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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Having money just gives you more choices. The paradox of choice, however, is very real (at least speaking for myself) and often when you do find yourself in a situation where you have a lot of choices you can easily end up confused, anxious
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Why is it easy to believe all tech companies are filled with foreign agents but hard to believe that any of them could rise to senior management? If anything, a desirable goal of getting hired as a foreign agent at one of these companies wo
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I've found I need structure and accountability, which is annoying since usually that means you're spending money (i.e. a personal trainer, a paid class/bootcamp instead of googling). A really interesting startup idea would be
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Hollywood is doing fine. Disney's stock is at an all time high.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
This would explain the mini Bitcoin rally
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
And a 3 euro flat tax for economy is small potatoes too. The original argument was that this would really hurt the poor. My counterargument was that flying is still a luxury, and the poor do not fly or fly frequently enough where this would
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Business class taxes are 3x-6x economy, so corporations/rich people are paying more. Flying as is is a luxury, economy class or not, and we shouldn't forget that.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Why don't you think there are serious problems with how central banks around the world control money? Inflation steals from everyday people to varying degrees around the world...look at Zimbabwe and Venezuela. We're all beholden t
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I think it's the same reasons behind the infamous "Show HN" Dropbox post - technical people have a tendency to be too focused on pointing out technical flaws and miss the bigger picture. Or it's psychological and many fe
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Biggest question is if a union or union-like system makes sense in companies where the average tenure is ~2-3 years mostly due to employee choice.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Snapchat's stock has tripled in the last few months. Disclosure: I own a small amount of $SNAP.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I would say the same for alcohol consumption. Yes, saying you're addicted to alcohol is not socially acceptable, but we've made it not only socially acceptable but socially normative to drink relatively frequently what is object
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Ask HN: How do you prepare for technical interviews?
2 points by dawhizkid 7y ago|2 comments
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I think of free time as time spent doing something you want to do, not necessarily time spent doing nothing. If you find work that feels like play, then I'd consider that "time spent doing what you want to do."
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
This is a very blanket statement. Not all stocks have dividends. Most don't. Some bonds have negative yields. Some consider a store of value to be an investment (like, as you mentioned, gold or silver). Unlike gold or silver, though, t
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I'm pretty sure much of SF (marina, south beach, mid soma) are partially built on landfills are considered "liquification zones" by the city.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Alexa feels like like one of those devices that everyone (tech & non-tech people alike) understand to be an always-on recording device, and a proof point that many people do, in fact, choose convenience over privacy.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
You can DM people on TikTok just like most other social networking apps.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Why isn't anyone worried about TikTok? Yes, WeChat is largely contained to China, but TikTok/ByteDance is global and a top 10 app in the U.S. It would be naive to think that there isn't a backdoor to that app. And it's v
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I hardly see anyone in SF using scooters anymore. When I do, I usually see people riding the Skip ones and not so much the Scoot ones.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Are there any private companies actually working on commercializing lab grown meat? Or is it still way too early for that? I'm much more bullish on lab grown meat - the company that can build that will be $100b+ company for sure.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
I mean of course there is some trade off...the question is whether the trade off makes sense for you. The comparison doesn't make sense because there's no traditional bank that would let you buy a $1m house with a $10k down paymen
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Anyone else paranoid about TikTok (owned by Chinese co ByteDance)? The fact that it's basically a video recording app it's hard to believe there isn't a backdoor to it.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
How did you come to that conclusion? The effect is the complete opposite...instead of a lot of people that move frequently (i.e. younger people) and buy/toss a lot of cheap Ikea furniture every year, you rent high end, long-lasting fur
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Well most of these companies are startups, not megacorps. Just like everything you should do the math...if you only plan to live in a city or apartment for 1-2 years then renting a furnished apartment (either officially furnished or DIY wit
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Ask HN: Should you ask for a salary range for a position upfront?
3 points by dawhizkid 7y ago|0 comments
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Hm. Should the news reflect what we die from...? Glaring omission is deaths from airplane crashes. I would guess that is the most disproportionately covered of any cause of death. I'm also skeptical of the data on drug overdoses. Seems
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
My hunch is the number of crypto-related articles on HN is correlated with upward price movement
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Birthrates in the US are falling every year. The assumption that your typical young person hitting late 20s/30s will get married or have kids and move to the burbs is outdated.
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by dawhizkid 7y ago
Nice. I've been playing around with 2D Canvas for audio visualizations and looked into WebGL but was mortified by how complicated it was to render basic 3D shapes and just gave up.

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