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by csallen 7y ago
What you call design theft I call commoditization. Of course businesses and creators fear it, because they want to capture as much value for themselves as possible, and so they will paint it as theft if they can get away with doing so. But
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by csallen 7y ago
> So at some level, hard work must matter. And if it didn't, why are companies copying the designs? Can't they just scribble something on a default shoe and call it a day? You're confusing inputs with outputs, processes
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by csallen 7y ago
> Except copying someone else's design and presenting it as your own is literally that infraction? No, it's different. The infraction in question would be, say, copying a Rolex watch and putting "Rolex" on it. In th
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by csallen 7y ago
You're shifting the goalposts. Presenting misinformation to consumers is generally illegal, and is also a completely separate concern from copying and building off of others' innovations. I haven't seen any comments here that
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by csallen 7y ago
Don't hate the player, hate the game. That's business. The fact that your designers worked hard is irrelevant. Capitalism is by its very nature competitive, and it's on you as a business owner to figure out a working model in
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by csallen 7y ago
This reminds me of Brian Balfour's "Four Fits" model which is the bedrock for how I think about companies. You need four things: (1) a market, i.e. a set of customers with a valuable problem; (2) a product that actually solve
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by csallen 7y ago
I have never understood this viewpoint of, "If you find fault with country X, then leave!" Sometimes it's applied to companies, tools, etc., too: "If you find fault with Y, then stop using it!" Can you explain this
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by csallen 7y ago
I agree. Here's my story in case anyone finds it helpful: I started lifting in college, and quickly transformed from being super skinny to being well-built and much stronger than the average person. But not crazy strong. I can usually
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by csallen 7y ago
That's true, but I'm not sure it's analogous. In sounds like in the study, by "hard parts" they meant the parts that were hard for the students . So it's relative. There were no universal "hard parts&quot
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by csallen 7y ago
This doesn't seem to match what the article says. It's not saying that the elite players feel relaxed, nor is it saying that they don't need to force themselves to study. Rather, it's saying that they studied exactly a
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by csallen 7y ago
Yes, web dev is still viable and will be for a long time to come. You can't go wrong learning the basics of front end (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), the latter of which also gets used on the back end quite regularly nowadays. You'll als
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by csallen 7y ago
Who decides who's allowed to publish op-eds in the Times and what topics those op-eds will be about?
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by csallen 7y ago
Stripe acquired Indie Hackers two and a half years ago, and I love it. I get ample support and encouragement, while also retaining my freedom to run the community how I see fit. Most IHers would also tell you that the site has improved sinc
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by csallen 7y ago
I find immense meaning in my work, and I've gone through long stretches in the past 10 years where I would've said more or less what the parent commenter said, that experience for its own sake is meaningless. However, my perspecti
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by csallen 7y ago
When you spend years going to work every day in the presence of external sources of motivation (a boss who could fire you, a mortgage to pay, coworkers who depend on you, etc.), it's easy to underestimate just how much of a factor thos
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by csallen 7y ago
Is anyone saying we need to immediately pull the plug on 100% of oil and fossil fuel use? I haven't seen any serious climate change plans that propose that. Also, this lawsuit seems to be about deceptive business practices (misleading
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by csallen 7y ago
I run https://IndieHackers.com , which was inspired by threads like this one on HN. I've interviewed hundreds of people running successful one-person SaaS businesses, and many thousands more have created pages for their prod
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by csallen 7y ago
He immediately admitted that he warns guests in his own home about being recorded, and the article discusses the fact that the cameras have an LED light that turns on when recording. So it's clearly not true that he hadn't thought
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by csallen 7y ago
> I wonder why they didn't reverse that relationship, too, and propose that violent crime increases pollution. Probably because you can easily rule out that possibility using common sense, whereas causation in the other direction
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by csallen 7y ago
> It's not much of a dilemma though, is it? Already-rich folks kowtowing to fascists for a quick buck is beyond pathetic. This ignores human nature and basic incentives. Of course it's not much of a dilemma for you and me.
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by csallen 7y ago
Thanks for making an insightful comment that acknowledges the complexities of the world and tries to take into account the information, events, and possibilities that we don't see. That's quite rare. It's more much common t
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> I'm a person who wants thinner and lighter laptops. Why? Because I want the least possible weight But… why?
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by csallen 7y ago
It is fascinating to see how comfortable we've all become with living under the threat of near-instant nuclear annihilation.
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by csallen 7y ago
Wes Bos, Adam Wathan, Joel Hooks of Egghead, Quincy Larson of freeCodeCamp, Jeff Meyerson of Software Engineering Daily, Ben Halpern of DEV, Jessica Chan of Coder Coder, arguably Ben Tossell of Makerpad.
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by csallen 7y ago
Totally, and this is the perspective I'm responding to. I don't think it's necessarily invalid. But I do think it's very easy to get sucked into a mindset of, "Let's shame individuals into making sacrifices,&qu
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by csallen 7y ago
Seems implausible to me that this is a problem that's going to be solved by asking people to make personal sacrifices. The numbers don't add up. When the op says, "we should focus on…" I assume he's talking about po
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by csallen 7y ago
Whether you believe that or not, there exist many millions who don't, and who treat others differently primarily on the basis of race.
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by csallen 7y ago
With services like Blue Apron and HelloFresh, you're paying for convenience. Perhaps you don't want to go to the grocery store, look up recipes, etc.
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by csallen 7y ago
There are negative side effects of capitalism for sure, but it's possible to identify these effects and work to counteract them. In a democratic country, the populace regularly campaigns for new regulations to counteract some of the ba
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by csallen 7y ago
> Dogmas are a disease… We should use the right tool for the problem. It's bizarre to me how rare this stance is. I understand disagreement over what exactly the "right tool" is, because these things are complex. But peopl

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