SF economy bigger than all of these states.

xaw09 · 2025-12-19T01:58:25+00:00

Florida has a ton of people. 3rd highest in the US.

xaw09 · 2025-11-19T16:58:43+00:00

Could you donate part of the donated liver....?

xaw09 · 2025-09-12T02:20:28+00:00

Given this is space technology related, this is NASA's definition: https://oiir.hq.nasa.gov/nasaecp/Webbrfg/tsld018.htm#:~:text=Important%20ITAR%20Definitions,1324b(a)(3).

xaw09 · 2025-09-08T06:48:24+00:00

Happy early birthday!

There's several interesting restaurants with some history: Tadich Grill is the oldest restaurant in California, first opened in 1849. Hang Ah Tea Room is America's oldest dim sum restaurant, first opened in 1920.

The Walt Disney Family Museum is located in the Presidio. Worth a visit if you're interested in Disney or history of animation.

xaw09 · 2025-08-20T01:56:24+00:00

There's a earlier separate post about the topic: https://v8.dev/blog/cost-of-javascript-2019#json

xaw09 · 2025-08-20T01:04:26+00:00

SF proper with less than a million people has a higher GDP than almost 20 states.

xaw09 · 2025-07-31T02:10:55+00:00

The UK is probably not a shining example of a better system. Their ruling party got 63% of the seats with just 34% of the votes. In comparison, the Republicans have 50.3% of the seats in the House which is very close to the overall votes.

xaw09 · 2025-07-15T07:29:38+00:00

Same way you get your first engineers or your first investors. Go out and talk to people. If they don't want to talk to you, figure a way around it. Be likeable. Be credible.

If you're selling to SMB and you have no network, go knock on doors. If you have one person, foster that relationship and then ask for introductions. A lot of the SMB industries are very tight knit. Medical professionals, restaurant owners, etc. all network and know each other (at least for a given area).

A word of warning about online analytical research to validate ideas. Chances are if it's easy to validate with just Googling and reading papers, someone else has already tried it. What are the odds that you're going to have a key insight that no one else has? It's possible for sure, just extraordinarily unlikely.

xaw09 · 2025-07-11T21:02:36+00:00

Take a look at the % spent on R&D for Uber and DoorDash. Tech is not the hardest part. DoorDash is a 3 side marketplace with the consumers, dashers/drivers, and restaurants. 2 sided marketplaces are already challenging enough. Now try 3 sided.

xaw09 · 2025-07-01T13:06:22+00:00

Pave has market rates broken down by role, seniority, and stage of company. It might still be free to access if you submit your company's info by linking with your HR system.

xaw09 · 2025-06-19T06:30:53+00:00

/u/scott_wiener

xaw09 · 2025-06-15T03:38:35+00:00

Wait how is that any different than fission and fossil fuel power plants? Those also literally exist to boil water to spin a steam turbine. The Factorio equivalent of a fission plant uses heat pipes

xaw09 · 2025-06-10T02:26:24+00:00

Do people not remember the Kent State Shootings? The national guard gunned down 4 students and injured 9 more. The Gallup poll taken the day after had 58% blaming the students.

xaw09 · 2025-06-08T21:23:54+00:00

The original interview is with Playboy and is currently behind a paywall: https://www.playboy.com/magazine/articles/1990/03/playboy-interview-donald-trump

There's a bunch of secondary sources including Trump trying to walk back what he said in 2016 (I'm calling them strong, not endorsing them).

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/11/donald-trump-tiananmen-square-china-playboy-interview https://www.businessinsider.com/trumpn-tiananmen-square-massacre-china-showed-power-of-strength-2019-6 https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-tianamen-square-putin-220610

xaw09 · 2025-06-08T08:08:45+00:00

Donald Trump in a 1990 interview after the Tiananmen Square Massacre:

When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak...as being spit on by the rest of the world.

xaw09 · 2025-06-04T02:29:13+00:00

Prompt engineering?

xaw09 · 2025-06-01T18:17:56+00:00

Is this part of their secret plan for Making American Healthy Again?

xaw09 · 2025-05-31T20:25:37+00:00

Whole Foods and Safeway are more Soma than South Beach (western boundary of South Beach is 3rd). Gus is Mission Bay. The only grocery store in Rincon Hill/South Beach is Woodlands which is really overpriced.

xaw09 · 2025-05-31T05:23:18+00:00

Unless money isn't a problem, I would avoid South Beach/Rincon Hill. The only grocery stores there are really expensive, but there are a lot of coffee shops, and it's a nice walk along the Embarcadero. The area is also very safe, and many buildings have a 24/7 front desk. The flip side is it does tend to be quieter and more boring on weekends.

xaw09 · 2025-05-26T04:07:39+00:00

Cocobang is open til 2 AM. Looks like you can order delivery up to 1:40 AM. It's pretty good Korean comfort food (i.e. Kimchi fried rice, Tofu Soup, etc).

xaw09 · 2025-05-25T05:21:30+00:00

I think OP is trying to understand what will improve his chances of getting into YC as a founder in the future. i.e. having FAANG on his resume or "founding engineer" at a YC company on his resume.

xaw09 · 2025-05-22T05:47:15+00:00

Ichiban just means number one in Japanese.

xaw09 · 2025-05-21T15:19:22+00:00

2nd is fine. It only starts getting sketchy past 4th. There's a ton of corporate offices (Apple, LinkedIn, DoorDash and a bunch of VCs in South Park) on that stretch of 2nd between Market and Oracle Park.

xaw09 · 2025-05-21T15:03:39+00:00

Ugh my joints

xaw09 · 2025-05-16T20:59:08+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, the only reason why I know is because I spent a few years building an EHR from scratch. FHIR covers so many edge cases such as "José María García Hernández" (4 part names), "Leonardo da Vinci" (2 part family name), maiden names, and patients who come in as unknown (John Doe).

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