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by bsanr2 7y ago
If you'd like to start a company along those lines, be my guest. Purple et al. are the ones who come up with and advertise their trials; you don't really have any basis to blame customers for using it as it was presented to them.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Purple stuff is high-priced because they're one of two companies you can buy their signature feature from. It's the Wacom Principle. They could honestly sell it for far cheaper, or sell a gel grid mattress topper, and get far fewe
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by bsanr2 7y ago
It was bought on credit, so I had no oop costs for the trial. I was having sleeping problems and wanted something that would unreservedly improve my rest. It did improve it, which, as anyone who's gone an extended period sleep-depriv
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Out of the ~20 million college students, the number that come from families with $40k in liquid assets is probably not plural-millions-with-an-s, and is probably considerably less than a million. With the field of competition winnowed thu
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>among people in his position That is, among college students without the baggage of full adulthood (debt, personal responsibilities, the mental and physical degradation that starts as early as your mid-twenties, and the risk aversion th
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by bsanr2 7y ago
That's partly because most people will have baggage to attend to that a college student living off student loans would not, and will lack the safety net that parents who can loan you $44k represent. There's not much here to convin
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I think it would be interesting to note how many of you find this an objectionable mindset because of its self-destructiveness, compared to how many of you find it objectionable because you simply cannot stand to be reminded of the wretched
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by bsanr2 7y ago
If you're into this, I would suggest looking into the still-developing story of the defunct Fabula Nova Crystallis project (as well as FFXIV). What can be gathered heretofore is wild.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>Except the part where simply choosing not to subsidize someone that could contribute to society but does not involves no actual use of force. Of course it does. What are the various exigencies, used to secure hoarded property for an ind
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Some of us are stubborn enough that this is the answer. Curse the universe that afflicted me with this, and if I must suffer it, let others know, viscerally, how debilitating it is. Maybe I can be the horrible warning that sparks change. I
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Human society is not what it was 100, 500, 1000, 10000 years ago. Conjuring a farcical "necessity of survival" is disingenuous in a world where the average worker is hyper-specialized, such that they perform a fraction of the labo
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>She can have access to a big chunk of all the songs ever recorded, on-demand and for FREE (ad-supported Spotify). Which she could afford to pay for (albeit at a much lower price than the cassettes would have commanded, appropriate for t
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by bsanr2 7y ago
You would rather have to work with people who have an incentive to behave badly (in order to get fired from jobs they didn't want in the first place), than to just give them enough to live on until they decide how they're going to
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Many American companies that are infamous for not being able to do it here manage it in their overseas locations. I pin it on the deficiencies of American culture and some combination of the failures in worker's rights, corporate prior
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I'll again refer you to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22258862 In addition to what I said earlier, I'll add that though $30,000 sounds like a big scary number, it's not so much when realizing that priv
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by bsanr2 7y ago
My contention was the characterization as "loser gangster culture." It's victim-blaming, even if the victim is an angry-seeming young black boy.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I have family that dealt with these issue, I live in and near communities that are fighting it, and I live a version of it, transposed from the pre-school->school transition to the college->postgrad/working world transition.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>aaaand ... loser gangster culture. No. You have parents that are not able to attend to pre-school education, whether it's a time or money issue, or even an education issue themselves. And then you have children, let down by parents
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Probably not.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Funding models differ greatly. Often those sky-high prices-per-student are because the schools are taking care of several meals a day for students, as well as before/after care, extracurriculars, and special needs programs, where all t
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I think you see a similar phenomenon across many aspects of contemporary American life. We've found inferior-yet-workable ways to route around the increasingly dire financial situation of the average family, often by lowering standards
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by bsanr2 7y ago
That educational attainment was a priority for my extended family, and that there are high-profile fights for educational equity in cities across the country, lead me to believe that even non-immigrant black families and communities do have
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I hear this a lot, but I don't know if it's particularly true. For black immigrants, I find more compelling the notion that their comfort with, and belief in, pursuing higher education isn't rocked so profoundly by white supr
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Something that many HNers will probably be embarrased to admit being surprised by is how higher education attainment rates for immigrants don't exclude African immigrants. In fact, black immigrants from Africa and the West Indies have
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Quickest thing you can do is quit your jobs en masse. At some index level of number of people * avg skill of people quitting, the industry becomes nonviable. Then you state your terms. Sounds like a union? Also sounds like Galt's Gulch
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I'm not sure where this comes from. Any halfway-competent company in a right-to-work state can drop you like a sack of potatoes with no cause or notice, and you won't be able to do anything unless you have a documented history of
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by bsanr2 7y ago
If you look in my recent comment history, you'll see one where I'm advocating for a debate platform that weights submission/comment voting by user similarity. The buried lede in that concept is that you could use that same pl
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I wonder how much of this is true and how much of it is face-saving ops for any given party. It must be difficult to know for sure unless you're part of the supply chain.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
A thought that's been sitting in my Evernotes for a while: "I wish I could code because I have an idea for something I think would be valuable. Basically I think debate is a good thing, and especially online debate, where you can
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I don't think it's unfair to consider the historical demography of those (service) jobs, in addition to considering the network effects on perceived value in work that is often done in the background.

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