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by cardosof 4y ago
Based on algorithms like those, my 6-7ish beauty score would stop me from becoming a popular social media influencer if I wanted to. Isn't that lovely!
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This Week in Veloren(veloren.net)
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by cardosof 4y ago
"Skepticism is a shortcut to wisdom"
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by cardosof 4y ago
I was lucky enough to start dating my wife when I was 16 and she was 15. Obviously I can't tell much about dating, my love life was set up before online dating, however, my impression from talking to friends and family is that: 1) peop
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by cardosof 4y ago
> If the solution can't be differentiated from its competitors, beware. This is critical and not straightforward to evaluate. Complexity is a (if somewhat bad) proxy for differentiation, in the sense that if you can build it in a we
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Impacts of Unionization: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data (2021)(journals.uchicago.edu)
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by cardosof 4y ago
A kid can't show up in a casino and pull the lever of a lame slot machine, but is able to download many apps designed to be digital versions of crack.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Wealth will always be very unequal, see the Mathew principle - just like a few songs have the most listeners and a few books the most readers. And it's hard to stay at the top too, so the elites are always changing. The real issue come
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by cardosof 4y ago
Oh and don't forget a major OS
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by cardosof 4y ago
Hindsight is 20/20 but wasn't it clear that the company selling ads shouldn't be in charge of metrics for traffic and ads? Just like the TV channels had to rely on media rating firms.
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by cardosof 4y ago
>Providing support should be required by law. If you run a service that people depend on for any of the requirements of modern life then you should provide real live human support 24/7/365 or be liable for treble damages and eq
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by cardosof 4y ago
I was thinking more like ad-supported hearing aids with built-in analytics so marketers can ask "Have you heard of this brand before?" for precise ad recall.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Just imagine a world where they revolutionized healthcare as they did with advertising!
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by cardosof 4y ago
Just let go of the 4h assignment. I know it seems like the perfect process for the company: introductory talk, assessment, talk, offer/negotiation. However, in reality that's for Juniors who need to prove their knowledge and have
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by cardosof 4y ago
Don't forget Ethereum for money laundering through NFT auctions.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Bitcoin's value will move towards zero as more governments make it illegal, just so they can roll out their own central bank's crypto.
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by cardosof 4y ago
I agree, most assets in any portfolio should have associated cash flows, commodities are sprinkled here and there for the sake of diversifying though.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Everybody with excess cash should be buying things with obvious scarcity and value, like land/gold/livestock etc. Companies are just doing the same.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Companies after achieving huge success and growth become finance companies, in the sense that it isn't about technology or products and services anymore, it's just about balance sheets and stock prices and cash flows. Everything b
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by cardosof 4y ago
I'm biased but I'll say that as you age you'll value much more the physical world - a partner, children, your house, a pet. The best things in life are offline.
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by cardosof 4y ago
Could we say that this is a proxy for the internet as a whole?
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Ask HN: Best low/no code platform for simple CRUD app?
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by cardosof 4y ago
Stocks have real assets and intellectual property, USD has the USA army and economy.
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by cardosof 4y ago
I don't know if I laugh or cry at the naivety of libertarians talking about common people funding defense contractors to protect them from organized crime and foreign state-owned armies.
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Palantir Stock: Almost Crashing to Its IPO Lows(seekingalpha.com)
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by cardosof 4y ago
Out of curiosity - what kinds of things do you do for $5 and how long does it take on average? Thanks!
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by cardosof 5y ago
Not parent poster but I've seen more and more startups setting up their jiras with whatever the folks who invented "safe" (scaled agile framework) say, while obsessing over measuring and predicting delivery metrics, all in or
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by cardosof 5y ago
'Keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down' Words of the first NATO secretary. So, if people start a club to avoid you and you know it, applying to it is a troll move, no?
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by cardosof 5y ago
I agree with you, my concern is about what happens if the data doesn't point in that direction (tortured pigs taste the same) or if the market just accepts a trade-off (less quality for less price) disregarding their suffering. I belie
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by cardosof 5y ago
"Grumpy pig meat, now on sale! 20% off all depressed ribs!" Can't wait for the future. /s

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