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Coinbase CEO on “mission”, one year later: “Most positive change I’ve ever made”(twitter.com)
5 points by jmeister 5y ago|6 comments
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“..it has allowed us to hire some of the best talent from organizations where employees are fed up with politics, infighting, and distraction.” “we've grown our headcount about 110%, while our diversity numbers have remained the same,
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Did you want the Supreme Court to intervene in the democratically passed abortion law in TX?
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American elites love to hate their country. Goes back to Protestant self-loathing. It’s amusing to see this article juxtaposed with the review of Koestler’s Darkness At Noon on the front page.
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Who cares if something is “condescending”, if it’s true? This knee-jerk moralizing is a huge part of why “Internet is bad”. We weren’t like this 10 years ago. The Great Awokening has made everyone more judgemental.
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This review on Amazon (found via Tyler Cowen) has more insight on Thiel’s “core” than anything that has been written in mainstream media: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3PSWXNTHIHYNB/
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Chafkin has no clue. He got all the info for his book from unreliable third-hand sources. See this review: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/peter-t...
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HN hug of death..
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Hayek’s “cosmos” and “taxis” dichotomy captures this well.
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Awesome. Best of luck!
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Imagine reducing Amazon to “exploits workers”. For starters, what about all the startups powered by AWS? Amazon lets my programmer cousins in India buy the latest technical books in days, while my generation used to torrent and print 15-20
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Can you please tell us more about your career trajectory? I wouldn’t normally expect someone who went to trade school from 15-18 to be so proficient in a foreign language(English) like you.
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He’s also prodigiously smart. People will read him without peer review.
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Truth is stranger than fiction. I cannot believe this happening in the first world.
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Ironically, neurodiversity — the kind of diversity that matters most for intellectual work — gets choked in the current DEI rush.
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Aren’t the kids supposed to be rebellious?
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It’s disappointing that this essay was flagged. There are many points raised here that are applicable to tech companies, small and large, as well.
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What happened to TNR? So sad.
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That line is from 2013.
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What if the party’s account violated Twitter’s ToS?
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The paywall is keeping me behind a veil of ignorance.
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I updated my comment to include a bit about the CRA connection.
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I have to admire your arrogance. You know better than Hassabis about Suleyman’s value? You want to judge the founders of the top AI group in the universe? I am at loss for words. FYI: Keynes is considered to be the most influential economis
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This is just a consequence of feminization of society. I used to work on Wall St, and it’s a rite of passage there for senior people to send juniors to fetch cigars or lunchboxes. I’ve seen execs angrily bang on glass walls of their cabins
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Brazil’s Nubank is all-in on clojure: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/36297/nubank-buys-firm-... Sweden’s Klarna seems to be using Clojure along with other FP languages: https://news.ycombinator.co
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Quite a modest proposal.
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Why was this flagged? This is an important, underdiscussed topic.
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The decline of SF is seen as an indictment of progressivism run amok. From a card-carrying progressive Ezra Klein: “If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?” https://www.nytimes
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This is unhinged zero-sum thinking that would have kept us living in grass huts or driven us to extinction.
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> corporate gains What about customers? They seem to be happy to ignore how the sausage is made, to have stuff delivered to their doorsteps cheap and fast.

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