ccortes

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by ccortes 16d ago
Location:MX Remote:Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Mostly Clojure and TS but I have the most fun working with functional languages Résumé/CV: cuaucortes.com Email: me at cuaucortes.com Two times funder with one exit, looking
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by ccortes 2mo ago
> How can people in Hacker News still doubt AI's benefit Because what many of us are seeing is meaningless “productivity” improvements. If at the end of the day you don’t have more users paying for your product or the same users and
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by ccortes 4mo ago
Bad argument. All countries have laws yet criminality rates varies a lot from country to country. It’s all about the culture.
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by ccortes 5mo ago
There’s a huge difference between “doing more of X” and “doing only X” For someone arguing that “coding is conveying logic” seems like you need a refresher on propositional logic
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by ccortes 5mo ago
Maybe it’s not a given, but it is part of the sales pitch for CEOs. A few others have announced layoffs due to AI being better and more efficient than humans. How much truth there is to it we don’t know for sure. But it’s not something to b
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by ccortes 7mo ago
> in the long run those businesses fall to leaner competitors This is not true at all. You can find plenty of examples going either way but it’s far from truth from being a universal reality
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by ccortes 7mo ago
> It was comparing to a hypothetical world where everything is perfectly organized, everyone is perfectly behaved, everything is perfectly ordered, and therefore we don't have to have certain jobs that only exist to counter other im
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by ccortes 8mo ago
People here seem to be conflating thinking hard and thinking a lot. Most examples mentioned of “thinking hard” in the comments sound like they think about a lot of stuff superficially instead one particular problem deeply, which is what OP
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by ccortes 9mo ago
Oh wow, is that what you got from this? It seems more like a non experienced guy asked the LLM to implement something and the LLM just output what and experienced guy did before, and it even gave him the credit
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by ccortes 10mo ago
> then you're doing the opposite of what the author proposes No, it’s exactly what the author is writing about. Just check his example, it’s pretty clear what he means by “thinking in math” > Scientific conensus in math is Occam&
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by ccortes 10mo ago
I really want to get into ocaml but the syntax is sooo ugly I feel like you need a great IDE set up to be able to be productive with it.
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by ccortes 11mo ago
> In this article, being "functional" is just serving as a proxy for code quality. It is not, it is being very specific about what it means and what it is referring to
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by ccortes 11mo ago
> It doesn’t really matter why it’s not working. It does, because it changes the strategy. If you think the ads are working and have 10k potential customers then you start thinking about how to increase your conversion rate thinking you
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by ccortes 11mo ago
That’s the point, without the fraudulent clicks you would just move on to some other strategy because the pricing would not be worth it. Fake clicks give the illusion that ads are working and instead you have to optimize your funnel or what
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by ccortes 11mo ago
> Does it cease to be a good metric? Yes if you run anything other than the 100m
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by ccortes 1y ago
Would we live with the same standards today if we had never printed any money?
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by ccortes 1y ago
Value “creation” and money supply have nothing to do with each other.
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by ccortes 1y ago
Earlier today I was scrolling at the “work at a startup” posts. Seems like everyone is doing LLM stuff. We are back at the “uber for X” but now it is “ChatGPT for X”. I get it, but I’ve never felt more uninspired looking at what yc startup
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by ccortes 2y ago
> he just changed the shape of the problem into one that was familiar to him that's a classic strategy to solve problems
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by ccortes 3y ago
Technological merits are not the product.
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by ccortes 4y ago
You can with text
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by ccortes 5y ago
I know a lot of people (including myself) that find blockchain/cryptocurrencies to be great for international money transfers and as a way of saving money using stablecoins with better rates than what we could get on a regular bank. An
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by ccortes 5y ago
It's a risk I'm willing to take. Besides you can earn interest with USDC or other stablecoins.
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by ccortes 5y ago
Remittances and interest generating saving accounts with rates superior to the ones banks offer
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by ccortes 5y ago
Not only that, but handling cash is expensive
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by ccortes 5y ago
Interesting. Not in my experience tho, I've sent money to 3 different countries and they all required the receiver ID
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by ccortes 5y ago
> The receiver can pick up cash at any WU location without an ID In which country does this happens? Makes no sense to me.
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by ccortes 5y ago
USDC
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by ccortes 5y ago
> Generational mobility from poor to rich is easily possible, but you can only do it through hard work and education. That doesn't sounds like "easily possible".

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