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by katzgrau 8y ago
I appreciate your love for dogs, but don't you think that cloning a dog because of your love for the original is ridiculously self-centered? It's basically creating and imposing life to satisfy one's own emotional needs. It&#
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by katzgrau 8y ago
+1 In college, I did well on math exams precisely because I had a strong understanding of what I was doing. I did not mechanically follow a recipe for a solution like some other students did. The result was that I usually took the entire ex
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Really well articulated. Im not sure the question of what happened before "I" is so puzzling though. If your're making up the events that you're witnessing today, why would the "time" prior to you be any differ
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by katzgrau 8y ago
This is me exactly - and interestingly enough, the parent post sounds like a lot of my friends. I find text messaging and chats distracting from what I'm doing. But when I do hang out with my friends or family, they have my undivided a
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by katzgrau 8y ago
My opinion is that once you tie the shorter term goals of the nonprofit to investor return on investment you've introduced a dangerous incentive for investors to exercise leverage over that nonprofit and potentially misalign its long t
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Just because free speech is possible doesn't mean someone will take up the role of investigative reporter
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Kind of a weird nitpick there. Democracy needs someone working to uncover things that the public needs to know to make informed voting decisions.
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by katzgrau 8y ago
A number of comments here are along the lines of "I'm more informed today than I was before the web, no problem here." You're probably more informed on the whole, but there are fewer and fewer eyes watching our elected o
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by katzgrau 8y ago
The nice thing about text based browsers is that you can use them at work and everyone thinks you're cranking code but you're really just on HN
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Agreed. You realize that making money is the hard part so there's no need to do a ton of thinking into technical decisions until it becomes "a good problem" to have. These days I might have an idea for a feature in my head an
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by katzgrau 8y ago
I don't think it's something they would publicize otherwise it would be an invite to work around it. The best route might be to try and scrape a public business page (better yet, several hundred) - that'll show you everything
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by katzgrau 8y ago
If you've ever tried scraping Facebook you'd know that it's nearly impossible to do so reliably. They have a formidable anti-scrape strategy. Instagram is currently ridiculously easy to scrape - but I doubt it's going to
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by katzgrau 8y ago
A few points: * When I said, "I wasn't making any money," I meant not anything of significance. I wouldn't consider a thousand or two thousand per month significant, which is where I was at for a while. If I can't l
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Sure, although my experience is in the product business. some of these might be applicable: * Find a niche market where there is a need and the prospects aren't broke. Eg, they have money to spend for the potential of ROI with your pro
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Yeah, but the reasons for failure are different. A startup usually fails because the founders are convinced they can't do whatever they want to do without investors and they never raise any money. OR, they do raise money and eventually
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by katzgrau 8y ago
If you don't mind being relatively unheard of and only want to make enough money to be independent, then it actually isn't very hard to bootstrap a business. It does take time, effort, and a lot of mistake making, but it's li
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by katzgrau 8y ago
This sums up my experience. I've made some positive personal changes and also gotten a better grip on what I want out of life and why. Unfortunately it's so intertwined with larger drug culture, possibly due to its rise in the 60s
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by katzgrau 8y ago
The technology is affordable, it's the hired staff that is expensive - magazines have to support time spent with ad revenue and the numbers don't work out well
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Right. But a magazine has to pay salaries - I'd wonder how many of your favorite YouTube channel creators are completely supported by their craft.
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But a publisher is paying people to produce the content - so I'm saying after the planning, shooting and producing, the cost at probably a few thousand for a publisher. Supporting that with video ad Rev is really, really hard if you&#x
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by katzgrau 8y ago
I just don't see smaller magazine publishers sustaining the production of video. It's extremely high cost relative to other content and they don't have the traffic or niche audience required to gather the ad revenue to suppor
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by katzgrau 8y ago
I've been a hobbyist DJ for a long time and I would totally agree with this. I began charging a small fee for my time a few years ago (I justified that I should make at least half my freelance dev rate) but even that small price totall
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by katzgrau 8y ago
An ethical journalist will absolutely go after that auto shop. But what you're describing is a political/ethical conflict which can arise any time an organization accepts support money, even from readers.
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There are quite a few, and as I mentioned, most of them are not affiliated with any organization. I wouldn't operate a business based on a market that didn't exist. I guess you can choose to believe otherwise though - although I&#
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Yes, and that's pretty much what I do
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I serve ads for these types for a living, so I do have a lot of expertise here. https://inn.org/members/ http://www.lionpubl
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Correct, $5/month is the upper bound of what I've seen the more successful hyperlocals pull off (most recently bklynr in Brooklyn)
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Hyperlocal media supports smaller coverage areas where it's not practical to have a publicly funded organization. Even then, you're going to have debates regarding the agenda of the organization. At a local level advertising gener
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by katzgrau 8y ago
> Personally, I would not mind if all the advertising supported publishers went away. There are a large number of award winning hyperlocal news websites run by hardworking and talented local news journalists who rely on advertising to su
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I think you're applying our concept of time to God. Time is a human construct. As for believers, you can see from this thread that there are many interpretations of God, but on HN they do lean toward the fairly abstract. Personally, I

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