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>given that Germans, Kiwis, English, and Australian pay much more tax than we do

They pay more taxes but get more for their taxes (free health care, education, more unemployment protection, etc.).

>who was talking about how it would take at least 2 months for him to secure a new job as a seasoned mechanical engineer, because since it's so hard to fire people there, it's super hard to get hired.

But being unemployed in Sweden for two months is a completely different world to being unemployed in the US. Further, if he's working then he'll have a 2 month notice period anyway, so he probably wont have any time off at all.

One thing is not fundamentally better than the other. They are just trade offs. Personally I find the Swedish one a hell of a lot less stressful in bad times.
Out of curiosity, if any of you guys feels like discussing it, how do things work out in terms of a "liquidity event" between YC and someone going the "37 signals" route, and simply turning into a profitable, small company that's not going to sell out or IPO?
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To help develop your argument, try:

Edward Bernays: Propaganda or the movie "version": Century of the Self (both on archive.org, btw Adam Curtis is about as underrated as Robert Fisk -- no means by accident)

Manufacturing Consent (same spirit movie as in the thread)

Understanding Power (basically they simplify and reiterate stuff backed up in this book)

And and if you are still reading this, have fun reading Dictators, by Jacques Bainville.
If you're at work you probably don't want to click that link.
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By the time the technology became viable, the patent had expired, or was close to it. Of course, they could have tried to build a collection of auxillary patents around it later.
Agreed. But if it was new site, that would give you some value, would you still be concerned about using facebook/twitter credentials ?
PG was asked that ... somewhere (Mixergy?). He said that it was pretty much setup such that YC wouldn't get any money without a liquidity event (because that's what they expect companies to go after), but he did say that theoretically they might be able to work something out whereby a profitable company that doesn't want to exit pays dividends to all stock holders, which of course includes YC.

Edit: it was indeed Mixergy:

Andrew: If a Y Combinator company becomes a lifestyle company, can you guys still profit from the business?

PG: No. I mean there’s got to be an exit for it, equity holders to get any money. I mean, maybe — maybe in the future there is some model where companies pay dividends instead of an exit that like we’ve never tried to get anybody to do that, and we don’t have any real hopes about it. So, no.

I pulled it from http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Qp7sHPm...
because http://mixergy.com/y-combinator-paul-graham/ is just giving me a white box and a gray background.
As an Australian, the difference between a Canadian, American, Australian, New Zealander and English person is very subtle.
Would they be able and willing to sponsor visa application?
It's interesting how "fake" you can make your profile. It's your profile, after all.

You start by changing your name, picture, location and everything. But as long as you want to use Facebook, you must connect with your real friends. And visible friendship connections are pretty much the thing in Facebook. Unless your friends and their friends all operate under pseudonyms, it's rather easy to track someone who's known by someone.

If your profile is totally fake then it has nothing to do with your real life.
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If you're not meeting any monsters, check in the options and change from "Peaceful" to another mode.

Beyond that - there aren't really any goals. It's a huge sandbox. However, there may be some depth you're missing:

- There are some 'toys' to play with - minetrains, for one. You can build tracks and minecarts - unpowered and powered.

- If you dig deep enough, you can get redstone, which can be used to simulate electrical circuits. There's a whole thread on the Minecraft forum with basic constructs like OR / AND / XOR / etc - people have built things as complex as a twelve-hour clock (although it doesn't keep time accurately because there's no way to synch time - but it is as close as could be made and does function in the sense that it accurately counts 60 seconds, 60 minutes, twelve hours...) - I also saw a turing machine being worked on, as well as a few other similar devices. VERY complex stuff, considering.

- People have developed cannons

The more basic activities include finding caves and exploring them...

But there's some great silly stuff - like you can make a saddle and go ride pigs.

Is any of that stuff you've missed that sounds interesting? I hope so.

I suppose it's a game that might appeal more to younger folks - but as a 35-year-old, I love it. But I always loved SimCity, Simutrans (a freeware transportation simulator. Disclaimer: I'm the "Benevolent Dictator" of the International forum, and provide much of the hosting)... I also played GTA:SA, but not really the official missions - I just drove around and made it my own sandbox... Flight simulators...

All in all, I don't so much like games as I do simulated environments... so Minecraft is right up my alley.
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Well, you thought wrong. Patents were intended (and, for the longest time, worked quite well) as a trade between inventors and society: the inventor gets a legal 20 year monopoly on using his invention, and the rest of the world learns how exactly it works so that they can use it freely afterwards.
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I thought the $105m was new debt raised? I could be wrong as I'm not used to look at these forms, but I thought the story went that it was AT LEAST $105m because that was the ADDITIONAL raised. I might borrow 100k for a house, doesn't mean I only spent 100k for the house.

But, as I say, I could be wrong - I'm not an American so I haven't seen these forms too much :-)
This is my experience as well with Active Interview. We've been around for about a year, and I even personally pitched our working product with paying customers to PG at SXSW in March. He shot it down immediately. But yet, Hirehive gets front page Techcrunch treatment just a few weeks ago. We're not in the valley and didn't go the YC route either.

But in the end while I think there is an initial marketing benefit, it still comes down to how hard you scrap and acquire customers in the long run.
Yeah, if you can find 8 billable hours/day, every business day; otherwise, it's not really fair to make a meaningful comparison to a "job."
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or seeing the same thing the other way around: hidden estrus was evolved in order to get more for less

Schroder, Inge. "Concealed Ovulation and Clandestine Copulation: a Female Contribution to Human Evolution." Ethology and Sociobiology 14.6 (1993): 381-89.
I find this true for just about every professional services field. Hiring a lawyer, an accountant, a doctor, or a consultant often comes at a rate multiple times their own salaries.

But the difference is that the lawyer was probably working 50-60 billable hours a week, whereas an escort (or a business coach, presumably) will work significantly less than that.
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Textile, markdown, haml, lisp dsl, HTML, home rolled. What's the prefered syntax for writing docs? I'm writing a basic website and am spending way too much time thinking about this!

I prefer to code in python and have been meaning to try clojure. I'd like a python solution. I've been thinking of rolling my own - I don't need to worry about nesting. I like the simple approach of http///John.freml.in which splits text to paragraphs and uses HTML for the rest. All I'd like to add would be simple headers and anchors.

Any suggestions?

Alternatively - what syntax would you like to see on HN?
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If I were more demanding I would assume that, by now, a Mac would automatically copy the files from the .dmg over to the Applications directory when the user runs the program bundle for the first time. The programs would automatically get purged out after a timeout if the user never ran them again from the hard disk.

Or even better, something akin to Zero Install (http://0install.net/) coated with OS X system sugar would be even better. That would also resolve the problem of software updates which are a pain on OS X, unless the program goes handle them by itself.
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How do you think those decreases are paid for?

I would have thought they would have been paid for by increases in efficiency (largely due to new technology).
It's pretty simple. They don't want someone else's labelling on their products. For them it has no tangible benefits, so they won't bother. It says nothing about how 'green' the iPhone is or is not.
Allie is not "earning far more by actually working far less." That implies that working less causes her to make more money. Rather, she's earning more by charging more, and she was able to do that because she had complementary skills that she didn't know to market until price experimentation attracted a different kind of customer. As a side effect, her higher hourly rate gives her the freedom of working less.

Perhaps there could be a market for prostitutes who don't have sex very often, if there were a way for prospective clients to verify this. But that's not Allie's business strategy.
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The laughs I got from Arrington's twitter was worth it alone, I don't even care if it's true anymore.
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I usually write HTML directly. The HTML tags aren't that different from other markups - just slap a wrapper around them, and you're good.

Well structured HTML can also be easily converted to text, which will be easier to read than most markdown formats, imo.
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>>>but I'm hoping society will adjust to a point where traditional femininity can peacefully coexist as a respected choice for women on how to live their lives, because I think it can be a suitable, powerful, happy, and meaningful for choice for many women<<<

That's the linchpin you see. The truth is that femininity and masculinity are a continuous spectrum of variation and almost all such statements tend to prescribe something or the other. To tell you the truth I fulfill the stereotype you are proposing in quite a few ways, but most women don't. Just as most males aren't the fist beating cavemen they are made out to be. Why can't we let people just be?

Why do we need to box them into little boxes, so that they conveniently fit into our tiny little realities? Why do we need to make statements like, it's tough to be a man/woman/american/indian/african american/whatever category you can come up with?

It is shocking just how ingrained this is into our consciousness and even though I can articulate it I still can't get it out of my head. I still box people in.

Look earlier women who had it in them to become scientists were told explicitly that they should become housewives. Take a look at Joan Feynman; her thesis adviser told her the only geometry she needed to learn was the geometry of the cobwebs she should be cleaning at home. Imagine what would have happened if she would have given up. We would have lost a great mind to something as abhorrent as prejudice.

The same lesson still exists. Let the kid be. Let her grow up into who she wants to be. Not who society thinks she ought to be. She will be depressed if you take the fight out of her so that you can squeeze her into a housewife. She will be depressed if you force her onto a stage against her wish. She will be depressed in all the cases where you push her into becoming something she isn't. I think that this is what you were trying to say.

On the other hand, what boggles my mind is why aren't more males taught to exit their boxes and give a hand in raising their kids. Raising a human being isn't a full time job if it's a shared responsibility and I think expecting anything other than that is just another small box.
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I can see his inbox filling up with media inquiries :)

But the next time Kevin tweets something newsworthy half the audience will go: 'meh, he's just messing with them'.
> Most people have a deep desire to travel around the world.

Not exactly.
The author forgets that his data set is strongly biased toward travelers and people who dream about travel.
Didn't read the article, just saying what I thought the parent poster was trying to say.
That's what people wondered when Twitter and Facebook (and many other "projects") were first launched. Pun aside, what I mean to convey is that experimentation is a vital aspect for innovation and hackership.
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Do you think this principle holds true most of the time? In your experience have there barriers that nullify it? I'm interested to hear from all of you. =]
Exactly. If you can find someone that great (and that important to your business) who's genuinely happy with salary & options rather than full equity... then hire him because he's a rare beast.
It's funny how you can now refer to a 1Ghz/1GB machine as a 'not very powerful' computer with a straight face.

Your average computer scientist would have given his right arm and his first born for such a machine not all that long ago.

Sure qemu is efficient, but that little machine is plenty powerful in its own right. The fact that you normally don't actually use much of that power is why you can do this in the first place!
Which country is that? 1700€ net monthly isn't necessarily that little money.
In absolute terms the cost of living (when comparing with a constant standard of living though!) has decreased significantly vis-a-vis median salaries over the last 30 years. Most of the gains were made in increased production efficiencies. I think you severely underestimate the amount of gains that have been made there over that time. Total food budget is 5 to 10% of middle class household income in most of the West; it was a multiple of that only 100 years ago!

What I'm saying is that (inflation-adjusted) cost of living has been going down for the last couple of decades, and that salaries have gone up in absolute inflation-adjusted terms. You can argue that this trend won't hold for the future for a myriad of reasons but I wouldn't support such a view.
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Not just less or more inflation-adjusted revenues and their spending as absolute sums - the per-capita values impacted by the population growth would be even more informative.
The point wasn't that she was underpricing herself: it was that by charging more she gradually found herself offering quite different services.

For $300/hour her clients were still wishing to physically get the most out of her (and, apparently, themselves) during the one hour; for $500/hour she started to find clients who were more interested in high-class flirtation, having a wife replacement for the evening, and the sex portion was reduced to a lot less.
Well I guess that the comparison is meaningless with someone who lives in a 2nd tier Chinese city...
> That's what people wondered when Twitter and Facebook were first launched.

And some people still do.

("Get off my lawn" is cool, right?)
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Congratulations,

How adventurous are you?

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If you a re a beach person, route 1, if you are more an outdoor person route 2.

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Painting, sheet music and writing are unlikely to die a sudden death any time soon, as they're the only ways of achieving their aims with one's bare hands.

Print media nicely bridges the gap, and whilst I'm sure that volumes are going to decrease, /why/ would it ever disappear?
Nice one. Regarding point 7 ("what changes can be reversed"), tendencies are different for the younger cohort compared to those who grew up with DOS. Younger people actually try a lot without fear of serious damage, so if you're building for them, you can exploit this .. provided you ensure safety under such trials as well.
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It's got me thinking on changing professions.
Men worked extremely physically demanding jobs that made their muscles and bones give out by age 40

Yes, this is kinda the little secret of Feminism. They see that men have "good" jobs like CEOs and want some of that for themselves, and who wouldn't? But they overlook that men are also collecting the garbage, working in the mines, and generally doing all of society's dirty, dangerous jobs. Where're the calls for "equality" in those industries?
As the risk of being controversial, I'll say I firmly don't understand why a man would give up these apparently non-traditional pursuits of being a good husband and father in order to be an excellent scientist, architect, artist, or entrepreneur, and I have no idea why a man would rather be a low level middle manager or a clerk instead of being a husband, father, and active member of the community. Fatherhood seems to me like it'd be more enjoyable and more rewarding than all but the most satisfying and self-actualizing of professions.

All of that, but particularly the last line certainly applies to me, and I feel I'm fairly well along the line of self-actualizing professions.
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Stats: First six months of 2010, 112 million CD albums sold, 42 million download albums sold, 600 million CD singles sold (~60 million album equivalent) [1] so it's about 50/50 on digital music. Physical music distribution is not it it's death throes. Also, the decline is slowing, and the market is fairly saturated.

The thing that killed film cameras is that digital cameras just work better and have at least one killer feature -- Instant review. That is a massive advantage for consumer and professional alike. Once the disadvantages were moore's lawed away -- quality for professionals and price, size and printing for consumers -- film could not stand.

There is no killer feature with download music. I can get it faster, but so what? It might grasp the fashion markets, but not everyone needs music now. It has added no killer feature and it's not even cheaper. And one thing that's not like all the others -- it's a worse product. Most people have a CD player in their house and their car. And their computer. And their friends have CD players †. And they can play their CD's everywhere, and they can rip them and put them on portable devices, and they can display them in their living rooms.

Newspapers - physicality is nice, but I can well see them disappearing, because digital news will be more convenient, cheaper and more up-to-date. The winners will be the digital newspapers that preserve or enhance the paper reading experience, which might not mean having reporters and so on, but will mean selecting and presenting information in a way people value (in particular, mirroring the reader's values. It just occurred to me that the Daily Mirror in the UK is the best (and most ironically) named newspaper ever.)

[1] http://www.prosoundnews.com/blog/30154

† iPod docks in hifis and cars are getting penetration, but are not standard yet, and certainly not ubiquitous. Fixing this will be one thing that kills physical music.
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