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by bhayden 12y ago
There was an article a week or so back talking about the most common jobs by state. Overwhelmingly it was truck driving, where I would guess it is common to technically be "freelance". I would imagine blue collar stuff like that
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by bhayden 12y ago
Agreed, not sure why no one throughout the writing or editing process of this article realized this obvious fact.
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by bhayden 12y ago
Thanks, this makes it clearer. I am re-reading the transcript of Peter Thiel's presentation and it seems like it might be more accurate to say, "competing in non-niche areas is for losers".
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by bhayden 12y ago
Thanks for the responses, this sounds cheesy but you're an inspiration for the goals that I'm working towards right now (making SaaS products for small businesses). I will start working on it full time in about 4 months (with ~2 y
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by bhayden 12y ago
I was confused why so many web dev jobs required Java.
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by bhayden 12y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding, I am fairly certain GA does everything you just describe. They have a real-time menu option and I can see my users going from page to page. I can see the number of people on my website right now (21). I g
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by bhayden 12y ago
On one hand it sucks you lost the accounts, on the other hand I'm glad to see the equivalent of domain squatting is at least somewhat solvable on twitter.
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by bhayden 12y ago
I assume the traffic is generated in the form of ads from the people who are selling you the traffic? So you're sort of like an advertising company?
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by bhayden 12y ago
Thanks for posting this, it's amazing that HN attracts users and content like this. You seem really positive about your work, like you enjoy all aspects of it. Is that true, or are there parts you hate?
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by bhayden 12y ago
Out of curiosity, and I don't mean this at all in a negative way: Why do people pay for W3Counter when Google Analytics is free and seemingly a lot more powerful? Do people really find GA that intimidating?
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by bhayden 12y ago
This data goes to Stripe, where Magic bills you. Magic doesn't use your card info to order the services for you. This is why this idea won't work - it's going to get overrun with chargeback fraud and totally ruin it.
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by bhayden 12y ago
Looking forward to the day I can start calling televisions "telescreens" as they "anonymously" record their environment (unless, of course, the NSA gives Samsung a blanket warrant).
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Ask HN: “Competition is for losers”, but it seems YC investments ignore this
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by bhayden 12y ago
I'm not sure I'd want to found a startup like this, simply because the pressure of messing and it having real, huge impacts on peoples lives. If the founder at Twitch screws up, maybe a few thousand people don't get to watch
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by bhayden 12y ago
>withdrawing it from the commons out of anger, is not OK. This is pretty obviously not what happened here, though.
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by bhayden 12y ago
I believe he is saying it's run by people of weak moral fiber and character.
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by bhayden 12y ago
Money laundering doesn't really solve the problem of being able to buy good digitally without revealing your identity.
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by bhayden 12y ago
The appeal of bitcoin to me, a regular American, is much the same appeal that using a VPN, having encrypted hard drives, and not sharing information about myself all over social media does. There is very little ability to have privacy when
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by bhayden 12y ago
The ones just released have a 15 hour battery (which even if it halves, is pretty good)
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by bhayden 12y ago
Not to mention how much the US governments advocates against encryption they can't have backdoors to. They have a lot more influence over the encryption in Windows than TrueCrypt. Not suggesting they DO have backdoors to Bitlocker, the
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by bhayden 12y ago
It's worth noting, I believe the effort to audit TC began before they "shut down".
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by bhayden 12y ago
It is probably safe to say Condé Nast has a huge influence in who the board of directors are, and therefore controls reddit still.
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by bhayden 12y ago
The prison system in the US is designed to create repeat offenders. This is because we have a lot of for-profit prisons that benefit from repeat offenders. There is no rehabilitation going on, I assure you. Quite the opposite is true.
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by bhayden 12y ago
If someone accepts a position for less than their worth, that's a market inefficiency, not what the position is actually worth.
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by bhayden 12y ago
Pretty sure if an arms dealer promoted, even indirectly, the use of their firearms for illegal purposes, they'd also get some people going through the justice system.
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by bhayden 12y ago
I'm an American, when I think "justice system" I think of justice not on a personal level, but on a punishment level. Justice is having a punishment that fits the crime. If someone wanted personal justice, I think they usuall
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by bhayden 12y ago
>it wasn't clear whether you wished to buy a portion of the business or a portion of a founder. This is pretty unprofessional and unnecessarily aggressive. The email could simply say "We appreciated your offer, but you made one
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by bhayden 12y ago
>without telling them what IS okay This issue I would have, if I weren't married and didn't have to worry about this, is that if you talk to enough women about "what is ok" you come to learn that nothing is. Talking t
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by bhayden 12y ago
I'm confused as to why he says it would require global effort but only cost $20 billion? That's barely a drop in the budget for the US.
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by bhayden 12y ago
That is my issue with this. Daniel Tosh makes sexist, racist, and rape jokes on a daily basis and people at large aren't up in arms threatening to strike if he visits their workplace. To me this says these psuedo-activists care more ab

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