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by thenomad 9y ago
I agree. It's remarkable - and rather depressing - that a well-meaning article aiming to help people improve their lives, and mostly offering decent advice, is attracting such intense dislike.
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by thenomad 9y ago
That is fascinating to hear, and thank you for posting it on Hacker News. (Also rather reassuring, and interesting in terms of narrowing down the causes of the hyper-partisan trends that seem to be developing in politics.) Please do post
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by thenomad 9y ago
Depends on the business. Not everything requires huge or even significant initial outlay. For example, infoproducts (or any kind of digital product) are very cheap to start up. They take time, but not necessarily a lot of money.
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by thenomad 9y ago
That tallies with what I've heard about the rest of the UK and the legal profession, although I'm Scotland-based too.
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by thenomad 9y ago
Depends what you mean by "startup" and indeed "success". As mentioned elsewhere on this thread, small business survival rates are surprisingly high these days - around 60% depending on whose figures you believe. (I think
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by thenomad 9y ago
I would agree. One of the things I tell students is that studying success stories is extremely valuable, but only if you do it the right way. You're looking for two things: 1) Trends. 2) Ideas. Not blueprints. (On the med school survi
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by thenomad 9y ago
YC companies are, to the best of my knowledge, mostly looking for unicorn-style plays. That's a very different game to a lifestyle business, and one where I would agree 100% that the failure rate is extremely high. Small business failu
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by thenomad 9y ago
The "actual unpleasant work" is to a significant extent the domain of entrepreneurs. For example, cleaning companies - often started by one person doing the cleaning - are an absolutely textbook example of entrepreneurship. Some o
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by thenomad 9y ago
Way more people with the exact traits you'd describe as being what's needed for success have failed than succeeded. Do you have proof of that assertion? I'd tend to largely agree with the OP, although I think he's over
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by thenomad 9y ago
drug-assisted weird things Minor point - whilst Lynch's work certainly frequently looks like it was drug-assisted, Lynch is actually not at all a fan of drugs as a creativity aid: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/
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by thenomad 9y ago
A counter-suggestion here: my girlfriend and I just tried the Leesa. It's an amazing piece of materials science, and it feels luxurious as hell, but it was waaaaay too soft for both of us. She woke up in considerable pain. Also, it w
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by thenomad 9y ago
I'm using Hugo currently on a site with tens of thousands of pages - it was converted from a Wordpress site which was updated multiple times a day for about 4 years. Compilation time is around a minute. It's really not a big deal.
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by thenomad 9y ago
I believe Jeremy Corbyn has announced Labour will support it. That's not really the same thing at this point.
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by thenomad 10y ago
You may be surprised. I'm not the median age for HN. I do, however, like tailored clothes, because they look good. To the best of my knowledge, that's not a generation-specific thing.
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by thenomad 10y ago
There's a few other places that are popping up doing personalised, laser cut, tailored t-shirts Links please? I'd love to find a good online source for tailored T-shirts.
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by thenomad 10y ago
Judging from a friend's experience in the UK, the GP may well be more useful and take you more seriously than you might think. Public attitudes to health are often not reflected in the NHS in a variety of ways.
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by thenomad 10y ago
Hugo with Discus will do the job you're looking to complete: it's the approach I've taken with nearly all my sites these days, precisely because of the performance and security headaches. You don't even need to run a VPS
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by thenomad 10y ago
"plenty of economists that think Brexit will work out fine" Whom? I would be absolutely thrilled to see a credible study which suggests Brexit will be good for the UK.
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by thenomad 10y ago
Also, every single study bar one, from credible institutions like the London School Of Economics (and indeed HM Treasury), predicted a significant downswing in the UK economy post-Brexit. The lone study is worth paying attention to. It&#x27
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by thenomad 10y ago
I've been blogging for a couple of decades at this point. Yes, it has definitely gotten harder to attract an audience. It does depend on the sort of blog you're running, though. Information-heavy blogs addressing actual urgent nee
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by thenomad 10y ago
It was definitely like this for previous generations. Young people have been moving to big cities they could barely afford for at least 100 years, and probably since Roman times.
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by thenomad 10y ago
1. Hits the classic micropayments problem. People are unlikely to pay an amount for a single article which is profitable, given credit card fees, to process. Various people have tried various workarounds for that, but a really successful on
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by thenomad 10y ago
In Scotland, the opinion of Uber amongst its drivers (and their general mood), from the ones I've talked to (a dozen or so), seems to be somewhere between "decent" and "very good".
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by thenomad 10y ago
Speaking as someone who did something similar a few years ago (entire significant-length CGI animated film solo-ish) - thanks. That (your last line) is really nice to read. (And if you haven't, please do tell him what you wrote there -
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by thenomad 10y ago
Keep a close eye on EU data protection/retention laws and agreements and how Brexit will affect the UK's ability to trade with the EU in that way. Currently the UK's Department For Brexit has stated they have no idea what wil
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by thenomad 10y ago
People pay up to several hundred dollars for a single customer ending up on their website, in some industries. (Check out the pricing on Adwords for serious medical conditions some time.)
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by thenomad 10y ago
The UK has had the "check out as you shop" systems for a while in most major supermarkets. They work very well.
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by thenomad 10y ago
Looks very cool. Does this only work with Github? Unfortunately that renders it pretty much useless for me (and probably other non-Github users) if so.
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by thenomad 10y ago
This could do with being higher up the thread. So WILL Win7 work with Ryzen? I ask because I'm typing this on a Win7 machine I just ordered a Ryzen chip for...
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by thenomad 10y ago
I had a similar problem with a Surface, but some persistent going through the reboot options (of which there are about six, in increasing order of nuke-it-from-orbit-it's-the-only-way-to-be-sure) fixed it eventually. Other than that, t

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