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by pxue 4y ago
That's honestly sounds wonderful. Cynics going to say you won't have any privacy etc etc but I really like the sound of it. Now I just need money to get a house in HCOL area where most of my friends are...
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by pxue 4y ago
Who sets the rates on Toptal? I was going to use lemon.io but they cap out at $100usd an hour. Not worth my time.
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by pxue 4y ago
Probably for a good reason? I was browsing thru their AI responsibilities page and was pleasantly surprised how comprehensive and well thought out it is. Not sure if OpenAI and with the release of chatgpt has fully implemented their own cal
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Tell HN: Airbnb has no system in place when a host cancels on a renter
229 points by pxue 4y ago|146 comments
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by pxue 4y ago
Do things that don't scale is really an absolute truth. If you can use Excel spreadsheet or Google form to build your product. Do it for your first 100 users. Obviously if you're in deep tech then this doesn't apply. But with
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by pxue 4y ago
exactly. covid basically ushered in "globalization" for skilled (or even unskilled) workers. now I'm much more open to think hiring 50% of my dev teams in places like Estonia or Mexico compare to just 5 years ago.
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by pxue 4y ago
Supply is artificially controlled by voters who don't want density to increase, masked behind preservations, environmental concerns or just plain corruption
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by pxue 4y ago
Just use stripe... Don't keep 400k cash in stripe, the merchant account is not a damn bank.
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by pxue 4y ago
Neovim and the whole Lua plugin ecosystem. It's so so good. Been using vim for 10 years+, converted configs to Lua and modulized everything. Amazing rework on a piece of technology as old as computers.
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by pxue 4y ago
wonder if there is a cologne / perfume version of this smell
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by pxue 4y ago
help me build my business as an mentor/advisor? Not kidding here.
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by pxue 4y ago
OP I'm in the exact boat. I'm in my 30s, been in startups for the entire time. Although I'm a go getter and very resourceful individual, I feel like I've made every single mistake that may have been avoided if I talked t
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by pxue 4y ago
ads market will always be a cat/mouse game, a wild goose chase. you'll never be able to kill it fully. > the people making the good content don't do it for the money citation needed. there're two driving forces: - mon
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by pxue 4y ago
the only fix is to "pay what you can for good content" Free means we the users become the commodity.
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by pxue 4y ago
Agree completely with this. There's really only two driving forces in online creative activities: 1) money 2) clout RSS is a terrible medium for both.
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by pxue 4y ago
The beta chimps are the shareholders and the board.
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by pxue 4y ago
I'll add an unsolicited neutral third party voice in here. Bad settings make good people do bad things. Crypto made her and sbf make many small dumb decisions which added up to a huge dumb decision.
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by pxue 4y ago
Lots of their code is in Go
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by pxue 4y ago
On your last paragraph that's how human raised kids for the first 10k+ years. In small groups of multigenerational settings. Only in the last 100 (maybe even less, say 60) or so years we've started to say fk that, when I retire I
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by pxue 4y ago
You're precisely talking about the impossible trilemma.
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by pxue 4y ago
the gold standard was abolished to due it's volitile nature, compared to stability of a fiat like the USD. Bitcoin being a volitile commodity itself, it will not be able to run the global economy on-top of it.
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by pxue 4y ago
Toronto DEVS SEEKING CONTRACT WORK Go, React/JS, Devops, Data warehouse We're darn good at getting your web app up from idea to launch. Full detail: https://spacestation.github.io/ - We're a team of 3 full-st
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by pxue 4y ago
Have rich parents and a trust fund that takes care of your day to day money problem.
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by pxue 4y ago
there's clear case of defrauding investors AND creditors. that's more than $2B + $8B disappeared into the void.
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by pxue 4y ago
That make sense then. In north America more than half of the games are on the road hundreds of miles away. Typically it's the home crowd that shows up.
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by pxue 4y ago
Do you typically have opposing teams in a stadium in EU/UK? In NA it's typically all home team crowd, either you're all happy together celebrating the win or all sad together mourning a loss.
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by pxue 4y ago
Just waiting for the day when the robot decides we are also a weed.
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by pxue 4y ago
Alameda got called by their creditors on their loans because cz of binance have been slowly liquidating FTX position for the past year and half. Market paniced when alameda attempted to buy all remaining FTX from Binance, at $22. Probably b
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by pxue 4y ago
sure, no forced sterilization. just nation level apathy on child mortality in lower class citizens.
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by pxue 4y ago
carving out alone time is absolutely the most important part of having a healthy balanced energy level. we're so connected now, being full on extrovert might mean we're spending 16h+ a day engaged with other people, giving away ou

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