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by tomhoward 2y ago
I think you may be underestimating how bad bot spam on web forms is these days. It’s nothing to do with how well frequented your site is; any site that can be found by a web spider is going to get bot spam. Of course you’re completely free
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Spam management is the hardest thing about comments. That’s a big part of what Disqus takes care of. I know you wrote that you would want approve and delete so as to moderate comments, but it becomes a big and unpleasant task, wading throug
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by tomhoward 3y ago
Comments like this are against the HN guidelines as they are at odds with the site's purpose, which is to gratify intellectual curiosity. There are plenty of ways people can discuss ideas from Varoufakis, Marx and other writers/ph
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by tomhoward 3y ago
Can you share your sources on this? What figures can you point to on mg/L of fluoride in (commonly consumed) green tea vs tap water? Even aside from that, it’s a specious argument: people who want to avoid fluoride can just avoid green
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by tomhoward 3y ago
People aren’t recommended to drink 8 glasses or more of green tea per day and most people don’t have any. The whole thing with fluoridated water is that whilst small doses may be harmless for most people, the more you consume the worse it i
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by tomhoward 3y ago
Yep.
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by tomhoward 3y ago
Anxiety is an intelligence attenuator. Plenty of people have above-average intelligence but also above-average anxiety for all kinds of reasons, including socio-economic status. Anxious people don't do well in aptitude tests, job inte
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by tomhoward 3y ago
There's a study that often gets shared around, purportedly "Debunking the Myth of the Young Entrepreneur", showing data that most successful startup founders start their companies in their mid-to-late 40s, including tech&#x2F
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by tomhoward 3y ago
Also, Larry was 23 when PageRank was first published - that's not much older than "barely out of high school", even if we have to be so literal about everything :)
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by tomhoward 3y ago
In the context of this article we're talking about the difference between the kind of rich you become from founding a hugely successful ("unicorn?") tech company, vs working hard for a salary for years and saving hard. It&#x2
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by tomhoward 3y ago
I edited the parenthesised part of the first sentence from "and very lucky" to "and/or very lucky" to make allowances for your objection. And sure, you can always point out exceptions. The real point is that it&#x27
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by tomhoward 3y ago
He's giving advice to school kids on what to do during their remaining school years or early college years.
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by tomhoward 3y ago
Unless you're very early (and/or very lucky), you can't get "rich" (i.e., can choose never to work again and can invest in many other things) as an employee (though of course a highly-paid employee can become very w
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by tomhoward 3y ago
His advice is: - Work on a personal project that is motivating to you (obviously you won't work on it if it's not motivating to you) - It's a good sign if the project you're motivated to work on solves a problem that you
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by tomhoward 3y ago
Re-reading later, I recognise that “I guess you are not very familiar with addiction?” was perhaps not ad hom or ridiculing, but rather a suggestion that I haven’t personally experienced addiction. For the record, I have certainly been addi
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by tomhoward 3y ago
I'll start by noting just how much of this argument relies on ridicule and ad hom attack: - I guess you are not very familiar with addiction? - Ok, kind of funny - should only be said as a punchline - To be blunt, the story itse
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by tomhoward 3y ago
I just feel like this reply amounts to "there can't be a non-moralistic explanation for this, the moralistic explanation has to be the correct one". I know that's an uncharitable oversimplification, but is there a way yo
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by tomhoward 3y ago
Robert Greene’s books/videos/interviews are probably a good option. They were inspired by his own experience of being bullied/exploited as a writer in Hollywood. They are criticized for being harmful explanations of how to be
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by tomhoward 3y ago
I sympathise with the thought process, but more laws/rules can't/won't fix it. Many (most?) jurisdictions in the western world and elsewhere already have laws against workplace harassment, and the possibility of civil a
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by tomhoward 3y ago
To the extent that this phenomenon is true for a significant number of people, it aligns with a concept that I came across several years ago and have been living by ever since with good success: our decisions are driven mostly from our subc
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by tomhoward 3y ago
I didn't know much of him apart from his Arrested Development cameo, but my partner told me about this anecdote about him today and I think it's brilliant: Hurwitz recounted how, when he actually got in touch with Weathers, the a
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by tomhoward 3y ago
The thing is it doesn't have to be that way. Well, Steve Jobs showed that it didn't have to be that way for Apple. He was able to command authority and weave a narrative that stakeholders could believe in, so bigger long-term outc
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by tomhoward 3y ago
Have you considered or tried platforms like Upwork? Or is it that the kind of work you’re capable of isn’t in demand on those kinds of platforms? I’d have thought if you had fairly basic web development skills you could make more than $300&
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by tomhoward 3y ago
"In September, aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Patrick Blelly called for a new search based on revelations about the fate of the flight. During a lecture before the Royal Aeronautical Society..." So these are comments
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by tomhoward 3y ago
Sure. It's a project initiated by a group of local farmers and researchers (meteorologists and an enviro engineer) in the state of South Australia, and funded by state government grants, to install high-precision weather stations throu
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by tomhoward 3y ago
> You hinted at it but seem to brush off the external cost as a small thing to be improved. I understand you reading that way but it's not what I meant or at all what I think. The work I do (environmental monitoring and data display
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by tomhoward 3y ago
I've been working in ag-tech for about 10 years, having spent the prior 10 years in other kinds of startups/tech companies. When I see the new ag-tech startups coming out of accelerators or being established by supposedly seasoned
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by tomhoward 3y ago
I'm all good with supporting people of all genders to do whatever they choose, but this comment seems to be needlessly pedantic, and breaks an HN guideline: - Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone sa
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by tomhoward 3y ago
I fell for this, though I realised it was a scam in time and locked my card quickly enough that I didn't lose any money. I'm pretty sure it's the first time, in over 20 years of using the internet, that I've fallen for a
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by tomhoward 3y ago
I think the luck factor is over-interpreted in this comment. The reason most successful people have a string of failures behind them is because they learn from past experience and build networks and profile over the course of their career.

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