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by ahoyhere 15y ago
The whole thesis behind this essay is overly facile. A person who is a bad public speaker -- and admits it -- propounding on The Meaning of Public Speaking, its worth, and comparing it to acting (when he presumably is not, and has never bee
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Speaking is also about changing minds and hearts. Persuasion works much better in person than in print. There are studies to this effect. The effect of a talk does not have to "disappear rapidly" after the talk is over. That is why you will
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Considering porn was a $13 billion industry last year, I think people dramatically overestimate the cost of piracy. That number's from Wikipedia, in case you're wondering. Certainly we sell downloadable digital goods, easy to pirate, and ha
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
In my experience, you have to worry much more about people saying they won't pay (when they actually would) than saying they will pay (when they actually wouldn't). I can't tell you how many folks went from "gee, why on earth would I ev
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Don't forget worrying. OP, SF is an epicenter of car break-ins. Chances are high that you're gonna get your stuff stolen. If you're lucky, it won't be your tech gear cuz you'll be in a coworking spot (good luck finding parking - I have memo
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
NBA superstars don't get paid purely for skill, they get paid for because they bring in crowds of people and sell merchandise. That's where the money comes from. Acquisitions are not a meritocracy. If you don't like it, go into a business w
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Not in the acquisitions game, and certainly not in the acquihire game. Otherwise most startups that get bought wouldn't get bought, since most of them don't have any revenue (much less profit).
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It's funny that you think that "deserve" has anything to do with it. Makes me think of "nice guys" who get passive aggressive when the girl they like doesn't want to go out with them, because they did nice things for her and they "deserve"
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Body posture is more important than actual innate attractiveness. Body posture creates attractiveness.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Do you think that when a person you've been dating for a year says "I love you" and when a random stranger on the street says "I love you," that both are equally suspicious? Logic. I like to see it on HN. It is missing from this conversatio
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Paid product companies don't get bought nearly as often, either. In a lot of ways it makes you an unattractive acquisition target.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
What could be the repercussions for a bit of law that says "If you hold customer money in an account, you cannot simply close and freeze the account without a certain set of procedures and an appeal process that looks like x"? A bank can't
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
PayPal has horrendous customer service even compared to the worst credit card processor. For example, if you have somebody dispute a charge with a CC processor, you have a chance to refute. Not so much with PayPal. In fact, they might order
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
"The sales tactics on that page are also used by people trying to scam you" Who are these alleged people, where have you met them, how do you know they're scammers, and more importantly, have you ever met one doing this alleged scamming w
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
No, it should set off "this guy knows how to run a business and market things properly" alarms. In short: this guy knows what he's doing! 1. The price comparison? It's called anchoring. And you're supposed to do it. Moreover, it works, both
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
What part of that, exactly?
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Have to agree with you there. His premise is interesting, and he opened strong, but then it devolved into a series of terrible "I don't know what I'm talking about" moments.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
What exactly are you expecting to hear? If the authors of CoffeeScript and Ruby recommend it, do you think a random HNer is going to be more persuasive? I honestly can't imagine how you figure it "looks like a scam." It looks no more like a
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
OLPC has been such a failure because it was designed without understanding or respect for the situation the people live in. I agree with you about medicines etc. being bandages and education being the most important thing. But I think when
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Well it worked out for the best! No worries. But I know there are people who are actually thinking that . Sarcasm: it's dangerous (but sometimes useful) on the internet ;)
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
No, they die because they are ignorant of sanitation and therefore don't have any. Have you read anything on the subject, or are you just assuming? Secondly, there is certainly money to be made in solving the problem, if you're not a truly
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It's not a disease which causes children to die of diarrhea, it's inadequate sanitation. That's right: exposure to human waste.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
What about this? "In the developing world, 24,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable causes like diarrhea contracted from unclean water." - UNICEF That's 54 jumbo jets a day. I also remain unimpressed by the ambit
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Actually, I was saying lifestyle companies make more people rich, not people more rich . Depends on your definition of rich, of course. :) Not sure why you thought I might have changed my mind based on the above. Misreading perhaps? I wa
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Pretty much all of the digital goods sales platforms work this way. This is nothing new. Please don't credit them with inventing it. This technique has been around for literally a decade or more.
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NB: you're responding to "pge" not "pg" -- pretty sure they're not the same people.
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The people "hating" (I haven't seen anyone hate, merely question) are frustrated because everybody around them tells them it's not luck, it's awesome, and that if you build a great product, get popular, etc., your day will come. That it's a
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of people have been selling digital files for years and years and years. Ever heard of Clickbank? No? Well that's because you're not doing enough research. The moderately interesting part is the social asp
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
No, it's a guy who wants to start a service LIKE this one talking about what happens as a customer support issue when somebody claims someone else is selling their IP.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
If their country's law enforcement and legal bodies are being so drastically corrupted by a foreign country, that would seem like one of the most important legal issues around.

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