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by nck4222 8y ago
>But do you seriously believe that the most successful founders' comments are represented in news.yc? No, that's why I commented about how it was possible the community has diverged greatly from the incubator. I don't know
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by nck4222 8y ago
I never said the incubator is less focused on money, and I don't believe that. I just think the incubator believes the best way to make money is to be passionate about your work, and that by being benevolent, people produce better qual
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by nck4222 8y ago
Interesting to see this comment here, and upvoted. I think it shows just how divergent the news.ycombinator community has diverged from ycombinator (the incubator). Or maybe the community is simply a reflection of what the incubator has bec
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by nck4222 9y ago
This is nitpicking a bit, but college is affordable, it's just very expensive. A side effect of the government guaranteeing student loans is that universities could charge basically whatever they want, knowing that students would still
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by nck4222 9y ago
No one's going to mention that the title is wrong? The experiment showed that a calorie reduced diet slows metabolism in humans. The researcher specifically says that a long term study that follows participants until their death would
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by nck4222 9y ago
It's not about sticking up for sheriffs. It's about telling the truth without sensationalizing it. What the sheriff did was bad enough, there's no need to embellish.
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by nck4222 9y ago
For anyone else looking for mentions of specific products, the original paper doesn't mention any. It just categorized people in to non-cleaners, cleaners at home, and professional cleaners. Both the professional cleaners and at home c
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by nck4222 9y ago
The article is very short, and specifically says bezos has encouraged people to visit it.
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by nck4222 9y ago
I mean I agree it's likely that the process makes the wood lighter. But no, the article doesn't explicitly say the end result is lighter. It explicitly says it's thinner and stronger. I don't really know much about the p
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by nck4222 9y ago
>making it effectively thinner, lighter and stronger at the same time. The article never says it's lighter, and the paper is behind a paywall. Interesting process none the less.
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Ask HN: What can I do to prepare myself to manage engineers for the first time?
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by nck4222 9y ago
The parent is also suggesting cobbling together multiple different products (google docs, photos etc) in order to replace dropbox...
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by nck4222 9y ago
You should try to be a bit more open-minded. You sound a lot like the posters here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by nck4222 9y ago
Are rising stock prices always a sign of company health?
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by nck4222 9y ago
>For a UBI to work people have to be able to actually spend the currency they receive. I don't see why this is true. People were saying the same Bitcoin, yet people still use that, which is turning this conversation in to a circular
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by nck4222 9y ago
Yet, people still find Bitcoin valuable. It turns out you might not need a large percentage of businesses to accept digital currency, in order for the currency to hold value.
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by nck4222 9y ago
I'm not sure why you think Bitcoin is so trustworthy. Personally, due to the extreme volatility, obvious price manipulation, and outright theft of bitcoins with no recourse to get them back, I find it extremely untrustworthy. I have no
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by nck4222 9y ago
I suppose I was a bit hyperbolic, and I'm sure there are some legitimate issues with this. But in my defense when I posted this, this post was over an hour old, and there 10-15 comments on here by people who clearly hadn't even re
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by nck4222 9y ago
In true HN fashion, everyone's first reaction is to hate this. I don't really know enough to say whether this will work/won't work, but I think it's a cool idea. It's blending technology, market forces, social
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by nck4222 9y ago
>The Circles Money System was designed to get started creating a UBI economy today. We believe that the combination of resilience and global accessibility afforded by blockchain technology is a key catalyst that makes a Universal Basic I
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by nck4222 9y ago
My point is those fields need extra regulations because there are incentives that promote unethical behavior, and thus shouldn't be used as examples of why this websites incentives are good business practices. Not that there's no
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by nck4222 9y ago
>Doctors and pharmaceutical companies are supposed to help you be healthy, but make more if you're ill long-term. Which results in unnecessary procedures, and unnecessary prescriptions. >Banks, credit card companies, and brokerag
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by nck4222 9y ago
Passing costs on to schools is just going to further raise tuition.
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by nck4222 9y ago
This is a really one size fits all statement to make. I don't have data to support this but I would bet that the vast majority of startups don't have billion dollar potential. Also, it's probably more accurate to replace &quo
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by nck4222 9y ago
You're expecting it to be higher? This is an average. If a startup hires 10 engineers you're expecting them on average to dole out 20% of their equity just to them?
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by nck4222 9y ago
This member of the color-visible community isn't impressed with the new set of colors either. Of the 8 colors, 5 of them are some shade of blue.
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by nck4222 9y ago
I would view that as a horrible compromise, because it would result in poor people receiving worse health care than wealthy people.
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by nck4222 9y ago
We do allow terminally ill patients to take part in unproven/experimental treatments that haven't been approved for general use. Here's a recent example of a bill passing to allow this, but it's been allowed in various f
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by nck4222 9y ago
The average career of an NFL player is something like 2 years. The vast majority of people who play in the NFL go and get day jobs when their career is done. Most don't save any of their playing money.
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by nck4222 9y ago
Yeah I suppose unregulated is the wrong word. My overall point though is that this is something the local government can and should do something to fix. Boston is currently also experiencing a housing shortage/crisis, and has a short a

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