goodJobWalrus

Hey, I just looked at your twitter profile. How does one invest $500 in a startup?

How does one know these are genuine?

I got the privilege to downvote when I passed 500 a few months ago.

Does the fact that Trump himself is calling it the "Muslim ban"change anything for you?

Awesome selection. Thank you!

I wonder whether Tristan has found that girl by now, or is he still looking to this day.

Methodological choice aside, I am primarily shocked by the size of the racial disparity (I mean, I have expected it, but not this big).

Maybe, but homocide rate is on par with Western Europe, and people generally don't walk around with weapons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry#Canada

How much beer are we talking about here? ;)

> We would. But given limited resource it might make sense to try to maximize the ROI.

It is not self-evident that giving growth opportunities to "talented" individuals maximizes ROI, as opposed to least privileged, for example.

> I can't quite get the angle

He hopes it'll help him land that job at google?

> How many users as a percentage have adblockers enabled?

For technical blog? I would guess practically everyone. I'd love if someone answered this.

Walmart & Amazon?

Yes, but the replication studies showed that although people did feel more confident, nothing changed in their actions or in the actions of others toward them. So, the question is, what is all this newfound confidence good for, if the result of the meeting is going to be the same?

> Boies Schiller was granted more than 300,000 shares valued at $4.5 million, based on a valuation of $15 a share at the time, this person said.

yeah, they are not getting paid.

How do you get customers? This seems to be the hardest part.

This is amazing! Love it.

> general societal paranoia

It's more than that, apparently risk assessment is now an issue of moral judgment.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-are-we-so-af...

Have you read the whole article? He goes on to describe research on rats who are prevented from playing as pups and develops his argument from there.

I was referring to this part of his argument:

>It can cause injury (though serious injury is rare) and even (very rarely) death

keywords: "rare" and "very rarely", although it would be better argument to look at statistics on accidental deaths during risky play, now and in years past if I had time.

Of what happening? Having CPS called on you? I don't know, but I am as terrified of it, as your average helicopter mom would be of having their child scrape their knee, or be abducted by a stranger. I really hope the risk is as low as being abducted, though.

> That's very literally survivor bias. How many kids swam unsupervised, jumped off rocks and rode down steep hills and didn't return home?

According to this guy, very few:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201404/ri...

> From an evolutionary perspective, the obvious question about risky play is this: Why does it exist? It can cause injury (though serious injury is rare) and even (very rarely) death, so why hasn’t natural selection weeded it out? The fact that it hasn’t been weeded out is evidence that the benefits must outweigh the risks. What are the benefits? Laboratory studies with animals give us some clues.

Me too, and I so want this for my boy, but there is a reason to be genuinely scared of other people and social services. I mean people get arrested for letting their kids go to the park or play in their own backyards, for god's sake.

There is a word "sponsored" on top of some of the cards, so "native advertizing"

So your SEO strategy was(is) website copy? Anything else, like "link building" or sth else?

Or if you want to answer in another way, how many hours a week/month/year does that SEO work take, before one sees the results you are talking about?

edit. you expanded your answer while I was typing. it seems you are mostly talking about on page and technical SEO, which doesn't sound like it takes that much time.

What did you do for SEO? I can see you only have few blog entries...

I have a question for the guy running indie hackers. Do you periodically update those revenue figures?

There is also Asch experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

I am wondering this as well since in one of his previous posts he says he has no money. He seems to move really quickly, though, and it would be impressive if he got 5 people to work on this full time for (currently) free.

I would say there isn't. If your economic situation is so bad, that you are willing to throw yourself into the sea on a rubber dinghy, you are a refugee from severe poverty and life so horrible that you are willing to risk dying just to escape it.

If it was up to me, I would expand charter of human rights to include this.