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by herval 5y ago
> The gold rush days may be over. Maybe in the "rich world", but not globally :-) I've been hearing lots and lots of stories of growing salaries across places that were historically underpaid (Brazil, Portugal, Berlin, etc
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by herval 5y ago
That was very much guided evolution though - elephants without tusks get spared, the others get killed for the tusks. There’s nothing like that happening with humans at a population scale, outside the realm of conspiracy theories
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by herval 5y ago
No, _saving_ is when you put money aside and hopefully keep its value at least above inflation. Cash hoarding means individuals and businesses stash bills under the mattress, and business will even decline to sell you anything on credit. An
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by herval 5y ago
Brazil had such a tax for a long time. It was sub-1%, and was largely agreed as a bad model, since it led to lower liquidity, drying of credit markets, lower consumption, cash hoarding, etc. So not necessarily a great idea. https:/&#x
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by herval 5y ago
I imagine this + AR glasses can become quite the lifesaver for deaf folks. Throw in some voice recognition and you can have real-life speech bubbles!
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by herval 5y ago
Was that really correlated? It feels to me that change more strongly correlates with the rise of Facebook for everything and the Appstorification/mobile. 2008-2012 were the golden age of mobile apps and games like Farmville, for instan
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by herval 5y ago
Or, you know, just work with the ISPs to make it illegal, like with BitTorrent. Also, what you want already exists - you're free to go use Mastodon and run your own node. You can't possibly think that's a reasonable product y
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by herval 5y ago
Almost all the “ideas” in your list are “make X with Y”. They’re not unique by definition. It’s a nice exercise for the brain, but you won’t really ship anything people use that way.
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by herval 5y ago
“Stick with it” is by no means what I said. A time tracker isn’t an end-all product - you start with it, then spiral out based on customer feedback. I’ve seen plenty of companies start that way and succeed, even time tracker and job posts.
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by herval 5y ago
All these have a thing in common: he gave up because they weren’t immediate successes. Some even had traction: 5 users in 3 months isn’t the incredible outlier story you hear time and time again, but it’s 5 people you can talk to, listen to
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by herval 5y ago
I lived through hyperinflation as a kid (obviously not in the US). One of the things that kept us afloat were the 2 family cars - my parents sold them for a big profit, then sold the new cars again couple months later. Owning equity was a r
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by herval 5y ago
What’s your definition of a “real business”? Enron had revenue of over 100bn, 30k employees, and delivered actual products and services for many years. How’s that not “a real business”?
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by herval 5y ago
There’s a pricing page, have you seen that?
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by herval 5y ago
Do UIs accomplish anything that a terminal doesn’t, besides shininess? Do color screens accomplish anything besides shininess? Why does one need a mouse? It’s surely a solution looking for a problem.
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by herval 5y ago
Neal Stephenson’s, but I think it caught on due to Zuckerberg calling Facebook VR platform “the metaverse”, and it got immediately coopted by the cryptosphere (I remember seeing Decentraland first use the term, and they’re affiliated to som
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by herval 5y ago
While TMS should be a last resort thing, what’s actually seems to be happening (anecdotally at least) is it gets prescribed like candy - just like opioids and antidepressants. I had a pretty rough time during the pandemic and reached out
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by herval 5y ago
If there’s one thing we learned with this entire pandemic, it is that expecting humans to take precautions and comply indefinitely is just not reasonable policy, in particular when the threat is invisible and evolves “slowly” (months instea
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by herval 5y ago
Right. Natural language is more complex and nuanced.
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by herval 5y ago
> Since code is a lot more complex than written human language, expressing intent can be very difficult. Isn’t that the other way around? Natural language remains an unsolved problem, and formal verification of software is pretty much a
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by herval 5y ago
I think most young FIRE people think that way. I certainly did too, in my early 20s. Then 3 years become 10, 15, 20, and you accumulate an actual life in the meantime (sometimes kids, sometimes pets, sometimes spouses, sometimes hobbies, et
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by herval 5y ago
That's a common misconception - dogs don't give anyone affection unconditionally. They have varying degrees of _loyalty_ (some dogs will keep attached someone that beats them), but overall, they clearly evaluate the benefits of th
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by herval 5y ago
Why is it that way today? I can imagine Western Union and the like would certainly love to move more money, as they're paid per transaction - what makes it so that they don't make it easier?
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by herval 5y ago
…that’s a sphere though
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by herval 5y ago
It exists until the moment there are _HR violations_ - just like any other practice that's acceptable at an early stage as it grows. I've worked at 10k+ companies that still had beer on tap, and they obviously had huge HR departme
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by herval 5y ago
Yes and no - more experienced people have more to _impart_, because they've been there, generally know what to focus on, etc. That doesn't necessarily mean they're eager to just put up with anything or just "play along&q
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by herval 5y ago
Younger people have more to prove, have nothing to lose, have no understanding of the politics of work - all that makes it easier to "extract more" from them - in particular new grads, who are "blank slates" you can trai
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by herval 5y ago
Hannah Arendt said it in that very book: "[Eichmann] was genuinely incapable of uttering a single sentence that was not a cliché," and he used these clichés as a mental defense mechanism to avoid thinking about what he was doing f
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by herval 5y ago
You’ll still have a different network (this is big at Facebook, where downloading repos from home takes a ridiculous amount of time), and you’re still locked down to a single machine’s resources, when working on your PC. This remote-first a
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by herval 5y ago
Technical aspects aside (no OS variance, etc), iPhone apps make more money than Android (2x or more, last I checked, despite being a smaller share of total phones). So targeting iPhone first is a common strategy
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by herval 5y ago
If you're not making an abundant number of _technical_ mistakes early in your career (like your examples), you're playing too safe. If you're working at a place where you'll be punished or "get fired" for mista

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