neronero

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   by neronero 6y ago

   My bad. The emotions were high. I wanted to remove it, but I can edit the post anymore.
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   by neronero 6y ago

   I think you're using "indiscriminately" as if it meant "if I personally don't like it". But you're right, my litmus test is very sloppy and it could be phrased much more precisely. I hope most people will
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   by neronero 6y ago

   > but that piece of advice was meant for the kind of people that CAN afford a vacation after a startup failure. Is something wrong with that? If you can afford a vacation, you take it. If you can't, you don't. If they really in
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   by neronero 6y ago

   EDIT: For comparison: * "Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers" (5hrs ago, 110 points, 30 comments) -> rank 2 * this post (2hrs ago, 1000 points, 500 comments) -> rank 20 Why is this post being penalized? Too many blac
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   by neronero 6y ago

   That's the correct way to look at it. You want to evaluate ideas on their own merits, but you also want to use heuristics and proxies when determining which ideas to consider in the sea of ideas on the Internet. A correct heuristic to
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   by neronero 6y ago

   I find Sam Altman's essays completely devoid of any insight. He's trying really hard to be like PG, while he simply doesn't have the street-cred required. Case in point, when they did a series of Y Combinator interviews a few