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by gist 6y ago
It's also a predictably lazy and obvious way to do this. No creativity at all. I can think of better ways to social engineer the HN community to spend time 'delivering the goods'. > One of the most powerful assets you hav
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by gist 6y ago
The OP 'studies what makes companies successful'. The issue is you are only studying the lucky sperm ones (if we take that sentence at face value; maybe 'they' do) as opposed to the complete set of companies. And also y
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Call it what it is an attempt to pull at the heart strings of customers by associating with the cause of the year. (Similar to companies putting 'fight cancer' ribbons on their products). What I want is a company to focus on givin
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by gist 6y ago
I didn't see your exact wording before but just the same to me what you said is ok. HN (or really any forum) shouldn't be a place where people have to fear saying what they really think. I want to know what someone really thinks n
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by gist 6y ago
> who argued that prohibitions would violate the free-speech rights of millions of Chinese-speaking Americans who rely on it for communication. By the same thinking Comcast should not be able to cut off someone's internet service (f
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by gist 6y ago
The more important point (in addition to your point I mean) is that DHH is not in any particular position vs. a random smart internet person to come up with these thoughts. But when people read what he says (similar to when people read what
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by gist 6y ago
> that people don't trust these lights because they have a bad track record. No tech people who think about and obsess about this type of 'risk' don't trust the lights. Most Apple customers vast majority don't t
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by gist 6y ago
Risk to the average apple customer is? Do you think that most people need to worry about this? Point Apple is making is it's not needed for the vast majority of their users and if you feel better use a piece of paper. So let's st
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by gist 6y ago
In typical fashion the press takes something that a few people are doing and makes like it's a movement or represented of most of the people. Focus on 1000 people protesting in (say) NYC vs. 18 million who aren't. Separately - Why
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by gist 6y ago
> for a steal perhaps since they have the ability to tighten the screws. You think they don't have some tight contractual relationship with built in renewals and extensions? This is really similar to how corporations lock up retail
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As a landlord [1] I can answer that question. Btw, I have not found any UBI proponent addressing it either (they tend to avoid that with economic speak if at all) [2] Rent will go up. All you have to do is look what happens in 'hot&#x
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by gist 7y ago
Typical non rigorous find a few examples and write a story article. Not saying not true either just that getting a few people to say something is not a trend or show what is happening in most places (possibly). That said we just did a refi
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by gist 7y ago
> But seriously, this laptop idiot was planning to blow up a building, or something equally as bad, but wasn’t smart enough or flush enough to pop for the $39.99 to step up to the maximum-strength encryption? Says the developer who could
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by gist 7y ago
Interesting life lesson for those who are not familiar is the concept I think it's called 'don't spit into the wind'. By this I mean all of the politicians who constantly gave Trump a hard time at each and every turn. I
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by gist 7y ago
> a. 70% of deaths were ages 70 and over and "majority" had underlying health conditions. > b. ~80% of those who died under the age of 70 had underlying health conditions. Underlying health conditions is a very broad metric.
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by gist 7y ago
To state what is obvious you have a person who by nature comes in contact with many people in many situations. (Any many of those they come in contact with also do). So you'd expect them to have a higher probability of getting infected
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by gist 7y ago
> Ask yourself if that's a risk you're welling to take having been associated with that conference. This seems to be as if making a choice between what actually might be good and how something might impact you personally (psych
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by gist 7y ago
Other option is given that less time to cancel could mean higher losses is to come to an agreement with the insurer to agree to cover prior to government authorities cancelling based on likely possibility of that happening.
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by gist 7y ago
I guessed that is who it was but I you know she is not exactly 'PG'. And her name isn't unique enough like 'Elon'. I read comments on another blog whereby one commenter thinks he is a guy who can use his girlfriend
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by gist 7y ago
> The entitlement is strong with this one. And stupidity. He is already behind $50,000 for refusing to sign off his rights to tell his 'story'. Maybe he feels there is a market for his skills (and to your point, um, attitude)
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by gist 7y ago
Insider club here? Who is 'Rachel'?
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The photos aren't really even that good perspective wise or documentation wise. They could have had little go pros tacked up all over the hallway and pulled video and frames that would have put together a better account. (Not that it w
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by gist 7y ago
Articles says that moves are 'rarely less than $350'. The question is really what did this 5 man move cost? What, if any, were the other bids? Realize NYT is not a business angle but would be nice to know.
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Effective strategy on the part of facebook. Namecheap can either decide to spend untold sums and fight this (and let's see the amount and how that goes) or they can turn over the info and move on. No legitimate customer of namecheap th
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Nside the Bizarre, Boozy World of a Junior VC in Silicon Valley(marker.medium.com)
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> Its clearly corruption. You are going overboard and using hyperbole with a statement like that. (And clearly? Seriously...) > I wonder if ethos would be so interested if the price caps still existed Price caps do exist. It's ca
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by gist 7y ago
I actually don't fault him (despite my other comments) for writing about 'the most banal things' I put that on the person who is reading that thinks it's more than it is. And seem to celebrate it. Likewise I remember whe
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by gist 7y ago
I think growing up 'back in the day' some of us may have known people that we viewed as smart and having just good answers about things in general (if not a topic they had specific expertise in). Someone in the neighborhood older
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> Like a great stand up comedian, he frequently notices things most of us manage to miss. How in the world can you make that kind of statement? 'Most of us???'. You say that as if it's an easter egg hunt with 100 participa
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by gist 7y ago
What comes to mind is the saying 'if you can't take the heat stay out of the kitchen'. I think of this constantly when hearing about people who want something (YC, acting, medicine, sports, music career, endless list) but the

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