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by earlyresort 10y ago
The author's intentions are not remotely obvious . It just as easily could be an anti-Semitic double entendre referring to both the kik situation and Jews, and I'm still not at all certain HN isn't being deliberately trolled
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by earlyresort 10y ago
Yeah, I'm thinking you don't have to live with 4chan and Twitter tolerating and increasingly normalizing anonymous bigots calling your ethnic group, which has been the target of genocide before, the equivalent of a nigger. Do yo
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by earlyresort 10y ago
Perhaps my background makes me a little more attuned to this particular word, but 'kike' practically leapt off the page to me. In English, words ending in a single short vowel followed by a single consonant double the consonant be
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What I Learned Selling a Software Business(training.kalzumeus.com)
439 points by earlyresort 10y ago|84 comments
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by earlyresort 11y ago
Well, you should start by stopping reading Hacker News, because it's clearly not good for you in your current mental state. I promise, you won't miss anything important. Next, take some of your time and go volunteer somewhere - go
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by earlyresort 11y ago
Hard drugs are one of those things that have different consequences for different types of people. An intelligent, wealthy, employable person can dabble with them, have a good time, and usually get away with it. Should they get addicted a
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by earlyresort 11y ago
It's actually surprisingly easy to get a 'good' reference to give honest feedback about your shortcomings as well as your strengths. This has worked about 90% of the time for me: Me: So, how would you rate this candidate on
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by earlyresort 12y ago
Living in another country is way, way different from going on a vacation in another country. You're removed from the tourist infrastructure that caters to foreigners and you've got to deal with all of the country's bureaucr
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by earlyresort 13y ago
If the author thinks 'the assumed essential decency of the state and its agents' is the reason people are against conspiracies, he's got no understanding of the issue at all. Some of us object to conspiracy-mongering because
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by earlyresort 13y ago
About a decade ago, I left a humanities Ph.D. program at Stanford after finishing the coursework, but before starting the dissertation. In my experience, my classmates thought very hard about what they wanted to do with their lives, and wer
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by earlyresort 14y ago
The United States has a federal government for a reason. The government is constructed in such a way that the majority doesn't get whatever it wants, if that majority isn't broadly representative of America as a whole. In particular, the
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by earlyresort 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with quitting a Ph.D. program. To me, it looks like you're bright and intellectually curious, but you've got enough sense to ignore sunk costs, which is a valuable skill to have in a startup. Some places might ask for
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by earlyresort 15y ago
People are always too afraid to air dirty laundry in public, because it might get them blackballed -- "you'll never raise money in this town again!", "you'll never get a job at a VC-backed firm", "we'll never do a deal with you again!", etc
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by earlyresort 16y ago
'The Narrow Road', the Felix Dennis book that's quoted from, is a condensation of his earlier 'How To Get Rich' ( not 'How To Make Money', that's identical to 'The Narrow Road'.) I found the longer version equally valuable and vastly more
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by earlyresort 16y ago
The VC controls (and always controlled) the outcome for your company. I can't say I understand his behavior - blocking an acquisition but also refusing to participate in a future round makes both liquidity and fundraising impossible. Perh