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by csallen 9y ago
I also like the ads, nice job. Some tips: You should increase the surface area of your <a> tags in the ads. Ideally they would cover the whole card and the egg, too. Also, consider adding a hover effect and a "pointer" curso
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by csallen 9y ago
> If he simply ignores everything he doesn't like about the thinkers he writes about, his book is useless. This makes zero sense. If I write a guide about how to use red paint to create beautiful paintings, is my guide useless if
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by csallen 9y ago
Again, the point of the book is not to cover the history of the Enlightenment, to praise or judge the Enlightenment thinkers themselves, or to defend some "correct" interpretation or definition of what the Enlightenment entailed.
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by csallen 9y ago
The way I read it, Pinker wasn't adamant about these values being determinate and shared. Quite the opposite, he was aware that there was disagreement and that things were messy. From the first chapter of the book: > What is the En
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by csallen 9y ago
Did Pinker ever say in his book that every Enlightenment thinker shared the same exact set of values about which there was no disagreement? I seem to recall him saying the opposite at times. The point of the book was not to praise the think
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by csallen 9y ago
Traffic was relatively high when I started talking to sponsors (~100k uniques/mo). Also, it helps to choose your sponsors widely. A company with low conversion rates that sells a service for low prices needs tons of clicks to justify w
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by csallen 9y ago
Long day, finally back. The key was a combination of (a) identifying the right audience, (b) finding a distribution channel that could consistently reach them in large numbers, (c) creating a product ideal for that audience and distribution
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by csallen 9y ago
Check https://www.indiehackers.com/interviews (just added this recently, sorry!)
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by csallen 9y ago
I put my whole history up here: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/indie-hackers . I've got to run, but hopefully will remember to come back and edit this comment to respond to some of your questions!
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by csallen 9y ago
It doesn't anymore, since I joined Stripe. Before that I sold ad space on the newsletter, website, and podcast, and I experimented with affiliate links when my interviewees would mention certain products or books. Selling ads was a pai
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by csallen 9y ago
I left my job. Or, more accurately, the startup I was doing contract work for went under, and I decided not to look for another contract afterwards. I worked on a few projects before starting my business, Indie Hackers, which I grew to just
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by csallen 9y ago
Microsoft's anti-competitive business practices caused wars, famine, and poverty in Africa? That's news to me. So yeah, you do have the burden of proof if you're going to defend statements to that effect. Also, it's not
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by csallen 9y ago
This is largely explained by all sorts of human biases. We overweigh the present moment and blow things out of proportion. In other words, we're always going to overreact to how "evil" our least favorite figures are in the pr
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by csallen 9y ago
Comments like these are ineffective because you aren't providing any evidence or arguments to justify your beliefs. You're just asserting that you're right and everyone else is wrong. Why should anyone believe you?
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by csallen 9y ago
Is your wrapper code open source? If so, mind sharing a link? EDIT: I'm actually less curious about the code, and more curious about how you're sharing code between different Lambda functions. Did you publish an npm package? Are y
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by csallen 9y ago
And what are the consequences of that? I would guess significantly milder than the predictions of mass starvation that we managed to avert.
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by csallen 9y ago
What you are saying here is an order of magnitude milder in its certitude than koolba's assertion that the given punishment was "hardly a deterrent" and "barely a slap on the wrist." In addition, you are comparing t
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by csallen 9y ago
That's only accurate if the person in question did, indeed, spend their way into success.
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by csallen 9y ago
I never complained about the punishment, nor did I equate the punishment itself to emotional thinking. What I called emotional and dangerous was the unsupported claim that the punishment wasn't enough to be an effective deterrent and s
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by csallen 9y ago
I'm just not sure what you're responding to. Is anyone here saying or even implying that four years is cruel? Is anyone feeling sorry for the doctor?
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by csallen 9y ago
Nobody is "concerned" about the convict's reputation and future employability. You are misreading people's statements and thus misunderstanding their points. Namely, that the justice system serves a greater purpose than
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by csallen 9y ago
For reference, the doctor in the story "pleaded guilty to taking more than $188,000 in kickbacks disguised as speaker fees." As a result, he "lost his medical license and was ousted from his post as a Brown University profess
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by csallen 9y ago
> Four years is hardly a deterrent. It’s barely a slap on the wrist considering the number of lives destroyed by that plague. This is the exact kind of emotional thinking that makes it so easy to jack up sentencing to an unreasonable d
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by csallen 9y ago
I'm not the author of the article, but I did create Indie Hackers, I've talked to many hundreds of smaller indie founders, and I also went through YC where I met many hundreds of moonshot founders (and was one myself), so I have s
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by csallen 9y ago
The forum and the discussions there get 3x the pageviews the interviews do, and that gap is widening every day.
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by csallen 9y ago
That's one of the big reasons people share for sure. Another reason that can't be underestimated is that, sometimes, it just feels good to talk about something you've been pouring your heart into in obscurity for years. Also,
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by csallen 9y ago
Working on a new view for Indie Hackers that will allow you to filter more powerfully. For example, revenue-generating businesses with a solo technical founder and no employees: https://www.indiehackers.com/products?employee
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by csallen 9y ago
Why wouldn't Steven Pinker be capable of engaging with any modern philosopher? He is certainly in the top 1% of rational and intelligent human beings on Earth. If he doesn't stand a chance, what does that say about the rest of us?
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by csallen 9y ago
> The conflict is in part a "Two Cultures" division. Pinker's responses were little more than "look at the data", Riemen's responses were "read Nietzsche" - the two sides talk past each other. Th

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