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by joelx 8y ago
My blog joelx.com is fun for me and has thirteen years of posts chronicling my transition from employee to founder /CEO of a 130 employee company.
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Linkedin, Google Not Helping Stop Recruiting Scam(joelx.com)
2 points by joelx 8y ago|0 comments
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Drinking in Moderation(joelx.com)
2 points by joelx 8y ago|1 comments
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Border Walls Are Stupid, Evil, and Racist(joelx.com)
5 points by joelx 8y ago|2 comments
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Criminalize Fake News(joelx.com)
18 points by joelx 8y ago|24 comments
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Americans spend more on healthcare but get less for one simple reason. We artificially restrict the number of new doctors each year through licensing and other government regulations, which reduces the supply of medical professionals. When
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Trump Shutdown Must End(joelx.com)
6 points by joelx 8y ago|1 comments
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Thank you for building this wonderful game! Helped me through a very hard time in my life when it came out. It also helped suck me into what I do today (started a web dev company that now has 130 FT team members).
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Google Trends Says Assassination Interest Growing(joelx.com)
2 points by joelx 8y ago|0 comments
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Or maybe he's just a scammer.
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HN should shut down nation state's propaganda accounts.
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Degrasse O'tyson Says Musk More Important Than Bezos or Jobs(cnbc.com)
2 points by joelx 8y ago|1 comments
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This article makes fundamental errors. School performance is NOT a great indicator of intellect. The most successful people I know did just enough to get by decently in school and spent the rest of their efforts on activities that made them
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I agree completely with charmides. I'm founder and CEO of a company with over a hundred thirty employees now and I have a strict policy not to hire anyone as a team lead or manager or executive from the outside. I always promote within
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China and Russia have major disinformation campaigns running in the United States and around the world. These campaigns have been heavily documented by news organizations and American defense agencies. A major branch of Russia and China&#x2
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The best thing we can do to have affordable housing used to increase the supply of housing. If we increase the amount of high-density zoning and reduce the amount of permit difficulties, housing will become much more affordable.
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I believe that the idea that patents are necessary for creativity and invention is false. I think patents are actually very detrimental to new invention since people often can't use past patented ideas. Like licenses in professions, th
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I suggest Amazon solves this by requiring ALL purchasers to leave reviews of ALL products they buy. Or by adding a $10 fee to every purchase that can only be refunded by leaving a review.
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I recently suffered a knee injury that cost into the six figures and required experts to help me with insurance billing. I think we need to remove restrictions regulating how new doctors are trained, and how many new doctors and other medic
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I found this article extraordinarily helpful in understanding the high cost of US care - https://mises.org/library/how-government-helped-create-comin...
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Insurance companies are often used as the punching bag for healthcare costs. In reality, insurance companies are just a payment method for the true cost - enormously expensive doctors. Insurance companies are portrayed as having crazy profi
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Rent Control Causes Homelessness
3 points by joelx 8y ago|1 comments
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Taxes Are the Problem, Not Capitalism(joelx.com)
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China and Russia have major disinformation campaigns running in the United States and around the world. These campaigns have been heavily documented by news organizations and American defense agencies. A major branch of Russia and China&#x2
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Your comment history shows no criticisms of truly awful nation state dictatorships or any of the 95% of all companies that behave far worse than Facebook. Facebook is just an easy target.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-helped-reveal-china... There are hundreds of more similar articles documenting hacking by China and Russia. The data breach at the parent of this article even is supposed to have bee
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Nation states (China and Russia) are backing a massive PR campaign against tools that they can't control... Hence these major attacks lately and all the hate for Facebook and Google. In reality, those tech companies are enormously more
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I have seen tons of comments like this lately on HN. I believe personally patents should he entirely abolished, but if we are keeping them at this point it is a major disadvantage to have it stolen by the Chinese. I am shocked people on HN
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I believe there is a purposeful propaganda war being directed against Google and Facebook here on HN and elsewhere in the media. I am not sure who is behind it, but my best guess would be Russia or China as they would have interest in this.
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System Manipulation – Social Mobility and Income Equality(joelx.com)
3 points by joelx 8y ago|0 comments

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