practicalpants

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by practicalpants 5y ago
Always in awe to read about assemblies of great minds like at Princeton's IAS. Does another such assembly exist today? I don't think it does but want to know if others can point to one. Did it happen then because the discoveries w
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by practicalpants 6y ago
> 4. Every developer in the world wakes up thinking “I should build a to-do list app” and people love jumping between productivity apps and workflows. There is no moat in productivity—avoid it if you can. This was the elephant in the roo
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by practicalpants 6y ago
When it comes to having control over a society I don't think some of these powerful groups care about wiping out a few billion. See covid-19 extended economy shut downs.
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by practicalpants 6y ago
I disagree with the "only", yes if a capital-intensive takeover happened they cannot take your bitcoins from your wallet, but they can still straight up destroy bitcoin or quietly enrich select parties through double spends as btc
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by practicalpants 6y ago
You kind of can, up to like seed level anyways. I think the real 50x engineer is a person who is a strong engineer, also does design, innovates, and can build a business like a CEO. That person could actually bring 50x value to a small org.
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Not saying Bitcoin is worse just that its vulnerable... Since we don't know for sure who controls what hash power, it's even possible that quiet manipulation already takes place. On brighter side blockchain projects that require m
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by practicalpants 6y ago
I already know it doesn't bring up China's global fishing flotillas, who overfished China so roam the world stripping other coastlines, even protected areas like the Galapagos. One of the top reason for overfishing today. Or does
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Fyi Bitcoin can be manipulated and your wealth effectively redistributed if more than 51% of miner nodes act adversarially. (By some calculations it's only 1/3 required). If entities with billions want to hack bitcoin they theoret
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by practicalpants 6y ago
The idea of it being wrong to have a "my country first" government is a pretty unusual one, because the alternative is having prosperity fleeced by rivals. It's like a tech company saying they aren't going to compete any
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Circa 2014 I was out of college and very intent on getting into YC for mostly the wrong reasons - which were credentialism and thinking it meant you "made it". Eventually went through another accelerator, and wasted a year+ when I
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by practicalpants 6y ago
I thought you were joking until I read the article. That's not a thing I've ever seen in Austin's culture, indeed a transplant.
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by practicalpants 6y ago
By "leadership class" you mean the professional front group that serves the ruling class.
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Slightly tangential but Germany's neighbor, maybe the most interesting historical counter factual I know of is the United States of Austria [1]. This was an actual plan of the Habsburgs/Franz Ferdinand until he was assassinated. A
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Worth noting they've also adopted whales, belugas, sloths, falcons, and probably a lot of other animals I didn't notice when scrolling the past few days.
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Process question: What specifically would you do to get early customers or to market the mvp? How did this change over the 25 attempts? What was your criteria for "this one has failed let's do another one"?
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Rails + Heroku circa 2011... I became a professional web developer and launched a startup mainly because of these technologies, so quick and easy. Yes, with Uber and equivalents around the world, I have zero reason to own a car. My driver&#
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Charging based on regenerative breaking would probably give a far greater amount of energy than this solar panel approach.
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Not sure why so downvoted. I recall a psychedelics advocate/former Vice reporter on the Joe Rogan podcast couple years back who warned how his good friend had a schizophrenic break after doing shrooms. Likely some medical pre-dispositi
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by practicalpants 6y ago
I'm enjoying digging into this. One minor thing, I'm not sure you want to quote Bill Gates as a definitive source of information on electric vehicles. For example, Elon Musk has publicly called Gates an idiot about his comments on
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Yep, for my first programming job out of college a recruiter arranged an onsite interview for a Java role, when I was under every impression it was for Ruby/Rails. I don't know Java. The first interviewer laughed and walked out. I
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by practicalpants 6y ago
People in other parts of the world are not in your timezone fyi.
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by practicalpants 6y ago
I wish Coinbase would support more cryptos or allow storage of ERC-20 tokens so people would be more encouraged to spin up ETH projects. Feels like Coinbase is trying to be the big corporate face of crypto, kind of going against the spirit
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by practicalpants 6y ago
Sorry, I won't belabour the point further, but I guess the point is the client's corporate tax exposure in the country would have to be assessed client-by-client how using employee/contractor. At any rate thanks for respond
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by practicalpants 6y ago
> we offer plug and play, which is an outsourcing of the contractor, and Ontop hires them Would just be careful, if the client is still the economic employer that's still a PE trigger, under countries that follow OECD model anyways.
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by practicalpants 6y ago
How do you all deal with permanent establishment? Especially with renewed focus in BEPS and all that... e.g. substantive work as employee or agent in another country means proportional corp taxes
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by practicalpants 6y ago
This is a good point and I'm hard pressed to think of anything, but maybe concrete? It's actually very environmentally friendly, it just makes up like 30-50% of all things produced on earth so sums to a large CO2 footprint.
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by practicalpants 11y ago
Any city in particular you'd recommend in Vietnam for cafe workers? I might be heading that way soon.
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by practicalpants 11y ago
I'm not disputing Tokyo is full of Starbucks. Judge me if you want but I just won't work from Starbucks. (For the record, the Starbucks at Daikanyama in the T-Complex is actually very cool and is worth a mention; didn't like
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by practicalpants 11y ago
Just left after 3 months there, and struggled to find places to work from that aren't Starbucks, few and far between. I frequented a couple Jingumae spots like the Roastery and Suzu Cafe, Mellow Brown in Jiyugauka, Fuglen in Yoyogi, an
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by practicalpants 11y ago
I wasn't even asked to show my ID the last time I flew domestically in Japan.

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