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I'm not even gonna go there with Cindy McCain. Wait I think I just did.

> 13. Deals fall through. Yeah, sometimes silently, as in the counter-party just stops calling you back one day. Not unlike the dating scene.

> "bind you into a period of servitude." A venture round contractually binds you, does it not? I mean that's the word they use - legally binding.

I'll take it into consideration.

> Do you approve of affirmative action or are you a racist? I don't believe in affirmative action, and my advice of "get used to an unfair world" is consistent with that view. Than…

Yeah, that's kind of my point, which is to find a way to do it on your own terms instead of accepting "almost no money" for what is most certainly going to be a significant equity …

You're right, I've never heard of that, and I still think it's bullshit. If you're allergic to fruit, vegetables, and nuts, you might just consider killing yourself to make the gen…

> rewarding the lazy Have you ever seen a "lazy" person get a grant to go to college and then graduate, or are you just assuming someone who isn't white is lazy, and is getting a h…

> Because I'm not a minority, not living in a slum, and working my butt off All of which will contribute to your better being able to find a job when you graduate. When you show up…

If you're having trouble following enough directions to fill out a single form, you might want to reconsider going to college. There's lots of directions and forms involved.

Yeah, it's also used by journalists and bloggers who want to sound more clever than they really are when talking about subjects in which they have no formal training or practical e…

> I happen to be very allergic to all raw produce I guess I'm an idiot, because I don't believe you at all, at least not in the terms you've stated. If you had a diagnosed autoimmu…

Two observations about his investment thesis: 1. He says you can build companies with "almost no money": $100k - $1M, if I recall correctly. 2. He says you can delay profi^H^H^H^H^…

I think it would be easier to make a list of things that a hacker is not.

> Note that nowhere in this future am I writing any code. I don’t have to. This is where I get confused.

Here's an actual example, instead of all this pontificating. It's not that impressive but it illustrates the point. I had to write an external "chat history" module (i.e., always s…