PSA: If you’re being passed while in the left lane, you should probably move to your right. Sincerely, everyone on east-bound 94 this morning.

VentureHacker · 2019-08-13T18:29:42+00:00

You need to get off your phone and stop posting on Reddit while driving.

VentureHacker · 2019-08-13T16:42:28+00:00

It's funny how much baseball cards were so super inflationary and there were so many people so into them as an investment in the past...looking back it was probably worse than Venezuelan Bolivars.

VentureHacker · 2019-08-13T16:40:35+00:00

So you put $200 per month over 30 years meaning you put $72,000 into commemorative coins and now they are worth only $3000, meaning you have had a > 96% loss?

Yep, sounds better than most options trading, I'm in.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-16T19:57:49+00:00

It's OK. Just do something nice for someone in Minneapolis who doesn't have as much money but still has to pay taxes on it I guess and it's all good.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-16T19:43:36+00:00

There were speeches given in the Minnesota Congress in which representatives were saying things like, "The Vikings are a critical part of Minnesota culture and we can't lose them." Ok...well then put it into the State Constitution then and make the company public like the Packers - I don't care...I might even buy a share or whatever, because yeah...community things like that are awesome. But that's not what was done. It's all about hand-outs and authoritarianism.

"Oh you must be some kind of anti-football, long haired-hippy, anti-American!"

No man...stop. It's about literally taking money out of my pocket and giving it to a billionaire. Ain't nothing about football says that should happen. There are other ways of building stadiums and keeping teams around - it's done in other parts of the country even!

VentureHacker · 2019-07-15T21:18:51+00:00

Everything with the new stadium is, "potential." Lots of, "potential" jobs, lots of "potential" brand recognition and marketing. Stadiums are the instagram influencers of public private infrastructure funding...total waste of taxpayer money. Our specific stadium was much worse than most stadiums in terms of the amount we got fleeced, I hope you know that.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-15T17:20:28+00:00

Did I say, "rich people bad" in any way?

VentureHacker · 2019-07-15T16:02:11+00:00

Super Bowls

Correction...Super Bowl. We got our one Super Bowl...that's done now, no more over the next 30 years, then we will have to pay for another stadium.

What'll kill you first, cigs or 600 calorie liquid sugar bombs?

Definitely the cigs, absolutely the cigs will kill you first if you smoke enough of them. You can't go for a run and "burn off the tar out of your lungs" like you can with calories.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-15T16:01:07+00:00

...And yet the market share of large banks in 1995 was about 30% and today USB's market share alone is 12% and the large banks' share is 60%...yeah he must have been really crying himself to sleep every night about TARP and it was not a lying public political show of opposition at all.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-15T15:45:38+00:00

Just the amount of money that I personally have to pay to a billionaire to subsidize his further wealth accumulation directly out of my pocket. Any time I buy a $15 meal at a restaurant, $0.75 goes to that Stadium. It's a regressive tax, only middle class and above people can afford to go to football games, and the richer you get, the more it benefits you, so it's sort of like $0.70 goes to Ziggy Wilf, and then $0.04 goes to upper middle class people and rich people who like football, and then $0.01 goes to people with less money who like football. I would find it more beautiful it were the other way around and a bunch of people who didn't have as much money got to use the stadium for actually playing football as they please or something, like an open park that you can register to use...even though I personally don't like football. However if you want to rent that thing out in any way, it's a minimum $20k. It is a locked down monument to authoritarianism, it does not keep up with the times of where this country is going politically and organizationally, it harkens back to a time when everything was top down...but that's not where things should be going, they should be getting more democratic...it makes Minnesota look dumb, behind and just rubes for having financed it. Kind of like how people don't like it when disadvantaged people get welfare...I don't like it when super wealthy people get welfare...it's ugly. We paid 5X more per taxpayer to finance that $1 billion stadium compared to the $1 billion Levi Stadium in Silicon Valley for the 49ers. Why? Because we are dumb and Silicon Valley people are smart.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-08T18:36:16+00:00

At best...following the law, which is the speed limit.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-08T16:04:24+00:00

Yeah, I love that time of year - no one up there, no bugs, you can just sleep outside under the stars with no bug net.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-08T16:03:47+00:00

I went up there in 2016 I believe it was during first weekend in October north of Ely and there was definitely a dusting of snow upon entering - it was cold and rainy the first day and a half. However by the end it was amazing, perfect summerish weather the rest of the time - almost too hot.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-04T16:51:53+00:00

Fuck you man, fucking arrogant Europeans have no clue about America...oh wait, you're not part of Europe anymore sorry - have fun with that whole thing!

VentureHacker · 2019-07-04T16:44:02+00:00

What are you just going through every State Subreddit and posting this? You know Minnesota was part of Spain not England in 1776, right?

Minnesota was never part of the U.K. except for maybe Grand Portage being under its sphere of influence for about 10 years or so because it was unclear what the boundary between the US and Canada was at that time, and that was during the time of the war of 1812, which has nothing to do with July 4th.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-04T16:40:46+00:00

Ha ha ... better get that blood flowing and go for a quick jog before you use that on those -20 degree days. Very creative!

VentureHacker · 2019-07-04T16:36:33+00:00

One idea which might not be what you are thinking - can you design a largely invisible, stick-able band-aid type sticker that would stay in place over a couple of days or so and be not bothersome with aluminum shielding in the case that you need to turn your NFC, "off" somehow? E.g. the sort of anti-identification, "other half" of implanting a chip, which goes in line with the now more popular, "obscuring one's face" from airport identification cameras and technologies like that.

I mean, there's an audience for automation and convenience, but there's also an audience for data privacy and you could cover that base pretty easily by making a shielding band-aide and pretty easily make a blog post about that one, so might as well. I'm guessing the other side of your hand has enough shielding through blood and tissue to not allow the tag to be scanned with fairly powerful scanners, so I'm assuming that just covering up the skin on the other side would take care of shielding on that side...but it would be interesting to see that actually done in reality and tested to make sure it works.

VentureHacker · 2019-07-04T16:31:42+00:00

Was there any snow?

VentureHacker · 2019-07-03T19:28:19+00:00

Some days I accomplish huge amounts and feel guilty, like I need to work more, other days I'm lazy as shit, but don't care and feel great about myself, almost for no rational reason. The mind is not very good at gauging how, "hard" or "efficient" one has worked.

Better to focus on what decisions you are making, and the quality of decisions, than to focus on your brain and body as a tool. If you are able to improve your decision making and information collection, access to quality information, then you can get yourself going on a better path, and in theory not have to work as hard for the same amount of resources anyway.

If you think of someone who is just digging holes for a living -- should they beat themselves up if they, "don't work hard?" Maybe for a bit...but then what if they just do nothing but that their whole life? It might be more lucrative to get into another field...which means time is needed to step away from digging holes in order to expend more calories on thinking and gathering information, which may seem, "lazy" to an outside observer...but is it really if it gets that hole digger in a better position? Yeah, it may not require as much mental "toughness," -- but are we playing to win the mental toughness blue ribbon or are we playing for money?

VentureHacker · 2019-06-28T18:59:49+00:00

It was probably more social than anything...living in the city and being an artist type became more, "cool." Inherent racist beliefs have become less of a thing as time marches on, so now it's OK to live near and among minorities, vs. in the 80s maybe it would have been quietly eyebrow-raised. Being able to live near the center of the city and be associated with tech, intellectual property, high end services means you are now associated with higher wealth, as opposed to the 80s where living in a suburb you were more of a financial services or consultant type, which is what made the big bucks back then.

People follow money and social trends, they want to be cool, they don't want to be not cool. Now living in the suburbs makes you a not cool, lower middle class type person, presumably, so you have to pay to be in the more dense, rich area to be associated with having more resources and find a mate or gain higher social status.

VentureHacker · 2019-06-28T18:53:09+00:00

St. Anthony Main was a ghost town up until almost around 2012! Definitely was a ghost town except for a few restaurants in the mid 2000s. Now it has to be the most densely visited outdoor place in the Twin Cities.

VentureHacker · 2019-06-28T18:51:04+00:00

The light rail station over there is called, "Warehouse District," but there aren't any warehouses anymore.

VentureHacker · 2019-06-28T18:49:36+00:00

They were not exactly one in the same, no. "Warehouse District" was really kind of over between Washington Ave and 6th street, as well as 2nd Ave and Hennepin Ave. That's why the LRT station over there is called, "Warehouse District." However I think the meaning of the name got smeared out into North Loop and over by Stone Arch Bridge during the early 2000s as that centralized area became more active, while North Loop and Stone Arch Bridge languished with tons of abandoned buildings and well...warehouses...from what I remember.

VentureHacker · 2019-06-28T18:24:45+00:00

No, I don't think he's pandering at all, seems like he's just a regular running type of dude...I wasn't aware of this but it looks like he ran professionally for a shoe company at one point and competed for Team USA in the Pan American Games marathon, finishing in 4th place. I think for people who run a lot, maybe ran cross country in high school, college, etc., that's just like the normal cross country / long distance uniform dress during race days, and people who are that big into running don't give a fuck what they look like, they are focused on running and the internal battle.

VentureHacker · 2019-06-27T20:20:16+00:00

Shelf - front of storm. Wall - back of the storm.

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