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by rick888 16y ago
"The garbage men who take the trash off my curb provide more value than a lot of white collar management, in my opinion" The garbage men in my city get paid $50,000+/year (it's in the midwest). I think this is a pretty good wage. "Do you re
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by rick888 16y ago
"he poverty in those countries doesn't even begin to compare to the poverty in the US, in terms of number or hardship. Those countries all have national healthcare." 85% of the population has healthcare in the US. Hospitals will also not tu
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by rick888 16y ago
"This is not how labor markets work." It's exactly how labor markets work (without the unions inflating wages). The reason Mcdonalds workers are paid a little above minimum wage is because the skill required to do those types of jobs is lo
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by rick888 16y ago
Even better, I've seen some sites iframe videos from other sites. It will make it harder to figure out that you are hotlinking it.
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by rick888 16y ago
Really? They wiped out poverty? http://www.redbarnet.dk/Default.aspx?ID=2208 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Canada http://www.economist.com/node/17581844 Poverty exists in every nation in the world. There are a small percent
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by rick888 16y ago
If you are hosting the actual videos and pictures, your site will crumble pretty quickly. It will probably be better to just link to them instead.
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by rick888 16y ago
"I have however realized that I do not have any ownership of what I am allowed to do and that I am working on someone else's dream" Did you bring this point up specifically? You will run into this problem at any company...because this is w
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by rick888 16y ago
Most bands don't have this luxury. They make money because they are popular and are able to still sell out venues.
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by rick888 16y ago
I wish they had some new "detroit in ruins" photos. Most of these have been floating around the Internet for the past 6+ months.
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by rick888 16y ago
to get older.
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by rick888 16y ago
"If you don't trust someone enough, don't get married. Period. End of story." This is bad advice. It's similar to saying: if you need to have a contract with your business partners, why get into business together in the first place? It's n
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by rick888 16y ago
"I'm going to mull this over and see what I can come up with." This idea is kind of like having a math game: the majority of the population will not bother with it. The reason WOW is so popular is because it allows you to get away from you
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by rick888 16y ago
I'm beginning to really question Wordpress. Every few weeks there seems to be a new security flaw. I can't imagine what hasn't been discovered yet.
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by rick888 16y ago
"What about when people stop of flying BECAUSE of the TSA and either don't fly or drive? How does that factor in? reply" So if they stop all of these security measures and people die as a result, you aren't going to blame the TSA or the air
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by rick888 16y ago
sadly, I've met SO many people that have tried to get me involved in projects like this. They are the "ideas" guy. They have a great idea, but no technical skill to complete it. I would gladly partner with someone if they have: -connectio
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by rick888 16y ago
"the more attractive the girl, the lower the probability of a successful response." If a really hot girl sends me a message on okcupid, I will probably ignore it. Why? Because 9/10 it's a spammer.
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by rick888 16y ago
"If anyone figures out how to use robots to entirely automate their job or engineers manage to make wind and solar scale up cheaply, I would say that's a net positive for humanity." The unions have prevented many jobs from being automated.
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by rick888 16y ago
It's not just this. I could have the best job in the world and because I'm not working for myself, I'm not going to be happy.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Should people from well-off families be made to see what it's like to live off a minimum wage income so they can not vote to make life harder for the poor?" seeing as how the the poor vastly out-number the rich, no. I also don't see how t
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by rick888 16y ago
Many people are not this tech savvy and don't realize this. I think I'm going to do the same thing to see how much data, accounts, and other goodies I can get.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Folks making minimum wage currently pay little or no taxes, so they'd see a significant tax increase with consumption-based taxation - an increase they can't afford." Maybe they would see what it's like to be taxed..and not vote to get eve
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by rick888 16y ago
So the network that was lauded as being anonymous and that people should use it if they want to have secure transmissions wasn't so secure. Nice.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Why put down a fair post with useless comments on a "hunch that he offers 5% or less"?" Because he already stated that the co-founder gets no salary. He never mentioned the actual percentage, so it's a fair assumption.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Maybe the idea will interest someone, maybe someone here was thinking about the same thing but never got it started. It is what it is. What do you find "wrong" with his posting, maybe it will help clarify your criticism?" If I'm going to t
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by rick888 16y ago
"If you're looking for an hourly rate or a salary before funding, you've missed the point." I hope you are offering 50% equity. If not, it's not worth my time. This looks like every other business guy looking for a tech founder: you want
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by rick888 16y ago
just click the column at the top to sort it. This is how everybody does it.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Strictly speaking, your statement is true, there are many other things you can do, all of which will bring you experiences. However, startup experiences are unique and not easily fungible for other experiences. The question then, simply, i
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by rick888 16y ago
It doesn't work this way. The corporation could get sued if an employee (representing the corporation) says the wrong thing. The converse won't happen.
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by rick888 16y ago
"How will you, as a founder, do things differently?" Pay developers what they are worth. If you can't afford it, then you are doing something wrong.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Nice things about working for someone else's startup for a while: (a) you're not as overworked or underpaid as they are [1]; (b) you have less of your ego invested so you might sleep better; (c) you'll learn to see the world from the start

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