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by gonehome 5y ago
The new Web3 stuff has been the most exciting frontier since the bitcoin whitepaper in 2009. Urbit is super cool, ETH is really interesting. There's a ton of stuff happening in the space - like I imagine what 1999 probably felt like. Y
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah I looked at those when I learned of them. They often come with serious quality (and price) trade offs if you’re able to source them at all. If you’re looking for a generic LCD it’s probably fine, but if you’re comparing to an LG OLED y
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’ve found the android based TVs to be awful. Their boot up time is slow and they often seem to have trouble starting via the Apple TV remote.
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by gonehome 5y ago
When I researched them a while back I came away with LG OLEDs being the best, particularly if you paired them with an Apple TV. There are no good high-end “dumb” tv options.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think Founder’s Fund and Thiel are desirable because of how they treat founders. I wrote that first comment before finishing the article (which is a good article people should read it). His first advice is basically to try to do what I as
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by gonehome 5y ago
Can’t you structure things like Zuckerberg or Palantir and just have the founder retain unilateral company control?
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by gonehome 5y ago
Sure - there’s no need to reply to 90% of recruiter emails (I don’t), but that doesn’t mean people need to talk so dismissively and condescendingly of them “recruiter spam” and such. Just don’t reply and be happy we don’t need to.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’m not so sure, it seems to make people more delusional over time and more paranoid and anxious even from low dose usage.
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by gonehome 5y ago
+1 - I’ve always hated this behavior. It’s just a status behavior (“I’m so important, everyone wants me”, etc.) that’s wrapped up in pretending this is a problem. Be kind to people on the way up, you might need them one day on the way down.
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by gonehome 5y ago
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by gonehome 5y ago
Even worse Morgan Stanley will ask you for two factor codes over the phone(!). It’s impossible to implement good user behavior when the banks themselves are wildly negligent.
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by gonehome 5y ago
The claim was that Tesla wouldn’t ship Model 3s successfully and would fail. That claim is false. The stock price today may be a bubble, I don’t know. But Burry’s comments were before the current run up.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I have an HHKB, but I think it's mostly fun (and I guess fashion?) It's fun to nerd out about tools and play with them. There aren't a lot of ways you can customize standard hardware and keyboards are an easy case for all sor
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by gonehome 5y ago
Swisher was hardly positive tech press. I'm just glad there's people like Ben Thompson where the quality is so much higher. It's nice to have real competition now with people that can own their own distribution and aren'
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by gonehome 5y ago
The complaining about ETH/BTC environmental cost is probably the lamest anti-crypto argument. It's just this beaten to death: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand... With the
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by gonehome 5y ago
I get the impression you're not open to being curious about this, but I don't agree with your framing. You can have the DAO as a legal structure where the granted governance tokens do have power, in that case the 10k internet stra
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by gonehome 5y ago
Somewhat related tweet thread from today: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1461633512344326146?s=21 Don’t talk to journalists (at least if you work in tech, but probably outside of it) - they’re not your friends a
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by gonehome 5y ago
Stewardship has extra costs associated with insurance, safe transport, etc. They talked about this in the discord. Ultimately they went as high as they could go given these costs.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Urbit IDs are the quickest example. NFTs can basically act as identity tokens that prove community membership. They can optionally have art as part of that (like BAYC), but they can also allow access to systems (like the Urbit network). Thi
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by gonehome 5y ago
In the prisoner's dilemma isn't a core constraint that the prisoners can't collaborate? Therefore you can't cooperate for the best outcome and both are independently incentivized to defect. In global diplomacy the goal
951.
by gonehome 5y ago
It’s somewhat of a tired point. You’re right of course and Michael Burry made a great trade recognizing the CDO issue and bad incentives around reselling mortgages leading to banks giving mortgages to people that couldn’t afford them and no
952.
by gonehome 5y ago
He was also wrong about Tesla. There was a crash in 1999, but the underlying economic shift created by the internet was real and major companies survived it. I suspect something similar is likely here.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Thankfully people that can’t admit when they’re wrong despite almost absurd evidence of their wrongness just don’t matter that much in economic bets. The people constantly predicting Tesla failure and shorting the stock lost all of their mo
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yes - I have friends that work there at AWS and are happy there. Like any large company it will vary by team, but I wouldn't dismiss them up front.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Cool - so a non-answer and condescending dismissal of genuine questions. Lots of people talk about finances online. See r/personalfinance or r/financialindependence. It’s a good way to learn.
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by gonehome 5y ago
No fees, also a brokerage, free checks, free atm, free wires, can trivially spin up IRA, move money between accounts, etc. Phone call support has been surprisingly good whenever I’ve needed it. When I used standard banks they often forced m
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by gonehome 5y ago
I have a pretty complex financial situation, but Fidelity can just do all of it more easily than retail banks. Is there something banks like BoA do better that I'm missing? When I've asked people I know this I haven't gotten
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by gonehome 5y ago
I'm not sure why anyone uses banks like BoA, Wells Fargo, First Niagara, etc. Fidelity is a superior experience in nearly every way - just categorically. I'm not sure if people just don't know that you can use Fidelity this w
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by gonehome 5y ago
I remember a funny story of a dad putting his very young kid to bed and whispering “play classical music” in order to use that feature and the Alexa screamed back at full volume “ALEXA IS HAVING TROUBLE CONNECTING TO THE INTERNET RIGHT NOW”
960.
by gonehome 5y ago
Another annoying issue is with timers. When cooking we'll tell the one in the kitchen to set a timer. Then we'll ask what time is left. If another one hears the question it yells "there are no timers set" so we have to w

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