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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
> in the United States Interesting political undertone to your comment. I always get the feeling Americans don't know how much most of the rest of the world struggles to live. > but this implication that you can just give up the
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
How can something be a disaster if it needs retrospective analysis years later to come to that conclusion?
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
There are striking similarities between modern progressivism/wokeness and various church clergy throughout the ages. I'm glad you made that connection.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Exhibit A, why lifting is better for you than HIIT
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
I was more reinforcing your point to the person you responded to.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
You're not looking at the deltas. > but it's important to note that the Trafalgar polls were mostly outliers, disagreeing with the consensus in many states Well, yeah?
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
I don't think people do that because they're scared, they do it because "power users" don't build unicorns in most verticals.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Sorry, what exactly about Baremetrics is luck? You people seem to fixate on the Facebooks of the world instead of the other 99% of businesses built on blood, sweat and tears. Probably because most of this website sits behind a desk writing
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
What? Trafalgar was one of the only polls calling a close race. In Trumps favour but close nonetheless. IIRC they were the only ones calling Florida going red. You’re being intentionally disingenuous saying they were equally as bad as the r
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Every single demographic went further red than 2016 besides white men. There’s a reason for that.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Yeah, except that’s not how negotiations (or the market) works. Go have fun negotiating 3% equity deals and six figure salaries to write Go all day, I’ll hire a smarter engineer for half the price from Kiev or São Paulo.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
This thread has nothing to do with a level headed discussion on the "fairness" of equity (which doesn't even make sense). I was responding to a comment calling Josh a dick for finally getting paid for a company he built that
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
No, it rests on the realistic assumption that there are a million engineers you can hire to be "early employees", and only a handful of Josh Porters with the talent to build something great and the risk tolerance to execute on it.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Not at all, it only seems that way to you because you have zero sense of what risk/reward actually means. Employees were paid for their value determined by the market. Josh is just now being compensated for the immense amount of risk a
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Or, you know, negotiate higher equity and stop bitching and moralizing when your payout isn’t high enough.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
The fact that that’s your conclusion based on that “study” is exactly why success is easy for some of us
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
You people really don’t understand the concept of risk do you
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
The fact that people on hacker news are angry about this cracks me up. The vast majority of folks here really are the crotchety programmers. Yes, a founder gets compensated significantly more than early employees. Massive shocker. If those
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
> (Our own team works out of a Gather office--most of our team has actually never met each other in person) Yikes. As someone who's worked remotely for over a decade, I can't imagine starting a company with people I've nev
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
That’s a pretty arbitrary distinction. The average union worker finds not being able to put food on the table an equally terrifying prospect as eternal damnation.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
That can be said for literally any sort of organization of people
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Yep so let’s keep throwing many multiples of billions at pointless crapshoots like CERN hoping the cure to some debilitating cancer magically pops out as a byproduct
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
> Until we can convincingly show we agree on what our problems actually are, I am reluctant to think we can spend billions fixing them. So instead spend billions staring at dead rocks? Going to the moon had tremendous political and strat
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
How does investing tons of valuable money and man hours into investigating said probably pointless rock make our any colony better today?
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
To comment on how uninteresting it is, obviously?
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
More like ants in the pacific realizing there’s another giant rock in the horizon they’ll probably never reach, and likely has nothing worth looking at even if they do reach
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
"Vulnerability porn" is an intensely annoying trend among Twitter tech personalities.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
> But then people want to go to US not Canada... What? There are a good 4 billion people that would give up their firstborn to immigrate to Canada.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Several people in this very thread, including the comment almost directly above yours: "Agreed, but I would go further: we should immediately issue passports for everyone in the world who submits an online application without prejudice
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Wasn't that done because Islam rejects idol worship and the visual depiction of prophets?

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