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Re:Ask HN: How do you celebrate feature releases as a remote only comp...
on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:25AM (#30043863)
Don't celebrate, give the teams a bonus.
Re:I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly ...
on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:12AM (#30043812)
Ok, so how long before someone looks at those flights, times and maps out your exact house address?
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with being “nearly immensely successful”?
on Saturday January 01, 2022 @02:01PM (#29761450)
I built a high frequency trading system on early mount gox and had a ton of bitcoins as a toy project. I abandoned it because everyone kept telling me I was wasting my time.
I would be a billionare today— How do I deal with it? Just move on. Ultimately it is our own fault for not doing what our gut was telling us. So just move on and do something else.
Re:Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world?
on Sunday December 19, 2021 @12:28PM (#29615970)
Well, he wasn't writing to be understood by anyone. He was writing to himself. Some wont be easy to understand. Some requires history or philosophy background and some is impossible to grasp 100%
Re:Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world?
on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:21PM (#29601276)
The Gregory Hayes translation is good. Which do you have?
Re:Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world?
on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:59AM (#29592174)
Read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. He talks about this a lot, but in the other vein. He was probably the most powerful man in the world and constantly reminded himself he is nothing but a sack of meat and bones.
Re:WhatsApp Launches Instant Cryptocurrency Payments in the US
on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:24PM (#29501010)
We need a WAP token.
Re:The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (2013)
on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:07PM (#29131902)
Or salt and high blood pressure.