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ruforrel··on Ask HN: How do you celebrate feature releases as a remote only company?
Don't celebrate, give the teams a bonus.
ruforrel··on I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
Ok, so how long before someone looks at those flights, times and maps out your exact house address?
ruforrel··on Ask HN: How do you deal with being “nearly immensely successful”?
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.

ruforrel··on Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world?
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%
ruforrel··on Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world?
The Gregory Hayes translation is good. Which do you have?
ruforrel··on Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world?
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.
ruforrel··on WhatsApp Launches Instant Cryptocurrency Payments in the US
We need a WAP token.
ruforrel··on The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (2013)
Or salt and high blood pressure.