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by ahzhou 4y ago
It'll be a haircut (my uninformed bet is ~10% loss), but definitely not zero.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
> Are you (and the YC boss) suggesting that the government is more nimble than VC machinery at deploying capital when shit hits the fan? I can't speak for YC. VC is almost certainly faster, but it's not built to wire money over
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by ahzhou 4y ago
VC firms don't hold capital either - LPs do. They may be able to do a capital call, but it'll take time. Many SVB startups with more than 20 - 30 employees can't make payroll on Monday. Edit: It's also unclear today whet
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by ahzhou 4y ago
I used to believe this was true, but I tested it and found that I was performed noticeably worse while high across a variety of tasks. The weed made me feel like a million bucks, but actually put me at ~80% capacity. I don’t know your brai
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by ahzhou 4y ago
From second hand experience, software experience is very helpful for automating parts of land surveying. The licensing is a pain though.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
Most supermarket honey, China or not, is HFCS + honey. A beekeeper told me that the biggest indicator of real honey is that it solidifies with time. Because of that, it’s usually sold in glass containers so that you can heat it up to re-liq
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by ahzhou 4y ago
+1B. Unfortunately no one cares about legal immigration in the US so all this talent is sitting around for decades and wondering why years or decades assimilation isn’t enough to walk through the front door. One of the major competitive adv
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by ahzhou 4y ago
I agree with this as well. Efficiency is orthogonal to desirable outcomes. My point is that things tend towards centralization because the market rewards efficiency.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
Centralization is more efficient than consensus building.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
While not common, I know of other Chinese diaspora in North America with similar stories. Many graduates from post Cultural Revolution China left the country in 90's and found the language barrier (and accompanying discrimination) too
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by ahzhou 4y ago
Human history has shown us that intuition-based reasoning has been terrible for understanding bias.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
You’re overestimating the signal companies get from any interview processes.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
Sounds like you’re getting pulled into meetings without context. You should either ask the person who pulled you in to clarify the context or ask to be excluded and get heads down time back.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
Static typing is machine and human readable documentation that is tightly integrated in the development loop. Like all documentation, it requires devs to spend a bit more time upfront create. In large constant systems, code is read more tim
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by ahzhou 4y ago
IF mostly works because of “calories in calories out”. It’s very tough to eat three worth meals of calories in one.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
Copilot | copilotup.com | Designer | Bay Area / US | Remote We're a knowledge hub for revenue teams. We're looking for a designer to guide the future of the product. If you're interested in working on a next-generation K
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by ahzhou 4y ago
Scaling solutions invariably rely on parents. Ignoring parents seem like a great way to design broken systems.
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by ahzhou 5y ago
/r/politics has definitely shifted from “OMG Ron Paul It’s Happening Narwhal Bacon!!!111!!” to dominated by progressives, but I think you’re seeing it through rose tinted glasses. After all, /r/atheism was also a default
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by ahzhou 5y ago
It’s not that crazy. People sometimes sell their baby off to finance gambling debts. Some parents are terrible and we shouldn’t be giving them economic reason to have more children.
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by ahzhou 5y ago
Re: salaries of non-software engineers. The thing that’s hard to intuit is that salary isn’t a reflection of the difficulty or importance of your job. It’s a reflection of economics. The skill set of a software engineer enables a better bus
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by ahzhou 5y ago
I think the best solution is K8s and some tool to help you generate the yaml files. Terraform, CDK, and Pulumi all work similarly. At the end of the day, you declare a DAG that says how you want your infrastructure to work and use that DAG
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by ahzhou 5y ago
Agreed. We use Pulumi and it's fine, but the state-managing feels brittle. I think the state-of-the-art is Kubernetes + jsonnet, though you still need to suffer through the learning curve and you'll still need TF and company to pr
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by ahzhou 5y ago
Yeah, user error is more likely here, knowing the security in place at Google. That said, I suggested submitting it since the exercise of creating a repo will make it clear one way or another. Win / win either way for OP. Learning oppo
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by ahzhou 5y ago
I tried turning off my Adblocker in 2012 to better support newspapers and whatnot. One of the sites I visit regularly immediately loaded something that my antivirus quarantined. Never looked back.
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by ahzhou 5y ago
Sounds like a security flaw. I’d submit it to a big bounty program.
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by ahzhou 5y ago
+1. Bad reporting here. This seems to be mostly about consumer disclosure, not that what's happening under-the-hood is different that what your average security-conscious developer might expect after reading that Plaid doesn't sel
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by ahzhou 5y ago
Here's the actual suit. https://www.classaction.org/media/cottle-et-al-v-plaid-inc.p... . I wrote a post above on my take but TL;DR - I think that the suit is mostly alleging that Plaid doesn't do enough discl
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by ahzhou 5y ago
Check the source material. Here's the suit: https://www.classaction.org/media/cottle-et-al-v-plaid-inc.p... . The relevant section is on pg 16, under the heading "Plaid Sells and Otherwise Exploits the Unlawfu
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by ahzhou 5y ago
Copilot | copilotup.com | SWE | Bay Area / US | Remote Well funded startup in the Bay Area taking on the dinosaur tech used by sales teams. We're a small company, but our engineering team includes senior / staff engineers fr