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by smil 11y ago
This is evidence that: Investors and VCs are not smart/do not have enough information/experience to make smart decisions generally The only way to escape working for non-smart people (bosses, VCs) is to bootstrap
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by smil 11y ago
It is the same mechanism as the mortgages that created the housing bubble -- an almost limited amount of credit with a 0% risk (in theory, not practice as we will soon see).
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by smil 11y ago
You're implicitly making a prediction here. Are you sure that the market will fall in the coming weeks?
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by smil 11y ago
Heard it before, google Orientalism.
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by smil 11y ago
So Die Zeit is on the same level as the New York Times, you mean.
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by smil 11y ago
Wouldn't trust a Silicon Valley startup to care about our properly execute for "safety." This is a pump and dump, making a quick buck.
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by smil 11y ago
Exactly. Dark matter and dark energy is just a symptom of the standard model of physics being incorrect. >Dark matter neither emits nor absorbs light or any other electromagnetic radiation at any significant level. According to the Planc
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by smil 11y ago
The farmers get to sell more milk.
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by smil 11y ago
No nation has its finances in order, whether they are part of the EU, or if it's the U.S. or Japan or China. Get off your high horse.
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by smil 11y ago
He obviously knows nothing and so fit the ignorant and arrogant American stereotype to a t.
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by smil 11y ago
How has your country (you must be American) distinguished itself by doing these same core social and psychological issues? Or are Americans stubborn and ignorant?
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by smil 11y ago
Your president's ideology is American Exceptionalism which he uses to give grounds for the murder, rape and torture of all non-Americans, and daily acts of terrorism and genocide in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Pakistan. American Exceptiona
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by smil 11y ago
>I'm REALLY wondering "why the hell did AirBnB catch on and this didn't?!" Marketing budget
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by smil 11y ago
no, i rent it out.
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by smil 11y ago
indeed, they are the super-middleman because digital platforms can grow much larger than analog ones.
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by smil 11y ago
renting out isn't sharing.
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by smil 11y ago
Indeed. Ad-financed media has to be entertaining, not factual.
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by smil 11y ago
Airbnb and Uber have nothing, 0.000%, to do with sharing. They have simply built a digital infrastructure for renting out rooms and selling taxi fares. Their success lies in the fact that digital communication systems are significantly lowe
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by smil 11y ago
Apple should just pay royalties out of their own, enormous pockets of $172B (our whatever it was) for the first three months, just not charge users. Then there wouldn't be a problem. What they're doing now is just strong-arming w
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by smil 11y ago
So compensation is not relevant to your point at all since you didn't list it. Or were you looking for mind readers? The low response rate makes sense in that case.
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by smil 11y ago
Sure, but this is not a relevant response to my comment unless you meant it as an insult.
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by smil 11y ago
As a recent graduate for whom it took a year and a half and a move to a different country to find another job, I think I've developed job searcher's PTSD. Applied to lots of jobs I was very excited about, only to get degraded duri
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Art Rank Founder on Why He's Leading the Flipper Revolution(artspace.com)
3 points by smil 11y ago|0 comments
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by smil 11y ago
So according to this logic, nobody should have hired you back in the day?
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by smil 11y ago
Pursuing original ideas, aka creativity, leads to social rejection. There's only so many times you can stand ridicule and disbelief before you disengage.
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by smil 11y ago
No
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by smil 11y ago
Excellent comment.
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225,000 Swedish retirees below the poverty line(translate.google.com)
2 points by smil 11y ago|0 comments
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by smil 11y ago
All non-CS entry-level jobs at startups that I've seen in Berlin are "internships" and pay unliveable wages, if at all.
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by smil 11y ago
You probably won't be getting any (liveable) pension and in the near future we may see tuition fees for university studies.

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