GavinB

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by GavinB 18y ago
You have experimental data? Wonderful, link away. You were complaining that "otherwise useful" students were doing poorly in school rather than working minimum wages jobs, specifically mopping floors or flipping burgers. The poster was co
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by GavinB 18y ago
Rich towns with high tax revenue tend to have good schools. Poor towns with low tax revenue have worse schools. It's often obvious just in the building and materials. There are a thousand ways that schools could be improved--giving up on
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by GavinB 18y ago
Aren't they just charging the price that they can get away with? The publishing house and authors get the part of the money that would normally go to the printers, loggers, shippers, etc.
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by GavinB 18y ago
But is he Nick Burns, your company's computer guy?
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by GavinB 18y ago
If you're not worried about creating great art, it can often be good to add some drop shadows and gradients. Those little touches can make the site feel more "completed." These tools are obviously cliched, but they're popular because they
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by GavinB 18y ago
There are a number out there already. Compete.com is the one installed on my browser.
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by GavinB 18y ago
Some horrible manager in a previous career must have really tortured Jason by wasting time with Gantt charts. Gantt charts are probably not all that useful for a group of 3 YC founders living in an apartment paid for with pg's spare change,
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by GavinB 18y ago
There are two text boxes at the top of my screen--URL and Google. They function almost interchangeably. If I type a search phrase into the URL, it redirects to google. If I type a URL into the google box I am one click from the site I wa
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by GavinB 18y ago
"If the AI stops wanting to be friendly, you've already lost." Something similar is true of social media user groups.
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by GavinB 18y ago
Isn't there a declining marginal value to the amount of sensory information available and the amount of processing you do on it? Information and calculation beyond a certain point may simply becoming "boring."
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by GavinB 18y ago
I suspect that the tricks used include getting the Gatekeeper to implicitly accept the exercise as a roleplay and working on their sense of fair play to require them to acquiesce to arguments about the friendliness of the AI. The human sens
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by GavinB 18y ago
People like those from the singularity mailing list are the most likely to be working on projects that approach the singularity.
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by GavinB 18y ago
http://www.econ.umn.edu/~tkehoe/U.S.GDP.gif US GDP growth hasn't changed, even as this highest marginal tax rate moved by a factor of 3. It was actually highest in the 60s and 70s, when the top rate was still in the 70% range. GDP and to
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by GavinB 18y ago
The claim: GDP moves to compensate when this tax group's rate changes. The evidence: Er, whoops, we didn't give any data for GDP.
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by GavinB 18y ago
Here's one: If your essay turns into a list, use bullet points or numbers rather than a block of semicolons. Otherwise, great stuff. I like that pg's advice for writing--create a first draft and iterate rapidly--is exactly the same as his
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by GavinB 18y ago
The extra advantage held over the VCs can be balanced by their ability to cut their losses at any time. Let's say you get $1M/month for 2%/month. If the VC gets cold feet, they can pull out after a few months rather than wait for a long a
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by GavinB 18y ago
In Web 3.0, search will be better! And you'll be able to find restaurants more easily! Did I mention that you'll be able to find restaurants more easily -- from a cell phone!? Let's actually get some good ideas before we declare another "
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by GavinB 18y ago
If good ideas are so worthless and easy to come up with, why are so many startups running around with really bad ideas?
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by GavinB 18y ago
There's certainly a psychological/selection bias aspect to it. If they bought in early they're more likely to have a rosy vision of the future prospects than your average spectator.
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by GavinB 18y ago
VCs should allow a company to be acquired when they believe its value has peaked, not some preset ratio or return. A smart VC would sell at 80% return if he thought it was only down from there.
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by GavinB 18y ago
Firefox 3 Beta 5 (which is great) worked for my upload on XP. The only issue was that the cursor mouseover on the upload button didn't change from an arrow to a hand -- not sure if that's a bug or a feature.
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by GavinB 19y ago
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by GavinB 19y ago
If you simply have an idea, there's no way to tell it to anyone without losing control of it, unless you patent it, in which case you have more than an idea. However, there are people who are paid for their ideas. Often they come in the fo
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by GavinB 19y ago
"Where once a musician would spend months praying that her demo reached the ear of the right A&R scout, now MySpace and GarageBand allow her to reach anyone, anywhere across the world." No, it's actually still a huge amount of work to g
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by GavinB 19y ago
"Build your own mobile web in 5 minutes." This tagline makes it hard to understand what you do. It's hard just glancing at the front page to tell what problem this is solving. Something like "turn web pages into mobile pages in 5 minutes"
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by GavinB 19y ago
You can get them for about $10, with free shipping. Codes at retailmenot.com
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by GavinB 19y ago
PG doesn't just "write well." He write provocative, intelligent material on topics that are important to us. Also, the acquisition of reddit has already justified several years of ycombinator. If a YC startup is a major success once per 5
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by GavinB 19y ago
You're correct in that the dollars are out of place while the soda cans are not. A better experiment might be this: Leave the door to a locker open, with a few items of clothing to show that it belongs to someone. In one version leave an
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by GavinB 19y ago
Blizzard won't provide an estimate. You can see a nice preview at http://www.starcraft2.com/ , and if you look at the FAQ it talks about release (but gives no date).
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by GavinB 19y ago
"You DO remember where your Starcraft disks are, don’t you?" It's like he can read my mind! They're a four hour drive from here, if I could even find them. I guess I'll have to wait for SC2.

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