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> save money > take care of old relatives If I had the opportunity I would go for that in a blink of an eye. I know that for some folks being close to relatives can be a problem, but in my case my family was a great resource for all t
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> They must be prepared for a culture that vigorously prioritizes profitability and performance metrics, often with a sharpened short-to-mid-term focus due to the typical PE investment Folks that comes from VC-Backed/Big Tech univer
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Honest question: What do you mean by that? Considering the last 220 years and all the evolution that we had in medicine, global trade, and socio-economics (to name a few), on average, it's better to be born in South America today than
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Nanban Ventures: With "Friends" Like These
(hindenburgresearch.com)
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Agree mostly with that, but the issue is that in certain occupations where you have a high transitivity of professionals, monopoly of work, high income, and some sort of power law in terms of outcomes, and asymmetric info that can be on the
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> Then why do we need this kind of company? I come from a place that has in the last 13 years more than 500K people died, in almost 28% of the cases it happened roads/highways due to illegal overtaking and over-speeding. I would lik
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Creating Checklists for High Stakes Changes
(nickjanetakis.com)
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I am a happy user of Evernote for 8 years and after 1 year using Obsidian this was the first time that I consider migrate. Having the capability to have all notes in Markdown, sync via Git and clips makes everything way interesting.
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Huge props for the Nixtla team for the tool. A personal note here is that they could done a better job on the tokens because the announcement was so grandiose and maybe they underestimated people with legit interest. I’m using all libs from
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3y ago
Non related question: there are some examples of good public APIs docs? I would like to develop a product that serves an API but it’s very hard to get a great API as template.
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> Those who already agree with the indie hacker/no-VC style approach and Daniel's writing appeals to their confirmation bias Indeed. Maybe old founders of YC can chime in but I do not think that someone that has that entrepren
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3y ago
Not the OP, but being a former follower from him he is a big fan of Nassim Taleb that made some changes in the ergodicity concept to the everyday life in some of his books[1]. [1] - https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-
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> Also, I had a feeling that Flexport might run into problems one day, when Softbank invested, Softbank being such a harbinger of problems its only saving grace is setting Saudi money on fire. Also also, Flexport is the most impressive c
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It's great that the project has traction and the team still working in critical features. I do not know if others have the same experience, but comparing Psycopg2/3 with SQL Alchemy I think the latter is way more robust and more d
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> disseminate (usually sanitised) versions of their messages to a wider audience I think we’re heading to the no return point related with neutrality and/or objectivity on social platforms; and maybe the best heuristic as media cons
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> I believe that requiring users to type the full long option '--force' each time they intend to forcefully remove files or directories that would serve as an effective safeguard against inadvertent deletions. Of course softwar
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How you deal as a co-owner with the fact that some mid-cap company can go after your product and make it a feature?
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Stop Writing Classes (2012) [video]
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> other true experts For me this was the biggest moat for Quora. Back in the day, you could have someone who has a legitimate background in geopolitics chiming in a question and answering it with politeness and bringing sources for furth
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We do not have the jurisprudence for that, so in principle if a single federal judge establish that you will be banned via your bank blocking your account. If this happens, for sure the Supreme Court will chime in and establish an common un
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I think this is a great idea, but at least for Crypto the issue is the ergonomics because it needs to be (1) convenient for the creator, (2) convenient for the payer, (3) offer liquidity/withdrawn venues for both parties. All of this d
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> nobody has cracked microtransactions It's hard to agree on this one. Personal anecdote: In 2010's I worked in a micropayments broker linked with all telecom companies. The whole thing was: that NSFW creators used a shared SMS
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I love all of the openness of the AI technology and the whole Geist of Open Source and open debate. Said that one downside of this is that as a whole AI has a quite low barrier of entrance that you can have tons of grifters capturing (or tr
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I worked mostly in closed source RDBMS so I do not have so much experience in those open ecosystems, my question is why MariaDB still a thing in a world with Postgres or MySQL?
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> The west has a problem with policing, its either too soft I noticed that also in every city in the Central and West Europe; in comparison with America (specially central and North America) the cops here has a complete different patroll
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> I read that Microsoft also has an "AOG" crew, to fix broken critical software systems. From what I know, back in the day (more of less 10 years ago) MSFT had some Premier Field Engineer (PFE) that operated more or less like t
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> A clear example of how destructive unions can be, take a look at police unions that regularly protect bad police. You see that across the board. I've known teachers in the teachers union that obviously phone it in every chance the
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> Are you implying that it is unions that cause corporations to seek offshoring, automation etc.? Not for this _single_ reason. The decision for offshoring/nearshoring is a multifaceted one. Companies that have the risk to be locked
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> In Europe there isnt a single job without an union behind Not correct for the whole Europe. In some places in Central Europe you do not have a Union but instead Work Council that intermediates and oversees the management and acts in th
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Kudos for the WGA for the achievement. I partially agree with the statement that unions work. From what I see Unions are great and the current model works in situations where there are 2 monopolies, a monopoly of a work place and monopoly o
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