jraines

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by jraines 19y ago
Shotgun weddings and medical emergencies aside, nobody's going to force anybody to get married, have kids, and take on a heavy debt burden. Screw the Joneses. And this isn't to say you should be a bachelor for life; I'm sure there are wo
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by jraines 19y ago
Yeah, I guess I didn't really consider that -- based on how the question was phrased I was trying to consider the whole range of potential costs of college from the most outrageously high to free.
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by jraines 19y ago
Private, no. (Northwestern and NYU are up to $48K a year just in tuition. Are you kidding me?) Public, especially an in-state school if your state is fortunate enough have a quality one, definitely yes. College: still the best four yea
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by jraines 19y ago
Not sure what you mean by "arbitrarily" here, but yes -- in my experience the two are very similar: 1. Both require long periods of focus to really get in the zone and be productive. 2. Progress is marked by stretches of frustration punctua
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by jraines 19y ago
This is a good supplement if you're interested in the free vs. not-free debate (aka M. Arrington vs. 37signals). The concept of "mental transaction costs" -- the "cost" associated with making a decision of whether something is worth paying
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by jraines 19y ago
1. My issue with facebook is that I feel bad rejecting requests to add friends, invitations to events, and applications I don't want. And yes, I know this is lame. I am actually thinking of nixing my account and just going back to blogging
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Startups: What's the worst that could happen?
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by jraines 19y ago
That's interesting. Can you provide a link to more info on that theory? Because I recently switched off my cable tv in hopes of being more productive, but my answer to your question would be "pretty easily". Actually, now that I think ab
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by jraines 19y ago
A tie, actually best used in conjunction: "Practice the fundamentals every day". --not sure, but I got it from Jamie Andreas I think (guitar guru). "The doer alone learneth." --Machiavelli
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by jraines 19y ago
This article says absolutely nothing about the value of a formal business education. It says something vaguely negative about the value of business textbooks , the crapiness of which is pretty well established and acknowledged by professor
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by jraines 19y ago
Isn't this pretty much what YCombinator startup Overhear.us is doing?