OliverGilan

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by OliverGilan 6y ago
A TOS doesn't stand up to law but also it goes beyond that. Even if you don't use Robinhood but you were holding GME you are affected by this move. It's securities fraud and market manipulation at its finest.
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
I want to believe this but by and large it seems the media is unsurprisingly siding with the hedge fund side of things. Mainstream media clearly works for the elites.
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Countless times I've seen users on Hacker News mock DeFi and crypto for recreating the same financial instruments that we already have. I hope today has shown people just how much we need to recreate these instruments (and more) in a d
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
This article addresses an issue I currently have but doesn’t actually address how to fix it. I recently set up a simple homeserver to use as a testing ground for sideprojects before eventually porting them to a cloud service. As a result I
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
The idea is solid; we need better tools for onboarding new employees both in-person and remotely but this seems like an unfinished solution so far. The home page has no company name or logo anywhere which leads to a sparse looking navbar. A
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
I understand the justification for having restrictions on who can be vaccinated but part of me thinks this is all extremely counterproductive. Yes, old people are at greater risk but also the more young people are vaccinated the harder it i
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
People are going to focus on discussion with COVID but to me the big takeaway from this great article is the lessons not learned. Whenever discussing stagnation or regulatory deadlock in the US the default response is to handwring about the
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Just adding on that many SA countries did not have stringent lockdowns like China. My family is in Brazil when they “locked down” recently and nothing was locked down at all.
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
What's really interesting is that it's not so clear cut. Introverted leaders tend to outperform when they lead extroverts and extroverted leaders tend to outperform when they lead introverts[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
I've never heard of the feudal model with security. Can you explain?
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
You need to understand the point of money in the first place. For most of human history economies were structured around trade without money. You would trade spices for cattle and things like that. Once we started mining gold and silver it
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
While I'm not certain, I have a feeling the new GSuite logos and the release of Web Stories were decisions made by MBA's and not engineers.
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Do not conflate schooling with education
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Remarkable to see this comment unironically on HN.
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
> ... he really doesn’t know what “the real world” is. He never experienced it. He raised venture capital in the 1990s when anyone could. He sold a bunch of Lisp code to Yahoo. Good for him. He got to experience what most of us wish was
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Please write a blog post or something similar explaining what exactly you’ve done because it sounds fascinating and would love to learn more
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
I think the ability for humans to build seemingly straight-forward and simple tools or building blocks that other humans then go on to create insanely complex things like this with is what sets us apart from every other species in existence
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
This article gets a lot wrong. For one, it calls Rupert Murdoch and Betsy DeVos VC and I think that's a real stretch of the term VC. Everyone likes to point out Theranos as an example of Silicon Valley Hubris when in reality no respect
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
> To validate your hypotheses as quickly as possible with as little money as possible and the try and create experiments with asymmetrical risk. > Because the world is so complex, you’ll often have an answer faster by just building so
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
I'm not well versed in the different self driving techniques but isn't 6.1 miles a little low compared to say Tesla which is estimated to have autopilot miles in the billions [0]? [0]: https://lexfridman.com/tesla-
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
How do they delete the tweet if they're locked out of the account?
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Super clean very good work
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
It's interesting how people don't seem to understand this. For the majority of people, dealing with banks is no big deal and in-fact, preferable because the bank abstracts a lot of things most people don't want to deal with.
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Funnily enough, if Mozilla just focused on keeping Firefox competitive they would do more good for the world than whatever these random activist projects are supposed to be
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
This is definitely what I would consider as an edge case (at least I'd assume so). I agree that 30% seems aggressive but something like 10-15% seems more normal imo.
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
The whole paycut controversy seems a little strange to me. No one bats an eye when a company bumps your salary up if you move to NYC or SF yet if they bump it down when you move out surely that's the same thing right? Obviously there a
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
When did you go through this process? I imagine they get a lot more applications nowadays
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
I applied for a new grad position two months ago, did the coding challenge and passed all test cases with clean code and time to spare and haven't heard a peep from them since. It's a shame considering how I only hear good things
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Location: New York Metro Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JS/TS, React, Node, Java, Golang Résumé/CV: https://olivergilan.github.io/ Email: olivergilan (at) gmail (dot) com
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Could there be a hybrid approach? Have teams that focus on being a first mover and shipping and then once there's a product on the market, you have a secondary team focusing on fixing the tech debt early while the other team continues

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