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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Yeah. We live in a crazy time, when people think a convenience for a $400 device is "changing the world." You're right… it IS arrogant. And it's also sad, like a group of little kids talking about how important and badass they are, who they
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Yes, we should. Thank you for bringing it up. The OP makes some good points about the risks and ridiculous time/energy expenditures of "startups," but he misses the most dangerous element. Grandiosity is a problem in the startup space. Gran
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I think most people who knew Aaron (even briefly, like me) sensed that he had some kind of emotional problem before any of this ever happened. I knew him in the Infogami days, pre-Reddit, and I ceased our friendship because of his negativit
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Heaven forbid an author write from his experience, and use a vivid illustration, instead of consulting the Compendium Of Facts Of What Every Person Knows and choosing the blandest and most local example.
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He doesn't simply call for active placebos to be outlawed. He lists several problems with the current system and then says: FDA needs to review its policies on placebos and either outlaw "active placebos" or rigorously define acceptable co
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Haha, no. But the Viennese are not a very welcoming people and it was hard to make friends, and my husband and I ran a company together so it was very easy to be just by ourselves. Vienna is not a place where you can chitchat with your wait
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Me too. It's amazing what you do to get by. You probably simplified your vocabulary some too, I expect? I know I did. Living in Austria was hell on my previously prodigious vocab!
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> But the blog post says "Hey! Drug companies are trying to pull a fast on all of you!…" Actually what it says is that placebo ingredients should be documented in studies, and regulated by the FDA. Why is that such heresy? If placebos
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Even above duplication, it's important to document what's in the placebos because these clinical trials are used by the FDA to approve the drug for consumer use… or not.
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Why does the placebo complexity make a call for regulation and study disclosure "utter bullshit"?
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so the conclusion from that is that there is a concerted effort by drug companies to unscrupulously modified the outcomes of their studies Did we read the same blog post? The author didn't claim any such thing. In fact, he referenced a st
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And how do you find out your passion is a passion? So, this article may be overly facile (I agree with you that it is) but that doesn't mean he's entirely wrong, even if he's only right accidentally. There's quite a bit of research into exp
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My husband & I lived in Vienna and we were the only people who spoke out loud to each other on a daily basis (especially in English), and we understand each other very very well in any case, and we got the point where we often didn't ev
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Is it just me, or is this just a library that outputs placeholder divs and placeholder text? That doesn't fulfill the promise of "interactive HTML mock-ups" or "Quickly create and prototype a full interactive HTML mock-up."
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The only thing FB has from me that is real or accurate is my birthday. All the other things you listed are either totally false or out of date. (Then again, I don't "friend" my family… IRL or online.) Until now-ish (or the near future), FB
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Get the audiobook -- AUDIO BOOK -- of When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron. It totally saved my regretful ass. The thing about regret is your natural reaction is to run away from it, but that only makes it worse . And it makes you feel l
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Such fun to watch these lil videos go by. I love seeing people doing creative stuff with it —- so many fun stop motion dealies, like this one: http://vine.co/v/b5lTOtK3ELU Before this, my basic reaction to vine was: "Oh great, another soc
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As others say, it varies by state, but sexual blackmailing (e.g. "screw me or lose your job") and unwanted sexual touching are illegal just about everywhere.
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"Anonymity and cruelty are orthogonal concepts - there is nothing about anonymity that implies or requires cruelty" Yeah, there's only scads of research that shows that anonymity leads to bad behavior and that being reminded of yourself (
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Philadelphia is so much worse. Bigger, poorer, more corrupt. There is good reason to believe that the political "ruling families" trade off power, and pay each other not to run. Here's an example: City infrastructure like sewer pipes and wa
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
My #1 bit of advice would be for him to read How to Win Friends and Influence People. Yes, really. If you need to brush up on your social skills, it's the go-to guide. You can practice it even without having close personal or business relat
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By the by, there's no definitive research that shows that prison sentences act as a deterrent against crime. And there's a lot of research on crime & punishment out there. https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q...
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Exciting to my advice is so controversial it gets me downvoted :)
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Er, you did? The whole post was a log of an actual conversation I had with Nathan, which I made as clear as a person could possibly make it. The headline is "Me & Nathan Talking About His App Experiment." What really happened here isn't
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Here's what I said to Nathan: "You can’t sell to ANY of those people." And he can't . Are you just quibbling for the sake of quibbling?
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I think it's interesting that we are defining a kind of person, not a job description or industry. People buy things… job descriptions and industries don't :)
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> * So, if you're new to development, it's probably best to build small products (wp plugins, niche sites etc.) to build your portfolio, earn a little cash and more importantly increase your knowledge and experience. Amy, I'm not sure y
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Sure. SOMEBODY is making money off them. Can you, as a solo founder, not a lawyer, though? That's the question. SOMEBODY will win the lottery. That doesn't actually increase your chances. Everything I write, all the advice I give, is increa
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Poor little Facebook, such adorable little bumbling doofuses. Ooops! they say, covering their mouths coquettishly. Did we make a boo boo? And it made us more money? Why, never! They employ some of the world's best UI designers… and mark
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Hmm, thanks! One more q: Were these single people with limited budgets, or companies?

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