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I got thinking about this after reading a comment on another post about time = money, and wondered how much time karma leaders have spent on news.yc. Effectually, how much have they paid for their karma.

You're assuming that the only thing people get out of HN is karma, which is certainly not the case. Karma is a side-effect.

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While I wasn't assuming that, good catch that I neglected to mention otherwise. That said, we don't have a measure of the positive externalities to ones life, whereas we do have karma.

So, fully recognizing that there is more to HN than earning karma, I'm still intrigued by what these graphs might look like.

One thing you can always try is "Here is the executive summary and presentation for my startup. We are trying to raise a small convertible debt round so we can continue working on it."

It works. http://new.ycombinator.com/item?id=73346

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