PacifyFish

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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Yep, the current state of bitcoin is far from fiat. I hope it does make strides as a currency, but if it never evolves past a deflationary store of value it’s still an attractive asset.
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
This is true, but importantly bitcoin is easy to obtain (assuming internet access), validate, and store/transport. If you’re in Venezuela it’s hard to get your hands on $5000 USD and convince other people it’s legitimate. $5000 USD in
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
If “the electricity stops” how do you expect to retrieve your gold? Or do you keep it in a vault in your house along with two years’ rations in case the world’s electricity stops working? I don’t mean to be rude, but let’s try to keep the a
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Gold is primarily used as a store of value. Bitcoin (for me, at least) is primarily used as a store of value. Gold has an intrinsic value of “beauty” and has a minor use in electronics. Bitcoin lets you make international money transfers ea
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
I’m no bitcoin maximalist, but boy was that a lazy write-off: “Economists define a currency as something that can be at once a medium of exchange, a store of value and a unit of account. Lack of adoption and loads of volatility mean that cr
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
I agree. Even if "generic advice" isn't worth anything else, the psychological benefits of keeping a subject at the front of your mind, being reminded something is possible, and building excitement are valuable.
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Whiteboard interviews vindicated. /s
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Nope, evolution doesn’t happen that quickly.
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
The technology exists now? How do I ensure my kid has an IQ of 200 today?
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Exciting to hear this kind of pragmatic rhetoric from the DoD: "Michelli emphasized that the Defense Department needs to take a new attitude towards risk, one that focuses on understanding and managing it, but still taking some, rather
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Have you read the book?
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Capitalism rewards profitability above all else. For better or worse, a lot of “bad tech” monetizes really well. It ain’t perfect, but is there a better way to organize a large-scale society?
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Benioff is undoubtedly a great CEO, but I wonder which other early employees deserve credit for the paradigm shift in B2B to SaaS. Surely cofounder and CTO Parker Harris had a lot to do with multitenancy and countless other technical innova
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Agreed. There’s little downside in a cultural shift promoting deep work. Fog Creek is a nice case study. Everyone gets their own office with a door.
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Email can be self-managed. A popular productivity technique that Cal has recommended himself is batching: setting aside a fixed time to take care of a task like email, rather than haphazardly context switching to email throughout the day. W
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
The most well-written review from Amazon is also the sole dissenter. And the one I trust: “I'm a few chapters in and it's hard to keep going. The idea that I'm left with is that Tim Draper is absolutely insufferable to be in
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
A big part of having an orgasm is self-esteem. You have to feel sexy and unashamed of your body and your desires. It's more likely that a smaller waist circumference is correlated with "feeling sexy" and that this feeling, r
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
I'm not a gamer yet that write up was riveting. Cool.
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
"Move" to Estonia: https://e-resident.gov.ee/become-an-e-resident/
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
Ah another prediction post. I've been mulling over a public accountability ledger (AAAS anyone?) for a time now. The idea formed while reading The Motley Fool "analysts" make arguments for or against a certain position. As
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
There's a lot of contempt for take-home coding tests in this thread. They aren't a perfect solution by any means (1), but much closer to an engineer's real responsibilities than a whiteboard session. For this reason and this
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
At this point Elon could be angling for Colbert's old job.
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
This list feels incomplete. I wish I could find a link to the referenced HBR article to evaluate whether their study is worth anything. For example, I'm surprised to find no mention of quality of life or more specifically work-life ba
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
He forgot to buy them. He's not being mean, he's being human.
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
Similar to how being an asshole and flipping someone off while driving is not illegal, or how being an asshole and tailgating someone is not illegal, brake checking a tailgater certainly makes you an asshole, but it is not illegal. Social r
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
You want to have a baby then kill it?
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
The point of the comment you are responding to is that there is indeed inherent value to being a billionaire, for the person who is a billionaire. "Are you a billionaire?" --> if you were a billionaire I imagine you would be pr
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by PacifyFish 9y ago
I've done a few of your lessons and I feel they only scratch the surface. The format works well for learning high-level concepts, but anyone planning to "go from 0 to coder" with this app is fooling themselves.