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by solve 12y ago
Having highly-skilled women is a status symbol for companies in some cities, particularly in NYC. They're simply harder and more expensive to attract - e.g. women without children get paid 30% more than men with the same education in N
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by solve 12y ago
Nice. Does it allow cycles?
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by solve 12y ago
Most surprising thing I've ever seen him write. Gave me a bit of a laugh.
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by solve 12y ago
Internet lawyers... why did I bother.
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by solve 12y ago
* All else being equal. As in, explaining to people here why e.g. a $70,000 / yr salary in the US would be much more attractive to them than it would be to me, with >$100,000 in high interest student loans. And all often is nearly
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by solve 12y ago
Student loans! Nothing is more profoundly affecting young American's ability to innovate after they've left school, than the growing, crushing debt from student loans. It's the primary reason that I've moved out of the U
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by solve 12y ago
The article has to be completely misrepresenting which part, exactly, was illegal here. Nearly every high frequency trader in every electronic market aims to do something very similar to 90% of what he describes here. Is it all because of t
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by solve 12y ago
> So, what are the YC people investing in? Two guys who seem pretty smart? The fully loaded market rate for "two guys who seem pretty smart" in Silicon Valley is somewhere between $200,000 to $300,000 per year -- at regular day
309.
by solve 13y ago
Part of the problem is that "smart" people, especially technical and scientific people, refuse to believe that prices aren't based on logic and hard facts, but the circular-definition that is markets -- the price is what it i
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by solve 13y ago
No, Bitcoin and its successors are made to handle this exact scenario from the beginning. It's common on every coin. There would be no cryptocoins left today if they weren't made to survive this. Don't call me mate. Why do yo
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by solve 13y ago
Nearly every coin, Bitcoin included, has had forks in it's early days. You guys should all be ashamed for being so gullible.
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by solve 13y ago
Linkbait garbage. I don't like AUR much either, but this title is linkbait garbage.
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by solve 13y ago
Yesterday my investor decided to fund a direct competitor to my company. Solving the same problem, for the same target market, similar looking solution, slightly different approach. I sense a bit of competitive spirit in the near future. I&
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by solve 13y ago
Alternatively: all the ways that it could fail don't matter if there's at least one way it could succeed.
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by solve 13y ago
Isn't that equivalent to never moving up? That's what I do.
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by solve 13y ago
Terrible title, some great content. Skip the "growth hacking" section and the rest is good.
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by solve 13y ago
Fantasy.
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by solve 13y ago
Employees still optimize for pay / effort, NOT absolute pay. In that respect, commissions are still FAR from perfectly aligning incentives. You can't really be suggesting that commissions are the silver bullet for aligning incenti
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by solve 13y ago
Indeed, he's definitely talking about SALES people, who use their sales tactics to sell him on themselves. Definitely not talking about "book smarts" brilliance. The author probably intentionally mistitled the story for atten
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by solve 13y ago
Every day? You think the products you use every day aren't maximized for profit?
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by solve 13y ago
No. Parts sourcing is not even close to getting your pals that you know at the factory to slip in a custom assembly run, just paying the absolutely minimal costs and nearly 100% of the money going to the very bottom $1/hour end-workers
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by solve 13y ago
I used to think to you, until I moved across the world to a place where people make $1/hour (where I'm still residing now.) Tons of extremely high-quality products for cheap, that I've never seen in the US. Turns out that ass
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by solve 13y ago
Blind brand loyalty isn't always a good thing, especially over the span of 20+ years where you stop even testing the alternatives. Technology advances FAST. You say nothing about having actually evaluated the cheaper alternatives in pe
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by solve 13y ago
On the other hand, there's strong evidence that Fluke is using excessive anti-competitive practices to manipulate multimeter prices. Evidence: 1) Multimeters can be made for $10 or $15, but Fluke continues to dominate the market with e
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by solve 13y ago
Nice. That'll do it.
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by solve 13y ago
> I know this because I used to be that person, until I met my wife who showed me there's more to life than getting drunk every weekend. There's an overpowering tendency to solve for a perfect "steady state" solution
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by solve 13y ago
12440, is that good?
328.
by solve 13y ago
You've got it all wrong, hacker news is very consistent. Whatever the topic, everyone must argue against the OP.
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by solve 13y ago
No interpretation, I just pasted the Google definition. I see, so these accelerators are talking more about "specialized experts" (the mentors) vs "generalists" (the startup founders)?
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by solve 13y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't much like the word "mentor"? It makes me imagine kind of a superior/inferior relation, as if the best people aren't the ones who starting the startups. Shouldn't the very best peop

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