fiachamp

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by fiachamp 1y ago
Issue with technology accelerating nature...
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by fiachamp 1y ago
Reddit data is already super corrupted with marketers and bot accounts. Why I use https://thegigabrain.com to filter thru the bs on reddit.
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by fiachamp 2y ago
In Cuba, the only wealthy people are government bureaucrats. As always, communism becomes dictatorship and the people suffer most. Top down control of economy doesn't work. I went to numerous tobacco plantations in Cuba and they told m
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by fiachamp 2y ago
That share of income from wages started its downward trajectory in 1971, when the US removed the gold standard and money-printing replaced hard money. The result was a man-manipulated interest rate fueled economy. Low interest rates benefit
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by fiachamp 4y ago
I've been working on a tool that also filters out the cruft comments from reddit / ugc searches. We just came out with a chrome extension as well. Would love your feedback on it: www.thegigabrain.com
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by fiachamp 4y ago
I've been working on www.thegigabrain.com to address this problem. Filtering out the noise from reddit and other UGC sources to get the most useful answers
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by fiachamp 5y ago
Isn't the solve for this to store it on a decentralized storage network like Filecoin?!?
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by fiachamp 5y ago
The amount of people on HN nowadays that are okay with getting nothing useful done is striking. Startup guy, you don't have to accept being part of a bloated hierarchy that rewards politics more than good decision-making. You could che
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by fiachamp 5y ago
dont need all this complexity to prevent airborne illness from going exponential, just masks + contact tracing. the results have spoken for themselves in asia
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by fiachamp 5y ago
Long game is a few superstar teachers teach kids online and their parents and neighbors / community teach them social etiquette
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by fiachamp 5y ago
Actually, it’s people with computers and internet...
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by fiachamp 6y ago
Maybe a solar and energy storage investment would help...
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by fiachamp 6y ago
If central banks weren't on a mission to create 'inflation' by manipulating interest rates, tech would do what it was meant to do...deflate the price of everything. Instead governments try to make interest rates low to create
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by fiachamp 6y ago
This author doesn't realize that 'people' don't care if someone is a billionaire if they became one by taking risk themselves. Yes, people will rightfully shit on the ones who inherited their wealth or achieved most of t
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by fiachamp 6y ago
The extra cost comes from tax obligations which will increase with the company valuation
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by fiachamp 6y ago
good luck buying the index in a zero interest rate policy world...see nikkei since 1990 for example performance
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by fiachamp 6y ago
You might want to check out the Honey app, which actually lets you search for items across 100s of stores. Plus gives ‘gold’ bonuses on top of the coupon testing it does
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by fiachamp 6y ago
I would add another factor lots of people overlook: the trend towards index investing. In the past, asset management involved actually analyzing the performance of a business, now it’s just trillions of dollars allocated merely by market ca
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by fiachamp 7y ago
Nope. This kind of shock is how you determine which companies are robust or antifragile to reality. You don't sacrifice humanity for the companies, its the other way around.
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by fiachamp 7y ago
It's like no one in government(or the Fed) has read Antifragile...
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by fiachamp 7y ago
Dated a top F21 buyer for a few years and I can say that: 1) Prototype to street was way more than 3 weeks. More like 3 months (still faster than most fashion which makes buys 6 months ahead). Zara is the main large retailer that is actuall
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by fiachamp 7y ago
I was in Shanghai last year and can confirm that China is far more authoritarian than even the US under Trump. Cameras every 400 Meters on the street, digital ads showing photos of debtors,etc. Great food, architecture, and ancient culture
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by fiachamp 8y ago
Still seems gigantically space inefficient. Would love to see this experiment done with scooters, especially in LA where the weather is pretty good year-round. I say this as someone incredibly annoyed with people leaving Bird scooters all o
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by fiachamp 8y ago
Recalls a fundamental lesson about nature/reality preferring redundancy to the detriment of pure efficiency by Nassim Taleb: https://youtu.be/AcTvkt8k0sE?t=563 Pure optimization is a very ruin-prone path to take over t
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by fiachamp 8y ago
I own shares of Facebook and even I see that 'amount of advertising you CAN show' is not the amount of advertising people will be okay with, we're getting close to saturation before people realize they're being exposed t
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by fiachamp 8y ago
In orgs I've been in the daily standup was clearly intended to help people get a heads up on who can help them with blockers or may be working on a similar part of the codebase that day. It also helps PMs know what kind of support they
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by fiachamp 9y ago
Word. Humans are inherently social beings. Even from birth, physical touch changes rate of brain development for the better. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201310... Really good book on rela
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by fiachamp 9y ago
Thanks for posting this, right around Worldwide Mental Health Awareness Day too. To anyone reading this who is struggling but hasn't had the time to talk to a human therapist, I'm working on an accessible AI therapist to provide a
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by fiachamp 11y ago
There actually IS a way to exercise after you leave without laying out cash + tax dollars today. Consider esofund.com, its a fund that will pay your exercise price and tax liability for a proportion of your upside in a good financial outcom
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by fiachamp 11y ago
IMO - its a question of exposure and convexity of your positions moreso than risk. Risk involves predicting the chance that different outcomes occur and...no one is really good at that. However, do you feel comfortable exposing X% of your t

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