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by sp527 8y ago
Okay. The medium post is written by 'SuperCrypto' and begins with this disclaimer: > As many people are reading this, I would like to remind all — Please take this as an opinion only I'm going to go ahead and not even both
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by sp527 8y ago
> I don’t know why people are still surprised by this. There are a lot of people in powerful places that want Bitcoin to fail and die. Futures markets introduced a regulated way for them to make that happen. Do you have anything at all t
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by sp527 8y ago
These think pieces are meant to reinforce Altman's image as a tech industry theorist a la pg. It's really just advertising. But he's not nearly as good at it as pg was.
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by sp527 8y ago
On the flip side, I can't think of a single time an employer has questioned my complete lack of a public profile. For every discriminating company that thinks a saturated GitHub and routine Medium posts are meaningful heuristics, there
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Is it weird that I use most of this stack already but still thought the repo was an attempt at satire? I feel like this experience has left me questioning everything I think I know.
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by sp527 8y ago
Assuming you already have a fairly well-defined set of values and a personal philosophy, the next most useful genre by far is psychology. It's not even a close contest. As for self-help/attitude improvement, it's only useless
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by sp527 8y ago
Haha never got the $10 personally but I’m familiar with the rationale (from Thiel/Hoffman). So in this particular case I’m less concerned about seeding as I am about viral coefficient and viral cycle time. I’m not seeing the metrics I
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Ask HN: Strategies to Catalyze Social Invites?
1 points by sp527 8y ago|2 comments
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by sp527 8y ago
This answer belies the reality that the knowledge needed to conduct actual data science, short of genuine R&D (which is itself at best 10% of data science positions, if that), can be acquired by a sufficiently intelligent person within
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by sp527 8y ago
Rank of the college matters in my opinion. It's unfortunate but it does create opportunities. High-ranked public universities are often really great, but usually comparable in total cost to private ones (with savings for being in-state
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by sp527 8y ago
I'm not sure if you're being serious here. The bulk of available tuition assistance comes from financial aid, which usually isn't offered to families at or above roughly upper middle. I also assume you'd only go to a pri
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Legacy is terrifically important to many wealthy people. Many are in fact motivated towards wealth and success because of it. Depending on how you define it, children are actually a much more reliable way to have a reasonably enduring legac
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by sp527 8y ago
This model tends to work well at the upper end of the price range/credential spectrum. Various kinds of investment firms (particularly PE) incorporate 'expert calls' as a core component of their scoping process. Harder to mak
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by sp527 8y ago
I have to wonder if there's a dip around the upper middle/lower upper who, because of price discrimination on college costs and such must still be conservative, that then reverses course for the mid to upper upper, who have wealth
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by sp527 8y ago
It's weird to call these "unintended consequences." What we know about human behavior definitively indicates that having a sense of autonomy and control is essential to motivation/performance. It's also obvious that
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by sp527 8y ago
I worked at a Peter Thiel cult. In no uncertain terms: you don’t want to work at a Peter Thiel cult.
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Ask HN: Why do people assume UBI will work?
2 points by sp527 8y ago|3 comments
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Why hasn't Canonical hired a designer to modernize the UI? Surely they can afford it. Is it a point of pride for it to remain outdated? I guess that's a feature from the POV of the primary Ubuntu target demo?
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by sp527 8y ago
This should honestly be the top-voted answer. The standard palette of cargo cult options are at best a weak proxy for real-world experience. But Kleppman's book is genuinely and outstandingly useful for understanding the various compon
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by sp527 8y ago
I don't consider the present highly problematic, though it is imperfect. The problem is the relatively imminent (next 50-100 years) reality of nearly complete human obsolescence. That's when you'll see societal degradation at
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by sp527 8y ago
Hmm this comment is getting downvoted, so I'll just reference the Red Cross fiasco as one good example of what I mean: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-fin... . If you haven&#
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by sp527 8y ago
You're right that "entitled" is a bit strong and it was quite perceptive of you to point that out. That word choice was born out of my personal frustration at how many developers either get shorted in negotiations or never ev
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by sp527 8y ago
Interesting perspective. I share your pessimism about corporations and governments. But sadly I think government is the only institution with the necessary leverage (tax base, mandate, etc) to accomplish this. Non-profits are also fairly du
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by sp527 8y ago
I've been using JS in Google Sheets, so this is a welcome addition. Honestly, assuming you're already a software engineer, JS functions basically enable you to be a wizard in Excel. Haven't even been at it that long and I&#x2
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by sp527 8y ago
The technology promises "wealth and leisure for all". The capital owners promise "it'll trickle down". Technical utopianists need to start tempering their optimism with the realities of human nature and design syste
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He probably means a lot of things, but close to the top might be "bill for the project instead of time spent". If you bill by units of time, you will like under-exploit the information and skill asymmetry between yourself and the
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by sp527 8y ago
When they say “anonymized”, they still mean tailored targeting right (probably by hashing)? Not statistical aggregates?
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> But RDMS systems are just another monolith — failing to scale well and they don’t support the idea of organically evolving agile systems. What the hell does this mean? Completely unsubstantiated nonsense. Hardly anyone needs to scale P
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Unfortunately, the economic argument to help poor people is extremely adverse in the Bay Area. It’s easy to see why: the opportunity cost of providing housing to someone who has low marginal economic value is much higher in the Bay Area tha
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I think this should be rephrased as: the disagreement is entirely over what happens when you introduce humans (and, even more specifically, human behavior). The math is theoretically sound. Anyone disagreeing with that is a fool. A good exa

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