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by myth_buster 6y ago
Relevant: That Time I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time...
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by myth_buster 7y ago
Behavioral Economics - Thaler Kahneman Tversky et Al. If you are referencing to the fallout from covid, it's essentially the effect of global commerce coming to screeching halt. As CEO of GS said, no one has a clue on what's going
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by myth_buster 7y ago
I think having different sources for sound and mic causes echo.
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by myth_buster 7y ago
My previous company, in true disruptive fashion, was setup as an autonomous entity outside of Fortune 100 mothership with the sole goal to crack a certain market. 3 years in, as we were passing through the trough of disillusionment, I picke
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by myth_buster 7y ago
Past/related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975862
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by myth_buster 7y ago
It's a great read. Web archive link as the blog faced hug of death this weekend. https://web.archive.org/web/20190609094448/http://mckellen.c... Ian post on 20th anniversary. https://twit
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by myth_buster 7y ago
I would say Naval Ravikant in Joe Rogan Experience [0]. A bit preachy (similar to Osho whom he quotes) but there is some things that are actionable and is an interesting point of view. I'm catching up on Knowledge Project (which is qui
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by myth_buster 7y ago
Well, one can say that about the current 2 day weekend too. And there are people who do 80 hr / 7 day weeks but that surely gets you burned out.
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by myth_buster 7y ago
My bad!
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Finnish PM calls for a 4-day-week and 6-hour-day(scoop.co.nz)
16 points by myth_buster 7y ago|5 comments
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by myth_buster 7y ago
It's a tradition for me as well to stare at it and fiddle with it for a while. Coming from ecommerce, the scale staggers me! This and what Alibaba does on singles day. Kudos.
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by myth_buster 7y ago
I (full stack self taught engineer) recently accepted an offer. Here's my biggest takeaways which you may already be aware of: - It's an imperfect system but a closest thing to a functioning one. - Referral is the best way in. - A
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by myth_buster 7y ago
I'm surprised by the lack of focus on mobile in that post. Most of the third world leaped the desktop stage and are coming online using mobile. Primarily due to cost factor but also the additional infrastructure (telephone line, router
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by myth_buster 7y ago
> With the profit motive taking over the internet, the very nature of innovation changed. Averting risk dominated the direction of technical progress. We no longer pursued “moonshots.” Instead advancement came via baby steps — “design me
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by myth_buster 7y ago
Imagine yourself in their shoes. You have been trying to bring to attention the adverse effects of fossil fuels to the planet. And you are doing this using scientific methods and getting them peer reviewed. And you have built models that, i
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by myth_buster 7y ago
This was my thought regarding Google's Soli chip[0] when I saw comments talking about it's usability limited to cooking or other fringe cases. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269877
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by myth_buster 7y ago
I believe it's a documented fact that most of breakthrough technology feels like dabbling in triviality. I read somewhere (will look for source when I get time), that when Thomas Edison invented phonograph, he believed there wouldn&#x2
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by myth_buster 7y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the lockout period expires Nov 10th. Also give how aggressively they were hiring in the run up to IPO, a lot of people are probably nearing the 1yr cliff.
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by myth_buster 7y ago
Detailed discussion from September when the decision was made. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20920753
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by myth_buster 7y ago
He is bullish on AirBnB[0] and Shopify[1]. [0] https://www.vox.com/2018/10/26/18029008/pivot-kara-swisher-s... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58YkxEjzT4 ____ Edit Linked to a bette
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by myth_buster 7y ago
I'm just impressed by how well the fallout has been predicted by Scott Galloway[0] and Matt Levine. Has been an incredible learning experience for me on the unicorn class in general. Looking forward to unicorn report for 2019 [1]. [0]
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by myth_buster 7y ago
Not sure whether trolling. There has been some very good investigative journalism done in the tech sector. Theranos/Uber/Tumblr comes to mind. Specially from media outlets outside of the SV echo chamber.
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by myth_buster 7y ago
Scott Galloway victory lap incoming 3... 2...
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by myth_buster 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Looking forward to the digging into codebase.
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by myth_buster 7y ago
I may be wrong in thinking that given two researchers are working at Adobe, the plan probably is to keep it proprietary and put it in one of their software.
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by myth_buster 7y ago
@proberts could you share some resources on visa/immigration (and related gotchas) that would be helpful for folks on H1B planning to start their own startup.
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by myth_buster 7y ago
The only way we us a society can make progress is by critically analyzing our beliefs and biases and correcting them. > used as reasons to limit constitutional freedoms The implicit assumption in your statement appears to be that constit
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by myth_buster 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin
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Hackers were told to break into voting machines. They didn’t have much trouble(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by myth_buster 7y ago|0 comments
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by myth_buster 7y ago
Kubernetes for Golang. This has been brought up as an example of fine documentation: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e593953... Requests for Python https://github.com/psf&

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