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by herval 5y ago
To be fair, many tech companies are moving to 4 day work-weeks (eg https://buildremote.co/four-day-week/4-day-work-week-compani... ) - so 32 hour weeks aren't viable just for a tenured professor
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by herval 5y ago
At least the wood is definitely being useful - it's keeping you warm. Same for cooking a meal (it's eaten afterwards, was it useful?), cleaning your room, etc. The problem with coding jobs is when they're not even _temporaril
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by herval 5y ago
> Founders will sometimes say "if I can't build this company with no more than a million dollars, it's not worth building it at all." I feel like this became such a big meme, that it actually hurt innovation. With lot
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by herval 5y ago
Beautiful product! As the saying goes, the best "enterprise" products are borne out of frustration you experience while trying to build your own consumer product - sounds like this was exactly how you landed on FlutterFlow :-)
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Adopting SLOs for improved reliability Facebook(engineering.fb.com)
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by herval 5y ago
> I'm really just a cave man that found a nicer cave. You aren't really - most cavemen didn't even understand that fire is possible, and wouldn't be able to consistently operate a lighter if they found one (it'd
727.
by herval 5y ago
To be fair, that’s the case for almost all scifi - and that’s not a bad thing :)
728.
by herval 5y ago
Don’t worry, 10-20 years from now, you’ll know all of the things folks will be proclaiming as dead, and younger folks will tell you they never heard of most of them :-)
729.
by herval 5y ago
OpenSea verifies ownership off-chain, they "verify" projects, prevent fake Bored Apes from proliferating, etc. Same sort of "proof" you'd expect on any digital property, from Twitter's identity verification to
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by herval 5y ago
Correct. Ownership is an ambiguous concept, when you “own” something, it comes with terms of what that “ownership” entails. An NFT is an entry in a ledger that says who owns that entry - it’s a _proof of ownership_, not _ownership itself_.
731.
by herval 5y ago
The same way you verify if a deed is authentic: asking an appointed “Oracle”. In this case, sites like OpenSea act as verifiers. Who tells you the Louis Vuitton bag you’re buying is authentic? Do you ask the shopkeeper? How do you know they
732.
by herval 5y ago
The gold most people invest in isn’t on anyone’s hands either: most people buy gold ETFs or futures. You can totally buy those?
733.
by herval 5y ago
> An NFT is just a record on a blockchain saying that [wallet address] is the current owner of [URL]. It has absolutely nothing to do with ownership. That’s literally a _record of ownership_. > You can sell an NFT of the Mona Lisa. I
734.
by herval 5y ago
I don’t want to sound contrarian, but my take on almost all of these is the exact opposite of yours. Was literally discussing a couple of those with a friend yesterday :) - COVID will continue to be a thing. Some new variant will come along
735.
by herval 5y ago
You buy the right to sell that digital piece - others can copy as they please, but only the owner of the NFT can sell/transfer/destroy it (depending on the contract, of course). So it’s closer to a “deed” to a digital asset than a
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by herval 5y ago
ICOs still happen though - there’s coins getting launched almost every day. They just went the DEX route, and for some reason the SEC isn’t as active stopping them as in 2017. But they didn’t go away.
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by herval 5y ago
To be fair, at least it’s an attempt to do it for something good. Humans are driven by feedback loops, and some habits, such as meditation, are good for you, so if they can find a way to make the brain stick to it, I’m totally onboard!
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by herval 5y ago
I regularly travel back to Brazil when I need to do something more involved that’s not an emergency, because the healthcare I get there is MUCH better than what I get in the US (I pay $800/y to keep a health insurance plan there). That
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by herval 5y ago
> I prefer to pay 35-40% in taxes and not have to worry about that The biggest irony is that’s in line with the taxes we pay in the US (probably more if you’re in tech and live in CA or NY), so it’s not like you pay lower taxes in the La
740.
by herval 5y ago
Neither event you mention led to land being reclaimed by nature/regrown into forests/habitats, which allegedly is how the CO2 got recaptured in this theory
741.
by herval 5y ago
Yea, totally - I found this to be a lesser problem in cases like Tesla, where it's all proprietary anyway. You're correct that in a world of many standards, it becomes an issue
742.
by herval 5y ago
...and getting told by a manager to revert code. The entire environment in the example doesn't sound very healthy
743.
by herval 5y ago
Or maybe just swappable batteries? Dock, empty cell goes out through port A, new cell goes in through B, drive off? I reckon the majority of the car weight is batteries, but this could lead to cheaper cars, perhaps with shorter range but ab
744.
by herval 5y ago
Beauty is subjective, of course, but for me at least, these stylized QRs don't look _much_ better than regular ones. And may make it harder for recognition too, for customers used to the big ugly squares-on-squares format
745.
by herval 5y ago
Apple's code is a simple circular barcode, essentially. I worked in one such format long time ago (ShotCode) - they have some benefits like resistance to motion blur and being easy to parse in low res cameras (compared to qr codes, for
746.
by herval 5y ago
You’re not factoring in stock appreciation there. It’s somewhat common these days to see people sitting on huge unvested grants, so in your example, your yearly comp won’t be the $300k/y you had at year one. Then it’s pretty hard to ge
747.
by herval 5y ago
Facebook does stock refreshers every year, so there is _some_ benefit on sticking around, as you’ll have more stock vesting every year (until the 4y cliff at least)
748.
by herval 5y ago
Given how much time everyone I interact with (and myself) spend with our heads buried on phones, mindlessly scrolling, I’d say an extremely large number of people would gladly transition to an augmented reality world, and stare at walls for
749.
by herval 5y ago
This is pretty useful as a product, and magic.link has been a hit and miss experience for me. Where will you post/announce the open source version? I’ll definitely check it out!
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by herval 5y ago
If 90% of the people that use social media were culled every 2 years, and only the remaining survived enough to reproduce, we'd (maybe) see some accelerated evolution/correlation in a generation or two, right? (extremely improbabl

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