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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Not sure there is confusion at work. Legal non-citizen immigrants cannot vote in national elections. And usually not in local ones, either, according to the US Customs & Immigration Service: "There are very few jurisdictions where a non
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
How is it "shoving" anything into "people's faces"? It says "We're not getting revenue value out of it." Are you offended to find out that being on the front page is nearly economically valueless? 37s is attacked all the time by a tiny, but
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It's not misleading, but the comparison to HN and Y Combinator is. HN isn't a product which is for sale. There is no way to pay for HN.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
* The amount of exposure they get*… I believe you mean: The amount of exposure HNers give them by submitting and upvoting their posts, and then the endless hours HNers spend debating them… 37S doesn't ask to be on the front page of HN. They
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
In Q1 2007, my husband and I were invited to Twitter HQ for a meeting -- I was pitching a visualization project, my husband (renowned JS developer Thomas Fuchs) was proposing that we fix their horrible front-end performance issues (both pa
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
They are all around you. My business. Gravity Forms. Campaign Monitor. Harvest. Peepcode. Marc-André Cournoyer. WooThemes. Tick. Envato. Beanstalk & Postmark. And on and on and on. These are just some of the folks I know personally, in
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Speaking of numbers games, you use "median" when we all know that median exit is valueless without information about distribution. Mode is much more valuable. But that data is not available. However, if you pay attention to the publicized a
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I can't tell, are you being snarky? I never said it discouraged anything or that people failed. It is simply 10x the complexity, hoops to jump through, legal paperwork, and tax rigamarole.
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Ooh, wow. Do you have a link by any chance? That's enough to make it worth it to create a new Fucked Company. That's new heights (depths?).
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I thought about mentioning Groupon but thought it would make my argument sound weak. Thank YOU for bringing it up. Seriously, I don't know how they could get away with that. Surely it's some kind of financial malfeasance?
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
In retrospect you see the path of how a company got huge as if it were a foregone conclusion, but the individual choices were not necessarily made in service of a grand vision. This. To support your statement, it's worth looking into how
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I agree with you that they shouldn't be in conflict. There are only a few outliers (FB) where they truly are, and the chance any one of us has of creating the next one of those are so tiny as to be nonexistent. When I write about "start
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You and I agree that there are only "a few thousand" people in the US in a given year who are "in a position to shoot for an M&A." There are, however, at least 10x those numbers in hopefuls… people who believe that they could do it, eve
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Let me tackle your last argument with another example: Clearly some (most) junk-food-eaters found that eating junk food was a better alternative, since they were obviously the ones who kept eating junk food. That kind of argument simply d
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
On top of everything you said, folks should step back and realize that VCs or VC-related interests have historically powered all the most-read startup media (TechCrunch, HN, AVC, etc). This has an influence. According to Dow Jones Ventureso
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
"But a lifestyle company founder can get equally rich - just not one huge pile of money at one time." True. Especially when you consider that investment isn't income . When an investor gives you one huge pile of money at one time, it's not
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Chiming in: cortisol IS "the stress hormone" but "stress" in the body sense is not the same thing as we think of "stress" in our daily lives. With my chronic fatigue syndrome, there was a period where I had signs of "adrenal fatigue." My bo
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Your concerns are mistaken on multiple levels: 1. It's not really that hard to take time away from your business. It's a common fear but not based in actual experience, and therefore irrational. When you have an established group of custome
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
"I can say that no third world country makes it as hard to be self-employed as we do in the US. Indeed no developed nation does either....." You are flat-out wrong there, my friend. Someone else pointed out how hard it is in Uruguay. Indone
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I've read a lot about the history of the work, and what you say isn't described by any of the historians -- until the advent of the industrial revolution, that is. The time spent by hunter-gatherers is the least of all. Agrarian times -- wh
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
IMO the "slave" aspect comes from the cycle you get stuck in, rather than the fact that somebody gets to tell you what to do. As Felix Dennis (*megarich entrepreneur) says, "A regular paycheck is like crack." It's easy to become a slave to
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Given the issues with "whole" organisms which are genetically modified, and our continuing "tiny keyhole" understanding of nutrition, it seems very unlikely that lab grown meat will be nutritionally comparable as real meat.
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No, but your comment implied that "it" is hard to do but if you slap on some social, "it can be done." You don't need to do anything so serious as "add social" to do "it."
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Unnecessary. Our apps aren't "social." :)
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
"Trendy"? How so? I can't remember the last "we could have sold it but instead chose to shut it down because it was better for us" essay I saw on HN.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Any word on why this was [deleted] until a few minutes ago? Inquiring minds want to know.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Agreed. Except your first rule (A) is broken. We make lots of money off hackers & developers. It's time to retire that old saw that "developers don't buy." They do, lots of them.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
How CAN'T you acquire a decent amount of customers? The world is so much simpler and easier than you think it is. Maybe that sounds like hand-wavy BS to you, but it's simply the facts. Freckle grows even when we ignore it. We don't "do" ver
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
This is a simple logical error: "It seems like lots of people are doing it, therefore the market must be saturated, therefore nobody will make any money." In the face of credible testimony from somebody you presumably trust (since patio11 h
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
If you (or, okay, I) can create a new product which has certain selling points, and gain quite a lot of customers, how is the market still considered "over-saturated"? I make my living exclusively in "over-saturated" or "nobody will pay for

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