admoin

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by admoin 18y ago
linkbait (and shameless amazon affiliate pimping) alert
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by admoin 18y ago
extremely well said
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by admoin 18y ago
I'd do it on a case by case basis. I think you can probably get a good idea in a lot of cases whether people will recommend you without any incentive.
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by admoin 18y ago
I can't imagine a better way to promote your services than through word of mouth. Might be worth it to offer discounts/rebates if your customers recommend new leads.
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by admoin 18y ago
They're still up. I think they just got overloaded with traffic for a minute.
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by admoin 18y ago
That is very generous, even considering this is a Sunday night. I think it'll be gone by 9am.
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by admoin 19y ago
For real. Although YC is certainly a great judge of talent and predictor of success, they aren't the be all and end all, and are forced to rely on a lot of proxies/indicators in making their decisions. Give it a go yourself!
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by admoin 19y ago
I find GTD extremely attractive, but any attempt to implement it in my life (and I've tried a few times), has been an abject failure. A few things I've found helpful, though, to minimizing time-wasting generally are: 1) Stop playing video g
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by admoin 19y ago
I actually found this quite interesting. Although most people would love to grow virally through word of mouth, top search rankings bring in enormous amounts of traffic day after day. I know of blogs that haven't updated in years that still
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by admoin 19y ago
I think the author has a point, but I think hackers are guilty of similar behavior regarding legal and finance expertise, both of which are critically important in keeping and profiting (respectively) from your hacking. I think it's really
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by admoin 19y ago
The consensus seems to be that this doesn't qualify as Hacker News, but I tend to think that a large percentage of the users of this board can empathize with this boy. I certainly went through some of this (though not nearly as much, and at
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by admoin 19y ago
amen to that
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by admoin 19y ago
Right, that assumes the proceeds of the loan are redeposited into the banking system. If instead the money remains in circulation or is otherwise kept in physical form, the multiplication stops.
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by admoin 19y ago
Yep. I actually was somewhat credulous until he got fractional reserve banking backwards (getting a $1000 deposit with a 10% reserve requirement means you can lend out $900 of it, not that you can magically lend out $9000 that you don't hav
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by admoin 19y ago
near-total bs with a moderate grounding in fact
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by admoin 19y ago
If you don't understand tax or your situation is relatively complex, I guess go to a well-recommended accountant. Otherwise, TurboTax is excellent (make sure to buy the version that corresponds to what you need to report, and also be on the
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by admoin 19y ago
extremely impressive, not from a technical point of view or anything, but this kind of profitability with a bare bones design and low overhead is quite impressive.
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by admoin 19y ago
I agree it is an inapt comparison, but the article is a good read if you construe that phrase as "a really, really bad global recession" rather than an attention-grabbing historical reference.
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by admoin 19y ago
Good ideas are good ideas in any market. Stay frugal and lean and aim for profitability without any outside investment, and you'll do fine...or fail, but at least you won't be too scarred from the experience.
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by admoin 19y ago
I'd agree it's not even close to Hacker News per se, but this is a big enough deal I'd say it belongs.
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by admoin 19y ago
yeah, a cool little app
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by admoin 19y ago
There are also tax reasons to heavily overweight his compensation in stock options. See IRC § 162(m)
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by admoin 19y ago
axis and allies
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by admoin 19y ago
why is this notorious?
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by admoin 19y ago
That works, except then I guess the hole was not making it clear enough that you were talking about utility rather than expected value. The problem with your response, and the reason that I don't really see it as a good explanation, is that
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by admoin 19y ago
I read the union essay a while ago, but your failure to sufficiently consider risk-aversion in this one was a major hole. I don't mean to really criticize that much, you write consistently great stuff.
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by admoin 19y ago
yep, immediately thought of that too. PG writes VERY good stuff most of the time and is very smart about a lot of things, but when he strays into areas in which he is not well versed (the unions essay comes to mind), he ends up writing piec
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by admoin 19y ago
It gets weirder and weirder thinking about how he's the same guy I roomed with 7 years ago at summer camp.