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by carterklein13 6y ago
I feel like this article is trying to draw predictions from faulty baselines. Being "overdue" for something is rarely a good indicator for when it will happen. On top of this, the sample size of only a handful of bear markets &#x2
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by carterklein13 6y ago
This was an interesting read, but I have to admit there were a couple of things that made it a bit difficult to get through. * Treating subjective matters (Paul Graham is one of the most prolific writers in his field) as objective facts lea
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I've seen so much conflicting information around 5G that it's frankly a little bit bewildering. Just earlier today I was reading that 5G showed no considerably-higher download speeds than 4G... From what I can surmise, it seems li
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Is it the default mode of the 21st century, or is the 21st century just the first century we've done extensive research into stress psychology (or at least, extensive research not for the sake of confirming a narrative/bias)?
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by carterklein13 6y ago
That's a good quote, and very similar to some experiences I've had (who said this?). On the other side of the coin... I've also seen people hired as "rockstar developers" become the overworked scapegoat of a team...
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by carterklein13 6y ago
It's interesting NBC is still covering something like this. I feel like this is generally well-known in the industry, and that any lean company will try to hire a "rockstar" whenever they can, as they don't have the budg
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Alright, I can't edit my post anymore but I just want to add - I see now that perhaps vigilante wasn't the right word. I was trying to fit it into a Wild West metaphor and hadn't had my coffee yet, the phrasing clearly struck
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Say what you will about crypto/blockchain in general, but Chainalysis has to have one of the coolest missions out there right now. As someone who's worked in AML before, it's truly fascinating to me. If blockchain / DeFi
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by carterklein13 6y ago
> providing yields for no inherent value due to lack of use case, appears more like a Ponzi scheme than investment in a nascent technology. I think people are trying to assign a narrative to DeFi and its use cases, when buy and large it&
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by carterklein13 6y ago
A hack for this is to just have terrible imposter syndrome so that you always feel like the biggest idiot in the room :)
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I see The Mom Test recommended anywhere. Can anyone shed some light into what other information it contains other than "focus on the problem (not your solution) and explain things simply and concisely enough that your mother could unde
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Do you have any links to further reading I could do on this? This concept fascinates me and I'd be curious to learn more.
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by carterklein13 6y ago
The problem is, this was technically a financial instrument (it falls under DeFi - decentralized finance) that was completely unaudited, and could've been released in stages, on a testnet, etc. To use an analogy, this was essentially p
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I keep seeing the rhetoric that it was just an experiment and that it was expected to implode. Sure, okay, maybe it was - but in that case, the hype built around it was completely inexcusable. From its creator to shills on Twitter, I hadn&#
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I feel like "tech lead" also varies so much from company to company. Where I work, people are technically bestowed the title of "tech lead," and this just means they have to take ownership of far more work for essentiall
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by carterklein13 6y ago
What was their primary treasury reserve asset before the switch to Bitcoin? Unless I'm missing something, I don't see that mentioned anywhere in the article. I find it hard to believe a company would go from something ultra-stable
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by carterklein13 6y ago
For a new grad, my opinion is run-of-the-mill software engineer at any tech company, or tech-initiated company. I may be wrong, but from my experience a new grad won't be able to do much systems thinking on their own right out of the g
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by carterklein13 6y ago
And now they have a 6% stake in arguably the biggest name in home security, ADT
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Still digging into the site, but my immediate first impression was that without someone showing me a link to this site saying "We launched a startup community web app" I'd have no idea what it's doing. When you click int
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Most of the wealthiest people in NYC have multiple homes and may have just changed their permanent address. A lot moved to Denver, too...
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I think that JavaScript and Python, from my experience, certainly increase speed... but that definitely != productivity. If you want to get something up and running fast, then JS/Python should absolutely be your go-to. We have an &quot
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I'm a bit confused here... I've read through the article, and through Akasha's announcement post, and I'm having trouble understanding what exactly about this is a "super app" for dapps and not just another dec
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by carterklein13 6y ago
One of my biggest worries with this is that it will shut ADT off to all future integrations outside of the Google ecosystem. I believe that if ADT wants to stay competitive, they would hugely benefit from a swath of integrations with differ
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Lol - I remember that phase well. Luckily I was still in college at the time so I had no money to sink on it. I'm a believer in the tech, and have a little money in it now, but in terms of expected earnings... well, I treat it just as
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Interesting - I hadn't thought about it that way. I'm no journalist, so it just struck as a surprising omission. But, that being said, I have to imagine this would strike many other people (certainly not most, but a large amount)
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by carterklein13 6y ago
What...? I'm well aware of what The Atlantic is. People aren't (or shouldn't be) using it to guide how they spend their money.
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Okay, jeez, I can't win here. The second you start to advocate for blockchain or mention its potential utility, people will glom on and mock you for being a pipe dreaming gambler. The second you start to advocate against it or mention
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Refer back to my comment where I explicitly said that I'm not advocating for blockchain / DLT, nor did I say that Ethereum / IPFS provide any value. But, there are millions of dollars in investment and research being poured i
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I'm not advocating for or against blockchain / DLT here, but I find it kind of weird that this article explicitly talks about not just the lack of decentralization in the modern internet, but about cryptocurrency... and doesn&#x27
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by carterklein13 6y ago
One of the most shocking things I realized when I graduated college and started working as a software engineer is how insecure, or really just improperly-configured, large enterprise systems are. This is anecdotal, of course, but it seems t

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