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by fnid2 17y ago
The wealth comes from within the borders of a given country. Government might not be in the business of creating wealth, but it is in the business of controlling who gets to be within its geographical borders. If you look throughout histor
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by fnid2 17y ago
I'm not suggesting we take the $10,000 from a rich person and give it to 10 poor people, rather I'm saying, "We have a surplus of wealth equal to $10,000 and must decide what to do with it. Someone is going to benefit, how do we distri
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by fnid2 17y ago
Perhaps I should ask you then, why would you take this visa deal instead of simply having the investors give you the money for you to create your business in your home country?
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by fnid2 17y ago
That's a great idea. I think there is a future for this model. I have lots of ideas where it would be profitable and beneficial with way lower risk than through many traditional mechanisms.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I've seen this trend popping up a lot lately. Pooling buying power among individuals to get discounts up the supply chain. It makes great sense. I think there is a lot of potential here because it is only at a certain scale that some id
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by fnid2 17y ago
A couple of us are working on a project to help bring this kind of behavior to light http://www.shellcompanyfinder.com/ShellCompanies/Nathan%20My... We just started on it, so there isn't a lot of data, but it is already possible to start
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by fnid2 17y ago
I might not have been clear on the numbers, but I believe any such restrictions on entry are not good. I don't believe any of them should be requirements. If someone wants to come to the U.S. and try to create a business and has it all l
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by fnid2 17y ago
Honestly, this is a philosophical question that I can't offer an answer to without the potential contamination of lots of personal bias, but I'll tell you how I think about it. A lot of countries have a lot of rich people at the helm and ar
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by fnid2 17y ago
It's entrepreneurial servitude. You come in and build a business to our specifications, making a certain amount of money for the rich investors or you lose your rights to live here. When the entrepreneur is booted out because (s)he was una
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Ask HN: When did the Internet get so slimey?
7 points by fnid2 17y ago|4 comments
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by fnid2 17y ago
Yes, that's a credible source.
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by fnid2 17y ago
It's not about successful companies. You can have one of those without investing $500,000 into it. Make no mistake, this visa is about helping rich people make more money by enabling them to collaborate with other rich people around the w
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by fnid2 17y ago
If anyone wants to buy a ticket to the U.S., I have lots of startups you can invest in! Just send me the money and we'll start the paperwork.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Yes, that's what I mean, exactly. When you are building a business you want to know that you are basing it on a firm economic foundation that will last. Just like building a house. You want to use good wood that will last a long time. Fu
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Ask HN: How to predict startup viability?
6 points by fnid2 17y ago|3 comments
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by fnid2 17y ago
It doesn't have to be a perfect solution. Making an http request to a submitted url and grabbing the contents of the title tag is a trivial development effort that add a lot of value to a community that doesn't want to see the same stuff
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by fnid2 17y ago
I have found that the absolute best way to handle this is to make sure the customers are good customers before you acquire them. Here are some tips: 1) Charge for your services. If you don't charge, you get people who undervalue your work
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by fnid2 17y ago
It's little more than a commercial. It says entrepreneurs are motivated to create jobs, but many are actually motivated to eliminate jobs and waste people's time -- like this commercial did. One minute I will never get back and because of
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by fnid2 17y ago
This problem has to be solved by pg, or whoever maintains the code here. It's really too much to expect users to review all posts to see if what they want to submit has been submitted before. It's also too much to expect that there is onl
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by fnid2 17y ago
An old boss told me, "When you're the man, the rules don't apply to you." Not to say that Calacanis is the man, but to illustrate that rules are there to suit the rule makers and in this case, it suits the rule makers to ignore their own ru
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by fnid2 17y ago
Clickable link: http://www.shellcompanyfinder.com/home This is a weekend project a couple hackers here worked on over the weekend. We hope to get more relationships in there as they are discovered and present them in a javascript graph
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by fnid2 17y ago
Don't work on anything open source then. How can one stop another person from using open source to oppress people?
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by fnid2 17y ago
See that I appreciate. Much better than hear the same message about the same company every time. We all know about shopify. It's all the buzz. I don't need a shopify, i have paypal. I don't need woofoo. I have skype already. Let the co
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by fnid2 17y ago
It's not that he is advertising, it is the delivery of the message. I would prefer to see a demo of the product or some screen shots, rather than someone telling me I should go check it out because he wants us to and they give him money fo
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by fnid2 17y ago
1. It's all math. You can't patent english either, but patents are english -- at least in the united states. 2. There are so many because it is easier to write code than it is to cut iron. That doesn't mean the value of the invention isn'
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by fnid2 17y ago
To be clear, I am only advocating the self-censorship of this information until the browsers you mention have had a chance to fix it and people up grade. I guess really you just gotta delete your history all the time. Or make history links
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by fnid2 17y ago
Hotels, Hostels, solar panels. There is plenty of energy in the world for a laptop and you don't have to write code every day, only when you have enough electricity to sit in the park write or check emails. Use a notepad. Write stuff dow
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by fnid2 17y ago
I don't have a problem with socialized medicine, though that term means different things to different people and we tend to categorize countries differently around the world, but I think the Canadians have a good system. Lots of European c
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by fnid2 17y ago
That's an interesting take. But I fear the day the business types get hold of the idea. And the shady types. Oh boy.
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by fnid2 17y ago
''This is Catch-22,'' he said. ''If you are not legitimate because you start out as a one-person corporation and you haven't been in business for a year, then how do you ever start your business? It is nonsensical.'' Save up at least a ye

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