hnal943

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by hnal943 15y ago
A few years from now, an hour with a good plumber - if you can find one - is going to cost more than an hour with a good psychiatrist. At which point we'll all be in need of both. Mr Rowe: this fact, if you really believe it, will ensure
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by hnal943 16y ago
I think this is exactly the point of the article. Your own reactions dealt directly with the money. The girls in the article used the money to create complicated social rules.
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by hnal943 16y ago
You are only worth what someone else is willing to pay you. If you feel you're underpaid, your two options are to find someone who values your work more, or convince your current employer that you're more valuable than he's giving you cred
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by hnal943 16y ago
I'm confused. Where on this page does it mention anything about corporations? Is that merely an editorial from the OP?
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by hnal943 16y ago
True, but I don't see Craig Newmark getting angsty because of his wealth.
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How Carrots Became the new Junk Food(fastcompany.com)
194 points by hnal943 16y ago|81 comments
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by hnal943 16y ago
I would strengthen your statement by saying that if you are borrowing, you are by definition spending beyond your means regardless of the circumstance.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Zero Punishment? Tell that to Lehman Brothers. You do realize that the banks lose money when mortgages go bad, right? If your complaint is that the federal government through Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac is underwriting the risk of these lo
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by hnal943 16y ago
In general, I agree. However, Grim Fandango (1998) was both 3D and brilliant.
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The Death of Adventure Games(oldmanmurray.com)
148 points by hnal943 16y ago|86 comments
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by hnal943 16y ago
You didn't answer the question. Every expenditure of taxpayer money needs to be viewed through this lens. That doesn't mean that the answer is never to spend the money.
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by hnal943 16y ago
How does a tech startup that employs a few highly skilled people affect people the surrounding area?
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by hnal943 16y ago
If the startups are not founded by "those people" in the ghetto, they will be unaffected by its presence.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Anyone living in the ghetto currently also has a choice.
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by hnal943 16y ago
It doesn't have to be corrupt to be a bad idea. Why should taxpayers underwrite the risk of the founders of your startup?
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by hnal943 16y ago
Immature as it may sound, pen.io may not be the best choice for a domain name; at first glance I think of body parts.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Mr. Swan misses the point here. The success of the new bourbon was not because random restrictions were applied (e.g. Open a pizza place with NO CHAIRS), but because a high standard was enforced.
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by hnal943 16y ago
I disagree that the only type of business on the internet is a google or a facebook. However, assuming they are, they were still started as the brain child of a few people who were not rich when they started. Also, both google and facebook
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by hnal943 16y ago
Who said anything about happiness? Are you implying that income is proportional to happiness?
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by hnal943 16y ago
The startup world demonstrates there's nothing systemically restricting people from being upwardly mobile. The formula for wealth in America is simple; create a product that people want. The fact that creating something people want is dif
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by hnal943 16y ago
How about the Paul Graham argument that income inequality is not a problem if it means that everyone's standard of living is raised? http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html
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by hnal943 16y ago
Thanks to the law of leaky abstractions, that will always bite you in the end (provided your are doing something complicated enough). http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...
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by hnal943 16y ago
I've never met anyone on Facebook either. I've run into the strange misconception from non-facebookers that Facebook is somehow a dating site, which is strange. Obviously those people also perceive that facebook is a way to "meet people."
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by hnal943 16y ago
How many people have MySpace accounts they never use anymore? The point of the article is not that people won't ever sign up, but that they'll lose interest.
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by hnal943 16y ago
I discovered programming on the TI-83, bored in English Lit class.
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by hnal943 16y ago
What would work is finding a way to tax wealth instead of income. That would shut Warren Buffet up.
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by hnal943 16y ago
How would you define the difference? Is it a matter of degree? I'm not saying there isn't one, but I'd be interested in your distinction.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Theft.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Virtually every private pension system in the United States has been stopped for the reason that they are not actuarially sound. The reason for this is that population is not growing steadily as the model predicts. The baby boom was an an
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by hnal943 16y ago
I suppose the alternative would be a stable monetary policy. The difference would be that under a stable policy you would only print money to keep the currency stable as inflation occurs, rather than printing money to fund government initia

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