brickset.com/article/4729... · Posted by u/ivanech

jonbarker · 6 years ago

Lego not creating minecraft seems like the modern day kodak digital photo story everyone will be studying in a decade or two.

jonbarker commented on Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook thedailybeast.com/sacha-b... · Posted by u/smacktoward

core-questions · 6 years ago

Well, you're either employing tactical nihilism or you truly do need more tea. Cohen has shown himself to enjoy manipulating rubes in social contexts where the pressure to perform is present, not entirely dissimilar from how hypnotists work in crowd situations. Rather than letting it be all in good fun, though, Cohen has made people say offensive things, and then uses it to pretend it's what those people really think rather than admitting it's 99% social pressure.

jonbarker · 6 years ago

One distinction though, the rubes he targets are generally rubes with some level of power or influence. That's kind of the point.

jonbarker commented on YC, not Lambda School, is unbundling education medium.com/swlh/y-combina... · Posted by u/asciimike

jonbarker · 6 years ago

I enjoyed this article but I find the people rejected by Harvard more interesting than the ones who dropped out. Warren Buffett is on this list. The people who dropped out after all always had an implicit invitation to come back if things didn't work out.

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