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by staunch 8y ago
> Show up with tanks, rig an election in favor of your candidate, and disenfranchise an entire segment of the population... I protested the Iraq invasion in 2003 but this is a revisionist and historically inaccurate version of why it f
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by staunch 8y ago
I think it's good feedback but perhaps not well stated, which is why you're getting grief for it. It is generous and a good thing to give away $1 million no matter how you do it. Ideally though, they would give $100k to 100 (or 10
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by staunch 8y ago
Really great news that this program is getting more effort poured into it. Startup School could be orders of magnitude bigger and more important than YC itself. It could be the first meritocratic platform for startup opportunity. Instead of
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by staunch 8y ago
What about creating a "Direct Democracy Lobbying Group" that lets citizens donate/vote online on issues and then (legally) bribes the appropriate people with total transparency? The depressing thing about most bribery is how
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by staunch 8y ago
> Guess what: not giving assholes a platform actually works. In other words, these platforms are powerful enough to silence people. Today, it's people you agree with silencing. Tomorrow, it may be people you disagree with silencin
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by staunch 8y ago
When it comes to the internet, Apple, Facebook, and Google are more powerful than the most powerful governments in the world. They should uphold the principles of free speech, despite not being required to by law. Everything that is legal t
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by staunch 8y ago
Consider that you're probably just in a bad state of mind. You shouldn't quit your job or write these people off while you're in a bad place mentally. When you're feeling better, you may find that your friend was just ex
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by staunch 8y ago
Exactly. You can certainly pity someone for lacking empathy but blaming them makes no sense. And behavior isn't necessarily a static thing. This same person might read a good book (which would become part environment) which might move
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by staunch 8y ago
Not just genetics. Your willpower is entirely dependent on your genetics and your environment. There are no other factors possible. No one chooses how much willpower they have, just like no one chooses how intelligent they are.
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by staunch 8y ago
> At some point, though, personal responsibility has to come into play. It actually doesn't. Everyone is a responsible as they're capable of being, given their genetics and their environment. If you're a very responsible
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Matthew Walker Ph.D – Author of “Why We Sleep” (podcast)(kevinrose.com)
2 points by staunch 8y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 8y ago
That all seems reasonable. I do think my contention that a cautious driver could probably beat the safety of an airplane is plausible but it could also be untrue. A quick look at the stats show that most fatalities involve distracted drivin
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by staunch 8y ago
> When you compare accidents by mile or by hour air travel is still much safer than driving. Can you provide a citation for the per hour stat? > It is true that to drive 12,000 miles would take 12,000 hours... Uh, what? No one dri
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by staunch 8y ago
These are kind of statistical lies. Flying on commercial airlines is very safe but almost everyone abuses the stats to tell a false story. 1. Per hour vs per mile is a completely different stat. Every hour in a plane is possibly more danger
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by staunch 8y ago
Same thing. I flew around the world dozens of times and my fear developed gradually over time. In the same way yours did, by experiencing some scary incidents. I don't have a cure for myself so I obviously don't have one for you,
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by staunch 8y ago
Being extremely persistent can make up for a lot of deficiencies. It's totally fine to lag behind everyone initially if you're willing to keep going long after most other people stop making progress. There's nothing wrong wit
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by staunch 8y ago
Don't suffer from this myself but I saw a reddit thread on this recently. It seems that SLS-free toothpaste is helpful for many people. Some other tips in there too. May be helpful for you. https://old.reddit.com/r&#x2F
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by staunch 8y ago
Try drinking just the hot water by itself. It's surprising and amusing how much of the effect you get. Pretty sure it was a Paul Graham tweet that pointed this out to me.
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by staunch 8y ago
Someone summarized the dynamic well with the idea that "companies are bought, not sold". The best sellers of startups are actually investors themselves. Some of them are very good at selling portfolio companies into bigger organiz
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Make education status into a protected class(twitter.com)
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by staunch 8y ago
The reason this is so confusing is that investors outright lie to themselves and everyone else about it. They pretend to invest based on product vision or founder traits but it's almost universally untrue. Investors actually invest bas
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by staunch 8y ago
Chalk this event up to a lesson learned. Now go back to doing great stuff and, from now on, make sure your boss is aware of it. Also, this is an example of having a bad boss and is one of the reasons technical people generally prefer workin
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by staunch 8y ago
A reasonable question but I think it's caused by confusion. The answer to bad speech is good speech, not censorship. The answer to unjust violence is just violence, not appeasement.
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by staunch 8y ago
I'm stating a fact that they are the de facto social network. As such, they have an ethical duty to not deprive their users of basic human rights like freedom of speech. I absolutely do want Facebook replaced but I'd also like t
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by staunch 8y ago
Facebook runs the internet's de facto social network. They're a monopoly that only exists because open solutions didn't come about in time. It's an accident of history that a few companies control what should have been d
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by staunch 8y ago
It's a complete misconception that HN got Dropbox wrong. It's more accurate to say that HN is a major reason Dropbox succeeded. There were a couple skeptical comments but it was very heavily upvoted and shared. Thousands of HN use
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by staunch 8y ago
The board generally controls everything, including who the chairperson is. Founders should maintain board control as long as possible, hopefully until they leave voluntarily. They're the least likely people to destroy the company. They
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by staunch 8y ago
Paul Bucheit nailed the problem: "Limited life experience + over-generalization = advice" . Most startup advice is horroscope-like in its applicability and utility. It's very easy for advice to seem entirely right but be ent
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by staunch 8y ago
The dynamic changes as soon as founders give up control of the board. It goes from investors having to convince founders of major decisions to founders having to convince investors. It also makes the founders fireable. The founders become e
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by staunch 8y ago
"I really like working here. I really want to keep working here. And I think I've proven that I'm a very valuable member of the team. But to continue being happy working here I need to receive a raise of $n. Otherwise I&#x27

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