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·bulan lalu·discuss
Constant recreation may be the ultimate purpose of humanity.
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·4 bulan yang lalu·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.
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·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
They are not allowing other marketplaces, or creators themselves, to run apps on Apple devices directly.
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·6 bulan yang lalu·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.
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·6 bulan yang lalu·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.
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·6 bulan yang lalu·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.
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·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Nagel's point is that he could not know what it was like to be a bat.
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·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
It takes fresh minds not to think about the collective impact of their actions.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·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