Varun Arora

engineer, explorer, occasional investor

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11 person startup made up of 4 engineers and 7 chiefs of staff

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@Doomlaser @villi @analyticsaurabh Which lose to ad-infested freeware like Candy Crush

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Man your takes have really gone downhill over the years, or this is lukewarm ragebait at best.

They paid for the flights of thousands of attendees from across the US for the SF startup school that literally just happened. They also had another one in Paris where they paid for people to come from across Europe.

It makes obvious sense for the third to be on a third continent to maximize the number of talented people that can attend given anybody in NC would have already come to the SF iteration.

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@adelwu_ I just had a terrible flashback to an unholy amount of performative laptops at Equinox Palo Alto

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@paularambles Most studies settled on the first 7-8k as being the most important with diminishing returns afterwards. So pretty close anyway.

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@0interestrates One of those is not like the others. (Turning vehicles should be yielding for bikes)

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@Deleonlangure @Zer0Lib @dhh Typical Linux distros pride themselves on being highly configurable. Arch is a prime example. This is the opposite of opinionated.

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@dhh Have you heard about the creator of Asahi Linux quitting his own project because of the sheer amount of drama involved in upstreaming code to Linux? The culture needs a drastic shift asap.

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@Winterrose Huge

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@martin_casado @bot I’ve never had subscriptions bounce when replacing a credit card, either from expiration or having lost it.

CC companies have the “helpful feature” of allowing recurring transactions to still go through on your old card details.

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@ankurb @deedydas It’s the latter. Gaggan trained at El Bulli. He was the first and only one to do molecular gastronomy with Indian cuisine/flavors

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@ankurb @deedydas Gaggan has been a 25 course menu in Bangkok for years, so this is not an adjustment for the Indian mentality of value for money.

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@deedydas Was lucky enough to visit the original Gaggan in Bangkok in 2019 before it shut down during Covid. Still my favorite meal of all time even after visiting many of the World’s 50 Best list.

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@jasonoliver @brexton 100%

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@llm_wizard @xeophon @paularambles Literally Swedish

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@din0s_ @xeophon @paularambles Same here, but let’s be honest. If you had to conjure a person in your imagination who did this it would of course be a guy.

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@lottsnomad respect

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Geography has a significant affect on aspects of human life which is almost entirely unrelated to GDP. That means certain locations have certain structural advantages. Urban coastal areas lead to a healthier lifestyle that prevents obesity, while the rural lifestyle of most of America with large distances traveled daily requires cars to be overused.

The reality is that America is simply very underpopulated in most parts which directly leads to obesity in the knowledge-work area. Luckily, our high GDP has a solution for that — within a decade we should start seeing obesity rates eviscerated by GLP-1s.

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Zohran Mamdani? The conservative Italian-American?

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I love the median voter

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@ConorMcCarter @Tamurphy Idk, having been in this kind of situation myself in the past (on both sides of the table actually) it doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. I think everyone involved understands it’s just a joke.

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@dhh @bjcatar @levelsio Are you expecting to pair it with a desktop workstation? 16GB doesn’t seem like enough for running multiple agents in the background while doing knowledge work in the browser simultaneously.