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by cynusx 6y ago
This is actually one of the lessons I had to learn the hard way. Solving for the future makes things unnecessarily complicated and even if that future arrives it will have been code debt and not/poorly maintained because literally nobo
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by cynusx 6y ago
Often innovation is in the eye of the beholder, for a clerk that's been manually entering data for years it might be innovative that it can be replaced with digitalization but for most researchers that's just "implementation&
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by cynusx 6y ago
> It sounds like Figma reduces friction in the collaboration process by clever use of cloud based and browser coordination. It's not innovative but it's a good application of existing technology to the design space. Out of curi
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by cynusx 6y ago
This case is about public officials suing the press. In my humble opinion, it should be perfectly possible for citizens to sue their politicians for being lied to. Eventually they are supposed to act in our interest and without real informa
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We are talking about the difference between a functional engineering culture (or mediocre) and a great hackerculture-based culture. In both cases, the product has to work and be stable however in a mediocre culture the cost of adding featur
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by cynusx 6y ago
I think you want to seek out companies where the main business risk is technology risk still. That would be database companies, developer tools, artificial intelligence startups, operating systems, ... Probably drones and sensor-companies a
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The frequent problem with these types of reports is that they only focus on one part of the geography (USA). That said, I recall reading a report that mostly middle class administrative and coordination roles are eliminated due to digitaliz
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by cynusx 6y ago
Agree, currently there's a lot of stimulus in the market and also the courts are not open so foreclosures and bankrupcies can't happen. I am actually setting up a fund to buy distressed properties, if anybody is interested just hi
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by cynusx 6y ago
That sounds right. Fear and conflict drives higher engagement. Although it makes business sense to chase higher engagement, I wonder how much of people's distrust with Facebook the brand is just a reflection of how people feel when eng
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by cynusx 6y ago
UBI can have a place if the payout is controlled by the federal reserve as a means to enact inflation. Taking it from other people's earnings and spending it through a committee of politicians sounds pretty dystopian to me though.
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by cynusx 7y ago
I wouldn't look at economic theory to predict what will happen as economists haven't studied economies subject to pandemics, but you can look at the reality on the ground 1/ consumer confidence is extremely low as people are
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by cynusx 7y ago
Location: Barcelona, Spain Remote: Preferable Willing to relocate: Hell yes, if I can :) Technologies: 8+ years as CTO/CPO; past 6 years as successful entrepreneur starting the biggest Fintech lender in Spain. Recently retired from the
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by cynusx 7y ago
Last crisis (Spanish flu) caused a 5% decrease in global GDP and that was without widespread shutdowns and an already depressed GDP from the first world war. I think realistically the drop in demand, the onslaught of bankruptcies, the stopp
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by cynusx 7y ago
Well, they are both in agreement that we need to reach herd immunity at minimal cost. They also agree to keep the rate of new infections below NHS's capacity to handle. They disagree on: - adherence to lockdown measures over a longer t
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by cynusx 7y ago
I would wager that this is because Stripe openly complained with them and demanded a public dissociation if Sequoia wanted to be eligible to invest in future rounds of Stripe. They try to spin this like it's a good thing for Finix, but
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by cynusx 7y ago
In a way I find these calls to their portfolio a bit strange, after all it's because VC is enabling these companies to run beyond their fundamentals that they could be in problems during downturns. Businesses running on tight budgets a
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by cynusx 7y ago
I would bet that if Biden doesn't manage to win the nomination that he'd run as an independent third candidate and we'll wind up having the house of representatives decide who becomes president.
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He doesn't have the plan and associated funding and the people in place. Maybe easy is the wrong word, but he's definitely well-positioned to reap more reward of what he achieved so far
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I think that's good that he doesn't sell, having built a enormous marketing presence and gained market trust is only a minor step away from actually monetizing that. Selling what he has right now does indeed come with golden handc
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by cynusx 7y ago
I can't help but think that unions are very similar to code smells, it's when the management of the company isn't able to maintain cooperation and trust with their employees. I would never work for a company with a union
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by cynusx 7y ago
Knowing some guys from high school who had the ambition to be a male welder, their drive was to make the most money so they could impress beautiful girls better. I think it is safe to assume that female dancers are beautiful on average.
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by cynusx 7y ago
I have a much more simpler (not based on any evidence) theory which kind of explains the founders' alignment with Russian interests. Most of medaillon's returns are made with insider trading from hacking. The data science part is
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by cynusx 7y ago
If you can power through it then you've never been in a burnout situation. Burnouts build up over months, if not years to the point you are no longer able to function. It's not that hard to avoid them if you remain aware of how yo
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by cynusx 7y ago
Not to diminish her suffering, but I would like to counter a bit the inevitability of PTSD causing long-term harm. PTSD occurrence in soldiers follows a bell-curve with only the lower quartile having a sustained psychological disorder. The
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by cynusx 7y ago
well, the author argues it is not optimal due to human fallacies such as group-think and institutional incentives Presumably the economical cost of the experiments are higher at this point then the resource-allocation of that cadre of highl
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The original article as I understood it is breaking a lance for more rigorous selection of experiments based on how much more information the experiments can yield. With increasing costs in experimentation it makes sense to prioritize for
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by cynusx 7y ago
You are looking at it from the wrong way. It is not nature that describes itself in math, it's people who describe in math what their current understanding is of how nature works. The more mathematical simplicity in the formula, the be
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1. Technology sector will become regulated globally mandating minimal security standards, privacy protections and ethical machine learning standards. Enforcement will be economic and increasingly technical. 2. Governments will start to adop
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by cynusx 7y ago
There are well-researched emotional intelligence tests that give you a scientific measurement of your abilities (e.g. EQ-i 2.0 model). In fact, they have been personally very helpful to realize that I went through life being unaware of the
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by cynusx 7y ago
I think the main reason they lag behind is because the service is perceived as worse. Amazon and Microsoft have well-established customer-development practices and they learn and resolve customers' issues. Having a good accessible supp

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