jppope

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by jppope 12d ago
I guess the good news here is that I can just buy an expensive car and become part of the higher social class.
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by jppope 12d ago
5-10 year old used Bentleys are ~50-60K well within the realm of a normal middle class individual.
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by jppope 13d ago
one of the coolest things I've ever seen
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by jppope 28d ago
A theory I've proposed that I would love to get scientific evidence for... I would guess that WFH is effectively bimodal. WFH advocates would largely fall into a high performance bucket, and detractors either believe that average emplo
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by jppope 28d ago
I like Postgres. It is a good general purpose database. I like other databases too. Other databases can do some things that Postgres can't do as well.
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by jppope 29d ago
"Breaking News: Sam Altman has installed himself as dictator of Norway" j/k. I love the outside of the box thinking here, but that doesn't seem like what the annuity was setup for. Of course thats up to Norway.
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by jppope 2mo ago
I remember reading that Dancing blows aware meds and exercise. So why isn't that treated like real medicine?
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by jppope 2mo ago
So let me get this straight... technical founders are providing limitless access to their IP, and this is supposed to be a positive indicator that they would be a good founder? Thats wild
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by jppope 2mo ago
There are many ways to create "sticky" products, even commodity products (e.g. coca cola, starbucks, etc). Network effects are just one. Regarding Price to Earnings... I'm not sure everyone fully fleshed out the end game for
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by jppope 2mo ago
I wrote a related article here: https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/good-soldiers-find-wars/ There will always be new, hard problems to work on. AI will not, and can not eliminate that.
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by jppope 2mo ago
Agreed, but we should be honest, the internet today is far from healthy
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by jppope 2mo ago
Audiobooks are just a different medium. I don't think people should pretend that an audiobook is a book. You process the two in completely different ways. This doesn't imply one is better than the other either. For me I don't
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by jppope 3mo ago
Totally depends. Lots of people assume that the valuable thing is the direct business, but a business can be a lot more than that. A competitor may buy you for your engineers or sales team or patents, or assets, or whatever (e.g. Siri, Moto
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by jppope 3mo ago
yeah, the production lines are in Reno, NV
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by jppope 3mo ago
definitely cool. nice work peterdemin whoever you are
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by jppope 3mo ago
I like postgres. I use it for lots of projects. I like other databases too. I think thats okay. Here's Malcom Gladwell discussing spagetti sauce which feels oddly relevant: https://youtu.be/iIiAAhUeR6Y?si=UJUUiF6H0j6IY3
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by jppope 3mo ago
thanks I'm going to have to check whats going on with my setup then
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by jppope 3mo ago
Is there something wrong with their certificate? Chromium is saying https isn't valid
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by jppope 3mo ago
No, this is 100% battle tested. I can't drop numbers but we just did a study at work comparing referrals to non-referrals... its night and day. Referrals are out performing across the board. the only problem is that eventually you run
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by jppope 3mo ago
Yes. Figure out who your top performers are ask them for referrals. Some people will recommend "meh" people, but more often than not your top performers hang out with other top performers because they appreciate the same things.
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by jppope 3mo ago
well, thank you for kicking ass and doing great work!
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by jppope 3mo ago
Eric, really interested in how you pick the things you work on. I'm a really big fan of the concept of the Long Term Stock Exchange, but projects like that seem to me at times like paddling a canoe upstream using a spoon. Whats your cr
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by jppope 3mo ago
- shrimp scampi - Old Adage - chai tea - Naan Bread - Rio Grande River - Lake Tahoe - PIN/ VIN number - ATM machine - GPS system - Panini sandwich
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by jppope 3mo ago
Correct. We actually don't play "football" properly as a street sport either though... its typically a flag style football (two hand touch, etc) but the main sports are (generally separated by season during school) football,
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by jppope 3mo ago
The comments here are wild. Uh the answer is football/basketball/baseball. We send our best athletes into football, basketball, and baseball. They don't play soccer. I would argue its more shocking that we are as good we ar
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by jppope 3mo ago
Yes, Code Monkey jobs are gone... I can assure you though that there are plenty of hard problems that reduce human suffering which still need humans to solve them.
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by jppope 3mo ago
Stuff like that is risk tolerance... its not strictly codified and its more akin to probability. Different companies at different stages, in different industries will all interpret their risk differently... how will a smarter model improve
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by jppope 3mo ago
It was made famous by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Incerto.
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by jppope 4mo ago
I don't really see that many ads to be honest. I'm not on social media (except HN), I use Adblock, plus I just don't consume a lot of the media that the general population does. I totally understand what the article is about
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by jppope 4mo ago
Beautiful poem. Well said and hard cutting

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