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New comment by aklemm in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

aklemm — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:23:29 +0000

Right, and it's quite possibly not even very relevant to the book.

New comment by aklemm in "It's death"

aklemm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:46:08 +0000

It seems like a gem to me. For those who don’t “get it” just think about what it evokes and follow those thoughts. That’s all there is to it.

New comment by aklemm in "Ferrari Luce"

aklemm — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:53:12 +0000

Everything but that stubby, sawed-off, blunted rearend looks pretty good

New comment by aklemm in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

aklemm — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:43:11 +0000

I bet the victims had their socks on too

New comment by aklemm in "Helium is hard to replace"

aklemm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:53:13 +0000

My son's life was saved when he had a severe asthma attack and helium treatment helped him recover. The doctor told us about helium scarcity and how much she hated party balloons. ;p It certainly is a precious resource.

New comment by aklemm in "We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)"

aklemm — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:30:44 +0000

Their detailed explanation of compliance issues in the space is interesting and enlightening.

New comment by aklemm in "Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza"

aklemm — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:27:25 +0000

Following this thread to this comment has been one of the biggest disappointments of my week. Your paranoid pedantry is not helpful.

New comment by aklemm in "The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range"

aklemm — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:17:27 +0000

When I learned this, I also learned that in the Appalachian Mountains, the valleys were the peaks originally and the peaks are what were the valleys. This has to do with the type of rock and the erosion that has happened; the original peaks were a softer rock. That mountain range was extremely tall at one point.

New comment by aklemm in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

aklemm — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:34:23 +0000

This is the way. Obviously as mentioned, a calendar is a pre-requisite and for me so are various note-taking/writing systems such as a physical notebook, more .txt files, and sometimes heavier stuff like Google Docs. But those are only for deeper work or archival stuff. Most everything starts and and ends right in thst one .txt file. Each day new stuff goes at the top. Sometimes I go through it and delete things that have become meaningless or will never be useful.

New comment by aklemm in "McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash"

aklemm — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:54:50 +0000

Nobody wants it, and we all have a sense of the dark future ahead. Why they think we would think this is an acceptable way to sell burgers is crazy.

New comment by aklemm in "Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows"

aklemm — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:24:59 +0000

As I’ve ALWAYS suspected

New comment by aklemm in "Short Little Difficult Books"

aklemm — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:31:35 +0000

I’ll do as I like.

New comment by aklemm in "A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism"

aklemm — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:37:51 +0000

The angle that has always perturbed me about EA is the implication (or outright accusation, really) that the entire philanthropy world is full of useless bozos ineffectually stumbling around failing to help people.

While greater efficiencies are always welcome, it seem immature or unwise to bring the “Well I tell ya what I’d do…” attitude to incredibly complex messy human endeavors like philanthropy. Ditto for politics. Rather get in there and learn why these systems are so messy…that’s life, really.

New comment by aklemm in "Tech workers' fight for living wages and a 32-hour workweek is a battle for all"

aklemm — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:32:20 +0000

The title says exactly that, does it not?

New comment by aklemm in "Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast (2023)"

aklemm — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:42:44 +0000

Indeed, the takeaway I get from this is how we tend to underestimate how long healing takes. People expect major injuries to be healed in 6 weeks, but it often takes that long to simply turn the corner toward full healing.

New comment by aklemm in "Diane Keaton has died"

aklemm — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:01:59 +0000

Is art within your sphere of awareness?

New comment by aklemm in "California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing"

aklemm — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:02:21 +0000

When universal opt-out isn’t available https://simpleoptout.com/

New comment by aklemm in "Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap"

aklemm — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:24:50 +0000

We can bomb immigrants and protestors. Let your imagination soar in these innovative times!

New comment by aklemm in "Increasing your practice surface area"

aklemm — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:51:26 +0000

No there isn't.

New comment by aklemm in "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music"

aklemm — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:21:29 +0000

Haha yes because it went on for a couple weeks before disappearing.