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Ask HN: Do people treat you differently based on your location?

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I've hardly noticed inflation. Am I in a bubble?

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I had never seen that cartoon about the "dream job" before, but it's something I've thought about so many times as I've listened to people talk about their dream job or dream employer. It always struck me as strange to dream of labor / dream of being an employee - must be a cultural thing.
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Nitpicking but I think a "10 billion dollar business" is not the same thing as a "company valued by investors at 10 billion dollars".
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Especially when you look at the majority of startups getting funded or posting in "Who's Hiring" and the descriptions of what they do boils down to.. trying to solve some trivial problem.
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Brian Kernighan is the type of nerd that you dream of working with AND having a casual drink with. I wish I had some friends like this (I don't actually know Brian, but have read/listened to a lot of his stuff).
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Surely many companies have no idea how to accurately measure "productivity", or simply have no good way to even go about it. If net income is increasing then stop whining about people working from home.
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He works at a US fund (www.susaventures.com/), so most likely US observations.
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I definitely feel like I'm at a point of no return (to gas engines) after driving a Tesla for a couple of years. I drove a nice gas powered car the other week and the experience was akin to going back to my flip-phone after experiencing the iPhone. I do look forward to more, better electric cars on the market, but I've completely moved beyond the desire of owning a legacy gas powered vehicle.
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Thanks for sharing your perspective. I find it rare for parents to share the non-glowing reviews, and it's refreshing to hear.
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And this expectation is incredibly far fetched. It is betting on the reversal of many, many years of human habit which has become habit for a reason.
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So Kyle Davies and Su Zhu likely have most of their personal assets domiciled in the United States?
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I love my model 3, but I'm glad I leased it. The electric motor is awesome, it's a blast to drive, charging is inexpensive and convenient. But the build quality is undeniably poor (for the entry level, base model 3). I've never been inside a model S or X - hopefully the $100k models are built a lot better than my vehicle, but if I hoped to keep a car for 8+ years I'd probably go back to a German brand.
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Agreed. People like the idea of getting rich. And if they happen to get rich, they like the idea of getting richer.
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Trading != Investing
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I can't tell if you're being serious? There is nothing about 'Web 3.0', at the least the current implementation, that is designed to serve the masses. The "new system" is purely theoretical and all of the blockchain-based products are expensive, user hostile, and generally just poor pieces of technology considering the state of software engineering in 2022.
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Clearly very smart, but I haven't heard or read anything from him that would classify as genius.
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This is a snapshot statistic that is rather shallow. The more interesting point is the distribution of wealth in BTC. The majority of "investors" are scrounging to buy a fraction of a single bitcoin, while wealthy VCs, family offices, LLCs, etc etc are owners and are continual buyers of hundreds and thousands of bitcoins. Just think about how much BTC the Winklevoss brothers alone must own, and then add just two more people - Marc Andreesen and Chris Dixon. I'd love to know how much BTC these four men alone are in possession of...
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I wouldn't say that. Kafka is everywhere in the enterprise and it's adoption is still growing rapidly. This blog post is a decent overview for non-technical people at the very least.
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Her Forbes bio:

Heather R. Morgan is an international economist, serial entrepreneur, and investor in B2B software companies. She is an expert in persuasion, social engineering, and game theory.
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Personal anecdote after being a Tesla model 3 owner for a little over a year now: The car feels like a toy. The manufacturing quality is honestly quite poor. The electric motor is truly fantastic - that's the awesome part, and I'm a total convert to electric cars for the rest of my life. However, I'm selling my Tesla at the 3yr mark and going back to a German (albeit electric) car. I imagine my Tesla falling apart every time I hit a large pothole.
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The managers are the ones that should be worried.