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Elliot Temple on July 23, 2018

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Anonymous at 1:42 PM on April 3, 2019 | #12090 | reply | quote

I found an article about Gumroad, the site I sell stuff on. Was interesting to find out what had been going on with them for the last few years. Also the founder/ceo is @shl on twitter, I will try following him.

https://medium.com/s/story/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-a-billion-dollar-company-b0c31d7db0e7

Brief summary is they got 8 million in funding, hired 20 ppl, didn't grow enough, fired 15, the rest eventually quit, but he didn't want to shut it down because it was paying like 2 million a month to creators. It has kept growing up to over 4 million a month sent out to creators and the business is stable now and makes some profit.


curi at 11:07 AM on April 4, 2019 | #12092 | reply | quote

The left wants to take away the guns of Koreatown so that Hispanics and blacks can loot and pillage.

Not really joking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pwl4pvr300


Anonymous at 11:50 AM on April 6, 2019 | #12095 | reply | quote


Anonymous at 12:14 PM on April 6, 2019 | #12096 | reply | quote

>Ariel Feinerman: Is any progress in the OncoSENS programme? Have you found any ALT genes? Is any ongoing research in WILT?

>Aubrey de Grey: No – in the end that program was not successful enough to continue with, so we stopped it. There is now more interest in ALT in other labs than there was, though, so I’m hopeful that progress will be made. But also, one reason why I felt that it was OK to stop was that cancer immunotherapy is doing so well now. I think there is a significant chance that we won’t need WILT after all, because we will really truly defeat cancer using the immune system.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/04/155678.html


Anonymous at 12:30 AM on April 7, 2019 | #12097 | reply | quote

In his book *Game*, about picking up women, Roosh gives a short intro to some philosophy stuff. Ideas matter. Reading a book and agreeing is inadequate to change your ideas.

https://www.rooshvstore.com/books/game

The beginning talks about cultural decline including rape accusations and "toxic" masculinity. Roosh tries to keep the book fairly non-political and avoiding placing blame, but says this stuff isn't ignorable, your way of dealing with women needs to take it into account.


Anonymous at 11:54 PM on April 7, 2019 | #12099 | reply | quote

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06WD38BRP

> Within a few years, Chase had become one of the most prominent posters on the pickup artist community's mASF forum... Rated the #7 most valuable poster out of some 100,000 forum members, including nearly all of pickup's greatest names.

Chase, the best PUA writer, is from usenet and posted lots there, and mentioned it in in his Amazon marketing :D


Anonymous at 11:36 PM on April 8, 2019 | #12117 | reply | quote

Is cheerleading a dangerous sport? Most seem to think so. What are your thoughts?

https://www.cheershirts.net


anonymous at 1:44 PM on December 10, 2019 | #14782 | reply | quote

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