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arikr commented on 1Password Park – St. Thomas Ontario   railwaycitytourism.com/1p... · Posted by u/donutshop
mcsniff · 3 years ago
I hate to say it, but branding a public space is disgusting. Advertising just won't quit.

"Now when you step outside, you can enjoy fresh Nestlé air blowing through free standing Burt's Bees sycamore trees at 1Password Park. Bring your whole nuclear family!".

You can do good in your community without being gaudy.

arikr · 3 years ago
Yes. I think the classier version is to name it something else that seems like a normal park name. That way the employees and users can enjoy knowing the inside secret, but it doesn’t look gaudy to the world.

The way they’ve done it is very black mirror vibes.

arikr commented on Ask HN: Jobs with Meaning?    · Posted by u/ushercakes
arikr · 3 years ago
I think what you might be looking for is urgency. If you're a high energy person, it can feel boring and unmotivating to work in an environment where nothing is needed from you on any non-distant timeframe.

That's my experience, anyway.

arikr commented on A Jim Simons market mystery, solved?   institutionalinvestor.com... · Posted by u/SirLJ
arikr · 3 years ago
Kinda a boring article.

The tldr is there’s some stocks his fund holds that are the result of private VC investments going public. That’s it. I was waiting for some kind of punchline but it didn’t arrive

arikr commented on Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?    · Posted by u/devoutsalsa
arikr · 3 years ago
1) Managing remote employees is harder. Managing in person is easier.

Both are doable, but managing someone remotely requires either the manager and/or the employee to be really good at remote comms.

2) in person spontaneous collaboration

3) my experience is most people get less done remotely. Some do more, but most do less

arikr commented on AI is coming to Hollywood with Metaphysic   metaphysic.ai/ai-hollywoo... · Posted by u/tikkun
arisAlexis · 3 years ago
I think it's very very unlikely that OpenAI will embed covertly suggestions. Also it's quite unlikely that there will be many of these. It's always has been a winner take all market. Maybe google + openai or google+microsoft(with openai). They will not do it. Google doesn't do it even now, pagerank is not paid, ads are extra.
arikr · 3 years ago
What are you saying?
arikr commented on Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies?    · Posted by u/silverlight
nodesocket · 3 years ago
First I’m even hearing about section 174. I just pinged my managed accounting and tax service.

Shameless plug, but if you have a small business and looking for somebody to manage S corp, payroll, accounting, taxes, I highly recommend http://collective.com. I just integrated with them for 2023. Use my promo code if you want, gives us both discounts. https://share.collective.com/JK2020

arikr · 3 years ago
Slightly odd to plug them given they didn't seem to be on top of this issue
arikr commented on Ask HN: Is it still safe to use Stripe?    · Posted by u/lab
gorbypark · 3 years ago
I’m a one man dev shop but in an app I’m developing I decided to implement payments with two (or more!) processors with the ability to set a weight for each. It hasn’t launched yet but the current plan is to have about 90% or so of transactions flow through Stripe with the other 10% being a “hot backup”, more or less. If anything happens, I can just flip over to the other processor. I decided to actually have the second processor take a small amount of payments so there is less of a risk of it not working seamlessly in the event of a crisis with Stripe. It’s going to cost slightly more in transaction fees but I think it’s worth it.
arikr · 3 years ago
Smart!
arikr commented on Ask HN: Is there a market for zero-knowledge API's?    · Posted by u/tony_codes
arikr · 3 years ago
Yes, I think so. Seems like what some enterprises will need

HIPAA compliant GPT, for example

arikr commented on Ask HN: How do I get into angel investing?    · Posted by u/vowelless
arikr · 3 years ago
My take: take 10-20% of it as a learning fund, try and deploy that over the next 3 months, into some combo of #1 and #3, as a quick way to get some initial experience (though note that results won't be clear until 10 years!). Only invest what you'd be willing to lose etc. Then once you've done that you'll be in a good position to figure out what to do next.

u/arikr

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