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by csallen 3y ago
To me it felt like "every little thing," but that was due to a combination of me being defensive + not seeing the value in communication and preventing resentment. Today I'd consider many of those little things to be importan
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by csallen 3y ago
My ex was a relationship therapist. She was absolutely allergic to letting scar tissue build up. She would tell me about every little negative thing that happened between us. And she would phrase it by talking about her feelings rather than
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by csallen 3y ago
I don't disagree with the trend you're point out, but it also has to be put in perspective: 1. That chart lists 25 industries, and "computer industry" still ranks #3 in terms of how positive people feel about it. It&#x27
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by csallen 3y ago
Same. The very nature of information is that it yearns to be free. Information cannot be "owned." The point of copyright should be to grant temporary monopolies to encourage creation, not to confer ownership. Thomas Jefferson put
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by csallen 3y ago
Brand loyalty is a moat. So I wouldn't say that Coca-Cola doesn't have a moat. In addition, economies of scale allow them to produce more cheaply + advertise more + distribute wider than competitors. Compare Coca-Cola to some be
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by csallen 3y ago
Turn on "showdead" in your HN account settings, and you can see deleted content.
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by csallen 4y ago
Poker! I had an awesome group of poker friends in SF, maybe 10-12 of us who'd play regularly, although on any given weekend it'd only be 4-8 who'd show up. We'd sit around a table playing poker for hours and hours, and a
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by csallen 4y ago
I haven't experienced anyone in my friend group being pressured by others to join into group activities, and I'm pretty perceptive about interpersonal issues. More commonly what I've seen happen is occasionally two people I&#
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by csallen 4y ago
There's nothing wrong with having meaningful 1-on-1 connections. But how many of those can you really have in your life, simultaneously? Read the other comments on this article, and there are so many men in their 30s, 40s, 50s+ saying
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by csallen 4y ago
Yes, I do a lot of these! Very chill house "parties" with a handful of people.
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by csallen 4y ago
Totally! Especially considering that they also invited me the vast majority of the time.
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by csallen 4y ago
> "Researchers also find that when we develop groups, our friendships are more sustainable than they are with individuals. Because there's multiple touch points now, right? Someone else in the group could reach out to all of u
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by csallen 4y ago
I've never conceptualized of burnout as trauma, but this makes a lot of sense. The best definition I've read of trauma is, "an event or series of events that overwhelm a persons' ability to cope." Almost like tearin
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by csallen 4y ago
Great point. My guess is that it depends on the context. Humans are natural storytellers. We're wired to encode our experiences as stories, share stories, and recall the stories we've been told. But most importantly, we're wi
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by csallen 4y ago
Ironically, this perspective itself is a result of survivorship bias. There are seemingly so few podcasts and publications about failure stories that it must be a rare and unique idea to start one, right? But the reality is that it's a
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by csallen 4y ago
I find it hard to believe that a society with weaker IP protections would be a society with noticeably less art. People love creating stuff and putting it out into the world, whether they can make a profit from royalties or not. Of course,
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by csallen 4y ago
Aren't the execs in this case losing the vast, vast, vast majority of the money they old in the bank? I haven't seen anything that makes it seem like they're getting out of this unharmed, and especially not at anyone else&#x2
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by csallen 4y ago
Hacker News is a discussion forum. Not only that, but it's one where the culture is defined by a contrarian-yet-intellectual spirit. It's the last place anyone should come to share opinions without expecting a response, likely a c
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by csallen 4y ago
> I'd already transferred the maximum yearly tax free gift of $10,000 to each of my kids. If I'm not mistaken, one tip I've heard is that one can transfer more than that in gifts yearly, and although that requires filing
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by csallen 4y ago
If you're just looking to find podcasts to listen to that are new to you, I'd say word of mouth. For example, ask your friends and colleagues. Or ask around on Twitter, Reddit, HN, etc. Or search for conversations where people hav
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by csallen 4y ago
But you could say that about anything. If there's one restaurant in town and somebody opens up a second, you could say, "There was already a restaurant and you're just duplicating existing services." Yeah that's tru
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by csallen 4y ago
Why is it a competition? If you give me a slice of cake, and I give you $5, and we're both happy with that, why should I care if you're somehow "winning" or I'm "losing"? That mindset seems like a self-ful
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by csallen 4y ago
He seems to have them right where we he wants them, too. Mutual transaction. Everybody's happy.
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by csallen 4y ago
> …insects… are a million miles from the mindless, unfeeling creatures they are traditionally believed to be. Is it truly a common belief that insects are mindless and unfeeling? I would imagine the vast majority of people, when polled
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by csallen 4y ago
As someone who doesn't fly planes, it's almost impossible to understand this comment or the author's original passage lol
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by csallen 4y ago
Ironically, that's exactly what NovemberWhiskey is doing here :)
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by csallen 4y ago
I mean you could pretty easily do a minimum amount plus a percentage. We're just talking about the upper limits here, the maximum fines.
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by csallen 4y ago
Yeah that kind of stuff is always going to happen. It's super tough to plug every single loophole and stop every single infraction, so we have to accept that that's not the goal. Hell, when you make murder illegal, murders commit
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by csallen 4y ago
I took a minute to look. $14,502 is the highest fine for an accidental violation, however you can also be charged that amount per date for failure to fix the violation, and the penalty increases 10x to $145k for violations that are willfu
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by csallen 4y ago
This isn't super convincing to me. You're basically predicting that some new innovation will be limited in its usefulness, but you have no real way of knowing that, because the variables are too complex. This is why we have a mark

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