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Duna raises €30M, becoming best-funded member of "Stripe mafia" in Europe(techcrunch.com)
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by 1penny42cents 1y ago
OP wanted to distance themselves as far from a bad economic environment as they could. For people early in their careers, working hard is the best way to grow their future earnings and opportunities. They have too few skills, connections, a
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by 1penny42cents 1y ago
People without equity will work harder if they expect it to bring career or compensation growth. If it’s a great company, people will work extra hours to move ahead, knowing it will pay off in their careers. “Great company” is always relati
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by 1penny42cents 1y ago
> What I've seen with AI is that it does not save my coworkers from the pain of overcomplicating simple things that they don't really think through clearly. AI does not seem to solve this. 100%. The biggest challenge with softw
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by 1penny42cents 1y ago
An addiction is when our dependency an activity outweighs the net-negative effect of it. If there’s no net-negative, there’s no addiction. So yes, some people just enjoy working. Others are workaholics. It’s not all-or-nothing and the evalu
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by 1penny42cents 1y ago
everyone talks about the alignment problem, not nearly enough about the accountability problem
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
I’m actually working on this now, starting with sleep quality and cognitive performance (memory/attention/fluency) as dependent variables. The vision is to have an index of protocols that people can try for themselves and see whet
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
Regarding the “realism” proposed here, that leadership defines what shipping means: there’s a good faith and bad faith interpretation. The bad faith interpretation is that this is corrupt and misaligned. The good faith interpretation is tha
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
crazy double whammy: 1. US gov trying to break up your search monopoly 2. ChatGPT disrupting your search monopoly
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
The original post is a question about people’s beliefs, not a proof or a case for any one belief. Many believe in determinism, or at least the functional equivalent, and it poses a challenge to the popular belief that we can choose what we
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
Thanks for this! I suppose for our purposes, both determinism and indeterminism create the same paradox of free will. Determinism gives every event a determined prior cause, and indeterminism opens the door for random or otherwise undetermi
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
> The problem starts in assuming “the portion humans operate in” is relevant or reasonable the question is whether humans have control over their actions. human operations are definitionally relevant. you seem to suggest throwing away de
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
It’s a reasonable challenge to determinism, but quantum decoherence seems to make that opening smaller, no? It seems you can explain much of reality using determinism, especially the portion humans operate in. Also, in case it’s not clear:
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Ask HN: Is Free Will an Illusion?
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Jerry Seinfeld, Social Anxiety, and Meditation(camhashemi.com)
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
Exactly, foolishness is bravery without cleverness
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
Perhaps I should have clarified that “success” is relative. Success for someone born into poverty is different than someone born into royalty. I’m focused on the qualities we should focus on in our adulthood to maximize our personally deter
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The Privacy Dilemma(camhashemi.com)
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
I definitely agree with the idea that we choose to will something! I tried to get that across in the essay, but maybe not as well as I could have. What I meant between skill and will is that a skill is multivariate, whereas will is more uni
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
Doesn’t your upbringing essentially manifest itself into your personality and virtues?
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
My favorite aphorism about luck is that you can’t win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket. After becoming adults, luck rarely falls into our laps. We have to make decisions that make us lucky. Through that lens, bravery is the will to buy
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Clever, Brave, Persistent(camhashemi.com)
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My Dad's American Dream(camhashemi.com)
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
What's the correlation between code quality and business success?
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
It’s a great analysis but I think it’s too either-or. If you have a monolith anyways then yes, why use a distributed systems solution like JWT? Completely agree. But if you already have an auth service, making it optional for the majority o
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by 1penny42cents 2y ago
fwiw I’ve written about that here: https://camhashemi.com/posts/building-through-uncertainty/
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by 1penny42cents 3y ago
camhashemi.com I write about a mix of building software, teamwork, and rationality.
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Who’s your favorite public thinker?
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by 1penny42cents 4y ago
How has this evolved to today? Any growing pains or learning lessons? What stayed good about this as the team and product scaled?
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by 1penny42cents 4y ago
This is only irrational when the outcomes are well-understood to be equally satisfying. The candy bar exercise is a good example of when it’s irrational. The problem is that similar-seeming outcomes may be just that: _seemingly_ similar. Th

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