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by jraby3 3y ago
Just seems like that network effect is too powerful. Look at all the attempts to create a new Twitter (or Reddit for that matter) over the past couple years.
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I didn’t mean to hang out. It’s more that people get frustrated more easily and have less patience. Once they’ve seen each other, their are some warm feelings and friendliness that persist. We just spent a 3 day weekend at a casino, with fo
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by jraby3 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. I’m a partial owner of a company with 50 employees - about half are distributed. We used to meet 4-6x per year F2F pre COVID. Post COVID we’ve met twice in 2 years. I notice that people are much friendlier
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I read someone else’s opinion on a separate hacker news thread saying they thought the reason for the increase was because of AI and LLMs. Twitter recently did something similar. Not sure if it’s true but it struck me as making sense. The t
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by jraby3 3y ago
I’ve been using 5 minute journal for about 8? years. I think the gratitude journaling has helped a lot. I started while working as a VC and basically needing to send rejections to about 800 companies a year. I noticed that I started to look
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by jraby3 3y ago
It’s not cynical. But it is a two way street. Most people feel that any job is expendable as well, don’t they? Very few people wouldn’t take more money and better hours/benefits if offered to them.
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by jraby3 3y ago
It just seems like a huge risk. Basically it seems like if you lose, you lose, if you win, everyone shares in your winnings. Stock options that allow the founder to keep control and to receive more significant profit for the extraordinary r
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by jraby3 3y ago
You cannot compare the ability to purchase over a million books online to the selection at a bookstore. Plus my personal preference is reading books on my phone, not as an actual book.
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I also live in Israel and have the same exact problems. I probably spend $5k a year on books but just cannot deal with the headache of trying to purchase a book and failing. VPNs, changing my iTunes Store location, just an absolutely frustr
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by jraby3 3y ago
Way more books in z-library. When Z goes down it’s painful to go back to libgen.
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He’s basically a celebrity and billionaire. His privacy concerns are on a completely different scale than ours.
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by jraby3 3y ago
A simpler way to say this is you can have a correct bet and a bad outcome and an incorrect bet and a good outcome. If I were to offer you $1 for heads and $3 for tails and you chose heads and lost, I’d win the bet but it’s still a bad bet.
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by jraby3 4y ago
Recently found out they’re in my dental floss (glide). They’re everywhere.
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by jraby3 4y ago
Housing prices aren’t included in the inflation basket of goods.
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by jraby3 4y ago
I’ve gone on multiple 3-5 day fasts and disagree (or at least haven’t gotten to this point). My hunger seems to stabilize at very hungry after about two days.
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by jraby3 4y ago
Best thread I’ve seen on the conflict. Try to open your eyes: https://twitter.com/K_AminThaabet/status/1081725205347790848
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by jraby3 4y ago
Yes it is. If you are a Jew you are killed on site in Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians are not allowed to sell their homes to Jews. They target Jewish children and teach their children to hate Jews. OTOH Israel has 2.5M Palestinians liv
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by jraby3 4y ago
I’ve had 5 bikes stolen and no cars stolen, so have to disagree about worrying about theft.
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Absolutely not true. Try being a proponent of israel at Berkeley. No healthy debate is possible.
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That’s for personal deposits and limited to I think) $250k. Lots of startups hold a lot more money there and aren’t protected.
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by jraby3 4y ago
I really didn’t need a car till I had kids. I wonder if this is related to reduced birth rates and rising age of childbirth.
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by jraby3 4y ago
In their last earnings transcript (3 months ago) they do talk a lot about Reels competing with TikTok and making a lot of traction. They say that Reels growth is very high, but they haven’t built the tools yet for SMBs to advertise well wit
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by jraby3 4y ago
A lot of people may have stopped using Facebook. But what about Instagram? WhatsApp? Oculus?
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I really love the advice at the end, and it’s not difficult to listen to. Be curious about other people. Act immediately on a generous impulse. Live with intensity and focus. Having directly actionable advice is extremely helpful, even as a
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by jraby3 4y ago
I saw a TED talk about the happiest man on the planet. It was a French molecular biologist who became a Buddhist monk and spent 25 years meditating. They tested his brain with an fMRI machine and found that he was 4 standard deviations abov
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by jraby3 4y ago
They do this in Israel too. The solar powered hot water heaters work wonderfully. However now with many more highrises being built they no longer are as popular and we are forced to use electric heaters.
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You could test it by offering free memberships to a limited country or number if people.
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Direct mail is junk mail. I help the dentist, roofer or gym in an area send advertising snail mail to the homes near them. Efile there is a service element, we also print the ad and send it. So it’s definitely also (and primarily) a product
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by jraby3 4y ago
Writing can be therapy. It can be a process where one learns by trying to explain it to someone else (the reader) so it helps to find holes in your argument or thinking. It’s a tool used daily to communicate - arguably the greatest inventio
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I primarily do direct mail which is tangible. But the margins are thin and postage is such a big part of our cost that if a customer was going to skip payment we’d need 10 new orders to cover the loss. So it makes sense to never extend cred

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