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by tjic 18y ago
This makes no sense to me: > I cannot leave without their consent either What does that mean? Have you signed something saying that you can not quit? Regardless, the correct framework to think about this is BATNA http://en.wikipedia.o
902.
by tjic 18y ago
What sort of tutorials? I own and run SmartFlix.com, and we're we're just now launching some new stuff - we're paying $20 commissions for each customer that signs up for one of our Universities. 100 signups a month is $2k. Not huge, but be
903.
by tjic 18y ago
It's not 12 years of learning. It's 12 years of attending a jobs-creation project for education majors (i.e. teachers).
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by tjic 18y ago
I left high school after three years and went to an Ivy League college. I regret only two things: 1) that I wasted as much time as I did in high school. 2) that I started in a degree program at a college. Never confuse education with mere "
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by tjic 18y ago
14 year high? Wow. Bush has finally let the unemployment rate get almost as bad as it was under Clinton...
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by tjic 18y ago
Irrelevant. The site is worth whatever it is worth to the acquirer. Once you figure out that number, you decide if you want to sell it at that price or not. Until you get to that point, don't bother thinking about the emotional attachment.
907.
by tjic 18y ago
Read _Ready, Fire, Aim_, one of THE best business books ever. http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Fire-Aim-Million-Agora/dp/047018... YOU are the only one properly motivated to sell. You have to do it, until (at least) you have it down to a scie
908.
by tjic 18y ago
As I wrote last time this topic came up http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295880 Building stuff is cool. Universal machines / replicators are cool. Early prototypes of things that will be better in a few generations are cool. However, F
909.
by tjic 18y ago
A+++++++++++++++++++++ Would click again.
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by tjic 18y ago
> When do you scrap a startup due to a well-entrenched player/competitor? When you decide that you can't win. Or, better: when your opportunity cost is such that you should really be doing THAT project and not this one. > When do s
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How you deal with it is called character(tjic.com)
27 points by tjic 18y ago|2 comments
912.
by tjic 18y ago
"One of the saddest stories of the 20th century is the fate of air travel." Or the Holocaust. Or Stalin murdering 10 million folks. Certainly one of those three.
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by tjic 18y ago
> One of the more stupider suggestions Agreed.
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by tjic 18y ago
I've been cooking low-carb for a few weeks as an experiment. For dinners I've been having a bit of meat over a large salad. Last night: 1) half a bag of mixed lettuces 2) a diced tomato 3) 6-8 oz of frozen shrimp, thawed, pan fried in a dab
915.
by tjic 18y ago
Geez, the drama. How has her life been ruined?
916.
by tjic 18y ago
Agreed. Someone that stupid should definitely have faced jail time, not just community service.
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by tjic 18y ago
Aside from the "robots could do it cheaper", it is a misallocation of resources, and that makes all of us poorer. The job is worth minimum wage ($12,000 / yr or so) at best. In a free market, you could find folks who would work this job at
918.
by tjic 18y ago
Actually, even though you're being sarcastic, you make an excellent point. The British Empire had just abolished slavery, Brazil had peacefully abolished slavery - the changing economics were lowering the benefit of owning slaves, and incre
919.
by tjic 18y ago
I love how folks create non-profits and big elaborate plans to "push along" something that is already historically inevitable. The "One Laptop Per Child" is an example of this: people are getting wealthier (especially in the third world - t
920.
by tjic 18y ago
Adam Selene: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycroft_Holmes_%28computer%29 (Hey, YC! A bug here: if I copy and paste the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycroft_Holmes_ (computer) the forum software should include the parens and the word
921.
by tjic 18y ago
> allows him to route $1.00 from every transaction to his personal account. From the crippled children? No, that's the jar. I'm talking about the tray, the pennies for everybody.
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by tjic 18y ago
Agreed. I used rescuetime, or maybe some competitor, for a few weeks. I spend 60 hrs in the office, and am far more disciplined than I ever have been before in my life...and it was hard to clock 45 hrs of REAL work. Depressing. On the other
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by tjic 18y ago
Building stuff is cool. Universal machines / replicators are cool. Early prototypes of things that will be better in a few generations are cool. However, Fab@Home and RepRap are sad, and make my embarassed for them. I posted a longer rant t
924.
by tjic 18y ago
Cartlization / collusion of labor makes sense when the differential between the best and worst performers is relatively small. The best coal miner might swing his pick 50% or 75% faster than the worst. The best janitor might do a 40% bett
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by tjic 18y ago
I've started two business (SmartFlix.com and HeavyInk.com). SmartFlix was started sort of as an epiphany, and mostly as an accident - I wanted to watch some metalworking videos, and thought I'd recoup the cost of them by renting them out. H
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by tjic 18y ago
EXACTLY.
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by tjic 18y ago
Rephrase it this way: "How does demonstrating that we can shoot down 100% of China's spy satellite resources in response to them shooting down 5% of ours deter them from initiating hostilities ?" > Destroying the enemies satellites wou
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by tjic 18y ago
I'd like to have a button that says "hide from my view".
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by tjic 18y ago
> The problem is that it's also a money-maker and that means that ...and that means that unlike highly regulated surgeries that are performed my surgery monopolies like hospitals, the rate of improvement in laser eye surgey has been as
930.
by tjic 18y ago
I'm working through the Personal MBA program that was discussed here recently. Josh Kaufman suggested the book "45 Effective Ways For Hiring Smart", which I thought was really great. As I read it, I took notes in our internal wiki (I do thi

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