jf22

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   by jf22 5y ago

   There is no playbook. Every market and company is different. It took me over five years and two failed businesses to not reach profitability. Survivorship bias is a big thing in this space.
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   by jf22 5y ago

   Who are the speech police and who has the authority?
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   by jf22 5y ago

   Quite often what is "obvious" isn't true. Take some time and do some reading on this topic and you'll find that vaccines can provide equal or better immunity than a natural infection.
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   by jf22 5y ago

   >given that the immunity you get from having the disease is always better than what you'd get from a vaccine This is false. Stop spreading misinformation.
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   by jf22 5y ago

   > I act responsibly and do not go out when I am sick. How many days before you are noticeably sick can you spread the flu or COVID?
6. 426.▲
   by jf22 5y ago

   A large rubber mallet and a giant wrench. As a homeowner so many things have to be convinced to move with physical force.
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   by jf22 5y ago

   Anti Bitcoin. The planet is burning.
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   by jf22 5y ago

   And OP shouldn't assume completely changing his life won't also be stressful. Moving away from everything you know is hard. By starting a business you'll also add stressors. The financial security and low-risk nature of soft
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   by jf22 5y ago

   This doesn't make any sense to me. I know fast coders who need to consult Stackoverflow and good coders who refactor all the time. You set up several false dichotomies.
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    by jf22 5y ago

    What's amazing is that .NET has only gotten better since then. I remember hearing about Atwood talk about tools he built himself that are more or less baked into the ASP.NET now.
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    by jf22 5y ago

    Your reply is odd. You wanted "proof" work-for-promotions happen and I just wanted to point out this happens in several trades. Anyway, I don't disagree with your comment at all. Certain trades are undervalued because it tak
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    by jf22 5y ago

    You don't know of any person in a service trade that did promo work to build their portfolio? I know auto mechanics, actors, hair people, nail people, home inspectors, photographers, and cooks who have done free work for free promotion
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    by jf22 5y ago

    The promotional aspects could be worth much more than whatever money they'd earn.
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    by jf22 5y ago

    Is feature parity the same as maturity to you?
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    by jf22 5y ago

    How would compare maturity with more popular frameworks that have been around for more than twice as long? Genuinely curious as to what you meant by that question.
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    by jf22 6y ago

    Passive income is rarely passive.
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    by jf22 6y ago

    Same, I realized that spending 2 years to get to 1k in profit a month from a SaaS or something was a lot harder than just getting a job that paid me 12k more.
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    by jf22 6y ago

    I was in the communal lunch room with other people and the CEO was mad about the delay in a software project. He put both middle fingers in the air and said something to the effect of "the developers really fucked me on this one.&quot
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    by jf22 6y ago

    I'm pushing for more WordPress at work for all the similar "it just works" reasons, but also because there is plentiful, free, quality training material and documentation.
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    by jf22 6y ago

    What? Are you saying that whether aliens can make a distinction is an important part of a decision making framework?
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    by jf22 6y ago

    Can I be clear you cannot find a clear distinction between a made up currency and places where humans live?
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    by jf22 6y ago

    Comparing life itself to crypto is ridiculous.
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    by jf22 6y ago

    Ok, so we are going to burn a lot of energy because we don't like the current monetary system and haven't explored any alternatives at all.
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    by jf22 6y ago

    I don't see any answer here, just speculation and more questions.
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    by jf22 6y ago

    >globalized monetary policy Could we do this without burning more energy than entire countries?
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    by jf22 6y ago

    This sounds like to remove human greed we must embrace human greed and expend a lot of energy. In what future world are we not trying to create more Bitcoin?
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    by jf22 6y ago

    There is a difference between monetary value and utilitarian value. Bitcoin has negligent utilitarian value. It does nothing besides reward people who can consume energy the fastest.
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    by jf22 6y ago

    I'm sure there is a way to turn off phase out Bitcoin without making thousands of people criminals. The planet is burning, the cost of enforcement will be worth it.
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    by jf22 6y ago

    I have an odd question that I'm asking in a positive way. Did you consider googling "climate change, decline of civilizations" at all? Personally, I think people are asking for sources of extremely easy to access informatio
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    by jf22 6y ago

    Perhaps you are extending the discussion far past the point I was trying to make in a single sentence. Discussing things with people on hacker news is frustrating because people like you extend the argument to way way way past the point at