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gabaix
·last month·discuss
Constant recreation may be the ultimate purpose of humanity.
gabaix
·4 months ago·discuss
Learn the social cues. People won’t say when they are busy. They might not ask you questions back, or keep doing what they do.
gabaix
·5 months ago·discuss
They are not allowing other marketplaces, or creators themselves, to run apps on Apple devices directly.
gabaix
·6 months ago·discuss
Karp is a philosopher by training that has fallen into ideological blindness. He claims that he is on the right side of history. Democracies need Palantir badly.

He preaches his views to his employees. No one in his flock seems to wonder what would happen if their tools were to be used against democracy.
gabaix
·6 months ago·discuss
Liquidation preferences may have multiples. A 3x liquidation preference would have erased most gains for anyone who didn’t raise in the last round, employees and founders included.
gabaix
·6 months ago·discuss
True. I myself try to read articles without looking up the authors.

It is hard though. When someone makes an extraordinary claim I feel the urge to look them up. It is a shortcut to some legitimacy to that claim.
gabaix
·7 months ago·discuss
Nagel's point is that he could not know what it was like to be a bat.
gabaix
·8 months ago·discuss
It takes fresh minds not to think about the collective impact of their actions.
gabaix
·5 years ago·discuss
If you haven't read it yet, you might want to read De Brevitate Vitae [1] by Seneca. You will find many similarities.

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_shortness_of_life