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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Nope. Not really. CEOs don’t rule anyone. We elect representatives who vote and make laws. But you know all this, so the feudal comparison is pretty melodramatic and ridiculous. You can be a CEO if you want. Give it a try!
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Nobody deserves anything. CEOs get paid because they negotiated the pay and people are willing to pay them that. That’s a fact not an economic theory.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
VCs get management fees typically 2% of fund size. VC incentives are misaligned with LPs. Very similar to hedge funds. As long as they keep raising the money keeps flowing and they can delay showing a return. Whether the fund fails is irrel
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
What if the singularity already happened? How would we know? It’s unfalsifiable unmeasurable woo-woo. The singularity and AGI are apocalypse for atheists.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Wow, I’m surprised by the downvotes. I thought the American dream would be more accepted here. These principles used to be considered basic foundational ideology of the USA.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
There isn’t a numerical upper limit. A job isn’t property that can be owned and stolen from you. You’re presenting a false dichotomy on top of a false premise. And it’s not goodwill, it’s a matter of principle and ethics. An immigrant can’t
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
I’m a third group: Americans that believe in freedom and liberty, that America is a free country, and that everyone regardless of their race, origin, or class can come here and pursue their happiness like the rest of us.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
The Sinister Brutality of New York Times Articles on Hacker News
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Nope. Life is not a movie. There are no drunken masters. Being president isn’t a kungfu movie, even though Trump voters probably think it is.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Another scam IPO for another scam tech company. The fucking hot dog stand at my neighborhood park is in better financial shape than these toxic scam businesses like Uber or We.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
There’s a market because a -1% rate is a better return on capital than -2%. You’re assuming people are choosing negative rates over positive. Even if bonds are negative investors may have no choice, it’s a better rate than letting the cash
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Maybe. Maybe not. The military being ordered to fire at their fellow citizens and ethnic group is very different than being told to kill people they don’t know on the other side of the world. Morale undermining command and control is a real
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Vegan. In the morning steel cut oats with soy milk nuts and fruits. Lunch smoothie with nuts, seeds, fruits, protein powder. Dinner stir fry veggies with tofu, maybe a homemade bean/barley chili. Dinner varies.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Weird name. Wagyu translates as “Japanese (wa) Beef (gyu)”
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Hmm it doesn’t feel that way to me... Only 2/30 of the front page links right now are startup/business related.
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Ask HN: HN for business/entrepreneurship?
2 points by simplecomplex 7y ago|2 comments
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Care to link to those measurements ?
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
1% you are being fucked. You’re building the product that is used to raise money, pre-investment. You’re really a founder. Ask for 10-30%.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Visit the Internet Archive! They do regular lunch tours on Fridays but if you call and tell them you'd like a tour they'll set something up!
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Yes. It’s overengineering and most likely what you’re planning on building doesn’t even work . For example, offline support and caching work just fine with HTML, but you’re probably planning on breaking them. No you don’t need React to pub
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
People create their own problems out of nothing. People make mountains out of mole hills. Twitter is one of those problems. Twitter is one of those mountains.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Hyperbole. Social media is not broken. The retweet is not why. And this guy didn't invent the idea of republishing content. Other microblog services had that, and I'm pretty sure Twitter users were doing it on their own.
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
It’s not good advice. It’s misleading, a poor generalization, and entirely misses the point of what an MVP is. An MVP is not defined by time to build, but by the minimum necessary to build to make the very first sale. MVP is the minimum nec
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Ditto. One must already be using a database, so just add a table for features that you flip off and on. How could that possibly be more work than integrating API calls to a third party service just to ascertain a few (mostly unchanging) val
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Google's PageSpeed Insights Fails Its Own Site(xahlee.info)
2 points by simplecomplex 7y ago|0 comments
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
If anyone from IndieWeb community is reading this thread: Stop bikeshedding formats and random features (likes, bookmarks, etc) and focus 100% on getting Webmention and rel="in-reply-to" working smoothly and integrated across the
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
I like spreadsheets because they are reliable and logical, unlike whatever trash programmers tend to use. Spreadsheets do what they say they do. Outputs are functions of inputs, like math. Meanwhile software “engineers” are using programmin
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
We are conflating different terms. You're saying "value" but meaning something different than the market value of something. Value is a measure. It's quantitative not qualitative. When someone says "this thing is va
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Instead of taxing companies because it’s an easy method to steal money, maybe France should focus on enabling their people to create a company like Amazon or Facebook and actually generate wealth instead of taking it?
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by simplecomplex 7y ago
Valuations are not tied to intrinsic value... whatever that means. “Value” is measured by what someone paid. Nothing more, nothing less. If I buy an apple from you for $5, that means both of us valued the apple at $5. The end. To understand

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