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by tjs8rj 5y ago
How frequently does this happen in reality? The reality is: startups are risky. Forcing the entrepreneur to take a bigger chunk of that risk than necessary leads to less innovation, playing it safe, and kills many businesses before they’ve
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Exactly, that’s why all society is run on photosynthesis ;)
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Why is this being downvoted other tha people not reading properly? Saving “+ / a $30k” means occasionally “saving negative $30k”. What was meant was “saving ~$30k”, which is impressive. Don’t use “+ / - $X” because it doesn’t mean
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I’m no crypto fanatic or crypto hater, but I always found this “backed by real assets” besides the point and often dogmatic. To what extent is fiat or stock “backed by a real world asset”? What about collectibles or startup options? What ab
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Who cares if the machine understands wug? Maybe the issue is more to do with trying to teach language learning as a end on its own. Nobody studies language without purpose, there’s always a next step. If you’re friend is telling you about t
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Simply regulate domains like we already regulate business addresses and trademarks. You open an LLC, and if you continually fail expectations of profit, you lose it, along with your trademarks and domain. At the end of the day: domain squat
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The difference is making something you believe in, have vetted, and genuinely believe others would like a piece of. I’m in the middle of fundraising right now. A year ago the idea of getting others money sounded crazy, but now I’m just exci
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More creative than 33% of others, bummer
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Very impressed with the editors making the headline here. The truth: reddish rocks from further out in the solar system (like Neptune) can be found in the asteroid belt - probably because of chaos in the early solar system. Possibilities fr
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Note that this isn't the first step. In order: identify a problem, talk with people (first with those you think have the problem) to learn more about it: Is it actually a problem? How are people addressing/solving it? What are the
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Another perspective from the other replies: lean into that motivation. I’ve found that there are few projects more rewarding than ones done for money - not necessarily because of the money itself - but because to convince people to part wit
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Yes. Not so much a punishment as a responsibility that comes with the position. The state isn’t special: if you have deep and fundamental influence over the lives of others, you are burdened with certain responsibilities. Who cares if youtu
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You can name 10 people of the 100 billion who have lived? Even 20,000 notable people from today and history would be 0.00002% of the humans who have lived, or 1 in 50,000. Most of them are unknown to the vast majority of humans - hardly fam
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9 years in prison? For stealing $10m from a trillion dollar corp - 87% of which will be paid back? That’s 15%+ of this bloke’s existence, not to mention the damage to family and career - for $1.3m out of the pocket of one of the biggest com
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Something that helped when I was younger: the realization that almost nobody will be remembered long after their death. How many people can you name from 1,000 years ago? How many people can you name from last century? How many billionaires
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Subscriptions make it worse: now they only publish content palatable to their audience, and only those rabid enough to subscribe. Relying on ads at least means they have to maximize eyeballs (and broad appeal means more of those)
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“Land 10 interviews in a month with 0 effort” gives me pause, because even though “the grind” of getting a new job is annoying, there’s an understanding that results take effort. This tagline reads more like a scam for me and I go into it w
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Slavery was a blip compared to industrialization. Slavery was frequent but led to minor growth in gdp (as evidenced by Columbus living at only twice the average standard of living of Jesus-times in 0 AD). Cheap labor perhaps even stalled in
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In general, people are about as intelligent as you, and at least the same order of magnitude. People are prone to trends as much as the market is, but the market of ideas tends to be somewhat efficient (not least because all profits from fi
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Very few people decide the value of a fetus on a binary. Some leftists say it’s always just a clump of cells, some rightists say it’s always a human life. Most people just don’t know. Immediately after conception it’s clearly just a clump o
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Curious: what effect do you think culture has? The economic plays a big role, but there’s a tendency nowadays to call the root problem for everything economic and act like cultural effects are just “holidays and religion” or other marginal
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While you’re at it why don’t we mandate everyone wear latex gloves all the time? No biggie. And just always have hand sanitizer on your person. Just a small bottle so not much of a problem. Can we just mandate people select a group of 100 p
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You’re last sentence is totally accurate, but I think there’s a balance with diversification and focus. Failure is likely, success can be huge, that means my emphasis is on learning and have as many at bats as possible. How I imagine the be
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These aren't so obvious facts, and we DO write articles and run campaigns about the harms of junk food and overeating. None of this is "moralizing", its simply reiterating the harmful effects of behaviors so others can make b
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Are you saying there aren't downsides inherent with drinking itself? I'm onboard with letting people do what they want, but if what they want to do has negative effects the least we should do is make them aware of that.
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Not just the colonized world, anywhere humans have existed. Violence is a norm in all human societies everywhere.
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Not sure what you mean. It’s definitely glamorized, just like working a high paying finance job is (but I don’t think many would call Wall Street ethical or moral). Lots of people want to be VC backed because it’s great for you, but it’s mo
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No. In English, America refers to the US, the continents are North America and South America. In Spanish and some other languages, America refers to the entire landmass from Alaska to Argentina. This is equivalent to a Frenchman and German
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That’s exactly the point of VC largely - no really, that’s no secret at all. VCs want unicorns. To get that big you often have to be the biggest in the space or big enough with enough moat to effectively be a monopoly. Monopoly status is th
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Aha, but they’re just wrong (I picked number 1). The person who made Times New Roman’s “g” like that was wrong, and it’s unfortunate we let this error continue for so long but it is incorrect nonetheless. Lowercase “g” is always open-tail c

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