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by sbuccini 4y ago
"The Making of Modern Ukraine" by Timothy Snyder: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz... As Prof. Snyder mentions in his introductory lecture, it is kind of wild that there are zero other
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by sbuccini 4y ago
I think this is one of the best ways to get to know a city. I did a similar survey of the most popular cheeseburgers in SF a few years back and it was a blast spending an afternoon exploring a new neighborhood after a great lunch. Black San
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Can we change the link to the official blog post, which has more details? https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/spyware-vendors-us...
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Matt Levine, as always, has a good primer: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-09/crypto...
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US National Cybersecurity Strategy [pdf](whitehouse.gov)
34 points by sbuccini 4y ago|4 comments
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Great folks! Highly recommend!
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by sbuccini 4y ago
If I had to guess, it has to do with trademark protection. I went down this rabbit hole when trying to figure out why certain famous buildings were missing from the Spider-Man video game: https://stevenbuccini.com/why-1wtc-i
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by sbuccini 4y ago
A bit off-topic, but curious to hear if anyone has thoughts on DC vs. Baltimore.
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Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future(newyorker.com)
3 points by sbuccini 4y ago|0 comments
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by sbuccini 4y ago
I would strongly encourage you to take the full ride. This is coming from someone who was in a similar situation to you decided to the Tier 1 route. As another commenter noted, it really depends on what you hope to achieve in your career, b
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by sbuccini 4y ago
More recently, the course was called "Drugs and the Brain". It was intended as a survey course so maybe slightly different topics than the one linked here.
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by sbuccini 4y ago
See also “NC Tomato Man”: https://www.craiglehoullier.com/
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Thanks to the author for taking the time to write this up. I think it is a fairly realistic description of what the process is like for an engineer who has spent several years working in Silicon Valley at a well-known company. The key takea
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by sbuccini 4y ago
I am 1000% correct. Go look at Affirm’s Q1 2023 earnings supplement, slide 14. Average MDR is actually closer to 5-7%, 0% is closer to 12.5%
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by sbuccini 4y ago
When done correctly, the underwriting is actually significantly better as it's done on a per-transaction basis, incorporating the item itself (ring purchases are significantly more risky to finance than sneaker purchases). You can also
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Your claims are not true for several reasons: - Whenever you see a BNPL offer for 0% it means the merchant is paying the interest on behalf of the consumer. The merchants are in charge of making that decision, not Affirm. Affirm earns int
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by sbuccini 4y ago
I posted this before, will post again: This article is so weak. It doesn't provide any actual reasons for why BNPL is a bubble nor why such a supposed bubble is about to burst. Seriously quotes TikTokers who are probably just paid shil
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by sbuccini 4y ago
This is very interesting. I had never heard of the C4 model before and will be using it going forward. I'm skeptical that the current solution will be completely immune from doc rot but it certainly seems like there should be some way
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Actually they don't. The Harvard economist quoted in the article states that most BNPL users don't have or don't use a credit card.
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by sbuccini 4y ago
This article is so weak. It doesn't provide any actual reasons for why BNPL is a bubble nor why such a supposed bubble is about to burst. Seriously quotes TikTokers who are probably just paid shills for the company. There are real issu
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Couple of potential ideas off the top of my head: - continued rise in remote jobs means larger percentage reports from lower cost-of-living areas, pulling down the average. - pull-back in tech markets reduces the dollar-denominated equity p
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Tell HN: CDMX meetup today, DEC 30
2 points by sbuccini 4y ago|0 comments
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by sbuccini 4y ago
The connotations I had in mind (although I obviously cannot be sure what the recruiter thought): - what mgkimsal said - "This employee is applying to really big companies. I'm not sure they know what they are really looking for.
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by sbuccini 4y ago
My personal opinion is that the crunch will hit towards the end of Q1 2023. My thinking. 1. VC market was frozen towards end of 2022. VCs will point to seasonality; my guess is they were waiting for valuations to stabilize. 2. 2023 headco
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Hey, author here. I get it, trust me. This post meant to encapsulate my feelings during the one year I spent unemployed. During that entire time, I was alone. I had a falling out with my parents. I moved to a foreign country where I knew no
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Just curious, what do you define as an _okay_ job? Would you be willing to pay the opportunity cost to take it? For what it's worth, I thought the same. I applied to over 50 companies and not all of them were FAANG by any stretch of th
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Hey everyone, author here. Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I decided to spend Christmas break in CDMX[0] by myself in order to reflect not only on the past year, but just how far I've come since I got laid off. This is th
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by sbuccini 4y ago
My main issue with these types of articles is that "tech workers" != SWEs. Of the people profiled in this article: - 1 videographer - 1 "systems engineer" (not sure what this means, but doesn't seem like it involves
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Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job(stevenbuccini.com)
1012 points by sbuccini 4y ago|570 comments
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by sbuccini 4y ago
Can I come visit? I would love to hear what running a coffee plantation is like, especially in Colombia.

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