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by itmag 15y ago
I would like to apply but I feel stumped. I have a bunch of ideas and I'm a very resourceful and personally developed person (heh) with a big network of useful contacts / potential cofounders, but I don't know how to translate that into a c
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They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different. Yeah, but we replaced them with a new 1%. Until recently, Sweden basically had an aristocratic caste consisting of t
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by itmag 15y ago
I think a good gateway into personal development is lifestyle design, and there are plenty of blogs in that genre.
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by itmag 15y ago
Cool to see people on HN who are not anti-selfhelp. We should start a site like HN but about stuff like this? :) Reality Hacker News, maybe? :)
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As a self-help junkie who has heard CT mentioned before, this sparked my interest. Do tell me more :)
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by itmag 15y ago
That's what I would do if I had billions of dollars. With millions of dollars, it's better to invest in myself so I can generate more wealth in the future.
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by itmag 15y ago
Sashay? I want a window manager that wends, ambles, perambulates or meanders, dammit.
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by itmag 15y ago
Is it possible to use their recommendation engine without being a paying member? I could use some help tracking down more movies in a cluster that's kind of hard to define (think American Pie, Superbad, Fired up!, films of that nature).
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by itmag 15y ago
Yeah. If I was super rich like that, I wouldn't spend it on cars and yachts. I would spend it on coaches, tutors, trainers, personal chefs, training courses, seminars, gym equipment, stuff like that. Use the money improve myself, since that
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Anyone wanna do one of these in Copenhagen or southern Sweden?
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Exactly. http://blog.opportunitycloud.com/2009/09/10/the-golden-scarc...
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Everyone at my startup is into firearms, so we'd far prefer Nevada to California. Clark County's handgun registration law is the main reason we haven't bought a place there already. Wow, you sound like a cool outfit. Mind telling me more?
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by itmag 15y ago
Tell me more about your experience in Sweden :) Always interesting to hear from hi-tech SFites who have been to this corner of the world.
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by itmag 15y ago
For anyone who wants a dose of philosophical ultra-pessimism without any hope for the future, check out this book: http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Against-Human-Race-Contriva... It's basically a philosophical treatise written by a lovecr
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A core point of existentialism is the need to act without certainty. Ie the dizziness of freedom, as Kierkegaard puts it. Fundamentalists are trying to satisfy their need for certainty by pointing at a certain holy text and going "this is t
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by itmag 15y ago
If society can get the same productivity with ever fewer people, then it starts making sense to have a Guaranteed Minimum Income. http://www.xamuel.com/ten-reasons-for-guaranteed-minimum-inc... The notion of full employment is not necessa
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by itmag 15y ago
Very interesting! Do tell me more about your experience :)
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by itmag 15y ago
Question: would it be possible for me (in Sweden) to get a gig in SV working remotely, and only occasionally, if ever, flying in? I would be willing to work for a hell of a lot less than $100k. I'm not the greatest coder ever, but I learn f
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by itmag 15y ago
Why isn't there something like AirBnB for programmers? I imagine plenty of people in SF could use an extra 1k a month in exchange for letting someone sleep on their couch.
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by itmag 15y ago
Maybe companies could build semi-permanent barracks near their offices or something? :p Take a page from the US Army, they know how to rapidly set up living quarters for large numbers of people. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common
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by itmag 15y ago
Holy fuck. With the current exchange rate, this translates into a monthly salary of 59 000 Swedish crowns. This is a VERY respectable salary here, in any field. Hell, I know plenty of programmers working for half that. Which is still consid
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http://tasksmash.com/
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captcha factory Reason #237 why we are living in the future: there are captcha factories.
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Build a production schedule geared around low budget genre films, produced in 12 days and costing an average of $35,000 a piece. Ideally you'd be releasing 50 - 75 films a year. Interesting. I greatly enjoy tacky high school / college mov
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by itmag 15y ago
That's all self-help has ever been There's an awful lot of people dissing self-help. But it's always vague. What specific books/authors/phenomena/trends/memes/etc within self-help is it that you have a problem with?
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by itmag 15y ago
This elegantly summarizes some thoughts I've been having myself the past years. PG applies it to founders, whereas I apply to potential friends. The word I've been using internally for this: pounceability. As in, with high-quality friends t
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How can control structures be implemented with JSON, though?
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Good for him! Flash of insight: a big part of why he was able to do this, is because he put himself in the public arena and allowed himself to become a celebrity (in some sense). As someone who is a little scared of becoming famous, this is
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So is CSS Turing complete then?
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Where in Sweden?

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