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by owens99 8y ago
There was a time where all "credible" scholars believed the earth was flat. Consensus changes.
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by owens99 8y ago
Disappointing to see this downvoted. I've taken the time to watch hours of videos from people on both sides of this fence. Richard Carrier takes the most sober approach to analyzing the evidence without bias by giving an actual probabi
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by owens99 8y ago
I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTllC7TbM8M Richard Carrier actually counters each argument in the Quora post pretty convincingly.
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by owens99 8y ago
Virtually all is an overstatement. Perhaps the vast majority, but the vast majority are also practicing Christians. See Richard Carrier's youtube videos on this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTllC7TbM8M There&
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by owens99 8y ago
A more important question is whether or not there is a historical Jesus at all. Richard Carrier has done some of the best work on questioning this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTllC7TbM8M Did Christianity really begin w
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by owens99 8y ago
I'm a fan of Bart Ehrman, but I think Richard Carrier's arguments on the Historicity of Jesus are superior. He also goes through the effort to quantitatively evaluate the evidence for and against, giving only a 1/3 probabilit
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by owens99 8y ago
> If you want to discuss how structural changes in the economy have let capital fuck over labor, that's a different conversation. Well said. This should no doubt be the focus.
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by owens99 8y ago
Can you show evidence of this? What about airline tickets?
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by owens99 8y ago
I wonder the same thing. But I watch and see the super successful places start by doing this. So either they care more about fame than about profits, or it works. Of course, for some places this absolutely won't work. If the product is
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by owens99 8y ago
I will try to be more clear next time.
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by owens99 8y ago
We’re talking about different places.
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by owens99 8y ago
True.
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by owens99 8y ago
This is the trick for popular restaurants/take-out food in NYC: Buy a really small shop so only 3-5 people can fit inside and the rest have to form a line outside. Then take orders and serve people really slowly so the line builds. Pic
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by owens99 8y ago
This. As I always say, "If you are building a startup, over-engineering is a far bigger sin than creating technical debt."
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by owens99 8y ago
> Companies are very, very risk-averse in hiring and they don't want to get stuck with one of those types. They overestimate the short-term risk of making a bad hire and underestimate the long-term risk of not moving fast enough or
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by owens99 8y ago
> Companies are very, very risk-averse in hiring and they don't want to get stuck with one of those types. They overestimate the short-term risk of making a bad hire and underestimate the long-term risk of not moving fast enough or
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by owens99 8y ago
Congrats man, we demoed a product at NYTM the same day as you guys (QuickMVP, now pivoted away from). Been great to see your progress!
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by owens99 8y ago
The most interesting thing about being in China is seeing how 99% of merchants power their business with a Wechat/Alipay QR code printed on a piece of paper. Not sure how Square missed that.
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by owens99 8y ago
Surprisingly, many findings show there is not. Malcolm Gladwell explains this well in his book Outliers. https://www.honorsociety.org/articles/trouble-geniuses-malco... “Gladwell cites studies done by Arthur Jensen tha
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by owens99 8y ago
(my personal experience) 80% of the time, do both is the wrong choice. 20% of the time, it's the right thing. So say no 80% of the time and say yes less than 20% of the time.
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by owens99 8y ago
I visited Alibaba in 2011 and at that time he had already handed the reigns over to David Wei.
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by owens99 8y ago
Title doesn't make sense to me. Sounds like Chamath is retiring because he's made a ton of money. Though his style of communication is clearly horrible.
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by owens99 8y ago
Is your statement correct? People can smoke for decades without any major consequence. What is the long term effect of Facebook on individuals and society?
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by owens99 8y ago
Eric invented the term for Lean. Steve invented Customer Development. Both have different definitions of what a startup is. Extreme uncertainty is part of Eric's definition, not Steve's.
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by owens99 8y ago
Hey William. I also think one of the big mistakes is that Eric trademarked Lean Startup. Check out the book, Starfish and the Spider. The way to kill a grassroots movement is to centralize the power and then it dies with the center.
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by owens99 8y ago
Thanks for pointing this out Andrew. I founded Lean Startup Machine, the first training/bootcamp on Lean Startup in 2010 which since held events in over 100 cities around the world. I like Eric, but I think your comment is very true an
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by owens99 8y ago
Eric Ries was Co-Founder and CTO of IMVU which had 4 million active users and $40M in annual revenue at one point. I assume you knew that and just felt like bashing him without adding any nuance to your point. That's a bad habit and yo
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by owens99 8y ago
If there's no product/market fit, too much capital is a death sentence. If they don't go out of business in a giant explosion, NewTV surely won't build anything innovative or disrupt anyone. Too much pressure and too man
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by owens99 8y ago
No one. There are now fewer shares outstanding. ie. before there were 10M shares outstanding which represents all the shares owned by employees founders investors etc, now (as an example, these are not real numbers) there are 8M shares outs
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by owens99 8y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain to this guy the big obvious perspective he is missing here. So frustrating reading one-sided comments like that.

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