santaclause33

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Ask HN: How much do you make as a growth hacker/customer acquisition specialist?
1 points by santaclause33 11y ago|0 comments
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by santaclause33 11y ago
Dentists are often crooks. When I was younger, my parents had to change insurance plans, so I got a new dentist. In the first visit, he takes a quick look at my mouth (with no tools, mind you) and confidently says I had 8 cavities that need
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by santaclause33 11y ago
Instead of saying, "It's too complicated to explain", why don't you give it a shot?
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by santaclause33 11y ago
Your other examples are obvious. This one is not.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
Three notes I would add: 1) In response to the "know yourself" bullet: I met my now wife at 15 - we learned a lot about ourselves between then and when we married at age 22. But we were pretty much committed to marrying by age 18,
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by santaclause33 11y ago
All of these questions except interest and repayment terms are not indicative if anything.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
I certainly have a person or two I would prefer to be erased from existence. People who have hurt the people I love, etc.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
As someone who spends a lot on Google and Facebook ads - this guy got it right.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
Short term loans have artificially high APR.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
But SAT scores correlate to income regardless of schooling.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
I am in the hole 250k
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by santaclause33 11y ago
HN and Reddit are dopamine hit factories.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
My experience is more with the OPs. Leave the line, lose your spot.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
His anecdote works with biweekly paychecks, and many city apartments in the US do not allow a washer and dryer.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
None of that seems like a big difference compared to what the leader in that space, SoFi, is doing.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
So - you actually saw ads saying, "come work in a big city and make more money?". I've never heard of this.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
Pretty accurate from my experience.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
I like it on mobile.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
Welfare in the US (ssi in his case, since he has a disability) is a pathetically small amount, and a headache to get.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
When I busked, donations always came from 40+ year olds anyway, very rarely from young men in professional clothes.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
Anecdote: For the summer between high school and college, I made am average of $17 per hour busking on the subway (an average of 24 hours a week)
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by santaclause33 11y ago
2 bedrooms in Astoria are 2000+
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by santaclause33 11y ago
3 hours actually working, 5 more in the office, 3 hours a day commuting.
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by santaclause33 11y ago
Doing nothing! Trying to become skilled enough that I only have to work a few hours a week in the future.