warp_factor

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by warp_factor 7y ago
I already think that Uber and Slack are not really Silicon Valley: those are businessy companies but not really tech companies. WeWork is even taking it one level further. They still have close to thousands software engineers to build... Th
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Fully agree. And this is actually a well known fact. People following the rules perfectly as seen as losers in business. You are expected to break the ice with a more personal non textbook approach and therefore showing you are "street
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Paying for books is the old model. I really believe that books should be mostly free and people should//would pay based on usefulness. I will gladly donate 200$ for a book that helped me. I would also never have bought that same b
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by warp_factor 7y ago
For what it is worth I love my local libraries. I'm able to hold any book online so as soon as I hear about a book I place a hold on it. They have most books even new ones and if not I can request it for free through all libraries in N
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by warp_factor 7y ago
They are the ones selecting the "members" and they will have a huge influence on any updates or any controversial topic or potential fork. Don't fool yourself, this whole thing has been carefully orchestrated to look like if
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by warp_factor 7y ago
That's the way they marketed it. They know they had to do this little concession in order to get Libra to pick up so that people would repeat tirelessly that it's not controller by Facebook and therefore it's good. But it&#x2
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by warp_factor 7y ago
I'm crossing my fingers that this pseudo crypto money never takes off. Having Facebook control this would be so terrible and the proof that we didn't learn anything over the last couple months. Don't fool yourself even though
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by warp_factor 7y ago
I have also always wondered what would I do if I have an emergency and I only have access to internet, not to a traditional phone line. Is there even 911@police.com? or some type of service that can be reached like that? I'm sure this
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by warp_factor 7y ago
GPS signal can get reflected on buildings ans put you off by a couple blocks. It's a well known issue in big cities with narrow streets (NYC for example)
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by warp_factor 7y ago
by hacking the reward circuits of your brain with immediate interactions? The issue is that those are counterproductive in the long term. The exact same reason why people initially loved Facebook and spent so much time on it?
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by warp_factor 7y ago
you put it better than I did in my initial post. They managed to hack that reward part of the brain with immediate interaction at the expense of deep meaningful work that require long periods of reflection before producing anything.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Congratulation to them. I think what they did is absolutely amazing and will be seen retrospectively as one of the biggest fads of history. - They managed to disturb millions of worker to an attention-driven work culture in which everything
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Bolting is an ethical issue that is discussed at length in the climbing community. The ethics are very strong in Yosemite and therefore there are almost no bolts and all the climbs are done using removable gear. (also called trad gear). I&
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by warp_factor 7y ago
This. And committed parents. This is a lot of training and committed parents. I'm doing a lot of aid climbing myself and anyone could be good at aid climbing if enough training and commitment is put inside it.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Only because it also could potentially endanger other people. And it is legal to have a 10 year old as a passenger in a car which is what happened in this case on the climb.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
I had a friend die in Silicon Valley due to a car crash. he was wearing his safety belt too.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Aid climbing is not jumaring though. It means you use tools to get up. Most of the time the face is blank and you still need to get up painfully and add all the protections to go up little by little (aid climbing leading). Sometimes for hig
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by warp_factor 7y ago
This is a bet on the future price of the home. And a lot of simulations have shown that you will come ahead in stocks unless you are in an exceptional growing market and not moving for at least 5 years. There is a huge lobby in society to c
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by warp_factor 7y ago
you should search what "opportunity cost" means. The market is highly inflated compared to other investments because people are blindly buying without thinking at almost any stupid price. Your comment is a perfect example of that.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Yes, Home ownership is seen as the pinnacle of social status. This is stupid and people should rethink this preconceived notion. In the bay area for example it doesn't make ANY sense to buy right now (Price to rent ratio, google it) bu
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by warp_factor 7y ago
this whole leveling thing is very sad. It makes you realize you are simply a number: a small pawn that falls into a predefined category and that will do a predefined job without too much opportunities to go out of its way. I'm missing
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Not sure if you are being sarcastic but they still need to keep their algorithm secret so client side wouldn't work.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Sure. Depends which VP position you end up getting. And even so, I would say that most VPs at VMWare are a more "prestigious" and "important" position than the COO of Github (which as most COO position is a not fully def
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by warp_factor 7y ago
I agree and I'm always surprised to see how complex the backend of very simple businesses are. I'm always amazed to find 10 Infra engineers and 15 backend engineers to maintain a very simple webApp for example.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
I was highlighting that the "famous" and "cool" name of GitHub doesn't tell the whole story
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by warp_factor 7y ago
VMWare has annual revenue of about 9B$. Github.... 300M$ Github is way more hyped accross engineers but VMWare is 30 times bigger! VMWare is simply one league above Github. Github is a Business Departement part of Microsoft. VMWare is a hug
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by warp_factor 7y ago
do you imply that it's better to be COO of Github? Because I would disagree with that.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
You got it slightly wrong: He made investors believe that there will be bigger more stupid investors that will eventually buy out the shares for a higher price than those investors. (Also, see Uber, Lyft and other ponzy scheme based compani
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by warp_factor 7y ago
> For instance "equity is a better way to get rich than working". Is it, I bet the average googler accumulates more wealth than the average start-up founder. His point more specifically is that if you want to scale above a cert
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Good point. What I meant is use an open protocol to which simple applications (or whatever you prefer to use) can be plugged. Because my company uses Slack I now have to use their stupid UI proprietary implementation. I'm also annoyed

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