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by djhn 11y ago
> Members of Congress spend 70% of their time raising money. They're not lawmakers, they're professional fundraisers. > they would never get anything done You will have a hard time convincing HN that what US needs are more l
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> Said yet one more way: "make something people want." Or for a less general form, more aimed at the future employee than the self-starter: develop skills to produce what people need.
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Or James Joyce's correspondence of similar nature. Or Mozarts..
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This is the almost the same idea as "Sell the why, not the what".
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Nuclear energy faces a challenging PR environment. Letting the public perception get so bad should be considered one of the costliest PR mistakes in recent history in terms of human and environmental cost. The problem is highlighted by the
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Sounds interesting. Link?
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"I wish everyone had the chance, but nobody would use it" could be better.
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> aspiring entrepreneurs [...] finding a worthwile idea to pursue Something about that phrase creates a knee-jerk reaction along the lines of "this is what's wrong with SV culture today, people deciding to 'follow a path o
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That's a very good point. You can also substitute various other demographics for young people, like lower socioeconomic classes, people heavily discounting their future, impulsive people, etc. Health disguised as vanity works quite wel
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I'd phrase the same idea this way: what is the bottleneck? Are ideas the bottleneck? No. Everyone and their uncle has great ideas. There are blog posts out there giving away almost every possible business idea for free, at least in the
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1% in terms of income, or in terms of wealth? A low-to-mid 6 figures household income? Definitely possible. 8 million net worth? You're gonna have to be a rather.. senior software engineer.
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"Here is what we do on our platform. Here is what an unnamed search engine company does, or might in theory do, on their platform. You will probably agree: what we do is better in multiple, obvious ways. To be even less subtle, I am in
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The most obvious explanation isn't mentioned. More exercise leads to more muscle, which leads to a higher BMI. I cannot access the full text, but this isn't acknowledged in either the Atlantic piece or the abstract. There is no ta
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In the last 5 years I've accumulated some 8 000 notes in Evernote, which I would love to move to a safer platform/format in light of recent evidence of data loss and speculation concerning Evernote's longevity. What are the a
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This is as close to a frictionless bitcoin transaction (at least in situ) as I've seen yet in the context of useful, frequent payments.
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Where can one read more on government cyber-espionage on a level above popular journalism/non-fiction targeted at a lay-audience?
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Can you give examples of some good ones?
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What kind of situations would result in previous investors looking for liquidity? Assuming it is a trade for equity, it would be counter-intuitive do divest a fast-growing company if you are at least risk-neutral, which VCs should be?