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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I was taken aback by a recent conversation with an very Americanized Chinese Harvard grad (grew up in Northern Cal) who genuinely asked me after having said my parents are from Taiwan whether it's true if the people of Taiwan think Chi
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Carrie Lam's resignation, plus: The complete withdrawal of the proposed extradition bill The government to withdraw the use of the word “riot” in relation to protests The unconditional release of arrested protesters and charges against
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I’m trying to think of a single use case where I’d want to flatten exactly one level of an array and can’t.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I'm an Apple shareholder...biggest concern with driving "services" is that the 30% commission on in-app purchases is borderline obscene and I don't think longterm sustainable e.g. if the tech regulation hammer is pointed
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
From the snippets of text I've seen in various articles, it just sounds like she was bored? I imagine she had worked for a number of years and saved up a decent amount of money and decided to leave her job, had nothing to do all day an
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
arr.flat(Infinity) seems like a strange decision for flattening the entire array - wouldn't the most common number of levels to flatten an array be all levels, in which case I'd expect arr.flat() to flatten the whole array but in
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
The "marketing manager" role at Uber is an operations role and part of a local operations teams. Your main job is not "brand marketing" but attracting new drivers and managing local incentive spend. They've most lik
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Yes, institutional money is driving push into bonds, not retail investors/individuals.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Bank accounts are only FDIC insured (or equivalent) up to some limit. If you have hundreds of millions and would otherwise stuff that in a bank account buying bonds are a safe alternative to get around that limit.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I don’t think buying some stock from Euro-based companies constitutes as “supporting your own economy.” If that’s your goal, then I’d argue buying Euro bonds would be closer to that, though many have negative interest rates at the moment.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Curious, why would you want to invest in Europe at all? For awhile now I've seen Europe as the past, and Asia as the future.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I think there's two types of work-induced burnout. "White collar" burnout is generally self-inflicted, and to me less about working oneself to exhaustion and more about working any amount of hours on something that you subcon
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Ask HN: What organizations are subject to Iran sanctions?
2 points by dawhizkid 7y ago|0 comments
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I wonder if the US will ever release Ross Ulbricht...no way it will happen under Trump but possibly at the end of an 8-year term for a Democrat...
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Ask HN: For those in 20s or 30s who retired, what do you do all day?
6 points by dawhizkid 7y ago|2 comments
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
It is, though. Transacting with bitcoin is a taxable event just like converting between bitcoin and fiat. It's no different from the IRS's perspective.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
So long as this is the case how can it possibly make sense to use bitcoin to actually transact e.g. fulfill the vision of bitcoin as "digital money" if every time you buy a cup of coffee with bitcoin the expectation is that you&#x
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I feel like I have the opposite problem. I don’t actually have many strong beliefs that guide my life, which leads to “drifting” and lack of intentionality. The most fulfilled people in life are probably wired more like JAC than anything el
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Amazing when what otherwise sound like dysfunctional/toxic orgs do well. No mention of the sex scandal at the top. Checking Glassdoor as well and seems like a lot of unhappiness in general.
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12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months(bbc.com)
2 points by dawhizkid 7y ago|0 comments
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Yeah something like this, though looks like a dead project (no activity in a year)
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I’ve become somewhat fascinated by consumer activism and think there’s a missing opportunity to build something like change.org specifically to boycott specific companies, products, etc to pressure change. Edit: should throw in I actually s
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Retweets function to spread messages, but the quote tweet (combined with the retweet) is the ultimate hate/shame tool. I rarely see it use outside of "hey universe look what this idiot once said".
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I have to say, these protests in Hong Kong have really surprised me. This is my own prejudice speaking (as an American-born Taiwanese), but my wrong assumption about young East Asians was they'd be too distracted, disaffected, and gene
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Perhaps the most concerning stats I've seen are around fast rising consumer debt levels (and upticks in default rates on credit card debt + auto loan debt). If life was so good for so many people, how/why are so many people borrow
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I have not gotten quite that lucky, but still lucky to catch a unicorn early enough to have gotten to ~1m at a youngish age. Have you actually liquidated the funds? Or is that the value of your stock? I think a more interesting question for
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
+1 for ayuhuasca retreats
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Surprised something like a simple platform for paid email newsletters would be something that catches the eye of VCs hoping to find the next unicorn. The best case scenario feels like Medium, which to my knowledge has changed course dozens
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Yes, though if I were to have kids I would adopt, then, and not create one.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I'm one of those people who has decided to purposefully not have kids because I do not believe they will have a better life than me due to climate change. I suspect there's an increasing number of people who think that way.

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