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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The 1990->2000 change seemed more impressive than 2000->2010 because we'd come to expect rapid change after the '90s. So nothing that has happened in the past 10 years was especially surprising in the way the Internet would be from
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Depends what happens after death.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Technically speaking, most corporate leaders are psychopaths , not sociopaths. A sociopath has conscience, empathy, and ethics but his differ radically from those of mainstream society. For example, a gang member who'll kill someone in a r
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Obviously, it's more subjective. That said, the fact that X is directly measurable while Y is slightly subjective does not mean that an X:Y connection isn't worth discussing. When real estate is expensive, it means that (1) past wealth is b
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
In the areas with cheap real estate, this is because incomes are low.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The U.S. is a second-world country, but it's not Asia's fault. China had nothing to do with the emergence of tent cities. We have more in common with Brazilian society (high economic inequality, corruption) than with Europe at this point.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I resent Zuckerberg. He got extremely lucky and is massively overrated. I wouldn't be upset if he were just a millionaire a few hundred times over; who cares about that? But he certainly doesn't deserve to be the most successful member of o
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Absolutely not, and 24 is young. When you're 22, it's intimidating to compete with the people who have been on a career path since high school (e.g. the kid who knew he wanted to be an investment banker when he was 13, and has been reading
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
It's a mixture of both. The code is complicated, and written in an incomprehensible way (not documented). He's great at producing code fast, but he's poor at architecture/design and that slows us all down in the long run. However, since we'
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Good question. A mix of online dating and activities (cooking classes, hiking groups). Also, lucky breaks with friends of friends.
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Ask HN: Have you ever had a founder quit or had to fire one?
2 points by pwnstigator 17y ago|3 comments
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
"Obsolete" isn't easily defined, just as "Microsoft is Dead" yet the company is still worth billions. Then we have that which is obsolete but remains for political reasons, such as private health insurance.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
22. Malls, and all of the stores that populate them. 23. The bar scene, "single's night" at the grocery store, and other means of finding dates. 24. The penny. No one cares, at this point, if they pay $20 for an $18.43 grocery bill and get
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Maps are also cool and have prestige benefits. Whereever my family moves, we get a map of the area and create a map table. We've been doing it for hundreds of years, and if we have to pay a lot for a paper map, we'll still do it.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
People would inflate their minimum bid prices to increase their status, and so everyone would be expensive to contact. So no one would use the site for recruiting.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
One worked for a harvesting company and received a good salary. Another did long distance trucking. All of these are “low paying” jobs, yet in the USA they receive excellent salaries. That's not poverty. Not even close. You do not have a
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I've met Joel in person, and he's bright, but not visionary. Some of his writing his interesting, but I'm generally unimpressed. Disclaimer: I'm not impartial. I interviewed with Fog Creek in the summer of 2008. I was rejected, which didn't
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Troll culture (4chan, Autoadmit) has a sort of "secret society" flavor to it-- catchy memes and in-jokes, plus new words, much of which spreads out into the mainstream. (Pwn, "over 9000", Final Fantasy fetishism). It's a guilty pleasure and
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I guess America is special then. My point is that you have no idea what it's like for those who are poor in the US. To claim that they have abundant opportunity is ludicrous. I know this society inside and out, I've got friends at all soc
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Excellent point. However, people sometimes misuse the phrase "scientific consensus". For example, on the near-death experience, it's often said that "scientific consensus" is that the NDE is a biochemical phenomenon. Wrong. There is no scie
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I grew up in a relatively poor family in a third world country (in a rural area). So, don't make baseless assumptions. Correction: You know nothing about poverty in the United States. These (healthcare, education, etc...) are privileges.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I find it ridiculous that people are quick to claim "science is dead" because a few scientists, being human, err or embarrass themselves, or because society as a whole may be having an anti-science backlash. None of that has anything to do
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Even the poorest American have boundless opportunities. You know nothing about poverty. Unfortunately most people chose not to take these opportunities and then demand equality of outcome. Almost no one expects or even wants "equality o
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
On humanities and "self-indulgence": I hate the corporatization of academia in general, but professors really dicked themselves over when they took the attitude that their research was their "real work" and that teaching was commodity grunt
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
MBA culture has fucked this country up really badly. Agree. The idea that you need to be part of an elite, well-connected, largely hereditary caste to do "business" is ridiculous. People much less educated than us, with minimal social con
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
It's a good thing we have large, inefficient, hierarchical corporations. Having most working people doing things they hate that are also pretty useless really puts the damn proles in their place. (Sarcasm, obviously.)
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Here's the problem: most technology entrepreneurs could, with a couple years' training, do the VCs' jobs as well as they do. The only thing they lack is the connections necessary to get the job. Yet VCs hold the cards, and the reason for th
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I think entrepreneurs had more leverage in the '90s. In 2009, with the economy in such a damaged state, VCs know that entrepreneurs would be in severe pain if they entered the traditional labor market right now, and they're using this as le
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I have a very narrow range for the amount I can work. The number of hours per week varies, but there's a floating X for which working less than 0.9 X (for more than a couple weeks) will make me bored and crazy, and working more than 1.1 X w
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I agree. The problem with "I'm a perfectionist" is that: 1. It's a common stock answer, so giving it signifies a lack of imagination. 2. Taken at face value, it's a real weakness (good; honest), but it's one that can cause problems for the

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