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by morgante 10y ago
With the wealth of data that Facebook has on you, I'm confident they could figure out your name even if they didn't enforce a real name policy. > Nobody is pretending. Just because some people are willing to still troll under
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by morgante 10y ago
Those norms are correlated heavily with anonymity though. For example, while HN has no real name policy, HN users are generally substantially less anonymous than accounts on Reddit (for example). Many people openly list their personal ident
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by morgante 10y ago
Facebook doesn't need you to give your name to figure out who you are. They don't sell advertising based on your name. Also, I think it's unfair to pretend that real names don't make a difference. They're a big part
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by morgante 10y ago
If I sign a contract saying you can kill me and you do, it's still murder. Contracts cannot override the law.
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by morgante 10y ago
That's only really true if you're building your first SPA. Since I build so many SPAs, at this point I can spin up and work on a new one much faster than I could for a non-SPA.
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by morgante 10y ago
Yup, that's really why I'd only consider living there if I'd acquired a decent amount of wealth already (at least $1M USD). Hopefully the boom will end at some point making it affordable again, but I don't hold out much
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by morgante 10y ago
Hong Kong has the second most expensive real estate in the world, per square foot. [0] That being said, HKers have done a better job of adjusting to this by making (tiny) apartments available whereas in SF you're forced to pay more for
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by morgante 10y ago
Hong Kong. I love the food, culture, and fantastic public transportation. It has a nice mix of Asian and British influences. The city has tons of energy and is always alive. Plus, despite being a huge metropolis, there are tons of hiking op
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by morgante 10y ago
To be clear, I don't think Facebook is flawless. All the issues you bring up are definitely true. I just think it's unfair to assume that these issues automatically make Facebook evil and that there's no good they do.
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by morgante 10y ago
Not everyone agrees with your ethics. I have no financial stake in Facebook (don't work there), but really don't see many moral problems with what it does. And I think their mission of connecting the world in a single easily disco
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by morgante 10y ago
In addition to the factors kleinsch mentioned, consultants aren't necessarily charging double the hourly rate of employees. Most of the consultants charging >$150/hr are people who could readily get a job in Big Tech paying &gt
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by morgante 10y ago
Sorry, I guess I misread your tone. Being able to work from anywhere is definitely a huge advantage (of both consulting and lifestyle businesses). I just wish I could make a lifestyle business which actually paid for the lifestyle my consul
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by morgante 10y ago
I think you're been unnecessary defensive. I'm not questioning the value of doing side projects. Money might not be everything , but it certainly is something . This is especially true when comparing consulting (something I genu
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by morgante 10y ago
That's not the sunk cast fallacy. The time you spend on developing previous side projects (which saw minimal return) should absolutely be a factor in deciding whether to start new ones.
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by morgante 10y ago
Thanks for sharing, feeder looks very impressive. I think you should raise your prices. Working with a team definitely makes a huge difference. It's a lot easier to stay motivated when someone else is handling their specialty and you
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm definitely with you on the hobby aspect. That's why I keep trying: I do love building new products. The problem is that I don't really enjoy the other aspects of building a side business (marketing, sales, etc.) so it&#
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by morgante 10y ago
> We don't think of our projects as "side projects" and don't really want to be grouped in as an Indie Hacker. That's a fair point and maybe something csallen could take into consideration for branding. The succe
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by morgante 10y ago
I don't have a newsletter, but if you send an email to me@morgante.net I'll let you know if I ever start one.
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by morgante 10y ago
> You may debate the merits of that argument and it doesn't take into account product maintenance and support–but I think there is some validity to it. That's very true, but I'd also speculate that the vast majority of s
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by morgante 10y ago
I really love these IndieHackers interviews but surprisingly find them somewhat demotivating. Even the more successful interviewees make less revenue per month than I can make through straight consulting. And they're the success storie
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by morgante 10y ago
No I'm not. Even if fewer poor students get in, that definitely does not mean you can make the reverse assumption: that everyone who attended an elite university is wealthy. For all we know, these results are dominated by poor students
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by morgante 10y ago
14 percent is still thousands of students. Equating elite universities with privileged upbringings is stereotyping. Like most stereotypes, it's grounded in truth but also unfair I worked really hard to be able to get into an elite univ
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by morgante 10y ago
> Some people here on HN would likely be shocked as to how many people in the industry consume almost zero content outside of what is necessary for their jobs. Seriously. People significantly underestimate how much better the average HN
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by morgante 10y ago
It's not that good of a proxy though. There are still tons of poor students at elite universities.
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by morgante 10y ago
In practice, I think you'd end up having to reimplement most of TCP on top of UDP anyways.
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The Careers of Founders(fleximize.com)
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by morgante 10y ago
While I agree that legacy admissions should probably be phased out, they're still "income blind." Knowing someone's a Harvard graduate does not mean you know their income.
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by morgante 10y ago
Harvard does have income-blind admissions. Admissions officers don't look at your financial aid information when you apply and it's not a factor. Of course, there's still the factor that wealthy parents can pay for a better e
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by morgante 10y ago
> For a variety of reasons, lower income kids can't get the marks to get in to these schools so they never reach the point where financial aid would matter. Again with the sweeping generalizations which are completely incorrect. Bec
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm not disputing that many students at elite universities have wealthy parents, but you can't just claim that anyone who went to an elite university automatically has wealthy parents. For one thing, it's very unfair to the p

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