JulianRaphael

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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Great comment! You hit the nail on the head with regards to India's geopolitical standing, which is often forgotten when discussing these incentives. In order to come up with really enticing incentives, you need to have deep understand
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PayPal launches crypto checkout service(reuters.com)
361 points by JulianRaphael 6y ago|214 comments
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
You should check out AngelList ( https://angel.co/ ) and find a few syndicates of successful investors that you'd like to join.
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Looks like a wonderful place! How I wish that people from outside of Sikkim could acquire property there - it's one of our favourite states in India.
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Think of it from a perspective of game theory and geopolitics. You have an epidemic raging in your country that has led to lockdowns, casualties and severe economic damage. Now you have two options: 1. Warn the world, lock your borders down
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Just out of curiosity: whereabouts in the Himalayas are you located? We've been looking for nice places off the beaten path and are always looking for inspiration.
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
This is not to refute your comment, but would you have been able to foresee what problems the internet will solve when ARPANET had 15 sites in 1971? I mean if someone would have told you back then that you'd be able to stream a movie i
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
I agree with you. People in the West want to feel and look good and have an obsession with "healing themselves", hence meditation and psychedelics are sold as ways to achieve that. However, if you study the origins of meditation a
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
You are correct (see the Wikipedia article). Meditation was - and is - not a practice that beginners on the spiritual path would engage with in traditional Yoga or Buddhist practices. The problem is that these practices were taken out of th
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Exactly! Good consultants are subject matter experts in process/project management. I guess this is what MBAs and PhD consultants are really good at: they have a big toolkit of industry best practices because their employers advise so
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Whilst some of this is true, don't forget that there are so many large companies out there that are run in an extremely inefficient way by incompetent management, with business divisions generating hundreds of millions/billions th
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Most of these stories are about Amazon and again, at the scale that Amazon operates I think that this would be expected? With 1,000,000 employees, if you assume a yearly turnover of just 1% that's 10,000 people leaving the company and
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Out of curiosity, I just did a few searches along the lines of "is MSFT/FB/GOOG bad place to work" and for each of them there were several results/websites about how each of these companies is the worst place to wor
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Sure! "On Writing Well" by William Zissner "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White "Stein on Writing" by Sol Stein "Self-editing for Fiction Writers" by Dave King
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Hm. I will obviously appear to be biased, but isn't the collection of anecdotes that you've gathered a manifestation of some kind of inverse survivorship bias? Within the total population of people who work or have worked at AWS,
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
I'm an individual contributor in product management, so not in people management. Amazon / AWS is a challenging work environment, just like most other tech companies. In my opinion, that is also why so many people want to work for
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Listening/observing and writing. Listening/observing because you really need to understand why you build what you build and depending on what you are building you'll only figure out the "why?" if you listen / o
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
I've been working for AWS across different teams for some time now and can't confirm that. There are a LOT of folks with +5 years tenure. In the US, the average tenure of workers aged 25-34 is 2.8 years, so you'll obviously s
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Agreed, at the end of the day all technology is but a tool. Technological progress also requires human progress, i.e. we have to upgrade our mental models and values as technology allows us to engage at unprecedented scale. Critical thinkin
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Facebook curbs Myanmar military over 'misinformation' as protests swell(theguardian.com)
2 points by JulianRaphael 6y ago|0 comments
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
I like the spirit of your comment - that's the actual hacker mindset. Way too many comments on Bitcoin/Crypto-related submissions on HN are just knee-jerk reactions that don't really contribute to a constructive conversation.
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by JulianRaphael 6y ago
Pinged you an email!
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by JulianRaphael 8y ago
In my case the question has often unearthed things about the team culture that may work well for some and not so well for others. One example: a person I had an interview with told me that he wouldn't recommend a candidate to join the
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by JulianRaphael 8y ago
I've been asking the following two questions for many years now and they have always been a great tool for me: "Can you tell me why I should NOT work here?" "If you had a magic stick, what would you change about this com
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Can entrepreneurship be a path for self-realisation?(twitter.com)
1 points by JulianRaphael 8y ago|0 comments
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by JulianRaphael 9y ago
Read the class action lawsuit, I found one example for this on page 44, lines 14-16, of the document.
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by JulianRaphael 9y ago
Unfortunately, for a large group of people this seems to be true. When I see these products, I often remember a talk of a Buddhist teacher titled "Loneliness is the ill being of our time." [1] I do believe that one of the next wav
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by JulianRaphael 9y ago
I fully agree that the signal-to-noise ratio on HN is better than elsewhere on the web, which is why I love coming here. HN shines when people share their sharp thinking, creativity and ability to reflect and adjust their strong, factually
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by JulianRaphael 9y ago
Very revealing discussion. Most of the participants just argue about Amazon vs. Google here, some fear surveillance, some consider the devices useless, a few want to understand if the HN crowd finds it useful. This is something I notice her
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by JulianRaphael 9y ago
The seed was planted when Estonia realized that they need a government that can continue to operate even if a foreign power would seize their territory. By now, they realized that a small country can build itself a disproportionately big le

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