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by karzeem 16y ago
There's a weird dichotomy here between startups and established companies. The hivemind says that the more hours you spend on your startup, the better. If you have 16 waking hours a day, nobody would tell you to spend just 8 of them on yo
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by karzeem 16y ago
"Mr. Anderson, a former Immigration and Naturalization Service official, says the U.S. would do better to discard capital requirements and welcome any foreign national who can present a business plan that passes muster with the Small Busine
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by karzeem 16y ago
Full article at the first result: http://www.google.com/search?q=a+visa+for+job+creators
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Not that this is what's going on in this case, but the story reminds me of how ducklings can be made to follow anything, presumably thinking that it's their mother. Dustin Curtis wrote a fascinating piece a while ago about similar behavior
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Ha, these calculators have had a great past 24 hours. I made one today too: http://taxes.kareemshaya.com You did a very nice job with the receipt vibe.
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Just finished putting this one together: http://taxes.kareemshaya.com
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Your personalized tax receipt(taxes.kareemshaya.com)
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Government licensing is a surprisingly pervasive way of driving up wages in a profession. In my home state of Maryland, you need a license from the state in order to be a barber . Lawyers have it especially good for a couple reasons. Firs
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by karzeem 16y ago
Recently I realized that nearly every restaurant I've ever liked has had a warm color scheme. The hugeness of your average food court makes that harder to pull off, but it seems worth it.
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No first-hand experience with these guys, but I've heard good things: http://chargify.com . It's free until the 50 customer mark, although you'll still have to mess with a merchant account.
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by karzeem 16y ago
As one of the maligned "people with laptops", I often wonder how much I'm expected to spend. What's the expected $/hour you should drop if you spend all day working in a cafe?
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by karzeem 16y ago
It's not strictly necessary to know HTML/CSS, but I can't see how you could be a web designer and not want to learn. Back in the day when all I could do was Photoshop and InDesign, I'd constantly think, "I wish I could code this up myself
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http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com
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I wonder if Foxconn charged Apple commensurately more.
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In my experience, it's already a problem. When I'm shopping online with a brand whose fit I don't know, I order everything in medium and large and then return the size that fits less well. I'd imagine most online clothing stores have sky-h
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The Showman Ships(kareemshaya.com)
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by karzeem 16y ago
> The designers and technophiles who encouraged development of the iPhone have fallen into the trap of all overreaching hardware and software designers; thinking that their users are like themselves. Actually, I think both the worst and
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by karzeem 16y ago
The government isn't optimized to produce the best case, it's optimized to avoid the worst case.
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by karzeem 16y ago
http://bloggingheads.tv for politics and philosophy (great if you're a Robert Wright fan) http://bigthink.com for long, focused interviews with smart people http://longform.org for good magazine pieces http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the
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by karzeem 16y ago
These are mostly valid points, but they're so far down the list in importance that for most men, they approach irrelevance. (The list would more accurately be titled "Downsides to transitioning from female to male", so maybe its contents a
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by karzeem 16y ago
If you don't need your facial hair totally shaved, an electric hair trimmer, like the kind your barber uses on you, is quick and foolproof. If you do need your facial hair totally shaved, just get a safety razor. The blades are ~55 cents ea
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by karzeem 16y ago
His comedy remains hilarious. Most of my exposure is through The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain . It's highly readable, and in what I find to be a pretty rare thing in old writing, the characters all feel like they were created yes
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by karzeem 16y ago
With the obvious caveat that you can't generalize about people, there's still a problem you have to deal with when operating in a lot of third-world countries. I'll use Lebanon, since I happen to know it somewhat well and am spending a mont
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The Turn (1993)(theatlantic.com)
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I agree with you. What I meant is that for a variety of bad reasons, farm workers sometimes get less than the true market price for their labor.
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Recently I spent a day working on my friend's farm, and I came out of that in absolute awe of people who do it as a job. I'm reasonably fit, and I felt exhausted like I never have at the end of the day. There couldn't have been news more
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by karzeem 16y ago
It takes superhuman willpower to go to bed hungry every day when you have the option not to. That's why people on low-calorie diets so frequently (read: almost always) put non-trivial weight back on within a few years. Your brain tells you
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by karzeem 16y ago
Every HN thread on diet mentions Gary Taubes' book Good Calories, Bad Calories , so I'll be the first to do it here. The book makes a strong case that the key you mention is in fact a fallacy. There is a correlation between calorie surplu
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I read an interview with Dean Kamen a while back where he said the hardest thing about inventing things is knowing when to quit.
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People who cite local food as being good in and of itself are likely to value it because they feel it'll help the local economy. If someone is truly interested in sustainability, then they'll rank food sources for sustainability, not proxi

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