iwasphone

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by iwasphone 12y ago
All multi level marketing companies are cultish by nature. Realities such as market saturation simply don't exist, you're just not working hard enough / recruiting hard enough. I spent a lot of time in south Florida, where i
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Why I Unfollowed You(medium.com)
3 points by iwasphone 12y ago|0 comments
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by iwasphone 12y ago
Except it's not one million USD. Also it's only open to citizens and residents of UAE.
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by iwasphone 12y ago
The reason is cultural: on HN you are expected to know products by the name of their corporate entity.
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by iwasphone 12y ago
Investors arrive at an amount based on their estimate of the company's value and the share of equity they receive in return for their investment. If the founders then get commitments from additional investors, the company would have t
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by iwasphone 12y ago
Whoa: "To this end, we now make our first clear demand of Google. We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anarchist organization of our choosing. This money will then be used to create autonomous, anti-capitalist, and an
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Adobe Products Sweep 2014 Sony World Photography Awards(theatlantic.com)
3 points by iwasphone 13y ago|0 comments
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by iwasphone 13y ago
It's pleasing to me that writers like OP shed light on the folly of the personal productivity and efficiency arms race. Reminds me of the adage: "Don't just do something, sit there!"
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Weev appeal puts computer crime laws on trial(theverge.com)
8 points by iwasphone 13y ago|0 comments
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by iwasphone 13y ago
Ambitious undertaking, possibly transformational.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
It makes a lot of sense in such organizations, as it satisfies the employees' need for close human relationships without compromising the company's paranoid culture. In this case--and likely in all for-profit companies--it only ma
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by iwasphone 13y ago
HN really needs a reply bot that links to the appropriate wikipedia article on logical fallacies.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
> Horvath then told her partner, also a GitHub employee... Protip: don't dip your pen in the company ink.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
Isn't it better to wait until all sides of the story have been told?
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by iwasphone 13y ago
> The controversy calls to mind that of Adria Richards last year False.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
Perfect! I hope ransom notes come back in style.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
I don't think the food metaphor makes any of the issues easier to understand.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
Motivational speaking.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
Cool concept, but slightly confusing interface. When I type a different twitter handle it automatically updates below the generated tweet (rather then when I submit).
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by iwasphone 13y ago
Their conclusion, while ingenuine, is not surprising. Since the Bancroft family sold the publication, the Wall Street Journal editorial board has become a propaganda mouthpiece for Rupert Murdoch.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
%s/algorhitms/algorithms/g
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by iwasphone 13y ago
This frozen yogurt shop has a really simple and straightforward onboarding technique.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
There's no cultural significance, it's just (hetero) male bonding.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
13:20 PST = 16:20 EST
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by iwasphone 13y ago
Gripping article, but his incorrect use of apostrophes made me want to an hero.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
[sexist remark]
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by iwasphone 13y ago
Exactly. He should have appended "...to me" to the end of his title.
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by iwasphone 13y ago
Beyond the sports metaphor, it seems you're really getting at the metaphor of an ecosystem. The ecosystem-like view really deserves to be more the status quo in this world than a refreshing aberration.
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by iwasphone 14y ago
I'm glad to see so few commenters dismissing the subject because of their own lack of perspective, and so many commenters articulating their experiences so well. The Internet--which incidentally owes its current incarnation to so many acid-
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by iwasphone 14y ago
Nice. The world is finally ready for this!

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