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by ocean_moist 2y ago
Young people (like me) use lowercaps like that all the time. Around 50% of the young people I know purposefully turn off auto-caps on their phone. Why? I really couldn't say. I think we just like the feel of it. The only reason I type
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
Here is a relevant tool that ranks colleges (and degrees) by ROI/EV: https://www.collegenpv.com/programrankings/?pcip=11&page=1&s... . Not perfect, but better. As someone who just played the college admissi
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
If your threat model includes western nation states, there are much bigger threats to your opsec than Tor. If your threat model does not include western nation states, Tor is safe to use.
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
I personally think (and I think the prevailing sentiment is) that giving early employees equity is crucial. There is no way I would do any work for an early stage startup (or, in general, if I can help it) with no stake in the company. In b
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
> bad culture The let "let boys be childish" part and the overall psuedo-human tone kind of alarmed me. The random "hahas" littered around, seemed like a robot trying to be a human. > micromanaging He has a playboo
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
Really interesting modernist take. I would say there is a mistreatment and reductionistic mischaracterization of the current age as a “void”. Further, the choice of paganism (belief) and the “void” is a false dichotomy. Post-structuralism p
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
>Imagine seeing a PDF proving tobacco leaders knew for decades that it caused cancer and saying what you did. The difference is the game he's playing (youtube) is similar to the game we're playing (startups) so the success is t
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
>I always love the "just hire A-players" line. As though startups are trying to hire mediocre people instead of having no choice. If a startup can't attract talent (a sign of bad traction), that startup probably is not tha
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
Lot of people critiquing this, but you can't deny the success. I think a lot of the advice is applicable to startups. 1. KPIs, for Beast they are CTR, AVD, AVP, will look different if you are a startup. I am willing to bet he knows his
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Is the College Startup Pipe Dream Dead?(rohan.ga)
2 points by ocean_moist 2y ago|2 comments
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
If your mental model does not include some form of making something people want and you are trying to create a startup which has the sole goal of getting people to use and pay for your product, I think you would have a hard time being succe
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
I chose Uber because the concept of getting into a strangers car was the first shift of thinking a startup did that came to mind. The rest I chose are examples from YC as they are the ones with phrase “Make something people want”. I think i
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
Yeah, perhaps I don’t want to use isomorphic as it sort of implies a universal quantifier. I think the relationship is weaker than isomorphism in retrospect. EDIT: On the other hand, all external stimuli changes the way we think, we are mea
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
I agree, it’s a bit of stretch. In my mind the mapping and inverse mapping were defined in these two paragraphs: “I think altering thinking at scale requires people wanting that thing, otherwise you wouldn’t get network effects and scaling
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Making things people want vs. making things that alter thinking(rohan.ga)
58 points by ocean_moist 2y ago|57 comments
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
Like I literally missed out on that time period, like how you could miss a class or meeting.
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
Yeah, I find myself redownloading it a lot though. I think I did finally just stop a few weeks ago, but I still have Instagram reels.
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
> I also think people's mentality has shifted and they no longer care about sharing their lives online. I tend to disagree. I have a few hundred friends/people I follow on Instagram and I see people post stories and posts about
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
> In the future people might think the same about Bitcoin In 2017 I thought I missed bitcoin, still managed to mine a meager amount on my parents computers. In the modern day I was proven wrong.
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
This is true. I am lucky to have learned as much as I have by this point. My Dad reminds me almost daily how lucky I am. There is something to be said about doing things "the hard way" and I think AI is, in the short term, going t
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
> There really are time periods that suck and some that don't. An interesting observation is that there are very few, if any Gen Z hackers or founders comparable to say Carmack or entrepreneurs like Zuckerberg. Virtually every tech
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
I generally like being born in 2006. Before iPad kids and such. We had the Wii and other nice things. I am also at the age where I can take advantage of the shift towards AI and related technological advancements. I talk about this in the s
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I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet(rohan.ga)
236 points by ocean_moist 2y ago|283 comments
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
The only way out for something like this to stay afloat is to be subsidized by a big tech company. $7,500 monthly is nothing to a large tech company. It sort of does makes sense for big companies to subsidize this so that the quality and am
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
As someone who drives a small somewhat sporty car I've almost died from a suburban mom in a Yukon or similar vehicle more than once. Also it is sad to see the disappearance of wagons from the US market. There is no better family car th
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
I wonder if booting the OpenBSD kernel would be faster. Although, the OpenBSD init system is notoriously slow. Also I feel (but don't know for sure) most of the time before executing the user space program would be spent by systemd.
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
> Especially in math. Math is a skill hierarchy, and if you cannot execute a lower-level skill consistently and accurately, you will not be able to build more advanced skills on top of it. To be frank, I am only a math hobbyist and stud
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
> If you jump at a large project but lack the fundamentals you are going to wasting energy on stuff you shouldn't be. "Wasting energy" in this case would be learning. This learning happens faster than following a tutorial
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
This isn't really my experience. I learnt ASM because I wanted to reverse engineer a C binary. I learnt kernel stuff because I needed to write a device driver. I learnt low level networking by writing an HTTP server in C. I learnt prog
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by ocean_moist 2y ago
Some credit needs to be given for just jumping in. Just analytically breaking down complex problems into pieces that are understandable. It's often faster to work top-down and turn unknown unknowns -> known unknowns -> known know

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