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by neilk 9y ago
I have a simpler thesis. Is it possible that Thiel isn't particularly brilliant about politics? I mean I realize that he's rich and therefore he has to be smart about everything, but... maybe this isn't his field? It could be
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by neilk 9y ago
It sounds like you are admitting that you're filling a gap in the market: specifically, "body hackers" who will put anything in their bodies as long as it sounds edgy and new. And that you don't have any research to back
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by neilk 9y ago
Seems pretty bogus to me, or something is unexplained. ManyPixels offers unlimited monthly design work for a fixed price that’s less than what a good freelance designer would charge for a day. This can only work if the customers rarely even
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by neilk 9y ago
Yes and no. I did pay for app.net when it started, so I know that I really would pay for it. App.net had a theory that if you made an elite social network, interesting people would pay to be on it, and then everyone else would follow. In pr
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by neilk 9y ago
I’ve participated in two or three solopreneur / side-project groups (and even started one myself). I don’t think they work. I’ve seen friendships forged by volunteering together on the same thing. But not by people working in proximity
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by neilk 9y ago
I think your analysis is great too. The power law advantages are what’s both wonderful and terrifying about this field. Although surgeons aren’t really in the power-law game; at best they can do a handful of surgeries a week. But yes I chos
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by neilk 9y ago
> I'm not sure I understand. > The whole article is just describing literally anyone in any industry. Teachers. Surgeons. Physiotherapists. Soldiers. Artists. Grocers. Cleaners. Miners. Forestry. Farmers. Elder care. The people w
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by neilk 9y ago
> Are you sure about that? Do you think Google (substitute your favorite SW company here) "makes coding decisions based on what's the most likely staffing"? Or do you think they endeavor to maintain a top-notch staff so th
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by neilk 9y ago
I'm not equating the harms, or attempting to distract from this serious issue. But, if we feel clear outrage about another industry, we should consider applying the same standards to our own. Most everyone who works in opioid marketing
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It's interesting how HN has near-universal disdain for people covertly making billions off an addictive product. But much of our industry is explicitly, openly trying to create addictive experiences.
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The problem is harassment. This article is talking about men avoiding being alone with women, to avoid the suspicion of third parties. Not really related to harassment. It would make sense if the concern was false accusations. They don&#x27
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by neilk 9y ago
If anyone is confused like I was: "Gold open access": publish paper in a publicly accessible academic journal. "Green open access": self-publish. For instance, throw it on a website, and allow it to be indexed. https:&#
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by neilk 9y ago
Bench Accounting | Frontend, Backend, Product, DevOps | Vancouver, Canada | Full-time At Bench, we want to provide simple, effortless, and affordable bookkeeping to every single entrepreneur. It's a huge challenge to scale while also p
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by neilk 9y ago
I tried our company's logo ( https://bench.co/press-kit/#brand ), which I think is pretty strong, and it gave it high marks. But then I tried a very bad logo ("Kate's Florist" from http://w
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Strawman
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I'm encountering difficulties right now with a project I open-sourced. Some other people made it a core part of their business, but then I left the company, so I can't merge patches to the official branch. And to be honest I don&#
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by neilk 9y ago
It's a good description of the problems of ORM and their possible resolutions. Personally, I prefer to interact with a relational database via a good query builder. The advantage of a query builder is that you inevitably end up with do
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by neilk 9y ago
This may be the purest distillation of Hacker News brogrammerism I've ever read. By her own words, she thought Google had a 2% chance of success. Is that not enough risk for one life? http://fortune.com/2011/10&#x2
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by neilk 9y ago
You may think it was MM's primary job to sell Yahoo for parts, but I don't think she did. Look at the initiatives into media, big-bet acquisitions, reinvestment in search. I think it's clear she was trying to reinvent Yahoo,
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by neilk 9y ago
Yahoo screwed up literally every acquisition in the social space that they made. After Google spanked them in search, generally they had ideas of somehow pivoting to social media, but they never executed. They had all the good fledgling soc
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I agree with the part where he calls cryptocurrencies a religion.
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When outages happen, there are companies that do blameless postmortems, and they do get good data. I think it's a matter of creating the right incentives. Possibly an organization like YC or a VC that's existed for a long time doe
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by neilk 9y ago
I know exactly what you're talking about. I've seen it and even been that guy. We should be clear, though, that the "small fish in a big pond" scenario isn't exactly what happened to Joseph Thomas. According to the
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You're refuting the wrong point here. It's not that business involves no skill. It's that the difference between competitors can be due to random chance. Two people could have equal ability to make decisions - some good, so
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by neilk 10y ago
Policies around visa processing vary with time and even depending on what port of entry or what agent you get. (It's a taste of what the state is like when there are no accountability procedures.) There are people in the Valley who spe
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by neilk 10y ago
In my experience, those numbers for Canadian salaries would be ridiculously low. Also, I'm assuming those numbers are converted to USD. Even if they look lower, you have to consider what kind of lifestyle the salary buys you where you
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Criticizing someone else's choice of crypto is I guess par for the course on HN. But I think her story is still noteworthy. It's unusual to be someone who specializes in writing about digital activists who need encryption. It&#x27
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by neilk 10y ago
I don't know, man. If you're trying to make a serious point about health, do you have to cite your expertise as an ogler of women? It sounds like you're trying to allude to something we're all supposed to know, that peop
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by neilk 10y ago
$20/month? That wouldn't be enough even for most white women. Black women's hair appointments are more expensive; many hair salons charge a premium. Plus they use a lot of products and elixirs to change the nature of their ha
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by neilk 10y ago
You are trying to imply that Tufekci is part of a tacit conspiracy to suppress the real news about... something? I'm not sure. 1) There's nothing in what she wrote to suggest that she's minimizing the dangers posed by telcos

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