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sarimkxon Ask HN: Simple AI Startup Ideas That Will Instantly Make Money?

I did not say "I'll hire 3 people". Not exactly what I meant when I said "I have to prove something" but thank you for the input!

sarimkxon Ask HN: Simple AI Startup Ideas That Will Instantly Make Money?

> * Interview contractors and collect bids

This one is intriguing. Please expand. Will this be for freelance projects?

sarimkxon Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?

This.

Working for a big company in the US is massively underrated. Over time, most people working in these companies will be much better off financially and with less stress/health issues.

The silicon valley/tech bubble over-romanticizes entrepreneurship without realizing its NOT for everyone.

For every 1 success story you hear about entrepreneurship, there are 50-100 that fail. The stress and anxiety is not something everyone can or should take if they have the opportunity to coast at FAANG and make $500K+.

How many businesses make $500K in revenue in the US? Not many? [1]

I am paraphrasing here, but I really agree with how Scott Galloway put it: The US corporation is the greatest wealth creating vehicle in history. Way safer and easier to build wealth working at Google.

Giving "StArt a BusZineaSs BRO" as a blanket advice is very disingenuous.

[1] In 2018, 9% of small businesses made more than $1 million. https://www.smallbizgenius.net/by-the-numbers/small-business...

Note: Many statistics online say the number is actually fewer than 5%!

sarimkxon Global Population to Shrink This Century as Birth Rates Fall

https://archive.md/3fWw0

sarimkxon Battery Maker SK on Declares 'Emergency' as EV Sales Disappoint

https://archive.md/sn4Va

sarimkxon you should probably have a kid

You touched on the "value system" in the west.

My original comment in that thread highlighted this.

> People keep pointing to how "expensive" it is to have kids, however I see rich, well off people having fewer and fewer kids. I really think deep down the reasons are social and societal. The decline of the family system, religion, and traditional values have all led to this.

Look around. People just don't want kids (no matter the money). They don't like to admit this but they find it burdensome. They want "freedom". At least this is my observation.

I find this to be more common in America than in other western countries.

As one American friend put it: "Americans love their granite counter tops more than they love their children".

sarimkxon Who Is Winning the Generative AI War? Accenture

"With over $900 million in new GenAI bookings this quarter, we now have $2 billion in GenAI sales year to date" -Accenture.

sarimkxon you should probably have a kid

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163251

I posted this story few weeks ago. Story + comments will shed some light on why people in the U.S. (and other developed countries) are not having kids.

sarimkxon UK Projected to See Highest Millionaire Loss on Record

Further reading

https://www.henleyglobal.com/publications/henley-private-wea...

sarimkxon FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

Figma dodged a bullet.

Dylan Field was initially very anti-Adobe, I don't know why he even agreed to sell to them.

Its completely okay to sell your company and cash out but I still don't understand, why Adobe?

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I think the focus here is "volume of unsold inventory".

Comparing with your car in your driveway is completely irrelevant to the article and strawmanning.

sarimkxon Ask HN: Personal Finance Advice for a 21 yo

I swear people just end up turning their hobbies into side hustles lol.

sarimkxon Has Europe Already Reached Its Demographic Tipping Point?

Sorry, archive site not working for me so I can't add an archive link. I thought this would be accessible as "one free article" most news sites give.

sarimkxon Has Europe Already Reached Its Demographic Tipping Point?

I would really like to encourage people to take some time at also reading the comments. There are some really interesting discussions there.

https://www.ft.com/content/71a515d9-e473-48b6-a6a0-bf839d1bb...

sarimkxon How and why to make a /now page on your site

Yes, same. The search on https://aboutideasnow.com/ does NOT work.

sarimkxon How and why to make a /now page on your site

For reference: https://nownownow.com/

sarimkxon Chaos at London and other UK airports due to e-gate technical problems

There always something going on at Heathrow in London.

Just wait for the mess during the summer season.

sarimkxon Why I'm Doing PauseAI

https://pauseai.info/

sarimkxon Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

I was not alluding to any conspiracies.

In that "statistical analysis" the company and more importantly the time must be factored in.

Yes, I am sure out of all whistleblowers, all over the world, for all types of stories (war crimes, finance (insider trading), etc) there must many that do just die.

But...

1. The same 'set' of whistleblowers (exposing manufacturing faults in Boing aircrafts) 2. In less than two months..!

Not to mention not just at any time but during multiple ongoing investigations...?

sarimkxon Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

And what do they even mean by "sudden illness"??

sarimkxon Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

I hope there is isn't a third! Pretty insane already...

sarimkxon [dead]

I may be mistaken but I think this is satire. I don't know for certain though. I just came across this as I was web surfing.

sarimkxon RFK to File Lawsuit Against TikTok Ban

Posting one story does not mean endorsing anything. I have stated this on my profile. I usually submit links I think are relevant to the tech industry.

At least one startup based in Silicon Valley I know may go bankrupt and shut down due to the tiktok ban. https://www.stan.store/

sarimkxon RFK to File Lawsuit Against TikTok Ban

Twitter/X Post: https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/17840912416444579...

sarimkxon U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low

Yes I agree, birth rates are down everywhere. Interestingly they are rapidly declining in countries where most of these legal migrants come from.

I do not agree with emigration controls. At least not in the next 50 years!

sarimkxon U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low

People keep pointing to how "expensive" it is to have kids, however I see rich, well off people having fewer and fewer kids.

I really think deep down the reasons are social and societal. The decline of the family system, religion, and traditional values have all led to this.

Look around. People just don't want kids (no matter the money). They don't like to admit this but they find it burdensome. They want "freedom". At least this is my observation.

I find this to be more common in America than in other western countries.

As one American friend put it: "Americans love their granite counter tops more than they love their children".

sarimkxon U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low

Unfettered or not, immigration is inevitable for the west.

Italy and Poland were really tough on illegal immigration but gave out the highest amount of work VISAs.

European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson in 2024 said the European Union “needs a million migrants a year”.

sarimkxon Half of Americans say Public K-12 Education is Going In The Wrong Direction

This is such an important point and one that pretty much everyone fails to understand.

I am in the process of writing a pretty long, detailed essay on this.

While, yes, institutional problems in public education do exist, so much of the "bad education" discourse is just plain bad parenting.

sarimkxon House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold

Real reason why this is happening now.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/02/younger-a...

sarimkxon House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure

Real reason why this is happening now.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/02/younger-a...