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by klbarry 16y ago
It reminds me of the criticisms of Guy Kawasaki (of Rich Dad, Poor Dad fame). He gives mostly excellent advice, but markets it to the lowest common denominator so a lot of smart people turn away. It actually shows something about the HN cro
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by klbarry 16y ago
I live in Ozone Park and like it a lot. Rent is $1150 for a one bedroom.
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by klbarry 16y ago
You might save more money in NYC, even. 1,400 will also get you a 2 bedroom an hour commute from Manhattan (Ozone Park, Forest Hills), or a one bedroom with a 30 minute commute to Manhattan (Astoria, certain parts of Brooklyn).
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by klbarry 16y ago
You said it exactly right. If you're single (even in NYC) it's easy to save lots of money making 50k a year.
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That's very entertaining to me! I never really cared about quality myself, though nowadays I love Pandora as compared to youtube.
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by klbarry 16y ago
Thanks doubly for the detailed response. I very much enjoyed Fromm's Escape from Freedom when I read it a few years ago, I will definitely buy the Art of Loving.
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by klbarry 16y ago
If this: "The strength of the academic enterprise imo is doing hard-to-monetize basic research: developing the ideas and techniques that after several more iterations will produce or enable interesting things. I tend to think of tech-heavy
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by klbarry 16y ago
Thank you for this detailed and informative reply. Is there any business school you know of that teaches a better way?
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by klbarry 16y ago
Haha.
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by klbarry 16y ago
I am surprised the number of white men marrying asian women is so low (though it is high compared to others). I imagine living in NYC skews my view a great deal though.
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by klbarry 16y ago
This thread is pretty great and inspiring.
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by klbarry 16y ago
Is there a good beginner book for this? Of course I've read a great deal in the past regarding the minds working but never had anything in one place. It seems like it would be pretty useful.
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by klbarry 16y ago
Accurate quibble, my apologies.
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by klbarry 16y ago
So Eric Schmidt would pay some pennies? (Since he is paid $1 a year :) )
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by klbarry 16y ago
This is not bad at all. I feel like the government should use game theory everywhere - for the poor they want to succeed and teach themselves, for the rich paying taxes, etc. It's proven to work in so many situations.
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by klbarry 16y ago
Hi Matt, I'm sure your busy and don't want to answer all SEO related questions anyway. I wanted to ask, though, what Google things about the importance of exact anchor text in rankings as remarked upon in http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-org
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by klbarry 16y ago
I think the average person minds ads much less than the average programmer/technical person. Just my personal experience. An online example would be the constant barrage against advertising on Reddit, which you don't really see in communiti
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by klbarry 16y ago
Really? That's considered astonishing violence? I only skipped through it but I didn't even see gore, just a lot of fighting, explosions and robots. The beginning of Saving Private Ryan is 20x more violent.
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by klbarry 16y ago
Thanks for the answer, it makes a lot of sense.
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by klbarry 16y ago
It's the paradox of choice, as written about in many places. Give people many choices and many options and they will be, on average, less happy. Someone who assumes the only way to be is by being a subsistence farmer is not so unhappy.
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by klbarry 16y ago
Yes, what has been found is that anything below $60,000 is strongly correlated with unhappiness, but it flattens out above 60 annually. This was in a TED talk, probably one by Hans Rosling.
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by klbarry 16y ago
The above is a very concise version of my thoughts, thank you. There are a lot of problems with democracy, stemming from the dangers of mob rule. For instance, there are some strong arguments that a senate operating behind closed doors woul
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by klbarry 16y ago
For a summer I sang on the subway with a friend for my living :)
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by klbarry 16y ago
How do they portray themselves as facebook? Just hyperbolic versions of themselves or as different people?
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by klbarry 16y ago
I don't understand how someone like you wouldn't find work. Where do you live? Did you have extremely high expectations? I don't mean to be rude, I ask because the qualifications you have are outstanding, and I am curious.
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by klbarry 16y ago
It is very rare in NYC outside of Manhattan, at least and when I've seen it the selection has been fairly horribly neutered.
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by klbarry 16y ago
I don't think that was what he was saying, I don't understand why he is being downvoted. He was thinking that a fear of HIV may prevent unplanned pregnancy in the populace, and that theory has merit.
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by klbarry 16y ago
First of all, non technical people have no idea that something like demand media might be "bad" for the internet. There's certainly nothing obvious about it. Secondly, if Google ranks based on certain factors, is it wrong for a business or
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by klbarry 16y ago
"If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid." I think I will use this in the future.
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