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New comment by JimtheCoder in "How many attempts (businesses) did you make until you reach $5000/month profit?"

JimtheCoder — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:04:41 +0000

I am not sure how others here will feel about this, but if you cannot take a business to $5000 per month in almost any market, then it might be more of a "you" problem (I don't have the right skills, I don't know how to sell, etc) than a "I chose the wrong business" problem...

Maybe the reason why business #5 or #6 is more successful is not that they changed businesses, but that they finally developed the skills necessary to make it work through their failures. If they went back to business #1, they could probably make it work this time.

Takeaway? Chose one thing and develop the skills (sales, etc) instead of jumping to the next thing.

If we are talking about $500K per month, then that is a different story...

I can handle the downvotes...

New comment by JimtheCoder in "How to lose weight in 4 easy steps (2015)"

JimtheCoder — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 04:20:17 +0000

"That night, you deadlift your body weight. You sneak a photo of yourself in the mirror and email it to yourself with the subject heading “You Are A Warrior”."

I can see why she left him...

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Grades of quality of Panama hats"

JimtheCoder — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 04:17:17 +0000

I thought hats were about covering up the fact that you are going bald...

New comment by JimtheCoder in "A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells"

JimtheCoder — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 02:47:15 +0000

"Mainly because the last paragraph in GP comment focused on the dearth of direct clinical applications."

I am not sure why everyone is convinced that they will not be very useful in therapies...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6357081/

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Ask HN: We're about to enter into a partnership with a company / Advice needed"

JimtheCoder — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 18:46:09 +0000

"We certainly need to give ownership of the company to the other part, but we want to keep the decision-making of the product mostly to ourselves but with the flexibility to align with the requirements of the clients that they're bringing."

Yea, this rarely, if ever, happens long term.

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Expert Opinions I Agree with (That Most People Don’t)"

JimtheCoder — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:51:56 +0000

"but to say that it's impossible that hormonal imbalance or other biological causes are not possible is just plain stupid."

But, things like hormonal imbalances and biological causes would effect the "calories out" portion of the formula, no?

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Expert Opinions I Agree with (That Most People Don’t)"

JimtheCoder — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:32:37 +0000

I think he is referring to publicly traded markets, like stock exchanges.

The less liquidity, the more inefficiency there is...the environment being an extreme example...

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Expert Opinions I Agree with (That Most People Don’t)"

JimtheCoder — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:27:34 +0000

With regards to #2...

Maybe I am not smart enough for this, but can someone define "General Intelligence" for me?

"Practically speaking, the best way to become smarter is to learn a lot of stuff and cultivate a lot of skills. Since knowledge and skills are more specific than general intelligence, that may be less than we desire, but it still matters a lot."

Would "learning a lot of stuff and cultivating a lot of skills" not boost your general intelligence?

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Sal Khan: How AI could save (not destroy) education [video]"

JimtheCoder — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:15:43 +0000

But is it just knowledge or is it the human connection that makes a difference?

Students have access to all the information they need on Calculus through Google and other resources, for instance, but actually sitting down with a living, breathing human being and having them help you through your troubles...to me, that cannot be replaced with an AI.

If access to knowledge was all we needed to acquire and maintain intelligence in a specific area, we would all be a lot smarter...

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Scientists Have Developed the Whitest White Paint Ever Made – Can Cool Surfaces"

JimtheCoder — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:49:39 +0000

So you're saying there's a chance...

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Bob Barker, Longtime Host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ Dies at 99"

JimtheCoder — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:16:30 +0000

I will help control the pet population. I will have my pets spayed or neutered...

New comment by JimtheCoder in "The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag"

JimtheCoder — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:48:45 +0000

Are they not using MRI primarily?

New comment by JimtheCoder in "The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag"

JimtheCoder — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:42:23 +0000

If they are paying for it out of pocket, I assume they would have the option for the raw data. Maybe a small-ish processing fee, because...American healthcare.

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated"

JimtheCoder — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:55:34 +0000

ChatGPT, you are a mediocre substack author. Write me an article with the title...

"Generative AI was overhyped, but it also isn't a nothing-burger"

Include some graphs. Include a poem. Sh*t talk Elon a little as well...

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Dementia risk study finds 11 key factors behind condition"

JimtheCoder — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:42:19 +0000

Save a click...

"The 11 factors are age, education, a history of diabetes, a history of depression, a history of stroke, parental history of dementia, levels of deprivation, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, living alone and being male."

New comment by JimtheCoder in "None of us are truly living off the grid"

JimtheCoder — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 17:22:26 +0000

"but it turns out at the end of the day I could still wipe my butt."

As long as the important things are taken care of...

New comment by JimtheCoder in "On-demand audio passes linear audio"

JimtheCoder — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 17:03:38 +0000

I can't remember the last time there was something actually worth listening to on "live audio".

At the same time, not knowing in advance what the content will be is sort of a killer for me...on-demand has a bit of social proof through reviews and comments, whereas live audio is sort of a crap shoot.

New comment by JimtheCoder in "None of us are truly living off the grid"

JimtheCoder — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:14:07 +0000

"We have warehouses full of extra stock etc, and carefully-managed supply chains, and emergency services."

Did the Covid pandemic not exist to you?

New comment by JimtheCoder in "Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan thanks to abusive users"

JimtheCoder — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 03:45:33 +0000

"You cannot fill plates and then take them home."

If you're a fast runner you can...

New comment by JimtheCoder in "America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers"

JimtheCoder — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 03:09:45 +0000

So...did they not think of this before they started building the factories, or did they just think the employees with the required skills would magically appear?