practicalpants

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by practicalpants 5y ago
Er, as much as I love fun/interesting software things, the quality of these products are terrible for any real world use.
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Solving conversational intelligence is the same as solving general intelligence (AGI), so unless google has solved the latter I would expect any chatbot system to still be pretty annoying for any nuanced or real world conversation.
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Not sure disclosing all this helps their image, if people now understand they're capable of faking any sort of public appearance of anyone they need to.
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by practicalpants 5y ago
> their biggest worry is a new class of people getting richer than them fast You can read a lot of Western political history since the industrial revolution, when the new class of mega rich Rockefeller types shocked the established order
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Many in congress literally use shell companies to obtain payments discretely so yeah, shell company laws aren't getting passed anytime soon.
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by practicalpants 5y ago
At risk of sounding belittling to those spend their life giving their labor to someone else, I think we can't go on indefinitely because we aspire to get something better out of our lives, and somewhere perhaps deep in our minds or hea
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Do you have money? Quit your job, go travel, go entrepreneurial pursuing something that moves you. Living in some San Francisco apartment, building a career at tech companies making 6 figures a year is, once you have some money, a pretty cr
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by practicalpants 5y ago
I don't understand why the author casually says Basecamp "burned it all down". Basecamp took action to set a culture they believed would help them succeed long term. Is having a tough conversation with employees that risks of
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by practicalpants 5y ago
I'd recommend starting out with a landing page first before you build the app. Like a really nice, well-designed one, that captures your vision and core points. Just copy some startup landing page you like and tweak it. Create from scr
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by practicalpants 5y ago
The same arguments could made against Btc and Eth just a couple years ago. I did lose an embarrassing amount betting on them circa 2018. Even today, Btc could suffer a 51% hash power takeover that would for all intents ruin Btc. Betting on
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by practicalpants 5y ago
This is false information. There is definitely an active development team and the yearly new coin caps are pretty controlled with a decreasing inflation rate that will reach zero eventually. It's absolutely built to be a real crypto at
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Had a cold water realization a few days ago that Doge, which has all the functions of Btc, in being non elitist, populist, and easily marketable because it's entertaining might very well be on its way to replacing Btc in market cap. Wa
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by practicalpants 5y ago
That is what folks have been saying for at least 3 months since I've been following. I think you underestimate how the mainstream views cryptos as elitist silicon valley stuff, while dogecoin positions itself as "the peoples"
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Ask HN: Why doesn't Coinbase support the world's third largest crypto?
3 points by practicalpants 5y ago|4 comments
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Elon is not the only high profile figure championing dogecoin, e.g. Mark Cuban, who arguably has a larger fan base.
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by practicalpants 5y ago
The name is a clear satire/parody, they would be fine at least under US law.
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Yes, Dogecoin's inflation rate decreases with time and eventually hits zero. The crypto community thinks Dogecoin embarrasses them and it's become cringey watching them react so severely to it. It's a fun thing no more risky
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Wealthy people minus a few eccentrics are most certainly not parking their money in NFTs. The crazy $69MM Beeple headline was actually a purchase by an NFT related company from what I understand. Not withstanding unoccupied real estate inve
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by practicalpants 5y ago
I don't think Feynman was that different in this masculine or promiscuous respect from many of that era's greats... Schrödinger, von Neumann, Einstein, to name a few. Feynman at least writes extensively about his deceased wife. I
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Not sure it’s about cynicism as much as about understanding what's going on. The amount of CO2 sequestered is about 80 cars/year worth, and I’m not sure if that accounts for the thermal decomposition reactions, transport, or othe
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by practicalpants 5y ago
I do not know what textbooks you read or economic history lectures you took to reach your conclusion. This is the second half of the 19th C, the US was absolutely dominating the industrial revolution in the era that produced the Carnegies R
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by practicalpants 5y ago
This is a general misconception you hear that America's dominance in the world (and universities) was due to the "old world" imploding in WWII. It obviously helped the US but already in the early second half of the 19th C Ame
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by practicalpants 5y ago
> A coding camp is the opposite of hustling Right on. I'm self taught before bootcamps were a thing. I learned by doing by launching a bunch of startup prototypes. Then I ran out of money so I started interviewing, went 1 for 1 and
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Intriguing that the motivation for coinbase was: "Credit card fees are too high. In the next five years merchants are going to start moving away from..." I think it's fair to say he was actually wrong. But succeeded nonethele
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by practicalpants 5y ago
A missing piece of this discussion is how American wealth got there in the first place: 19th century industrialization. In that era you're either a farmer or an entrepreneur. America had a literal explosion of engineering, innovation,
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Heroku is supposed to be easy for launching prototypes yet it's a PITA for Django, one of the most popular prototyping frameworks, since they never bothered to build native static file support (their "whitenoise" suggestion c
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Thought this was sarcasm at first :)
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Yeah similar age and similar thoughts over recent years. My suggestion is go entrepreneurial. It doesn't have to be IT related or VC backed. In fact you might have an easier time if it isn't. Spend some months researching spaces.
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by practicalpants 5y ago
Maybe helpful to you or others: I have a similar startup architecture, Django apps on K8, and found that AWS Fargate extracted a lot of the madness away. Still not a walk in the park but it does a lot of crap for you. Been $300/month s
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by practicalpants 5y ago
I've been in this position many times. The only things I know how to are... - post in relevant online forums - targeted advertising (throw 1k or 2k at it and see what happens) - targeted reach outs on linkedin sales - cold email campai

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