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by ephextom 6y ago
> it’s just coming from the place of being a reasonably educated person That appears to be a non sequitur, given the author is also, objectively, a "reasonably educated person", as well as being a talented engineer/program
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by ephextom 6y ago
Notice that when I quote you in my comments, I copy and paste quotes you actually wrote, rather than making them up. That's one way of adhering to good-faith argumentation. To your points: "everyone is so mean to VC's and fou
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by ephextom 6y ago
You're responding to stereotypes not whole reality, and you're mistaking best case scenarios for average expected outcomes - i.e., "go without pay for a while" and "Failed tech entrepreneurs get highly paid tech job
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by ephextom 6y ago
If you need to resort to such a response as "people are trying to argue that the venture capital industry is working class", which your parent commenter very clearly did not do, you're not arguing from a position of strength,
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by ephextom 6y ago
> "very well paid prestigious industry" The risk-adjusted expected return for being a startup founder doesn't seem high. Or rather, it's a bimodal distribution, with a tiny number of incredibly rich (and also widely d
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by ephextom 6y ago
The historical links to minstrel shows are valid grounds for the offensiveness. But sometimes you have to wonder about the validity of the outrage when a case has no links to this whatsoever, and where it is done out of pure admiration and
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by ephextom 7y ago
Not really even technically true. He didn't do anything about it for at least 3-4 years after the outing, and was personally content to live and let live. He only took action after being persuaded by someone else that he had a responsi
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by ephextom 7y ago
I hear you, and am sorry you've had to experience this. My partner has had several losses and so far no successes, but she is now at about 7-8 weeks into her latest pregnancy. So far it seems the most promising we've had yet, but
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by ephextom 7y ago
The very reason other issues make for less incisive examples (than slavery, genocide) is that they are less clear-cut, and more beholden to complexities and tradeoffs. It's a rhetorical trick to invoke slavery/genocide, and then g
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by ephextom 7y ago
I'm well aware that in some cases, bigger/better outcomes accrue to particular people/groups in ways that are unfair, unjust or corrupt. I'm completely in favour of efforts and systems that seek to overcome said unfairne
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by ephextom 10y ago
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13129029
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by ephextom 10y ago
Most of what I would need to say in response to the allegation of "throwing away your critical eye towards the world in favor of starry-eyed credulity" can be read in this comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by ephextom 10y ago
You're welcome to suggest measures I should undertake to be more effective at getting to the truth in these matters. Here's what I'm doing so far: - Reading a wide variety of scientific sources across the spectrum of thought
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by ephextom 10y ago
I accept your point that the results of the study should be taken with caution, but don't these statements at least partially refute your dismissal? At the end, all three groups (vacation, novice, and regular meditators) showed statis
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by ephextom 10y ago
One of the pages [1] on The HeartMath site references Dr Bruce Lipton. If you're interested in understanding more about the interplay between experiences, emotions, physiology and genetics, I can strongly recommend his book, The Biolog
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by ephextom 10y ago
Try a clean browser instance?
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Adioso (W09) needs a couple more A-player hackers to help redefine travel search(adioso.com)
1 points by ephextom 15y ago
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Travel-loving Python/Django hackers: we have the perfect job for you [global](adioso.com)
1 points by ephextom 15y ago
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Travel-loving front-end devs: we have the perfect job for you... [global](adioso.com)
1 points by ephextom 15y ago
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Love travel? Awesome at UI/UX design? Adioso (W09) has the perfect job for you.(adioso.com)
5 points by ephextom 16y ago
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Love travel? Awesome at UI/UX design? Adioso (W09) has the perfect job for you.(adioso.com)
35 points by ephextom 16y ago
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Front-end developers: hack your way around the world with Adioso (YC W09)(blog.adioso.com)
3 points by ephextom 16y ago
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Adioso (YC W09) needs FE developers to help make travel discovery awesome(blog.adioso.com)
29 points by ephextom 16y ago
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YC-funded Travel Startup seeks outstanding graphic/UI/UX designers to help us fix travel search [global]
37 points by ephextom 17y ago
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Graphic/UI/UX designers: come help us fix travel search
44 points by ephextom 17y ago
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YC W09 startup seeks Python dev(s) to help us fix travel search [updated]
86 points by ephextom 17y ago
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by ephextom 18y ago
A reassuring quote for ever-battling founders: "The Cézannes of the world bloom late not as a result of some defect in character, or distraction, or lack of ambition, but because the kind of creativity that proceeds through trial and error
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Malcolm Gladwell on Late Bloomers(newyorker.com)
3 points by ephextom 18y ago|1 comments
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by ephextom 18y ago
This is not only off-topic but rather crap. Maybe I'm a little over-sensitive... I got an OT-bagging for something far more interesting than this last week :)
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by ephextom 18y ago
I can't imagine cavemen having problems like "restless legs syndrome", and they managed to get by pretty well without CPAP machines too. The causes of these types of things can generally be found in modern diet and lifestyle factors. The mo

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