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It’s quite likely that we do, in fact, lack free will.

To be honest, not even sure how free will would work in theory.

> I quoted directly from the article.

You did, but your quote comes directly after he said:

"Once you’ve finally tested enough hypotheses to have more confidence about your product viability, then go to the next steps:"

The MVP is the next step and it distinctly different from what he calls an MTP.

An MTP is not a useable product, it doesn't have a login, stack or maybe any code at all.

My sentiments exactly. The extra couple of hours a day in commute time / getting ready alone is worth it. I can immediately jump off my computer at 5 and book, I'm with my kids.

Not to mention, I'm already making near Silicon Valley numbers, so why the heck would I switch?

I'm curious to see this data

This strikes me as pretty much the reverse of reality.

> Some people just trust their natural immune system. It's the best thing humans have had for dealing with any sort of sickness since the beginning of time.

You don't think modern medicine is an improvement over our natural immune system?

> They've seen the risk and they are willing bet on a natural immune response.

Have they though? They deny it's a big deal at all and that the numbers are inflated.

> It's the pro vaccine people that push the issue and have an agenda.

Because they unequivocally/empirically work.

> Many of my friends and colleagues have concerns about mRNA vaccines

I'm curious if you know why?

I'm curious if you could elaborate.

What stops that sitter from claiming residency ;)

What kind of logic is this? Nobody can save up to buy real estate for profit?

Yep, I'm typing this on a '15 macbook pro with PopOS on it.

This is one part of the Netflix culture I agree on. Companies are more like sports teams than they are families.

What you are describing doesn't sound like a typical "turning off work" situation. Startups, as you know, are a different animal.

Are you sure startups are what you want to be doing? Being all-consuming is kinda the nature of the beast...

To be clear, I don't "see" comments like this. It's pretty specific to engaging content that is apt to be visualized. i.e. I don't tend to visualize books or passages that aren't as engaging to me.

> On the plus side I support two concurrent internal monologues or one that goes double speed & I can go full-duplex

Wow, really? I'd love to hear more about how that works.

I wonder if those with aphantasia tend to hate reading novels. For me, once I get into a book I basically "see" it playing out in my head and I won't even notice that I'm reading words.

I could totally understand how it would be bland if you were just reading a description and nothing was coming to you.

This just doesn't strike me as "professional" whatever that means. I'm supposed to talk to an avatar of my co-worker when I can already just have a video call with them?

I don't see what problem this is solving.

Not disagreeing with you, but isn't that what a lot of advertising does?

Basically, the prevalence of smartphones means we can record pretty much anything at anytime. Therefore, if abductions happen with any regularity, surely at least one would be captured on camera.

This is probably true now. Originally humans were excellent long distance runners but since that’s no longer required I think you might be right

It’s just a small shopify app. It won’t make me rich but it pay the mortgage, car payment and then some.

I thought this was a terrible idea until I realized that other states are already doing it without any problems.

Yes, that is the main driver for making my side business.

This made me scratch my head too. I see so many startups come up with an idea/product and then try to make it fit in the market. That is completely backwards; you need to find a problem that the market has and create a product that solves that.

While I do care about working hard and delivering quality work in general, I will never care about someone else's projects as much as I will my own or my own career advancement.

It's very difficult to get excited when the CEO tries to drum up motivation for something that will make him fabulously more wealthy (if it goes well) and might mean a marginal increase in pay for me. Yeah, thanks, but no thanks.

If you want me to put in more effort than I'm already doing, you're going to need to use cold hard cash.

oof..

No? It's the trend of warmer and warmer temperatures that's concerning. Not a random hot day.

Hard work is just a prerequisite. Tons of people work just as hard as Gates/Musk but don't get the lucky breaks for whatever reason.

I would posit that luck is THE differentiator between these people, not hard work.

I get it, but at the same time, it's not your manager or even your job that is stopping you in the end. It's the fact that you need to work to support yourself.

You _can_ decide to just go outside instead of working, but then you're stuck with no money. Unless you end up making FU money, I see no way out of this conundrum.

Just finished a Udemy course on Rust, and now I'm going through the rust book.

Just taking it slower this time, doing ALL the examples and trying stuff for myself.

It's going way better than my first attempt about a year ago.

> There’s swaths of competent people abroad that are happy to take your (overpaid) place

How is it overpaid? Engineers provide a lot more value than they are getting paid. If anything, people abroad are underpaid.