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Interesting, I'm in the industry and secured lines of credit, and insurance is definitely viable alternative revenue generators for a userbase like this and actually dovetail nicel…

Interesting. I haven't gone to recruiters but I would assume going as a group makes their jobs easier. We've done some moderately successful startups (small non-US market, though) …

In my 15 years of working, I’ve often seen discussions on the importance of building great teams, but what about teams that stick together across opportunities? Over time, a core g…

I was in Tokyo on a short business trip once. I had a interpreter and back to back meetings with Japanese businesses for a few days. At one stage I realised that people are reactin…

Not the same person, but this sounds very similar to an experience I had. Payments fail all the time for various reasons, that isn't really the issue. It's what happens after that.…

Most newest gen premium headphones can do that, Sony MX4 included.

I'm not sure if I've ever found a worst piece on HN. There may be valid criticisms of Hyperloop tech, but they are not in this article. It's just low effort sarcasm and strange arg…

No nothing dodgy at all. Whatever we did wrong it isn't obvious.

Yes, we're doing all obvious advertising channels, and have some cash to put behind it. Dominating SERPS with very little effort since we're doing long tail. Our particular long ta…

I don't think this is quite fair. I'm from South Africa, hardly a backwater. It's a problem anywhere where people mostly search to buy on Google. In the western world it is anywher…

Not completely related to personal accounts being banned, but something that happened to me recently: I started a side business with some friends during lockdown. We created an onl…

I am confused by the criticisms "a superimposed set of abstractions. Nothing more." and "nothing to do with its processes". Surely that is exactly what this kind of framework attem…

> Progress in physics was much faster in the early 20th century when it wasn't so fascinated with deep space. I don't think measuring progress is tivial enough to make that assumpt…

He gets predictions more than most. You should go read that book. There are many chapters on the incorrect weight people add to the outcome of correct predictions (or incorrect pre…