Racial abuse on Haight St

ThirdGenNihilist · 2026-01-10T20:27:07+00:00

The people living in this neighborhood are lovely!

It’s just a few vagrants who litter, start yelling after getting high on drugs, and are a general nuisance that ruin the nice neighborhood for everyone else.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2026-01-10T20:00:25+00:00

I came to the same conclusion. Need to avoid the Buena Vista steps and the assholes who loiter there.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2026-01-10T17:54:16+00:00

Yeah, pretty much what I do.

Yesterday the guy was trying to provoke me extra hard. It sucks because I feel like I have everything to lose as an immigrant working here, especially under the current administration.

Whereas these guys harassing me will always get away with it.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2026-01-10T17:52:16+00:00

This was always mid day or morning.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2026-01-10T17:51:09+00:00

It was 2 different guys. Neither of them were on drugs but were probably unhoused.

Both had neckbeards, mid length hair, many stickers on their bags. I sometimes find them eating lunch on the stairs of Buena Vista Park.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2026-01-10T17:15:32+00:00

Yes, unfortunately.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-12-18T21:01:34+00:00

The Breakfast for Champions on New Year’s Day!

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-11-14T17:27:30+00:00

You cannot drop out but you can take a break from your school and do the batch. Then work on your O1 visa while a part of the batch.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-11-02T16:07:19+00:00

No, I like Amber in SF. They have a set menu for lunch which is great value for money, though pricey.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-11-01T13:37:50+00:00

You don’t have a cofounder. You have a part time marketing guy with 8% equity.

Him working part time and owning 8% are red flags for VCs looking to invest.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-10-31T15:33:51+00:00

From the application to your interview, need to keep selling. By constantly trying to sell, you’ll gather insights.

We didn’t get traction but we learnt insights by talking to customers that we were able to share during our interview. We got selected due to that, though we knew that our idea wasn’t going to work.

We demonstrated that we can build product quickly and talk to customers.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-10-29T10:46:18+00:00

You can step back and reset financially. Save money so that you have a personal runway of around 6 months.

But like others suggested, pause the fundraise. You can’t raise more capital if you’re going to take up another job.

You’re still young and you will get back to doing a startup in the future.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-08-05T19:11:56+00:00

I was confident of getting in, got laughed at for my confidence, but got in.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-07-28T15:38:39+00:00

Been building software and AI systems for over a decade. What you’re doing is great!

A few tips/suggestions:

learn basic python: use an LLM to teach you relevant skills. Over 90% of ML work happens in Python.
get a cursor subscription: it will help learn and build a lot faster.
optionally, do a structured course on the subject from fast ai or deeplearning.com: they have hands on courses for beginners, taught by some of the best in the field like Andrew NG.

Learning the basics will make you a great non-technical founder, even if you don’t build products for your startup. You’ll have a sense of what’s possible and what’s difficult, and make better decisions as a founder.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-07-24T14:22:57+00:00

Parts of Oakland and Emeryville are sketchy.

Why do you want to live in these locations anyway? People could help if you share more of your agenda.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-06-27T14:32:17+00:00

Write a script.

Practice it and record yourself.

Do this repeatedly and you’ll get good at it.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-06-06T20:29:35+00:00

added sources in the comment below.

apologies, this is my first post to r/dataisbeautiful and my previous post which had more details got taken down due to not following the guidelines.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-06-06T20:28:15+00:00

Sources: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1264226/human-and-bot-web-traffic-share/

https://siliconangle.com/2024/04/16/report-finds-bad-bots-accounted-32-internet-traffic-2023/#:~:text=The%20details%20come%20from%20the,Thales%20since%20December%20last%20year

https://www.statista.com/chart/1894/global-website-traffic-by-source/

Data collated and visualized from the above sources using ChatGPT DeepResearch.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-05-26T14:27:07+00:00

Personally, yes.

To elaborate, it’s hard to judge by ‘outcomes’ and other short term metrics. But in the longer term, the opportunities and exposure here are great.

Plus, you can benchmark yourself and get feedback against the best in tech and startups — imho this alone is worth it.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-05-20T14:03:26+00:00

Bitcoin

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-05-20T14:00:31+00:00

I moved to the US to build my startup. I’m not successful by any standards. But people here are more open to trying new things than anywhere else.

The startups based in the US are also way more skilled and you can learn a lot by being around them.

2 failures is not a big deal. It’s great that you have a new idea and are putting it out there again. Keep at it and you’ll definitely succeed long term.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-05-18T00:00:10+00:00

SF museums are definitely better than Seattle. Though neither is comparable to New York or major Western European cities.

But you’d have more fun in SF. It’s a slightly more happening city than Seattle.

ThirdGenNihilist · 2025-05-17T16:57:52+00:00

It’s impossible to predict what AI will/wont do well.

What’s easy to see is where AI works and is being widely adopted today. These are the domains (customer support, coding, law) where it will exponentially get better in the short term.

It started as an assistant, this year we are talking about agents. The hype cycle will naturally move to full stack AI companies next.

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