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by sp527 8y ago
While this is pretty sketchy, I DO like the design principle of ephemeral subsystems. It just makes sense to assume a service can go down at any time for any reason, from its conception, and bake that into how it's built. You could arg
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It's one-half of 'Silicon Beach'. Google LA and Snap HQ are here plus a ton of other tech companies. If you don't want to live in SF or NYC, then it's probably the next one down the list worth considering.
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Your caloric intake is dangerously low (assuming you're a dude). That's what's slowing down your metabolism. There's tons of research on this. Also, your goal should be to put on lean mass and reduce your bodyfat percent
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I'm intentionally delaying marriage and kids partly for this reason. I think it's important to not feel like too much is left on the table before settling down. I'm 27 now and not planning to have kids until 35 at the earlies
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Protip: Strongly consider moving to Venice Beach, CA or similar. If you're trying to escape the Manhattan grind (would strongly advise) and revamp your life to focus on happiness, there are few better places I can think of.
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It absolutely is a "shady way to keep you using the app", in addition to a whole host of other subtle things you wouldn't even notice. My intern project one summer was a (failed, thankfully) experiment with one of the darkest
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> We as a society need to start thinking about how we rate people. Right now we all shop for that 5-star rating and punish anyone with 4. We need to mature beyond that as it grows increasingly impossible to maintain perfect ratings. I co
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by sp527 8y ago
Probably a more useful commentary on the enduringly persuasive effect of emphasizing an association with Stanford.
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They have access to investment opportunities with a higher expected return and they are therefore rebalancing capital. Spotify is now a large, public company with attendant growth expectations. Most substantial corporations can allocate cap
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That's the misconception. AGI is very unlikely to happen in our lifetimes due to prohibitive physical limits. But you don't need AGI to disenfranchise more or less 90+% of humans. I find smarter people tend to broadly overestimate
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What I really want to read about is why otherwise intelligent people lazily default to pattern matching when changing facts suggest they should change their mind.
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There are no good deals in a swollen economy. Sitting on cash is what you do until there's a downturn.
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My role evolved in that direction, mostly because I was okay with it. Other roles can be designed to be cross-functional from the beginning. Generally it's a useful application of engineering time if it's a high-leverage situation
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Can report from the trenches of a major software consulting firm: putting a sharp engineer who's even reasonably good at communicating in front of the C-suite is 5-20x more effective than using someone with an MBA.
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This is sort of a question independent of that. The enthusiastic praise reeks of a potential conflict and I was hoping someone might have dug into it already. And Coinbase is far from spotless. They have a track record of doing sh*tty thing
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Why is this guy shilling so hard for Coinbase? Is there a conflict of interest disclaimer I missed in this post?
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I feel like you just reinforced the parent's point? In a distorted macroeconomic environment (as has been the case for a decade plus in the US), banks are generally loathe to have false negatives, which makes a loan denial a fairly str
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> The thing that keeps me up at night is not scalability, it is user adoption beyond the use cases which Bitcoin already successfully fulfills. This felt like the canary in the coal mine that the anarchist crowd has wholesale ignored for
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You don't need to get on pmarca's radar. The point is that there are tertiary personalities, who are much more accessible, that can bootstrap you to the higher social tiers. If you're serious about it, it just takes concerted
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Yes. The secret is to find a few well-networked people and then get invited to gatherings/parties in the homes of said people. You'd be shocked at both how connected all of the important and wealthy people in SF are and how much b
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Happiness is exactly the opposite. It's realizing that nothing external or material can leave you perfectly content for any length of time because that violates what it is to be human. Happiness is a choice you make and a mindset you a
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Your ego will tell you your character cannot be meaningfully altered by the people around you. Your ego is a liar.
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You should name the company, assuming there are no legal barriers to doing so. How can we possibly fight back against abuse if we default to anonymizing the perpetrators out of fear?
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What's sad is, at this point in my life, I accept that politicians are psychologically unstable just as a matter of course. Politics has a very natural selection bias. Philosophically, I'm of the opinion that the best leaders tend
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< SF needs its own Rudy Giuliani and its own Broken Windows policy[1]. New Yorker here. You want the pre-lunacy Giuliani. Just thought it's worth clarifying.
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Yea those products are frustratingly limited. You're basically just rolling the dice on near-term price drivers you can't predict (mostly news).
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Ask HN: Is there a way to structure a 5+ year short on crypto?
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I think he's right. There are so many features you can use to profile and de-anonymize a user, even if you're not running the servers. People generally don't seem to appreciate the relationship between marginal information an
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No such thing as bad publicity. I'm listening to Pusha T even as I write this.
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Or maybe it's that crypto is the most notorious economic and technological development of the past decade and they are collectively (and rightfully) considered experts in those domains? And have you entertained the possibility that the

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