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by ablekh 7y ago
Unbelievable. Due diligence for Series A rounds is pretty comprehensive. How in the world this process, especially in such a solid VC firm as Sequoia, could miss a potential significant conflict of interests is beyond my understanding.
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by ablekh 7y ago
I'm wondering about why, unlike Google, DDG doesn't display the number of results for a particular search query. It's quite frustrating.
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by ablekh 7y ago
Here's a less comprehensive and certainly much less academic, but nevertheless potentially interesting, related post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/knowledge-graphs-end-user-pro... .
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by ablekh 7y ago
I'm curious about your thoughts on why a technical infrastructure, which, by nature of being cloud-native, is supposed to be (and likely has been) architected as a highly elastic platform, have not stood the test of time in this rega
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Waste is an enormous problem. But recycling is the wrong solution(fastcompany.com)
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by ablekh 7y ago
I see. Very interesting perspective and facts - thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experiences. This is exactly the kind of difference in comment quality and details that make HN a much more preferred venue for knowledge sharin
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by ablekh 7y ago
I just wanted to hear thoughts by HN community. Some people here might have different perspectives and/or additional details compared to those presented on Quora.
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Ask HN: Why French auto manufacturers are not present on U.S. market?
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by ablekh 7y ago
I'm sorry about partially misinterpreting your words - it was not intentional. I'm getting myself a cup of coffee to improve my level of attention for the rest of the day. :-) Anyway, I'm glad that we're on the same page
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by ablekh 7y ago
"... wanted to bootstrap a business by optimizing costs" -- The famous quote "premature optimization is the root of all evil" comes to mind. :-) As a fellow tech entrepreneur, thinking long and hard about my planned
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by ablekh 7y ago
I greatly appreciate your prompt and very helpful feedback. The aspects that you mentioned are certainly interesting and, while the regulation aspect is not a significant issue in the domain I'm concerned about, the MVP aspect is certa
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by ablekh 7y ago
Congratulations on your launch and good luck! I'm curious about your participation in YC accelerator and would very much appreciate if you could reflect on it (interview, pros, cons, impressions, etc.). I'm especially interested i
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by ablekh 7y ago
Fair enough. Keeping this in mind, I think that I should do my best to refocus on working more on validating my ideas as opposed to over-analyzing potential funding issues that might or might not happen down the road. :-)
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by ablekh 7y ago
Understood, thank you. I agree with your points. However, just to clarify, the basis for my original question is whether it is possible to predict VCs' "(dis)agreeableness", based on their domain expertise or lack thereof. I
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by ablekh 7y ago
I appreciate you sharing your opinion. So, essentially, you don't seem to think that potential cons of approaching VCs with domain knowledge that I mentioned above (inherent "bias" and lack of belief in possibility of certain
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by ablekh 7y ago
I very much appreciate your advice as well as being first to provide feedback. Pretty much the same rationale was my original thought as well, but I want to hear a variety of opinions. Let's see what other people might think and/o
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by ablekh 7y ago
For fundraising time and effort.
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by ablekh 7y ago
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. What you're saying definitely makes sense. However, the question is whether one should prefer or avoid such, considering my assumptions on relevant pros and cons (in other words, it's a que
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by ablekh 7y ago
Interesting thoughts. Since you apparently have significant experience raising VC funding, I'm curious about your opinion on the following (others, of course, are welcome to chime in). If you were working on a deep tech (science-based)
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AI Deception: When Your Artificial Intelligence Learns to Lie(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by ablekh 7y ago
In some elections (at least, in the United States), there is write-in option ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-in_candidate ). If one feels that it makes no sense or difference, then, I guess, not voting is a feasibl
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by ablekh 7y ago
Using homomorphic encryption (HE) as an underlying technology for trustworthy elections is IMO a much better application of HE versus using HE for ML/AI applications, where performance requirements are incomparably higher. While there
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by ablekh 7y ago
Interesting article on extremely important topic. TL;DR: VOTE! Make your voice heard!
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Half of Americans Don’t Vote. What Are They Thinking?(politico.com)
45 points by ablekh 7y ago|113 comments
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by ablekh 7y ago
Here's the relevant public meta-repository: https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard .
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ElectionGuard available today to enable secure, verifiable voting(blogs.microsoft.com)
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by ablekh 7y ago
Thank you for kind wishes! Please let me know your opinion on these books, when you get a chance.
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by ablekh 7y ago
Healthcare (as some other sectors) is full of inefficiencies and removing or, at least, reducing them cannot be seriously labeled as "elimination of an industry". I don't see how job market restructuring in healthcare industr
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by ablekh 7y ago
Interesting comment. By the way, Sam Newman's "Building Microservices" book now has a recently published follow-up (perhaps, a revamped version) called "Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your
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“Explainable AI won’t deliver. Here’s why.”(medium.com)
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