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by psyc 5y ago
Not counting things that could easily be perceptual glitches or false memories (those are fun), only once. I had a sudden premonition, based on nothing, that something really bad had happened to my best friend. It was so strong I spent the
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by psyc 5y ago
"Why don't we just make 10 better and make 10 be the last number and make that a little better?" "Theirs goes to 11."
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by psyc 5y ago
Based on what valuation? Sell them to who? It was a privately owned company. I doubt I'd have been able to persuade the founder to buy my stake considering I'd signed a thing that said I get nothing if I quit before they exit.
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by psyc 5y ago
It was stated in writing as 1% of shares at exit time, not as a number of shares. Again, I'm clueless about options. But this was way outside of silicon valley and among people who couldn't care less how things are done there. For
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by psyc 5y ago
There was no vesting in this case. The shares were explicitly conditional on current employment when they became eligible to be exercised. Mind you I'm next to clueless about options, but I remember that language being in whatever I si
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by psyc 5y ago
I took a job as employee #5 of a startup, in 2002. $50k per year and 1% of the company. I thought cool all we need to do is sell for like $100 and something million and I’ll be a millionaire, as we all agree is my birthright as a software d
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by psyc 5y ago
I agree with them on most issues. I appreciate them raising and theorizing about their more fringe issues. What I don't appreciate are their tactics and aggressive enforcement.
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by psyc 5y ago
Only a few years ago it was still acceptable, even in very trans-friendly places, for cis people to have a generalized preference for dating / having sex with cis people. Now the position has shifted and it’s much more likely than befo
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by psyc 5y ago
I buy this. First major quasi-physical metaverse with conservation of matter.
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by psyc 5y ago
I can think of one powerfully compelling reason: wishful thinking.
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by psyc 5y ago
It never bothered me. This new deal won’t bother me either. Apparently other people have an awful lot to say about it though.
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by psyc 5y ago
What country do you live in? I'm in the U.S. and they just sent me a polite letter.
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by psyc 5y ago
Whoever contributed $9,000 is generous in more ways than one. They magnanimously left it to someone else to be the first to contribute over 9000, when they could have easily claimed it themselves.
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by psyc 5y ago
I had a teacher a long time ago who was full of questionable wisdom for us 9th graders. My favorite was, "If you're not sure of your position, you should probably.. er.. um.. state it more strongly. I mean, STATE IT MORE STRONGLY!
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by psyc 5y ago
Keep an eye out for faceless people convulsing in your peripheral vision. If you don't see any, you're probably good.
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by psyc 5y ago
I had exactly this happen once in a regular MD’s office, but he was reading to me from literally the Wikipedia article on carpal tunnel, on a Chromebook. Actually Wikipedia.
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by psyc 5y ago
I lived in Seattle from 2005 to 2018. By the time I left, the combination of all the tent cities, uniformed private security everywhere, metal detector lines in the ER, and at least 3 tech giants absolutely had me feeling like I was in a dy
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by psyc 5y ago
No. I think I have always been more or less equally interested in both.
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by psyc 5y ago
I actually made it through the first 4 or maybe 5 seasons, and was pretty bored and underwhelmed the whole time. I found all of the characters except Amos and Bobbie flat and (unintentionally) off-putting. Unless I'm missing something,
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by psyc 5y ago
I'm in my mid 40s, and started programming for fun / challenge 35 years ago. For the first time in my life, my answer would seem to be no, I'm not. I'm not sure exactly why. Some form of long-term burnout perhaps. Workin
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by psyc 5y ago
Not writing style. The way he thinks. "Where he's coming from." Some of what his values and worldview are, etc.
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by psyc 5y ago
My brain autocompleted to this the moment I read the title.
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by psyc 5y ago
Whether something is poison is relatively objective. Whether something is disinformation or lies is often a matter of perspective or too difficult to determine. Furthermore, the control of information is about power and manipulation just as
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by psyc 5y ago
This sounds like a great example of where Reddit would be 100x more useful than Google's version of the web. There's no doubt in my mind that Google tries really hard to Disneyfy the web, unless you push it really hard not to.
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by psyc 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30606491
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by psyc 5y ago
But who can give the best names to big numbers? Probably Jonathan Bowers. https://googology.fandom.com/wiki/Jonathan_Bowers http://www.polytope.net/hedrondude/scrapers.htm
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by psyc 5y ago
1. Some kind of relationship with Epstein 2. Divorce 3. Melinda hinting that 1. had something to do with 2.
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by psyc 5y ago
Let's see if I can get to 11: 1. fire in a crowded theater 2. freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences 3. correlation != causation 4. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence 5. your right to swing your fist en
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by psyc 5y ago
This seems like a riff on Proverbs: "Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues."
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by psyc 5y ago
If anything, I find this forum - perhaps by way of overcompensation - fetishizes luck and privilege (very fashionable concept) to an alarming degree. Name a biography of a notable person, whose primary theme is how lucky that person was and

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