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by gringoDan 5y ago
True! I meant sad in the sense that if folks were properly incentivized to stay at an organization longer-term (10-20% pay bumps per year), I think we'd see more big innovations in technology – think NASA, Bell Labs, etc. – as opposed
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by gringoDan 5y ago
My conclusion after working in tech for a few years: If you don't want to play the politics game, just interview with new companies and get a new role and a significant pay bump every 1-2 years. Sad that the incentives are set up this
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by gringoDan 5y ago
This makes complete sense – just another example of power law dynamics of the internet. Short-term, we're going to see companies pursue a remote model in order to attract talent. This will be great for employees; live in Colorado, go o
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by gringoDan 5y ago
Author here. Couple of things: 1. Not investment advice, as stated in the article. That said, I agree there is a lot of pump-and-dump going on in crypto. Do your own due diligence. 2. The main point was that if the typical HN reader feels l
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You're Not Too Late(paranoidenough.com)
12 points by gringoDan 5y ago|18 comments
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by gringoDan 5y ago
The Risk Not Taken, by Andy Dunn: https://dunn.medium.com/the-risk-not-taken-40cf0a8919cb Inspired me to renege on my investment banking offer straight out of college and move to South America to work on my startup instead.
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by gringoDan 5y ago
Deadlines are always negotiable. It's taken me so long to realize that people just want to know you're on top of something. Simply saying "This was deprioritized this week/month/quarter in favor of other work, but I
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Book Review – Barbarian Days(paranoidenough.com)
1 points by gringoDan 5y ago|0 comments
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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Profile(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by gringoDan 5y ago|0 comments
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by gringoDan 5y ago
I don't think this would be the case, since these firms are actively market-making using USDT. I.e., they're not just turning fiat into crypto using USDT, but they are also market-making in USDT/BTC, USDT/ETH, etc. My un
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by gringoDan 5y ago
I'm no Tether apologist, but this doesn't seem like an issue to me? Alameda and Cumberland are the 2 biggest liquidity providers in crypto trading. Tether is the source of liquidity for many of the exchanges that they trade on. So
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by gringoDan 5y ago
TRM Labs | Multiple Roles | Full-time | Remote TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company with a mission to build trust in digital assets by preventing crypto-based fraud and financial crime. Backed by Bessemer, YC, Initialized, and PayP
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by gringoDan 5y ago
You might enjoy this blog post, which captures the spirit of LA better than anything else I've read: https://www.bldgblog.com/2007/10/greater-los-angeles/
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by gringoDan 5y ago
This reminds me of a Slate Star Codex post, Epistemic Learned Helplessness: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn... Essentially, this essay argues that sometimes it is rational to igno
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by gringoDan 5y ago
TRM Labs | Multiple Roles | Full-time | Remote TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company with a mission to build trust in digital assets by preventing crypto-based fraud and financial crime. Backed by YC and PayPal, and soon to announce
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Your Life as Financial Derivatives(paranoidenough.com)
3 points by gringoDan 5y ago|0 comments
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East Coast Early Bird, West Coast Night Owl(paranoidenough.com)
3 points by gringoDan 5y ago|0 comments
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by gringoDan 5y ago
This story reminds me of the Basecamp saga. Here, the narrative is that the CEO is ousted because of anti-Asian bias/racism from his investors. Similarly, with Basecamp, employees quit due to a change in workplace policy that they view
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Creation vs. Consumption(paranoidenough.com)
2 points by gringoDan 6y ago|0 comments
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Glad to see this article explore the darker side of meditation. A few years back, I had a sobering experience at a Vipassana meditation retreat and left after a few days. I had feelings of anxiety and despair, which I expected (at least int
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The Intoxicating Appeal of Cults(paranoidenough.com)
3 points by gringoDan 6y ago|0 comments
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The Battle of GameStop(paranoidenough.com)
315 points by gringoDan 6y ago|557 comments
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by gringoDan 6y ago
I'm glad that Scott is back (and that Substack will make it easy for him to get paid for his work). That said, some of the best things about Slate Star Codex were stumbling on the archives, going down a rabbit hole of old LessWrong pos
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An Ode to Chess(paranoidenough.com)
2 points by gringoDan 6y ago|0 comments
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Yep - the word quarantine itself comes from the Italian "quaranta giorni" (forty days). This was the amount of time that ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor before landing, so as not to infe
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by gringoDan 6y ago
I think that the relevant axis on which to evaluate countries' default attitude towards COVID and technological progress isn't authoritarianism vs. freedom, but rather peacetime vs. wartime mindset. FDA approval processes (and man
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The Local Maxima Trap(paranoidenough.com)
1 points by gringoDan 6y ago|0 comments
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Was more anecdotal, but quick Google search produced this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/191658/participants-in-t...
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Football is a brutal sport. I played football for 9 years (1 in college). I made my best friends playing football, gained confidence, learned countless life lessons...but I still wouldn't let my future children play the game because of
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Parallel Tracks(defmacro.substack.com)
109 points by gringoDan 6y ago|62 comments

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