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by sergefaguet 8y ago
now i notice all the other comments here are about the same thing :)
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
i feel a bit confused about this "disorder." i spend hundreds of hours a year meditating to get rid of my sense of self. it is the best thing about the LSD experience too. the idea that one is not in control of one's own acti
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
and they will still choose them. on material things like terms and governance, as smart companies do. not on irrelevant things like this Khashoggi story.
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
this does not change in any way my willingness to take money from softbank. they are an investor in my current company and i will be delighted to take them in the next. i am really not sure why anyone would consider the interests of their c
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
All this discussion automatically assumes that inequality is bad and equality is good. This is a subjective opinion. One that does not get nearly enough questioning nowadays. I would argue that what is good is the presence of happiness and
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
thank you. this made my internet today.
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
oh very serious :) i blog about a lot of stuff around how i organize my life here: https://hackernoon.com/biohack-your-intelligence-now-or-beco... haven't yet written about location changing specifically but will at so
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
thankfully the world does not support your view that it is the warehouse workers and customers, and not the entrepreneurs, who create wealth. kind of surprised you are on YC/HN if that is what you believe...
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
one can be a tax resident of monaco for 0% tax. or give up the israeli passport for something else. it is easy to acquire new passports. plus at some point it becomes taxation-without-representation and has to be fought more overtly by brin
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
well i don't agree that i am "enjoying the benefits provided by society while dodging paying for it through taxes." i think people who create wealth pay for society already. i am thinking of working on my message, but i'
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
very positive. he is building value for society by: - bringing cheaper great products to vast numbers of people - building AWS infrastructure that enables other people to build products cheaper and faster - creating huge number of jobs (th
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
this is me: http://medium.com/@sergefaguet/ YC alum so pretty sure this is not a fake HN ID :) i wish people didn't see this stuff as Bond villainy though. this is clearly a failure on my part in terms of communic
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
i pay my way, create jobs for people, fund/promote things i consider valuable for humanity (e.g. medical tech). i have never claimed a medical, educational, unemployment etc. benefit in my life. and i am a citizen of a country that wil
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
it has its challenges, but also lots of upsides. have to train self to be very good with habits, investing in relationships and the like. i've been doing it for the last 2 years and at first it was kind of depressing but now have never
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
hah. i do believe every word of it.
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
a lot of the article is focused on how to do deep work without getting exhausted. feels like that is a valuable skill to invest in.
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
Governments should be competing for wealthy taxpayers. And as income sources become divorced from physical locations, they will be forced to do so more and more every year. I run venture backed businesses. Teams are distributed. So I count
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
lol. it is not satire. the claps are just a reflection of that a lot of people consider this a good life strategy.
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
the article highlights very avoidable problems. i have lived completely remotely for the last 2 years – hotels, different countries etc., have not spend over 60 days in a single location at a time. i think it is amazing once you know how to
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
another major part of the problem is the entitled, defocused employee culture in silicon valley. generated by the fact that crazy talent competition ensures employees have a huge safety net in the form of big tech. i raise capital in silico
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
and while this opioid shit is legal, psilocybin and LSD are not. why should i have any respect for the legal system again? as opposed to seeing it as a dumb bully with no moral authority?
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by sergefaguet 8y ago
and look at how much their egalitarian society achieved over the hundred thousand years that it has existed. inequality is how evolution works. something becomes better and dominates. then the next iteration comes, and the next. having a so
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
how about quit all news media including the New York Times? NYT = same exact incentives as Facebook. plus constant exaggeration of threats and pushing irrelevant stuff outside of your control. i honestly don't give a fuck what Kim Jong
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
i'm the author, happy to answer any questions around this :)
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
This is good. Not nearly enough but good. Certain things - MDMA, LSD, GHB - should be legal and regulated. They are all things that have the potential to make lives of many people significantly better. They certainly made mine better. Drugs
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
well you can use it without the keyboard, or with an iMessage app if you are on iOS. unfortunately full access is the only way to make image pasting work. Bitmoji and all other apps that utilize this mechanic do the same thing. For what it&
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
definitely. we think doing this with emoji first is much better than going after VR first. this is where the market (and the data) is today. and that will help build the applications of tomorrow like VR.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
yep, doing this.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
Facebook are clearly a very smart and capable team that is very interested in this exact area. So yes, they are competition. But it is a classic case of that for a large company it is hard to execute on many priorities at once and dedicate
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
awesome :) really happy you liked it!! thanks a lot for the feedback!

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