chucknthem

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by chucknthem 4y ago
The few "10x developers" I've had the privilege of working with are also multipliers of other people. They can learn, debug and build things maybe 3x-5x as fast as a good developer, but give them 2-10 good developers, they ca
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by chucknthem 4y ago
Helps working parents with logistics too. High school kids can dress themselves and get themselves to school.
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by chucknthem 4y ago
That makes sense, 2013 was when ASICs were getting popular and started dominating mining. The industry has slowed down significantly since. Presumably they've implemented most of the low hanging fruit optimizations. Antminers from 3+ y
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by chucknthem 4y ago
How long ago was this? The rate of improvement on ASICS as well as new entrants to mining hasn't been this intense in a long time.
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by chucknthem 4y ago
Tesla owner here, have friends that work at Cruise. Tesla is waaayy behind cruise and waymo on the self driving front. Those other companies actually have fully driverless cars driving around San Francisco. Tesla is not even close. I think
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by chucknthem 5y ago
My family has been getting milk from a brand called Straus family creamery which is available in glass bottles in northern California. Best tasting I've found around here.
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by chucknthem 5y ago
YC interviewer: "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage?" Medical student: "one time I hacked my ear..."
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by chucknthem 5y ago
Agree with your first point. On the second though, at some point, infrastructure like AWS are going to be more reliable than what many banks, medical device operators etc can provide themselves. asking them to stay on their own hardware is
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by chucknthem 5y ago
Some of the higher end IKEA stuff is not bad, I have a bed frame that's solid wood, looks great and I could easily keep it for decades. Most of the IKEA furniture I bought in my younger days is compressed cardboard and have been replac
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by chucknthem 5y ago
Yeah seems like a luck of the draw for the miner to happen to find the right hash to mine the block when this transaction happened. Very risky way to launder 23M.
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by chucknthem 5y ago
The market around me is the opposite. The single family home I bought was just remodeled with modern amenities and the house is in a nice walkable neighborhood. The rentals around me costs less than my mortgage but they're not nearly a
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by chucknthem 5y ago
True and that's why I think it'll take many decades. Merchants accepting before the mass adoption of lightning and other layer twos are way too early, and no one wants to spend it before it reaches mass adoption. Bitcoin only make
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by chucknthem 5y ago
On ramps yes, many bitcoin holders are waiting for the day where it's spendable and accepted by more merchants and that's going to take decades.
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by chucknthem 5y ago
And become insolvent in a bank run?
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by chucknthem 5y ago
This is the full text of the bill https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1402446890466217985 3 pages, double spaced. Very digestible.
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by chucknthem 5y ago
The tech solution is amazon go https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011 You don't get let in without an amazon account. Once in, you take what you want and computers figure out what you bought and charge y
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by chucknthem 6y ago
Reminds me of the bitcoin cash fork and segwit drama in 2017.
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by chucknthem 6y ago
fascinating take on the economic incentives, do you have any books or studies you can share if I want to learn more about it?
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by chucknthem 6y ago
> I'm curious about what you mean by a possible better store of value. To me, that sounds like saying we can go colder than 0 kelvin. Maybe better store of value isn't the wrong choice of words, but better in terms of having th
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by chucknthem 6y ago
Eventually it won't go up anymore either due to market penetration or a better store of value came along. The current long term holders believe that 1. It's far from market penetration (just look at the skeptical comments here) an
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by chucknthem 6y ago
If not for more equitable society, what's wrong with concentration of wealth?
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by chucknthem 6y ago
Being unenforceable doesn't stop a state from passing it (see AB5 recently with most industries getting exceptions). And once it passes, it posses serious business risk to operate in that state.
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by chucknthem 6y ago
> I'd always imagined Berkeley would be the ideal place — that it would basically be Cambridge with good weather. But when I finally tried living there a couple years ago, it turned out not to be. The message Berkeley sends is: you
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Cities and Ambition (Pg 2008)(paulgraham.com)
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by chucknthem 6y ago
This is the first time I've heard of Conway's law used in a positive or at least non-negative way.
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by chucknthem 6y ago
Their mission used to be "make the world more open and connected". They changed it because it because they've mostly achieved it and being open and connected has a different set of negative externalities.
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by chucknthem 6y ago
Yeah definitely not San Mateo, but east bay will do that. My realtor says her business in SF and the peninsula is drying up, but east bay is hotter than ever.
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by chucknthem 6y ago
Former Uber employee here...unfortunately many of those changes either made rider experience worse or made the marketplace less efficient. Lyft gained share as a result of these changes. At the current rate, the gig industry will be regulat
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by chucknthem 6y ago
I think your views of local municipalities ability to provide transportation in california are way too optimistic. San Francisco currently operates the most expensive bus stop ever built https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr
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by chucknthem 6y ago
The majority of Chinese people have seen an unprecedented improvement in living standards over the past 3 decades, with scientific and engineering breakthroughs to boot. Hard to see them adopt western values from their perspective, they&#x2

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