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by wallawe 15y ago
I think it is probably more useful and would get more attention than an individual letter or phone call to your congressman.
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by wallawe 15y ago
You are mistaken if you think that 18 and 19 year olds taking phone calls as interns are in any way an effective means of conveying information to those in charge. Sure, they can note trends. Do they? No. The primary concern was which lobby
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by wallawe 15y ago
There are several things that come into play here. First off, the majority of politicians I have met (Governors, Senators, Congressmen and former VP Big Dick Cheney) are the old white male types with social tendencies and aren't very techno
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by wallawe 15y ago
Yeah, that sounds pretty accurate as to how things work in the OP. As he and some others mention, if you say that you are with the "press" or "organization X" you are much more likely to get to talk to someone who has direct involvement wit
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by wallawe 15y ago
You are correct. I worked for a conservative congressman and he knew his constituents and what they wanted for the most part. It's not hard if your state leans hard to either side of the spectrum. And in his defense, if he took every call a
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by wallawe 15y ago
Although I applaud the efforts here, as a former staffer and intern for a congressman, I hate to be the bearer of bad news... The truth is my job as an intern, as was the job of all other interns that I met while in DC, was to take constitu
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by wallawe 15y ago
Ex. 1: People would go the length of the world making sure that they accomplished every minute detail of what he had asked to perfection. Had he not been such a hardass and callous type person, I highly doubt things would have been done in
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by wallawe 15y ago
I've been using finance as an example. Here is subreddits finance page: http://www.reddit.com/r/finance . As we have both agreed, you can tell immediately the level of discourse and content quality are lower. In regards the information pre
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by wallawe 15y ago
With 120k uniques and over 1.3M pageviews per day ( http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/How-many-users-does-Hacker-... ) would advertising revenue not bring in an ample amount of money supposing you could bring in that kind of traffic?
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by wallawe 15y ago
I think in HN's case, it pays for itself with intangible branding factors so there is really no need to monetize and like you said, it maintains the integrity of the site. But I was thinking along the lines of a startup. HN's model is so ex
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by wallawe 15y ago
I looked into mini sub reddits because my brother said the same thing. But for something like say, finance, there is all kinds of interesting information out there that could be more concisely presented with a HN type of setup. Sub reddits
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Ask HN: Could HN be monetized to the point of becoming its own entity?
3 points by wallawe 15y ago|12 comments
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by wallawe 15y ago
Just wondering, were you rejected twice after being interviewed the first time? I'm wondering if they will dismiss you more easily after having met and decided you aren't the type of person they want to fund...
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by wallawe 15y ago
It sounds like they were excited to hear about as you said "extending your tenacles into the offline world." You probably didn't hit the notes they were hoping for. I know the article was to serve as more of an informative on the interview
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Can a Product Inspire Responsibility? Why Aesthetics Matter
1 points by wallawe 15y ago|0 comments
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by wallawe 15y ago
Good luck finding anywhere in the entire world where racism doesn't exist. To say it doesn't is ignorant. It's ingrained in our evolutionary traits to have tendency to group and divide whether it be over race, culture, political or religiou
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by wallawe 15y ago
Cool man. Great design. But as I'm sure you know, you are entering a very tough market. You'll need more than superior aesthetics and good marketing. I might suggest targeting a particular social niche rather than the general population as
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by wallawe 15y ago
...and a little bit of that "sean parker" if you know what i mean
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by wallawe 15y ago
Your response conveys that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the theory even describes. It has not "been predicting overpopulation disaster for 200 years" on a continual basis as you make it seem by your analogy in the second
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by wallawe 15y ago
It will have to be checked one way or another. Either we as humans will have to (as in the case of China) or nature will take its course in checking the population. We can't grow at the rate that we are, while consuming the resources at the
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The Age Divide: What Baby Boomers don't get about Occupy Wallstreet(thedailybeast.com)
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by wallawe 15y ago
You may have heard of Ray Kurzweil, who's very involved with the singularity theory of technology. I read a book of his that is co-authored with Dr. Terry Grossman called "Fantastic Voyage." If you take the time to read this book, it gives
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The Groupon Gamble, Restaurants' Perspectives(nrn.com)
1 points by wallawe 15y ago|0 comments
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by wallawe 15y ago
Just in case someone wants one of your names but doesn't know of your site, it would be a great idea to have some quick info (link and price) under the 'get info' section of domain registrars like godaddy (since thats where the majority of
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by wallawe 15y ago
The Itunes license received a score of -1045, no surprise there.
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by wallawe 15y ago
"simplicity is the keynote of elegance"
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by wallawe 15y ago
Yeah, that's more of what I was looking for. I've got several thousand dollars, and am about to quit my current job to go full with my current project. I want to make sure I spend money where it needs to be spent.
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by wallawe 15y ago
I am in the process of trying to do so right now. The most important thing I've learned after about 5 months (2 weeks pre launch now) is that you should learn about the "technical stuff" as much as you can along the way. You don't even have
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by wallawe 15y ago
I'd be interested in hearing more about this. Would you mind telling a little more and linking to the site?
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by wallawe 15y ago
So you're saying that an early stage company trying to grow exponentially is spending the majority of its early funding on salaries? I find that hard to believe. Especially for some of the biggest tech players in the industry today. I'm try

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