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Comment · 3 years ago
My panniers: a PVC frame + a backpack--

1 inch PVC tubing. Shaped like an H, with the top & bottom as cross-beams as well. about 2.5 feet by 1.5 feet. With one on each side of my back bike rack, Makes it easy to hang a 60 liter backpack on one side, and 30 liter backpack on the other.

Comment · 3 years ago
Definitely did not read the article.

If it ends in "?", I publicly question its validity and denigrate its author & editor by default.

Comment · 3 years ago
My optometrist was quite skeptical of various claims about blue light & blue light blocking glasses, for example...
Comment · 3 years ago
Any article with a headline ending with Question mark is:

- unoriginal & low value

- written by a low quality author

- edited by a low quality editor

- defaults to an answer of NO

stop the question mark BS

Comment · 3 years ago
I agree.

Survivorship bias makes me say "I want to see the stories of all the solopreneurs who failed."

HN-- Please share more failure stories. I want to balance the optimistic fun hype with pragmatic realism.

I say this as a nascent "solopreneur" (I don't like that word) who is getting his agency & first product off the ground at the moment.

Comment · 3 years ago
"The US military couldn’t capture one man, Poncho Villa, the last time"

We also did not have a lot of modern technology in the time frame of the Mexican Revolution (Nov 20, 1910 – Feb 5, 1917)

...which goes along with the assumption that "The future will not look 100% like the past."

- "The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927"

- "Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927."

Comment · 3 years ago
I hate articles that hide key topic.

I am not spending time on an article that is trying to hook me into reading. Articles exist to share knowledge, not obfuscate it.

Why "This" in the headline?" Why not "<ProductName> could be the..."?

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