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by joonix 13y ago
How do you get an app into the "Top New apps" in the first place? I wouldn't have a clue how to stand out from the saturated mass of apps out there.
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by joonix 13y ago
I think you overestimate how much people are willing to live in shitty conditions in exchange for business opportunities. The US may not be a boomtown but it has opportunity to live a comfortable life if you can add value. Most people would
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by joonix 13y ago
My law school curved everything to a 3.1 average. Which means that I had a lot of B grades. Unfortunately, if I want to go to another grad school or apply to non-law jobs, they will look at this and not understand. Undergrad transcripts are
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by joonix 13y ago
You could find a business you like and approach the owners and make an offer. Businesses listed for sale on some brokerage generally aren't worth buying.
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by joonix 13y ago
It's a game.
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by joonix 13y ago
People who pay $90k for a car to commute back and forth from work every day don't care about saving money on gas. It's just a status symbol like any other luxury car. But I hope it takes off, because it will finance the expansion of Tesla i
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by joonix 13y ago
This comment and the OP have made me realize I am depressed and have been since the better part of a year. I never thought I would be one of those people who gets depressed, for a long-term, at least. And I never thought of it defined in th
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by joonix 13y ago
What does the South Pars field have to do with Syria? South Pars gas ships through the Persian Gulf.
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by joonix 13y ago
Uh... no. I have never see this connoted as racist. You don't get to dictate what phrases the public can't use.
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by joonix 13y ago
>There's nothing about "comes from a truck" that makes food inherently worth less. The food I get from food trucks is almost always far better than equivalently-priced choices from brick and mortar shops in the area. Of course there is.
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by joonix 13y ago
And yet the filthy vendor carts (not trucks) are everywhere you look, spewing their putrid clouds of smoke over passing pedestrians, without any requirement to display sanitation inspections (I'm not sure they are even subject to inspection
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by joonix 13y ago
Stay in Singapore. Build something for an Asian, or African, market. Am I the only one who cringes when reading stories like this about the Valley? I do not want to be in a bubble. I do not want to take part in gossip or the popularity cont
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by joonix 13y ago
In addition there aren't many lessons to be gleaned from the story. It might be entertaining to read but in the end it's as if you just wasted 20 minutes playing Solitaire.
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by joonix 13y ago
What was Braintree's value proposition? As in, why did everyone switch to his service? Was it lower fees? If so, how do they offer lower fees in such a mature, crowded market?
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by joonix 13y ago
You can even extend it out and say the same thing about going overseas to other countries. They are often far behind the US, with not many tech entrepreneurs. You can bring US trends and concepts into foreign markets and face much less comp
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by joonix 13y ago
That's called modular or pre-fab housing and it exists. The problem here is not building costs, by any means. It's artificial restrictions on the market by local councils who refuse to support higher density living.
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by joonix 13y ago
Yes. Just try importing your product into the Chinese market. Or getting your Chinese money out of the country without Hong Kong's help.
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by joonix 13y ago
And again, we're involved with the top of that food chain: Intel and its fabs that cost $5 billion to make.
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Homejoy (YC S10) caught buying Yelp reviews(reddit.com)
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by joonix 13y ago
I've said it in the past, we need to block Business Insider links from HN.
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by joonix 13y ago
I've noticed this recent trend as well. The fake over-politeness with excessive variation in tone and pitch is really patronizing and uncomfortable. Not only are you wasting my time with this, you're not accomplishing what matters. I don't
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by joonix 13y ago
Shouldn't everyone learn to embrace a "good enough" life? That's called being happy and appreciative of what you have. Americans especially are striving for more constantly; much of that has to do with the winner-loser nature of capitalism
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by joonix 13y ago
Sounds like a ponzi scheme. Get a lot of big name investors to put money into Detroit, providing social proof, then pump it up with hype, hoping lower-profile money follows. Then exit. I see no fundamental reasons why Detroit should be a ma
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by joonix 13y ago
Wouldn't make sense. You can't just say "OK, we were kidding, we got these guys we didn't tell you about!" and get away with it. Massive lawsuits would be filed by these guys and many at the top of the FBI would be forced to resign.
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by joonix 13y ago
I wouldn't mind if Business Insider links were blocked from HN.
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by joonix 14y ago
Doesn't do much? They get free/cheap rent for life, basically. The city doesn't do much for households making $50k. It's a tough place to be middle class.
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by joonix 14y ago
Speak for yourself.
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by joonix 14y ago
What happened to ... you are being paid a lot of money to do this job, welcome, we look forward to getting to know you, in the mean time here's your desk. Is our generation incapable of being productive unless we are treated and spoiled lik
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by joonix 14y ago
The location of the laptop has nothing to do with it. It is the behavior of the publisher that is unethical and/or illegal. If the Iranians have a cause of action against the publisher in the UK based on privacy laws, they would have standi
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by joonix 14y ago
This was an odd post. And nobody at any radioshack makes anywhere near $22 an hour.

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