rebelos

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by rebelos 5y ago
> "frontload a big hedonistic experience before you start working/living as an adult" Absolutely shameful straw man.
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by rebelos 5y ago
It's a real shame that spending your youth fixated on money and a nebulous future retirement doesn't have a price tag attached to it. You can calculate the opportunity cost of a dollar spent vs a dollar invested, but you cannot so
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by rebelos 5y ago
A lot of people have a weird emotional fixation with "owning" a home when it really shouldn't matter at all. You're in finance, so you should understand opportunity cost and you should very easily be able to model out th
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by rebelos 5y ago
Huge exits of mature companies* I'm specifically asking about younger vintages, Series B (maybe C) or less.
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Ask HN: Bad time to be an early employee?
4 points by rebelos 5y ago|5 comments
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by rebelos 5y ago
And here I thought all the value was in a decentralized blockchain that's immune from government interference. /s
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by rebelos 5y ago
Hmm this comment was nuked. Probably one of the highest upvote counts but substantially far down the page. Guess I struck a nerve, perhaps with the very man himself, as he undoubtedly reviews anything here that involves him. Shadowy HN is m
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by rebelos 5y ago
Gates was a ruthless tyrant in his Microsoft days. He worked very hard to rehab his image after leaving. Work that might be completely undone if the nature of his alleged involvement with Epstein and the reprehensible things that may have e
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by rebelos 5y ago
True. I guess I'm considering his public image in the aggregate, excepting those occasional blunders.
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by rebelos 5y ago
I've always found the reports of his behind the scenes behavior and its stark contrast with his public persona to be incredibly disturbing, because it paints a picture of someone with psychopathic tendencies. I suspect there's som
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by rebelos 5y ago
One should ask (rhetorically) why these outlets seem to have an incel-like obsession with esoteric Big Tech stories when there are an abundance of more pressing and pertinent matters they could cover.
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by rebelos 5y ago
> it isn't clear what it means if anything What it indicates is what the Fed knows and has already signaled: monetary policy is going to be largely ineffectual in the near term.
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by rebelos 5y ago
"I don't know what to think when I meet engineers who know TCP/IP but don't quite understand how photons are transmitted over fiber." "I don't know what to think when I meet engineers who know UNIX but don
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by rebelos 5y ago
Spreadsheet model for inputting this data is far far superior. I don't think this flow is conducive to a web UI.
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by rebelos 5y ago
Ah my bad for the confusing wording on that. And yes agreed.
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by rebelos 5y ago
> I think you're right about this particular example. But that's because rebelos identified the wrong problem. I would identify a different gag as the problem -- Apple prohibits you from directing your customers to other paymen
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by rebelos 5y ago
Who said anything about a requirement? It suffices to make it illegal to prohibit disclosing the fee. Businesses can decide if they want to do so. The point is that this 'invisible rake' model is being exploited to nullify free ma
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by rebelos 5y ago
I strongly believe that Nintendo, Sony, & Xbox should also disclose their rake. However, it's also well understood that they take heavy losses on consoles that are made up on game margins. The same cannot be said for Google and App
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by rebelos 5y ago
I'm really hoping someone wakes up and realizes the problem is not the fees but that consumers don't know about them. Let the consumer be informed about Google and Apple's rake on all their in-app charges. The outrage will
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by rebelos 5y ago
Whether or not formal methods can be applied is almost entirely an economic decision since that kind of rigor drives up cost. Makes sense in certain high value systems when the organization wrapped around them has the resources or the level
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by rebelos 5y ago
A lot. Changes in policy cut the effective corporate tax rate down from ~40% around 1950 to where it is today. Lyn Alden covered this in an excellent post: https://www.lynalden.com/tax-shift/ .
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by rebelos 5y ago
This is by the far the most succinct way to debunk the OP's misguided thinking. There is simply no way to argue that what Thiel et al have done was an intended use of the Roth IRA account. Any attempt to advance some form of that argum
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by rebelos 5y ago
Almost nothing will beat WaPo's comprehensive collection of stats and visuals in response to the police shootings brouhaha [1] that told you just about everything except the most relevant detail: a total of just 38 unarmed Black people
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by rebelos 5y ago
The exchange itself holds a fluctuating amount of Bitcoin and then updates entries in its own database when transfers occur between exchange participants to reflect a change in ownership. These constitute the vast majority of transactions t
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by rebelos 5y ago
Understood. Just so you know: > someone took enough of an exception to me writing here that (COVID) masks are trivial trivial: "of little value or importance"
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by rebelos 5y ago
Masks are not yet "trivial" and it's stupid to argue otherwise. You don't need anything other than logic to see why: a great number of people in the US and elsewhere remain unvaccinated. And relying on the honor system t
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by rebelos 5y ago
> For me, I find that learning new languages with different paradigms helps me to learn new ways of thinking that make me stronger in my real work. I don't disagree that this is possible. My argument is that it's a needlessly c
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by rebelos 5y ago
It's incredibly reassuring to hear that he's this scared. Now we know we're getting somewhere. I'd recommend listening to the latest All-In podcast. Excellent discussion about how antitrust regulations aren't flexib
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by rebelos 5y ago
There was never any need to scale it at the protocol level. The overwhelming majority of Bitcoin transfers presently happen off-chain, within exchanges. Very few people seem to understand this.
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by rebelos 5y ago
The returns to knowing more than 2 or 3 languages diminish greatly and your time would be better spent acquiring knowledge elsewhere (product, architecture, infra, monitoring, testing, security, etc). I also don't see much of a point i

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