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by csallen 5y ago
No solution suggestions here, just curiosity, so feel free to ignore. What does your depression look like in terms of time? Is it constant, or do you get hours/days/weeks/months off? Is it recurring, or is this your first exp
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by csallen 5y ago
How common? What's the denominator? It's one thing to say that failure happens often, but what matters is the ratio: the number of failures relative to the number of successes. Denominator blindness leads to people assessing ris
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by csallen 6y ago
Yes, this is why we have copyright law. But it's important to realize that the law is artificially creating a viable business model, and your expectation to get paid is based on that artificial creation. There are theoretically infin
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by csallen 6y ago
You're assuming the only possible world is one in which musicians selling music is a viable business model. But the reality is that there are infinite business models that simply don't work, and it's perfectly fine. There w
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by csallen 6y ago
The world we have today is built around the laws we have today. People sink many tens or hundreds of millions into copyable content in part because they know the laws guarantee they'll be able to make a profit doing that. But if those
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by csallen 6y ago
The "lost sales" point seems like a red herring to me. Theft is about taking rivalrous goods. If I steal your apple, you no longer have your apple, which is injurious to you. That's why theft is illegal. Piracy and copyright
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by csallen 6y ago
The fact that some people fail to accomplish a thing doesn't mean others can't. Of course you can engineer addictive games. We know quite a lot about addiction. What do you think casinos are, exactly?
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by csallen 6y ago
Stay independent and keep growing my company and my revenue as I'd been doing, with no boss or anyone to answer to. It's called "Indie" Hackers after all :)
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by csallen 6y ago
Of course! I don't claim to be a master negotiator -- far from it. But I did negotiate. And, more importantly, I'm quite differentiated. There was no other Indie Hackers to buy.
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by csallen 6y ago
Salary is a negotiation between parties. Looked at soberly, you're the business, your employer is your customer, and the salary they pay you is really the price you charge for your services. They have no obligation to pay more for yo
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by csallen 6y ago
Amusingly, you could analyze anything this way if you ignore the benefits and only look at the costs. "Planes are an outrage! Imagine if you proposed a system that required hours of everyone's time, cost them hundreds of dollars,
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by csallen 6y ago
"…finally holding PG to the same standard…" The typical reaction to PG essays on HN has been the exact same flavor of negative for many, many years now. Go back and read the comments on his previous submissions. PG himself even wr
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by csallen 6y ago
My friends at Slack are all very excited.
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by csallen 6y ago
The economy we've created that transacts in information is the direct result of laws that support it. If, for example, anybody could copy your movie, then spending $200M to make it would be a very bad business decision, so people would
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by csallen 6y ago
Yes, this is why I'm careful to limit my criticism specifically to the belief that information can be "owned." That's subtly different from the belief that we can make contracts around information. But if you ask the ave
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by csallen 6y ago
The belief that information and ideas should be "owned" as if they are physical property is insidious, was always going to lead to absurd lawsuits like this, and will lead to worse in the future. Information is non-rivalrous. It c
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by csallen 6y ago
It's discipline and systems. The fewer systems you have in place to enforce correct behavior, the more you have to rely on discipline. And discipline is a tough nut crack consistently. Some of my favorite systems include: * Social acco
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by csallen 6y ago
> I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down. For the same reason every human frequently makes decisions with greate
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by csallen 6y ago
Expecting them to not only exempt you from paying for your previously uploaded photos, but to also allow you to continue to upload photos for free indefinitely seems unreasonable to me. That's not what I'd expect from being grandf
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by csallen 6y ago
He said "laws of physics" not "physicists." You're deliberately misreading his point, which undermines whatever point you're trying to make.
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by csallen 6y ago
I just read point #3 after reading your comment, and I don't see what's nebulous about it. Perhaps different people are good at grokking different writing styles, because it was quite easy for me to extract the lessons: - It reall
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by csallen 6y ago
I wish Google would just stick with their products and iterate on them. Instead, they completely stop making fixes and improvements to their products, silently abandon them, and secretly start working on a totally new replacement product. T
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by csallen 6y ago
Reddit is a top 20 site, according to Alexa. So they're not doing poorly. And any social website has a moat: the network effects from social connections.
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by csallen 6y ago
Not wanting completely open borders isn't "greed" by any definition I'm aware of. It's a fairly normal level of human self interest.
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by csallen 6y ago
It seems very easy from the outside looking in to conclude that an organization should play judge and jury for external conflicts. But having run a small internet forum and occasionally being asked to resolve disputes, even trivial he-said
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by csallen 6y ago
The point doesn't require optimism at all. In fact, it requires a certain degree of magical thinking to believe that the information WOULDN'T get a wide degree of publicity. Consider the massive numbers of people and industries wh
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by csallen 6y ago
In my limited experience with lawyers, they always advise conservatism. That's not to say they're always wrong. But they don't have much incentive to say, "Go for it!" Even if you're 95% chance likely to have t
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by csallen 6y ago
Same here. I've been addicted to my laptop for years, and can go days without looking at my phone. For the same reason: everything is on my laptop. Work, movies, books, chats with friends, my podcast, research, etc. And I have the sa
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by csallen 6y ago
He also said, "congressional Republicans would [not] automatically spring to [Trump's] defense, if he overstepped the line," which was clearly wrong.
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by csallen 6y ago
I don't see any reason why Google itself couldn't simply spin off a competitor. They wouldn't have to own it. They could simply provide know-how, discounts on infrastructure, investment, and/or acquire the company at a l

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