DividesByZero

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by DividesByZero 13y ago
I would suggest it's not just a matter of willpower. You should be in a material position to execute effectively - having to start worrying about how you'll feed your family, or pay your rent is a massive distraction. Build up a b
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
If you want to really do a start-up, quit your job. If you can't or won't quit your job, it is not yet time for you to do a start-up. I quit my job with six months in savings to start my company. It took us almost 8 months to get
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
If you only have 20 people to reach out to, you don't need much structure in how you go about doing it. Your goal should be to make those meetings happen at all. Ask them for advice around the thing you are working on. Your goal at thi
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
Exactly. But those services are typically provided to entire families by BigCo - padded margins sound like this is a space where a cost-focused company could stand to make quite a bit of money.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
From my own recent experience, there is definitely demand from the side of founders for an AirBnB style deal specifically aimed at a place to live-and-work, especially for start-ups who need to relocate. Take a look at listings like these:
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
I don't think this makes economic sense. Equity in startups who don't have enough cash on hand to pay rent is likely to be more risky than equity in those who do. Giving away equity for rent at an early stage doesn't make sen
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
Buckminster Fuller had it right back in the 70's - "We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough c
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Education from the entrepreneur's perspective(venturevillage.eu)
1 points by DividesByZero 13y ago|0 comments
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
The accusations of 'revisionism' show an underlying bias - in the former soviet union and much of Europe, this is has been the accepted historical perspective for some time.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
Bad news for the educational game accelerator they just launched.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
I don't recall LJ having anything like a 'search by mood'. I guess my memory might be hazy though.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
When I saw this I was confused about why Facebook wanted to be more like LiveJournal. Is that a reflection on the userbase?
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Education from the entrepreneur's perspective(venturevillage.eu)
1 points by DividesByZero 13y ago|0 comments
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
The best advice I ever got about how to hire people and fill gaps in your team is to do the job yourself first - this applies to everything, not just tech. The advantages of this approach are enormous - it helps you understand what you're l
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
It's in the interests of the smugglers that tight immigration controls remain in place, just as it's in the interests of Silk Road that regulations on restricted substances remain in place. They need not lobby directly for these restriction
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
I'm not sure we disagree here - rent seeking indirectly by the mechanism you describe between police and drug trafficking is still rent seeking behaviour! You don't need a formal agreement or specific legislation to establish a rent-seeking
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
The owners of such roads are operating rent-seeking businesses. Not in any way a contradiction.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
Consider that it's very much in Silk Road's interest that the regulations that currently create the transactional frictions on which it makes a profit remain as they are, or perhaps become even more restrictive. It's rent seeking in the sam
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
Roads are a public good, not a business (despite what libertarian rhetoric would have you believe). All business seek to enforce their position, by the way.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
You're correct, every business that profits from easing transactional friction is to a greater or lesser extent, rent seeking.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
For someone who paints themselves as some sort of Randian superman, he sure uses the words of collective action and altruism a lot. "It’s paradoxical, but the less you focus on your own happiness and focus on others’, the happier you’ll be.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
Please elaborate on this? Good work in what sense? Ignoring the dubious ethics of running a black market, SilkRoad is ultimately a rent-seeking enterprise making money from transactional frictions. It creates no value - hardly the sort of s
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
I don't think any of the things you mention are equivalently intrusive. But it's a point that scares me a little.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
It's not exactly an uncommon phrase...
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
A point very well made - in fact there's a startup here working on that precise problem, that is how to disengage from the endless barrage of notifications from a billion services all vying for attention. That facebook home ad with the dist
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
I think the sort of future where I need to buy and use a device from a corporation to modulate my experience and participate in society is a pretty shitty future, and we should be doing some thinking about that.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
Too often real innovation is lost behind froth and grandstanding like this - too many excitable nerds and shiny toys, not enough introspection on the effects of technology on society. Not enough emphasis on problems that need solving, too m
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
This isn't really about control or enforcement, it has to be about fundamental ideas in how society deals with this kind of technology.
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
Assuming society can actually find time without being distracted. No doubt we'll adapt, but at what cost?
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by DividesByZero 13y ago
This ad was actually pretty scary - Facebook seems to be actively encouraging a culture of active and constant distraction. I don't think that society has really learned to handle being bomabrded with always-on distractions yet and this see

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