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by akavi 4y ago
When I was in Germany at the end of this September, there were certainly plenty of signs saying masks were mandatory on public transport. Compliance with said signs, however, was well south of 50%.
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by akavi 4y ago
Duck typing (structural typing) is orthogonal to dynamic vs static. Typescript being an example of a statically typed language whose type system is centers on structural typing
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by akavi 4y ago
I've been at many startups during a fundraising round, and I don't think I've ever seen or heard of an investor auditing the codebase.
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by akavi 4y ago
Are you confusing FTX with the Foreign Exchange Market (aka Forex/FX)?
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by akavi 4y ago
If someone gifted me the bond, I’d happily pay many multiples of the interest payments in airfare to go collect, and I have far less money than Yale. It’d be fun story and a cool bit of financial history, and keeping it “alive” is definitel
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by akavi 4y ago
I'm curious if you've had any experience with Swift/Kotlin on one hand and Typescript on the other. To me, these lie on the efficient frontier of the "compiler validation" vs "less boilerplate" tradeoff. J
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by akavi 4y ago
And then combine them into lakh crore (1,00,000,00,00,000 -> 12) Really the worst system of the 3.
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by akavi 4y ago
All but the last of those examples only paid out to the living survivors of the atrocity, and the last only earmarked 5% for descendants. So it does seem that inter-generational reparations are indeed very rare.
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by akavi 4y ago
That's the joke. The article is intentionally being arch by using "welfare", a word that's usually used to refer to programs that give to the poor to refer to one giving money to the rich. It's making the point that
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by akavi 4y ago
…he starts the company. Afaik, he’s never taken any additional compensation beyond his ownership share, that came about because… he started the company.
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by akavi 4y ago
Probably because the interviewees were playing a prank; one gave his name as "Rahul Ligma"[0] (as in "lig ma balls", referencing a meme) [0] https://twitter.com/WealthyCFO/status/158605374426934
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by akavi 4y ago
I'm currently renting an apartment in SF for 25% less than the previous renter paid because I rented it right at the bottom of the pandemic bust. Rents are subject to supply and demand just like everything else.
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by akavi 4y ago
This would be a win for the millions of laborers that don't work in maritime shipping over the capital owners of the (~100 odd) jones act ships.
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by akavi 4y ago
I got my first tech internship (at a 5 person startup called "Pagerduty") thanks to one.
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by akavi 4y ago
They're injections, which reduces patient compliance, and they're peptides, which are costly to produce.
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by akavi 4y ago
I'd bet on a small-molecule GLP-1 agonist being the most likely path out. Certainly more likely than a nation wide overhaul of diet/lifestyle. All we can hope the side effects won't be too bad.
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by akavi 4y ago
Then this past year you've gotten lucky. We were in an unprecedented bull run for tech stocks for a decade plus. No guarantee that continues. Markets are anti-inductive and past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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by akavi 4y ago
That's effectively an implicit call option. You can buy an explicit version on the public market. The question is "Is the cost of an explicit call option greater than the cost of finding a new job?" There is some benefit in t
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by akavi 4y ago
What could contain information is a book of all 512x512 images that a human being would perceive as being "an image". Ie, the vast majority of possible 512x512 images look like random noise to humans. Excluding those massively s
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by akavi 4y ago
YIMBYs increase land values, decrease property values.
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by akavi 4y ago
I've gone on vacation for 3-6 months between jobs on several occasions. Found plenty of ways to fill the days.
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by akavi 4y ago
> you still can't afford to send your kids through college, and still make your house and car payments, replacing your car every year or two. Yes, that was what middle-class people used to do. Where is this halcyon universe where th
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by akavi 4y ago
And I make both those distinctions exactly never in my personal life.
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by akavi 4y ago
Yeah, the lack of a revenue dashboard at a startup would be a red flag in and of itself.
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by akavi 4y ago
It's been 7 years since Google rebranded and everyone still calls it Google.
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by akavi 4y ago
Personally, I refuse to work for companies that don't explicitly evaluate programming ability when interviewing engineers. I want to know that the people I'll be working with are at least baseline competent in that regard.
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by akavi 4y ago
The delusion is also a "costly signal" that you're committed to the group.
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by akavi 4y ago
Is Flexport part of a real industry? Is Stripe? Is Gusto? Just because something is not physical, doesn't mean it's not valuable.
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by akavi 4y ago
> Most of the public cares about climate change and wants the government to do something Most of the public cares about climate change and wants the government to do something so long as it doesn't cost them anything (Or more prec
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by akavi 4y ago
You might be able to make them sleep more by having there be more time between when the sun goes down and when they have to wake up. Humans aren't totally divorced from biological cycles.

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