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I was in the audience and was rolling my eyes at the theatrics. Maybe his emotions were genuine but I felt I was seeing an attempt at clear emotional manipulation. That being said a country (even a very small one like El Salvador) choosing to accept BTC as legal tender is a huge step forward for its utility as a currency and made me optimistic again about a crypto future that’s not just focused on “number go up” and cult-like herd mentality.

How were you able to set this up? It seems like a rare employer that would be open to a role like this.

It may have been a joke by your friend but it's also has an element of truth to it and is how many cultures across the world understand 'retirement'. It's only since I came to America that I've realized the idea of children having an obligation to take care of their parents when they're elderly could even be controversial.

All exploits are technically some version of “just doing what the code allows”, I don’t see how that would change whether or not a hack/theft actually occurred.

Some societies seem to have this figured out. I read an article recently about the Netherlands titled "Women in the Netherlands work less, have lesser titles and a big gender pay gap, and they love it" - https://slate.com/human-interest/2010/11/women-in-the-nether... - indicating that the work culture there provides a level of flexibility that actually allows women to spend significant amounts of time with their children as they grow up. It sounds a lot better for everyone involved than the American approach.

I was just having a discussion about this with my manager during 1:1. I'm curious how any fellow devs with ADHD have managed the transition to remote work over the last year? I love the freedom and ability to focus that working from home provides, but I often find myself taking advantage of that freedom and focusing instead on podcasts or reddit for 3 days to avoid 3 hours of writing unit tests.

Said with zero self-awareness several paragraphs after humblebragging about how frugal and low maintenance of a person she is. The entire article is so myopic but I think her transactional view of relationships, and framing of them entirely in terms of competition and power dynamics was the saddest part.

> My mom has gotten bitter. She said, “You’re going to have more money than your dad and I combined, and we’ve worked all our lives.”

I guess her thinking comes from somewhere

That's how the Coinbase VISA card works

I heard GAANDU (Google, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Dropbox, Uber) a few years ago. Apparently it's a hindi word that means asshole.

Congrats! This post is awesome and really put a huge smile on my face. It reminded me of how enthusiastic I was about programming at your age and there aren't a lot of better places to start your career than at Google. Best of luck.

Replace Tibet with Bolivia and the point still stands.

> If he loses that, he loses many of the policies being pushed from an immigration and population control perspective.

I don't know anything about Taleb's personal politics. Care to give any specific examples of these policies?

Howl by Allen Ginsberg for anyone else who didn't know the reference - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

I do agree with your more general point but I think we shouldn't dismiss changes in usages of words over time. Aryan doesn't simply mean Iranian in a modern western context, just like the swastika isn't just a sign from Buddhism or Hinduism. Both have strong associations with one of the most defining wars of the 20th century and the genocidal regime that started said war. That can't be easily ignored.

If this is the case Zurich sounds exactly like New York (other than the difficulty of buying property for non-citizens). Might just be the feeling of alienation that arises from living in a big city as an outsider.

Wow this is awesome. Who said programmers aren't romantic?

That's awesome to hear. I'm so very happy for you. Looking forward to a world where these gene therapy solutions are available to more and more people for a wider range of illnesses.

How was the recovery process? Did you feel better immediately or was it in small amounts and over several weeks?

> There's a great disorder in working from your home at odd hours, it's not healthy

I'd be curious in hearing you elaborate on this. I've been in a WFH setup like this for about 4 months, and while I enjoy it right now I do wonder if it'll be something I might regret after 2-3 years on this schedule.

My primary reasons for working like this are that: 1. I hate being in the corporate office environment, it feels very artificial and constraining 2. I tend to have my most productive coding sessions very late at night anyway

> Doing what you think would be best (i.e. learning Russian) is most often not as good as doing something similar that fits your routine better (i.e. there's a Polish guy in your building that's willing to teach you Polish). Another formulation: Don't force your dreams but rather take (with gratitude) what is given/in front of you.

I love this statement. To me it seems to be another expression of "don't let perfection be the enemy of good".

- Many well known people in tech are charlatans.

I'd love if you could expand on this topic. What do you mean by charlatans?

The best one I've seen yet is GAANDU (Google, Amazon, AirBnb, Netflix, Dropbox and Uber). Apparently it means asshole in Hindi.

https://www.teamblind.com/article/Breakdown-of-compensation-...

Take them to a standup comedy show at The Stand. Or maybe explore the Whitney museum for a few hours.

I'd love to work in Norway or Sweden one day. Do you know what the tech scene in Oslo or Stockholm are like? My experience is mostly in building backend/distributed systems.

> And yet, as a programmer, I feel all of these improvements pale in comparison to the stuff I learned that would be equally useful in Notepad as it would be in a decked out Sublime Text/VSCode/Emacs.

As someone who's 5 years into my career and interested in moving past the not quite a senior engineer plateau, what would you say are the important things you've learned?

I loved the message of self-reliance and "bearing your burden" in the book personally, it really reminded me of Mark Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Could've done without all the religious metaphor but I understand the point of it being there.

> The more people collude, the more profit they get, the more rational it is to join them.

This is not true. Colluders diminish the value of their PoW reward by reducing the trust of all other participants in the system and honest actors have an even strong incentive not to join them. Just a few years ago a mining pool that gained a very large share of the Bitcoin hashrate had members choose to leave -- https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-miners-ditch-ghash-io-pool-...

It's also a ridiculous argument since Wikileaks does not have a monopoly on leaking secrets. Any whistleblowers who were censored by Wikileaks can not only find another channel to release their original documents, but also have another piece of important news about a provable systematic bias in Wikileaks'publishing patterns.

    In [218]: female_founders = 0.17 # https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/in-2017-only-17-of-startups-have-a-female-founder/

    In [219]: male_founders = 0.83

    In [220]: female_founders ** 6
    Out[220]: 2.413756900000001e-05

    In [221]: male_founders ** 6
    Out[221]: 0.3269403733689999

It wouldn't have stood out to me.