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I always forget my password and leave HN periodically because of ad hominem attacks and irrational behavior by those who lack the self-awareness to understand their own biases and arrogance. Eventually I become so dismayed by the level of irrationality displayed by many members of the community, that I just abandon the account. It seems crazy to me that people who believe themselves to be the most rational people on the planet can behave in such a way.
Coming out of college making 6 figures in silicon valley does not make you a god. It's the other things.
Thinking about this and the wisdom of crowds makes my brain feel fuzzy.
Articles like this remind me how rational and practical the military is. I know so many brilliant military minds, yet war itself seems outdated and plagued by so many emotionally irrational decisions. I can't reconcile…
There are plenty of things she could have done before calling me, but she could call me and she had a great experience doing so and now loves the product even more and has more confidence using it, because she knows if…
The only two apps I had in the list were Youtube and Google Maps, both are installed at the factory and it guessed: You are a married guy older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year
This is a fantastic book. Buy it if you haven't already. Fantastic book. Really, one of the best books written in any field. Written by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Highly recommended.…
As big as The Rock, yes. His mom is Samoan. They are huge. If he didn't exercise like he did, he'd be as big as a sumo wrestler. I feel like this kind of attitude stops people from achieving more, "Oh, I can never be…
Right, yes, I always forget about the dollar! The dollar will be the one to prove them all wrong!
It's ironic that a currency designed to solve the problems of currencies controlled by human beings is now suffering the very same problems that caused all the fiat currencies before it to fail. Human beings are the…
"Join the waitlist" Really? There are only, what, 10 candidates?? Srsly Google?
Just wait until the payee has a comma or a quote in the name and you download a CSV and the programmers can't even properly format a CSV and it's broken in Excel.
Lots of different instant messengers like skype. Google chat, facetime, just the regular old phone. Video conferencing tools. Even screen sharing systems like gotomeeting. It's a solved problem mostly, but hard to do…
I wish slack would concentrate on making the app more productive for teams to work together remotely. We can type fast enough, in fact, hackernews tells me I'm typing too fast. The problem is organizing and collecting…
Funny how, at HackerNews, a post with data and intent on progress is still drowned out by useless rhetoric that will never actually make a difference. Someone posted real numbers with a clear intent to find a solution…
Quotas are fine for an enterprise with a decades old sales process that has data to measure. SurveyMonkey was entering a new market and growing the sales force quickly and before they even knew what a reasonable quota…
Sales people are really good about selling themselves, but generally not so great at actually selling the thing you are hiring them to sell.
Cool, that person's math an mine are the same! :) He does say, "That price does not include windows, door, insulation or interior furnishings. In place of a brick fireplace I have recommended a recycled steel barrel…
This amount of money is not realistic even when you put it into an inflation calculator. For example, Walden built his cabin for $28 in the 1850's, which is about $900 today and clearly not enough to build a cabin with…
The land was given away to people, in the US, up to about 100 years ago, just for staking a claim on the land. Up to 40 acres per person. Many made illegal claims to more than one. Many of the wealthy quickly bought…
I just double-click a command file on my desktop and I'm done.
>> No. These are phones, not implants. They will be soon and I look forward to the day. Of course then the government will open your body and remove the implant to do what they are now doing with the phones. >> A…
He is acting with integrity, which, arguably, is even more significant than bravery by itself.
"The old economy is built on the arrogance of growth at all costs, profiting from pollution, and the refusal to share economic gains with 99% of Americans." This mindset is shared by many building the new economy. Peter…
20% of employees are actively sabotaging their employers according to research.
It's not what I call fiat, it's the definition of fiat. I thought bitcoin was not a fiat currency, but in fact it is, because it's value is controlled by supply and demand based on the decisions of humans. I am now…
The first thing we need to do is reject the myth of the free market. There is no free market. It's never worked. There is no existing free market in the world and no one appreciates the consequences of it. A free market…