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by tomhoward 6y ago
It seems this person is not seeking to build a big audience at all. He just loves cats, and posts videos of them as part of his daily routine. If he was trying to build a big audience he'd operate very differently.
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by tomhoward 6y ago
I really don't get what it is about my comment that's counter to general understanding of how people achieve positive outcomes. It's pretty well established that people who stick at a pursuit for long enough, learn as they go
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by tomhoward 6y ago
The parent commenter wasn't clear about whether they meant success comes mostly down to random chance vs persistence and responsiveness to the audience. I've expanded (and edited) my comment to try and clarify what I think is an i
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Assuming you really mean on-demand online video/audio content (which is not limited to YouTube but also includes podcasts, Spotify, Instagram and many other platforms that may or may not yet exist), there is still huge growth potential
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by tomhoward 6y ago
This seems to imply that success in this field is randomly assigned rather than being attained through persistence and attention to the audience. For anyone who presumes this to be true, it will be inevitable. Anyone who produces content c
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Further to my comment above, I can see from the internal YC discussion forums that the issue is being actively discussed within the community, with some of the discussions being initiated by the most senior YC partners, and others by YC co
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Y Combinator Core's CEO [1] is African-American, and he posted this to HN in the past 2 days (as well as submitting the main article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23380748 I know from having been in the YC com
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by tomhoward 6y ago
That doesn’t seem reasonable to me. People will communicate via the most expedient means available. The telephone wasn’t “standard” until suddenly it was. Signal’s use is widespread, and people choose it because it has been designed to be v
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Thanks for expanding on that (I avoided digging into it for brevity and as I was time-constrained). That aligns with my understanding, that there must be an explicit piece of information you’re looking for or occurrence you’re looking for e
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by tomhoward 6y ago
When this happens you can just comment with a link to the older submissions (which others have done) and email the mods.
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Some points to consider: - From the article: “Starting in late 2004, before the FOIA came into force in early 2005, Downing Street implemented an automatic 90-day deletion of emails aside from those specifically selected by civil servants a
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by tomhoward 6y ago
It may be helpful for you to consider the highest karma-earners on the site [1], and how they got there. None of them got there by being the first to get breaking stories onto the site. They got there by regularly posting interesting commen
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by tomhoward 6y ago
All these articles about different individual nutrients start to feel like heath whack-a-mole. How about this: to be in the best possible position to beat any serious infection, you need to be in generally good health. That means having ade
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by tomhoward 6y ago
> we don't read articles about the CEOs who make bad bets and lose them Yes we do, all the time: Theranos, WeWork, WebVan, Myspace, Friendster, BlackBerry, Enron, Worldcom, etc, etc, etc. Sure, we don't hear about companies tha
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by tomhoward 6y ago
This comment is an example of why complaints about downvotes are discouraged in the HN guidelines. The comment is not downvoted now. Given a bit of time, substantive comments that get early downvotes generally get restorative upvotes and en
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by tomhoward 6y ago
> I'm surprised dang seems to believe He's been moderating this site for nearly 8 years, and frequenting it almost daily since it first launched in 2007. We can reasonably expect he's learned a thing or two in that time.
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by tomhoward 6y ago
He just has a very natural talent for appealing to a vast range of interests/tastes/preferences in the audience. I once heard him half-jokingly say he's at the intersect between the meat-heads and the pot-heads. I.e., those i
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Facebook's board and senior management doesn't seem to have a clear political bias from what I can tell. It would be bad for business if they did; a company that is ultimately seeking to attract the entire world onto its platforms
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by tomhoward 6y ago
The supplementary advice (which I guess is left out of this post for brevity but which I've heard PB say in public talks) is that you should work very very hard, both before and during the dev project, to determine what those three key
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by tomhoward 6y ago
I think there's a lot of variance in the way people use HN (I don't upvote stories much either, though plenty must, given the vote counts we see), but dang has had plenty of time (i.e., nearly 8 years in the job) to observe what c
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Yep, I expected that kind of response, and yep it’s somewhat valid but doesn’t counter my central point. The wording of the Wikipedia article is that anything considered “alternative medicine” is by-definition “biologically implausible”. Bu
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by tomhoward 6y ago
The giveaway on bias is the string "lacks biological plausibility AND". It would be more defensible if the "AND" was instead an "OR". Plenty of approaches practiced by "alternative" medicine practitio
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Nobody's criticising your choices, they're criticising your way of criticising other people's choices. You initiated the hostilities.
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by tomhoward 6y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen dang or pg say that quick, low-effort comments that express enthusiasm for a comment or post are fine (whereas low-effort, drive-by dismissals are very much not fine). I've tried searching but it&#x2
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Positive, supportive comments have always been welcome on HN.
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by tomhoward 6y ago
I don't think this is right. I understand the basis for thinking it; I've spent much of my adult life accepting or assuming this is how it works. But the more I learn (and I spent a whole lot more time reading scientific papers on
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Firstly, please let's drop the hostility. I'm not here to win arguments or score points. I engage in these discussions to test my understanding of the topic and further develop my knowledge, and to share my perspective with others
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by tomhoward 6y ago
There seems to be a bit of replying to the wrong comment going on, but I'll comment here in response to you and the parent... This line of argument is flawed because: 1) Plenty of depression, anxiety and of course ADHD occurs in childh
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by tomhoward 6y ago
Yep but the whole point is that it's not 100% the way it is with the right genetic conditions for disorders like Huntington's Disease or Down Syndrome. Looking at the ADHD example, aside from the genes, consider what else is consi

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