MicroBerto

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by MicroBerto 10y ago
As a spectator and not a competitor, I'd be far more concerned about the crime in Rio. It's tough to know what's really going on with their crime (given our sensationalist media and my not living there)... but you couldn&#x
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
Stoicism != sociopathy. I never said not to feel emotion. Stoicism simply doesn't act on it without first checking other valid logical responses. Understand what you're dealing with here. Extremely emotional people are only pred
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You're missing my point, but simultaneously agreeing with me. Stoicism during an argument is the self-induced test to determine results. It's easily created and pretty repeatable in a scenario that doesn't matter so much. T
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
More or less. Set goals that are within your control - I find that mine are more tied to personal health, intellectual pursuit, and business. Not many people can affect those, but I sure can. Personal responsibility is a great thing.
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
And I'll easily argue that Steve Jobs' emotional states made him miserable, well-hated, and ultimately it ended up killing him because he stubbornly took an extremely emotional physical situation and didn't approach it with a
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
I find it the opposite. Now I do get fired up about certain things (I'm not dead inside), but I've found that ever since I stopped getting emotional during things like arguments, they've become far easier and even more enjo
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
Not control over other people, but control over situations that put you in an emotional state -- where possible, at least. Death is one thing we can't control. Also, I'm not sure if you know what IMHO means, but it stands for &quo
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
I have found that emotional stoicism elicits are far greater response in nearly all people. Emotional people are unpredictable, and unpredictability is a turn-off for most rational and stable people (who I like to surround myself with). D
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
Notice how many cries are due to relationship-based issues. You are putting yourself at serious emotional risk if you allow your happiness to be driven by another person, regardless of who it is. IMHO, your emotional success should be based
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
(or send dick pics)
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
Be careful when dealing with absolutes. No matter how smart you think you may be, you simply don't know what you don't know, as you allude to later in your comment.
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
Your points all well taken, I consider any talented employee at SnapChat to be doing this world a net disservice due to the wasted opportunity costs of other issues they could be attacking. "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 ch
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be above average. To me, at least. And given how drivers have gotten WORSE since smart phones hit the scene, I'm ready for these robots right now. I don't feel safe on the roads
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
This is a big argument going on in Austin too. Housing prices are going through the roof, yet home owners don't want multi family units in their neighborhood. I can't say I blame them, either. It's nice having some quiet - fo
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
Sometimes, M = 1,000, and MM = 1,000,000 (edit: just came back realizing that this was a useless comment since they'd both be wrong here)
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
When you have a page advertising "features for nerds", you damn well better be active in the Hacker News conversation about it....
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
We recently posted an exposé that created a legal "situation". It includes archive.org links which definitely help. Earlier for another situation, my lawyer stated that they've successfully used it in the past. If you're
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
The good news is that this becomes less of an issue with age. In another 5 years you'll deal with this situation slightly less, and another 5 years after that (when many of your peers have kids or whatever) nobody will care at all. I t
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
Correct, and leads me back to my original point. Our nation's best minds are simply not in politics - they're in business, engineering, finance, or are retired. Anyone even suggesting that we take the lowest bid by default is un
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That falls under the category of "bad deals" too.
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
In general, we do make the worst deals. I know this place hates Trump, but that statement is not false. The major issue of having a business-driven economy is that the best (or most "tactical") businessmen are running businesses
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
> a race to the bottom in quality? There's your issue.
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
> It would cost billions of dollars to even attempt to go after ESPN. The primary value ESPN offers today is ownership of broadcast rights. Yahoo can't afford to outbid Disney on those rights and shareholders would never support ris
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
I'm an accomplished ocean swimmer too, but now live in Texas. I will say that ocean swimming is a completely different ballgame, and you need to be far more on your toes. For me, it's not a "thinking man's" sport
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
Were I to take on Yahoo, I'd turn it into a content powerhouse, with supporting tools. Yahoo! Finance should have the best articles -- very technical yet explanatory -- all supported by their stock tools. A billion ways to monetize tha
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
My version of "taking a walk" is swimming laps. My finest work is accomplished in the pool, going back and forth. Been a swimmer all my life, and if I don't get at least a swim or two in each week, things start to turn to shi
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
I'm just here to set in stone and state for the record that I believe this will be a losing play. My reasons are here: Rationale here from a comment over 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035168 >
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
Well, it did hurt the FB platform... It's just resilient enough to handle the loss of interactivity it's caused. At least for now. (This is discussed ad nauseum here on HN...) Time will tell how resilient Instagram is. Userbase
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by MicroBerto 10y ago
One thing not yet discussed here is the demographic profile of the US: Baby Boomers are now retiring. Over the next 20 years, they will be drawing down on their retirement accounts, putting slow yet constant negative pressure on the market.
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The pareto principle is everywhere. 90% of the productive activity will come from 10% of the people in a situation like that - if not more heavily slanted. So is there a better way of finding that 10% and investing in them directly, without

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