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by fgf 16y ago
This is pious nonsense. Do you know what sex is for? What process created our sex drive? Are you a woman?
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by fgf 16y ago
That's because it's not creepy when girls do it. Creepy in this sense is used for unwanted attention from "unworthy" males, the female equivalent of this behaviour would usually at most be described as annoying.
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by fgf 16y ago
I eat calorie dense (but low carb) food quickly. I got really low body fat eating this way. I think this, at most, is a key.
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by fgf 16y ago
It is. He makes money off the amazon links, and possibly other ways. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/ftc-disclosure-blog/
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by fgf 16y ago
Smartphones have enormous potential to supplement and even substitute PCs for everyday uses of non geeks. (Plumbers, store owners, salesmen, lawyers, accountants, doctors etc. etc.) Searchable app data will be important to make this happen.
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by fgf 16y ago
If this study was financed by the tobacco industry and claimed to have found that smoking was good for you, would you still remain completely agnostic as to the validity of the findings until you had thoroughly studied it?
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by fgf 16y ago
Uh yes. You can have a neighbour who trough airbnb rents out to noisy tourists, go through a lengthy feud involving building administration and law enforcement, and finally make sure he makes sure it's reasonably quiet at night. If any ch
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by fgf 16y ago
Seriously? If a couple gets drunk and play loud music 4 nights a week thats equal too a couple of tourists doing the same thing. And I would bet that loud tourists are a very small subset of noisy neighbours; in any case the person who rent
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by fgf 16y ago
If they could, they would ... Stringent health/safety standards actually do this already. There isn't anyone running small cafes from their kitchens in Manhattan, wich is a shame.
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by fgf 16y ago
Having a steady stream of noisy neighbours is no different from having one. The solution is the same; hold whoever rents the apartment accountable. (This would be easier if throwing people out was.)
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by fgf 16y ago
This is already illegal, the problems already solved. Distrust of corporate/labour/professional groups that want regulate something out of "safety concerns" etc. is far too low.
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by fgf 16y ago
The following paragraph is incredibly stupid. The telling comparison tells nothing at all; the impact of abu graihb pictures vs. american-gunship-massacre-video was not controlled by those who released them. "A telling comparison can be mad
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by fgf 16y ago
Professionally I think you can leverage your knowledge and first world status better if you move to a place with people who speak better english (the Philippines/India/Malaysia) and with a larger outsourcing industry (the Philippines/India/
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by fgf 16y ago
I'm surprised the possibility of moving to the third world doesn't come up more often here. For the price of rent in SF (say 1000$ pr month) you could eat out (and eat well) everyday, party with westerners for next to nothing and hire a pro
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by fgf 16y ago
The results remain valid if the lunch in NYC it is compared to was similar. High wages in scandinavia probably makes for a big price difference.
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by fgf 16y ago
That's monthly? I would make more as a postman in norway (working considerably less).
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by fgf 16y ago
I agree, it's probably going to be much more satisfying to give long answers if those can be rewarded with something more than an impersonal upvote. It's a mistake to not let those who ask questions post short "thank you" replies.
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by fgf 16y ago
Vacuous and self satisfied appeals to intelligent and nuanced analysis of this kind is something I wish I'd see less of in these discussions. Few libertarians are anarcho-capitalists; they want a state and thus have to accept some taxes
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by fgf 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market_roads & Do you hear of lots of robberies in malls?
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by fgf 16y ago
This PG essay is a good refutation of the notion that (progressive or, at least, non-regressive) taxes are a "win" for the poor in a zero sum game: "The Pie Fallacy A surprising number of people retain from childhood the idea that there is
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by fgf 16y ago
I wonder if a typical trait of successful founders is to be excited/determined enough to do good work (=results/time) while putting in obscene hours. Is this true?
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by fgf 16y ago
High taxes does not make an economy sound; a sound economy economy makes high taxes possible.
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by fgf 16y ago
"If you do focus on a dollar amount, focus on the first $10,000- This usually means you've found some repeatable process / minimal traction." For extra effect do this in rapidly growing and/or rapidly changing markets. You may stumble upon
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by fgf 16y ago
For someone like me, a European interested in doing startups, this is very interesting. Depending on controlled foreign company (tax) laws this might mean Russia will become a zero tax jurisdiction for business owners with income from paten
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by fgf 16y ago
You're right, "what happened to google" was neither unpredictable nor unavoidable. The decision to stop cooperating with the CCP was commendable (and probably good for the shareholders too) but they were not forced out.
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by fgf 16y ago
It's misleading to compare china to russia like this[1], commercial law in general (IP rights being an exception) is paid more respected in China than in Russia. As a businessman in the former you don't face the risk of "shakedown by govern
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by fgf 16y ago
That makes it really easy to be against the death penalty.
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by fgf 16y ago
Why is it?
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by fgf 16y ago
If we by dumb mean having a low IQ (and/or other correlated qualities) I think very few hacker news readers are under average.
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by fgf 16y ago
Posted by me in his comments section: "The feeling of understanding can, however, be deceptive. There are lot’s of high IQ, well read and honest (as in not consciously trying to mislead) people who disagree about solutions to problems they

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