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Comment #17969535
I'd also like to mention the use of hormonal replacement technologies (as TRT and HGH) that can absolutely help the elderly. We have terrible stereotypes around testosterone becaus…
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Comment #17963814
Are you a developer? I'm sure there are exceptions, but the majority of cases always rules. There's an entire historical background that explains why most "executives" and founders…
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Comment #17958981
I'm Brazilian and I tried building a company there after two successful products both in the EU and US. Brazil simply doesn't have the culture that's necessary to foster a startup …
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Comment #17956669
I'm Brazilian and you are completely correct.
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Comment #16530835
I am also a vira-lata, and couldn't agree more. Brazil, like other 3rd world countries, has an endemic cultural problem that hinders economic, social or technological progress. You…
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Comment #16261984
This is pretty terrible support management. In our company, if a case is opened for more than 5 days, the entire team is notified. If then nobody does anything, the entire departme…
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Comment #15677933
It's not just customers. I manage teams of support engineers/agents. They will do anything to avoid a phone call. Indeed, almost all the time, phone calls lead nowhere, only to emo…
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Comment #11610091
That's an interesting position. The question is: why creating this hoax in the first place? If anything, the price of bitcoin has been negatively impacted by this. http://www.coind…
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Comment #11509018
As someone in my early 20s, I can say the young innovator myth also severely hurts the youth. When you're told you need to achieve X by 30, you may end up destroying relationships,…
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Comment #11500559
>AI isn’t like an oil field owned by a handful of people Sure, it's free to access open-source AI tools. However, only huge corporations have enough capital to first build these gr…
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Comment #11490915
We don't know what made Jeremy leave the company and how he helped before YC. If this is a case Jeremy was present at incorporation, he contributed to the product (in some way) and…
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Comment #11487428
>They love to move into places where artists live and raise the cost of living and build their crappy chain stores and push us out. To be fair, they're still part of the gentrifica…
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Comment #11475018
That's so cool. Are there any ideas for sales/pitch emails? That's probably harder to find, but it'd be really helpful.
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Comment #11470879
You can't just "ditch" online dating to find something serious. More and more, people seem to mistrust and misunderstand face-to-face communication. Sometimes, they even lack the w…
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Comment #11468915
There's a single problem with Right vs Left debates: they can't understand the other's point. 1) The Right can't recognize there's a problem with contemporary elites ("They Deserve…
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Comment #11467897
I feel bad for myself. I first thought this was a Google Calendar view for some reason.
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Comment #11464009
In the book "States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios".
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Comment #11463651
The philosopher Slavoj Žižek explains this with the ‘postmodern’ boss: >Not a master but just a coordinator of our joint creative efforts; the first among equals. There should be n…
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Comment #11449362
No I haven't, but I have money on companies. Many things can happen (disease, conflict, competition,etc) and I surely won't make a founder feel terrible about himself because of th…
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Comment #11447296
Why would anyone feel guilty about losing money from a VC? In the end, it's a venture capital FUND: risk and return are inherent to this. It's not the VC's money, but a collection …
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Comment #11446277
Like other eastern european countries, Romanians suffer greatly with poor branding and "western-centrism". While in Germany, I watched clear demonstrations of discrimination toward…