Polar Bear! He was a Bichon Poodle mix and his tail hadn’t grown in yet so he looked exactly like one of the little polar bears from the Coca Cola commercials
Came home from Christmas Eve shopping/sight seeing in Manhattan with my dad and baby sister to find that our mom had gone and gotten us a puppy! I’d never had a dog before. It remains one of the best and happiest memories of my life :)
For a similar use case, I’ve been considering a combination of s3 exports of db views (mapping private schema to public) + lakeformation governed tables (which allow table, row, and cell level security via iam) + redshift or athena for querying + sts/cognito for authorization to give logged in users a temporary access key id and secret access key. Admittedly an AWS heavy setup, but in my use case that’s an advantage :)
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Benepass is using modern software and a great UX to transform the $30+ billion benefits industry. We’re displacing incumbents running on manual processes and legacy technology, like fax, checks in the mail, and artisanal CSVs.
In the past year, we’ve grown to cover thousands of lives and signed big customers who are household names. We've found product-market fit and we’re growing at breakneck speed. Our investors include Gradient Ventures, Y Combinator, and awesome angels like Aaron Levie of Box.
We’re hiring great software engineers for multiple mission-critical roles. Our backend stack is Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, AWS, IaC, & Docker. On the frontend we use Javascript, Tailwinds CSS, React, and React Native (plus a bit of Objective-C and Java when it’s called for).
We offer competitive compensation + equity, flexible PTO, 95% coverage of medical/dental/vision, and fantastic benefits (of course ).
I've been watching this comment thread unfold with a mixture of frustration (it's verging on flamewar) and curiosity.
As someone who is fairly steeped in the rationality-loving tradition and those ways of making sense of the world that are common in tech, I'd ask the following:
Can you or someone else on this thread point to a gentle introduction to the types of thought besides rationality that you're thinking of and how they're grounded? Is it possible for someone who accepts rationality to follow and credit these arguments without having to take any new beliefs as axiomatic?
Put another way, can rationality guide me at least part way to some of these other things?
The Kelly Criterion is the subject of an absolutely incredible book by William Poundstone called "Fortune's Formula".
In the course of discussing the formula, the book takes you through the birth of the MIT blackjack team, the genesis of statistical arbitrage, and mini biographies of people like Claude Shannon and Ed Thorpe. I can't recommend it highly enough.