The "read the rest" button seems broken in Firefox on Windows... so that makes for a very short post.
Ha I reached that and thought to myself "do I need to read any more?"
Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
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#22My first thought was "cash, grass, or ass" but this works as well.
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#23Apparently if you're a YC alum you can get to the top of the front page of HN posting an advertisement to go read someone's paywalled Wall Street Journal op ed, with a broken link when you click "read the rest".
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#25There's got to be a variant that is a 2x2 matrix of this: Lie to others, lie to yourself (spiral together; either fantastically poor or spectacularly rich) Lie to others, tell yourself the truth (manipulation, morally broke, but materially rich) Tell others the truth, tell yourself the truth (integrity, barely scrape by) Tell others the truth, lie to yourself (be used by the system, usually end up poorly)
It's not really a rule of thumb that "Tell others the truth, tell yourself the truth" means you have to barely scrape by. Plenty of people make good money that way.
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#27There's got to be a variant that is a 2x2 matrix of this: Lie to others, lie to yourself (spiral together; either fantastically poor or spectacularly rich) Lie to others, tell yourself the truth (manipulation, morally broke, but materially rich) Tell others the truth, tell yourself the truth (integrity, barely scrape by) Tell others the truth, lie to yourself (be used by the system, usually end up poorly)
oh god it's the Rumsfeld quadrants for truth....
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#28Apparently if you're a YC alum you can get to the top of the front page of HN posting an advertisement to go read someone's paywalled Wall Street Journal op ed, with a broken link when you click "read the rest".
This is spelled out on the FAQ page:
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#29The "read the rest" button seems broken in Firefox on Windows... so that makes for a very short post.
It's also broken for Safari (on Mac).
Re: Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
#30The "read the rest" button seems broken in Firefox on Windows... so that makes for a very short post.
Ha I reached that and thought to myself "do I need to read any more?"
Heh, well I was kind of thinking, this sounds like something someone in sales or content management or marketing might think is pithy and thoughtful. And we are (or just were) in the "Information Age", so that's what has value. But also, there are lots of other ways to um... make money. Unless you try to twist your brain around "well selling kids' toys to parents is selling lies to someone who wants lied to" or something perverse like that. shrug Maybe the big article does a great job of exploring these ideas, but I don't think they stand up to much scrutiny.