lanrh1836

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by lanrh1836 7y ago
I normally wouldn’t raise it if I couldn’t independently verify it happened myself, but this person is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, so I totally believe it. They left a very cushy job to take a job at Wealthfront, so leaving afte
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
I have worked with someone who used to work at Wealthfront, and said that he had said to them “do not speak to me unless I speak to you.” They left within months of starting.
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Lambda School fined $75k by CA for operating without state approval [pdf](bppe.ca.gov)
338 points by lanrh1836 7y ago|337 comments
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Ask HN: Best practices for leaving crypto in a will?
2 points by lanrh1836 7y ago|0 comments
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
It is risky. Why work at a unproven startup doing something really hard for $150k and equity of questionable value when you can work at a FANG for $350k/year doing less work?
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Google acquired DeepMind...
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
I just finished the Eric Weinstein/Peter Thiel podcast, and came away mostly agreeing with their assessment that we’ve really stagnated when it has come to progressing scientifically. I definitely feel like there’s this illusion of tec
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Yeah I’m referring to basically that, except it would be customized so that they’d be pay by 15m and put in public spaces or coffee shops instead of private offices. I have used them at companies I’ve worked for and they’re great, but think
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Yep, true. The single person booths would still be interesting for most remote workers though and don’t take up much space at all
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
I’ve been playing around with the idea of building on demand phone booth conference rooms (the ones you see in coworking spaces) but reservable in 15m blocks that open with a code from an app. Could partner with coffee shops or even cities
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Isn’t that the whole story behind the linked article?
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Eh to me part of the appeal of Twitter is It’s a very unopinionated social networking tool, which means there’s 1000 ways to use it.
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Surprised Match hadn’t bought Grindr long ago.
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
I find it all so bizarre. Everything from how big the font size is in the left nav, to the ordering of the nav items, to how the feed and right nav scroll together (can’t see the top of the right nav if you scroll down the main feed) to how
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Perhaps I made some classic tourist mistake, but when I was in Paris last year I felt like every mid-priced French bistro was extremely mediocre and overpriced. Menus all the same and food did not taste fresh at all. Wine bad too.
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Given the algorithmic pricing on a lot of things (everything?) sold on Amazon there’s probably money to be made building some bot that checks for pricing mistakes and buys when one is found.
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Personally I haven’t found the quality of Netflix originals to be anywhere close to the same level as HBO. Their approach is more “consistently release a ton of average quality shows” and hope a few stick. Will be interesting to see if that
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Yikes. A little more than half the estimate. I’m pretty sure that is the worst miss the company has ever had. With recent news that reruns like the Office and Friends are leaving next year, it would be really funny if a large chunk of Netfl
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Curious how a self driving car would’ve responded in the NYC blackout, and to Good Samaritans directing traffic at various intersections
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
It’s pricey, but it feels like a Disneyland for foodies, which is what D&D should have tried to do and why AFAIK they keep expanding worldwide (just saw a new one on the Strip in Las Vegas, no less). Also the restaurants and rooftop in
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Right, there’s no moat. And per other comments the terms feel very anti-creator e.g. you grant substack an indefinite license to any work you’ve ever made and shared publicly even if you delete your account. You also don’t have access to an
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Nothing special, just overpriced. Eataly is basically what they tried to, and should have, become.
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
I’m curious where the cities that have paid ransomware attackers acquired bitcoin. Did they literally just open a Coinbase account and send funds through there?
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
I wonder if we’re ever going to have a real online friending app. Feels like we’re still in a stage where it’s weird to attempt to find close friends online like it was weird to date online 10-20 years ago.
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
I think there’s a good chance they go under in less than a year, with the final nail on the coffin being the poor performance of Lyft and Uber stock since both represent the very best case scenario for Bird...
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Latest Suicide Data Shows Depth of U.S. Mental Health Crisis(bloomberg.com)
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
I respect PG, but this is just his opinion, not some universal fact.
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
I know there are a lot of crypto skeptics here, but if you believe in Bitcoin more than Tether at least then you should buy Bitcoin...if Tether does indeed fail Bitcoin will almost certainly spike past 2017 highs.
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
Investors would care if they thought Zoom’s customers cared enough to switch. I personally think this is terrible, but investors don’t seem to think Zoom’s customers care enough to change to a competitor, which makes me second guess whether
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by lanrh1836 7y ago
This makes the wrong assumption that happiness comes with success. Success doesn’t bring happiness. If anything, being happy in the first place is what gives you a better chance at achieving success.

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