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by csallen 8y ago
The new video game Apex Legends hit 2.5M players in its first day, 25M players in its first week. Not that this detracts from Spotify's accomplishment. It's just worth pointing out what's possible.
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by csallen 8y ago
I'm a huge fan of the approach KeyValues.com is taking to help engineers find companies they'd actually like to work at. A lot of sites are focused on helping companies cut through the noise to find qualified developers, which mea
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by csallen 8y ago
I don't think any of us would say that to a stranger in real life without expecting to cause great offense.
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by csallen 8y ago
I agree with Dan, and I wouldn't have commented had I not read this comment. It's easy to underestimate the happy-but-silent majority. Dan was spot on when saying that this acidity compounds. It leads to a vicious circle of increa
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by csallen 8y ago
Just because the government finds your DNA at the crime scene doesn't mean they know it's yours. They have to match it against some sort of database that connects the DNA to your identity.
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by csallen 8y ago
I came here to say the same thing. This reads like a list of technical issues that bother HN users the most. As such it's understandably a very popular comment with the HN crowd, but it has almost nothing to do with why we rarely encou
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by csallen 8y ago
How is sending your friends a URL that they can easily send to others any more difficult than handing over a USB stick? Seems far easier to me.
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by csallen 8y ago
> The article makes no effort to quantify, or put into relation, the actual impact… THIS. So many people claim to care about improving things, but then put exactly zero effort into identifying how to best go about that improvement. As a
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by csallen 8y ago
> I don't see how or why the employer should care how long their employees commute Long commute times makes it far more difficult to hire. Why wouldn't an employer care about that?
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by csallen 8y ago
As t→∞, you could imagine technology improving to the point where VR headsets don't feel like they're occluding your vision. The holy grail would plugging directly into your brain to replace your ocular input with a digital feed.
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by csallen 8y ago
You're completely right, of course. But it's still incumbent upon you to make a convincing argument that paying <arbitrary>% tax is unethical. And I'd say you have your work cut out for you. It's much less black-an
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by csallen 8y ago
It's easier developing for the web, where your code is less likely to break or require drastic changes over time. But yes, almost all businesses need at least some ongoing maintenance.
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by csallen 8y ago
I don't disagree, but probably the best way to value the importance of your vote is some equation where the biggest variables are the % chance of your side winning and the importance the issue at hand. The amount of voter suppression g
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by csallen 8y ago
The better framework for decision-making is the trusty cost-benefit analysis. For starters, it always reminds you that decisions have costs: > If you are correct and you vote, nothing happens. Not true. If you vote, something does ha
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by csallen 8y ago
> Trade secret laws are being used against employees routinely now. Assuming this is true and that trade secret laws are being abused, isn't the solution to make trade secret laws less abusable? I don't quite understand the l
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by csallen 8y ago
<extremely-ambitious-assertion> <lack-of-explanation-or-justification> <personal-attack-on-anyone-who-disagrees> Not a great formula for discussion.
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by csallen 8y ago
Who are you talking about?
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by csallen 8y ago
Oh I see. Yes, he did say that further up, and I think your reply to that was correct. However when he got specific in his next comment and talked about dense metro areas, I don't think your reply was valid, and that's what I&#x27
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by csallen 8y ago
As far as I can gather from jeffbax's comment, yes, that's what he was talking about. Not giving property owners absolute rights to build whatever they please. I don't know how many people would seriously support going to tha
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by csallen 8y ago
That doesn't contradict my point, as I never claimed that was impossible for housing values to depreciate, only that the alternative happens "often". Specifically: You're treating all real estate as if it's the same
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by csallen 8y ago
It doesn't make any sense to assume that someone would want to buy Home A, tear it down, and build a paper mill there, but that nobody could ever want to buy Home B next door and build a profitable venture there as well. Often in these
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I'm good at coding. What else do I need to start a successful business?(indiehackers.com)
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by csallen 8y ago
> I don't know how my comment was "biased and offensive" Mmm, imagine someone in real life presents their project to you and the first thing you say to them is that it "looks like a quickly thrown together MVP without
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by csallen 8y ago
"There’s fewer choices for people," is such a short quote that I would avoid judging it on its face without seeing the full context.
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by csallen 8y ago
In response to your final sentence, making it so criminals have to work harder to get caught is never a bad thing. Consider the alternative.
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by csallen 8y ago
It makes sense. Selling to other businesses (as opposed to consumers) is arguably the most reasonable market to go after. And if you have a very early-stage product, you'll be looking for early adopters and visionaries who are capable
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by csallen 8y ago
If you read my post, you'll see that I'm not denying the existence of those choices, but I'm pointing out that those choices are the inevitable result of genetic and environmental factors that nobody ever decided on.
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by csallen 8y ago
First, there's nothing in the definition of luck that says it gets spread around equally. That would be uniformity, but luck is about randomness, which is (by definition) not uniform. Second, when you say "sit around watching TV,&
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by csallen 8y ago
Considering these attributes are relative by definition, it's a fact that half of the population is harder working than average, and half of the population is more talented than average. But when you add in the context that there are
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by csallen 8y ago
> It used to piss me off a little bit, given how hard I have had to work to get to this stage There are only so many hours in the week, only so many years in a career, and thus there's a limit to how much more one person can work

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