kristenlee

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by kristenlee 14y ago
I find it overreaching to conclude that every individual who is employed by the government in a law enforcement capacity chose their job out of a need to control other people. The world is not black and white and there are shades of gray. T
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by kristenlee 14y ago
Aaron Swartz was mentally ill and committed suicide as a direct result of his mental illness. He comtemplated suicide in 2007 long before any of this DOJ stuff happened. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying Furthermore the "glorification"
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by kristenlee 14y ago
Unfortunately this relationship has the makings of a codependent relationship. When you combine a man who is probably insecure since he searches for dates on craigslist and a woman with a litany of mental issues you generally have a codepen
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by kristenlee 14y ago
Offering loans at a 330% interest rate is "helping the poor", sounds like exploitation to me. Payday lending has been outlawed in many states due to the fact that it exploits poor people and entraps them in a cycle of high interest debt. Th
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by kristenlee 14y ago
This program can be very dangerous if you're a woman and your "investor" is a male. I can see all types of exploitation going on. As a lawyer I also know that this type of program may be illegal since it is akin to indentured servitude or s
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by kristenlee 14y ago
Wow, this is really going to change the world. YC S12 is probably the best class out of YC so far. A mobile app that allows me to send a postcard to my mom...genius!!! A billion dollar company in the making.
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As Facebook Loses Value So Does Instagram(finance.fortune.cnn.com)
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by kristenlee 14y ago
I started off working on my startup as a single founder and found it enjoyable, especially the coding part. What I underestimated was the emotional challenge and that's where having a cofounder helps tremendously. I was fortunate enough to
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by kristenlee 14y ago
Great app, guys. I love the design of the app and your website. Really fits the whole artistic New York hippie vibe. Keep up the good work and ignore the inevitable onslaught of negativity you read here...its par for course lately.
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by kristenlee 14y ago
I agree with the OP, the level of negativity on HN is striking, if you peruse through the articles on the first page on any given day at least half will have some negative "hater" comment as the one with the most votes. You saw the same typ
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by kristenlee 15y ago
Business is about competition, every product in history has had competitors so I don't see what the big deal is. If you know a market I can enter where I will face no competition please let me know because I want in.
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SEC crackdown ends Wild West days of private stock trades (money.cnn.com)
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by kristenlee 15y ago
Empirical Study On Legal Salaries http://www.elsblog.org/the_empirical_legal_studi/2008/07/how...
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by kristenlee 15y ago
One thing I always tell friends and family is that litigation is the worst way to resolve conflicts. I have filed numerous legal complaints while working for a Legal Aid organization and even the simplest cases with as little as $2k at stak
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by kristenlee 15y ago
As a Harvard Law School graduate I want to say that the OP is really underestimating the skill set of lawyers, the law is a very difficult field and the suggestion that it is a cartel is a little overblown. Every legal issue is different, n
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by kristenlee 15y ago
The facebook thing is an absolute dealbreaker, what don't engineers understand about people not wanting to use facebook for everything? So annoying. If you want people to use real identities there are plenty of other ways to go about it, fu
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by kristenlee 15y ago
They even copied the pricing page verbatim, I have personally incorporated some 37signals design elements in my own websites but nothing to this extent. 37signals is a bit hypocritical in my opinion because they brag about their design prac
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by kristenlee 15y ago
I think jiggity said it best, restrict what you show on the homepage and show all the details on another page, that small change is a surefire way to get users further down the sales funnel.
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by kristenlee 15y ago
Intimidating...that's how I would best describe the look of your application. I'm guessing potential customers see a long learning curve ahead and want nothing to do with it. This "intimidation factor" conflicts with your stated goal of cre
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by kristenlee 15y ago
Mobile. Social. Photos. Oh Silicon Valley, land of innovators such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk...wherefore art thou?
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by kristenlee 15y ago
Path just comes across as a Facebook clone, especially the new version. I'm really hoping something "new" happens in Silicon Valley outside of the social networking paradigm. Mobile is evolving but it has yet to have its "killer app".
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by kristenlee 15y ago
I quit my job to pursue a startup idea and I ended up regretting it. Getting a regular paycheck every two weeks is something I have learned to appreciate after having to go 8 months without having any form of income. As you probably know, m
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by kristenlee 15y ago
Such a fascinating article, I guess there is money in open source software, provided you execute as well as the Automaticc team.