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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
Why exactly do we think Balaji is a genius mind? He strikes me as someone heavily invested in a maximalist version of something he’s seen as the at the forefront of, but I’ve never really found any of his writing or ideas compelling.
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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
I think examining the incentives of the managers is far more likely to be informative than looking at IC engineers. The best security engineer in the world probably couldn’t have prevented this hack if management doesn’t listen to what they
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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
It’s a demonstration of the societal value of bad businesses going under. There are certain ideas that people just cannot be swayed against by evidence, especially if they have skin in the game. The real destructiveness of crypto is the oth
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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
If you’re arguing the auditing firms can be games and Tether can’t seem to pass an audit by them, that seems worse
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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
The ins and outs of version control solves a problem that has not yet existed for an intern. It’s not that big a deal to train them on the job, industry practices probably don’t map well to academic settings anyhow. Not to mention that git
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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
The supreme confidence and comfort with presenting evidence free arguments is very much in step with most of his writing
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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
The bad look is that major exchanges are freezing up with these drops
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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
Their employees are also shareholders
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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
Lots of comments decrying the post-war massacres of French on the island. Say you lead an impoverished country with no international patrons. You've just ejected slaving colonists from the island, but they do not recognize your indepen
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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
War is cruel. I’m not seeing anyone saying the individuals who lost their lives deserved it.
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by jjfoooo4 4y ago
But what are you cooking where there’s no other related prep? If you’re using a pan and not a microwave surely there’s a minute or two of work to do.
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by jjfoooo4 5y ago
An evidence free statement by Paul Graham - why should we consider him an expert, other than his wealth?
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by jjfoooo4 5y ago
The limitations of this theory are playing out in the Bay Area (where enforcement is so lax drugs are in effect decriminalized) in real time. There are absolutely large negative externalities from drug addiction, independent of the enforcem
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by jjfoooo4 5y ago
It’s difficult because the minimum effective dose is quite subjective. My doctor even suggested my continuing to increase my dose without prompting, but I’ve paused at 15. The pitfalls are real but personally, being 3-4 months in, it’s been
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by jjfoooo4 5y ago
I appreciate how once installed I just don’t have to think about it at all. If I fly somewhere, it pops up and confirms where I am, but otherwise it simply works flawlessly and entirely in the background for years on end.
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by jjfoooo4 5y ago
I’ve found it very helpful to take a bit more “forced” approach in maintaining relationships, especially as I am very poor at remembering names and biographical details. I just have a notion doc called “people.” At first people have just a