CptJamesCook

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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Airbnb guests constantly rent my place to party. It's been a problem for years, at both of my homes. I block many of them, but can't detect them all. The other day an airbnb guest held a party, and they trashed my neighbor's
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
I imagine this is a response to the awful press around the company the past several months. The Uber of 2015 would not have taken these cars off the road.
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Uber Group’s Visit to Seoul Escort Bar Sparked HR Complaint(theinformation.com)
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
From Paul Graham's tweets ( https://twitter.com/paulg/status/322219801525223424 ), it appears that YC ranks startups when they are accepted into YC. Do you really do this for every startup in YC? If so, are you
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Sorry, I meant the tailgate.
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Sorry, I meant the tailgate. What happens is, you lift the tailgate a little bit and then the car takes over and opens the tailgate the rest of the way -- far higher than a person would do in a room with low ceilings. I let go of the tailga
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
I just picked up my Model X after a week in the shop. They weren't able to finish all of the work, because "we are busy this time of year." They told me to bring it back in April. In about a year of ownership, this is the 3rd
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
You can set it so that they automatically replace the item with another option w/o communicating with you about it.
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
I have no comment on the valuation, but the service has made my life better. I no longer fight with my significant other about grocery store trips, and the house is always stocked with healthy, delicious food from Whole Foods. In 3 years, I
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Greg Brockman: Went to MIT Went to Harvard Was CTO of a 10 billion dollar company for 5 years, starting the year it was founded Yeah, I'd take a cofounder like that.
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
The idea that the gender pay gap could be caused by different incentive structures motivating men and women seems rather new, which is the rule for discussing flame-war causing topics. Nevertheless, I will try to be more thoughtful with my
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Have you seen any homeless men or janitors with high value women lately? Did you know that women find 80% of men to be unattractive? https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0... From the article: "As
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
I think it's important to improve oneself in every way, including fitness, demonstrable skills like guitar, and interpersonal skills (charisma). I wasn't stating that only success matters, just that it is an additional factor and
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
I've spent much of my life examining this, and I happen to believe this is the world we live in. Are you suggesting that women are not in any way attracted to success?
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
As an average-looking man from an average family, if I want to attract a woman I need to be successful. The more successful I become, the higher quality of woman I can get. For a woman, extra career success will not boost her attractiveness
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Don't forget about sanitation work.
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
The true alt-right is tiny. Well, since alt-right has been defined to include white supremacy, anyway. The left is huge.
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
The left has been teaching people to believe they are victims for more than a decade now. That's why they search for injustice.
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
There have been dozens of articles written about rich "immigrant founders" the past few weeks. https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/02/01/study-immigrant-st... http://fortune.com&#x2F
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Interesting though. If a women isn't a CEO or engineer, we assume women are unfairly being discriminated against. If a women isn't a low value job, we assume they aren't biologically ideal for it.
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Good point. I got the data from here: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Women also make up a low percentage of janitors, coal minors, construction workers, and landscapers.
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Yes, but for every job created in SV, 5 are probably wiped out in middle america lol
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
I agree. But I am far more outraged at our government getting involved in foreign wars and dropping bombs all over the world than I am in them not letting people into the country from countries we are bombing. I think most people would have
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
People seem more upset that Trump is not letting people into the country than that Obama has been dropping bombs on 6 of these countries. I'm not wild about the Trump immigration ban on these countries, but I really, really hope he end
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
I will pay $25 if someone can get me unbanned from Paypal. My mom and I were banned back in 2003.
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Scottsdale is wonderful.
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
The engineer who built this, Lior Abraham, went on to start data analytics startup Interana (YC W13).
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
Give it a year. He was implying that he would never buy a car again for the rest of his life!
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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
I think it's a truly great plan. This list of policies is the the main reason I supported Trump despite his... unusual... behavior.

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