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by adevine 11y ago
As Paul Graham has emphasized before, virtually all of your financial return is in a teeny number of companies. IIRC just AirBnB and Dropbox account for a large majority of return over ALL yc companies, and the number of companies that ma
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by adevine 11y ago
It doesn't really work that way, at least in the US. While there are different ways to use trusts to minimize estate taxes, it's not like you can put all your assets in a trust, maintain control, and then when you die someone else
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by adevine 11y ago
While I'm not a lawyer, it doesn't really work this way, at least in the US. The law defines "ownership" pretty clearly based on who has real control over an asset. You can't really pretend someone else is the owner
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by adevine 11y ago
I originally agreed with you, but after thinking about it I think the devil is in the details of how this is released. That is, Twitter's uniqueness is that it is geared towards short, real-time "bursts of consciousness", but
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by adevine 11y ago
This doesn't make sense to me. At the end of the day, all stock must be owned by actual people, even if it is through a network of other corporate entities and trusts. A corporation may transcend the death of its owners, but if I own 5
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by adevine 11y ago
Just want to comment on the "Factor in the interest USA would have saved by paying down the national debt instead." statement. During the financial crisis paying down the national debt would have been pure folly. The US was borrow
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by adevine 11y ago
GM's financial arm was GMAC, which, while bailed out during the financial crises, eventually rebranded and IPO'ed as Ally Financial. The US Treasury made a ~ $2.4 billion profit on a $17.2 billion investment: https://ww
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by adevine 11y ago
If there's no money in a cure, how are the new hepatitis-c cures being sold for tens of thousands of dollars?
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by adevine 11y ago
Well, the thing about Apple's approach is that they can't hand over encryption keys if they don't have them.
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by adevine 11y ago
While this is true, I have found that a developer who can do the following to be very rare: 1. Take a set of requirements, and first identify those reqs for any underspecified elements, or elements where the underlying tech would limit the
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by adevine 11y ago
I used to opt out when the scans were backscatter X-ray. Now, though, at least all the airports I've been to recently use millimeter wave scanners, which is non-ionizing radiation. If you use a cell phone, you shouldn't be concern
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by adevine 11y ago
https://www.anylabtestnow.com . Unfortunately, the tests are quite expensive. I believe they need to basically get a BS prescription for the tests, which adds to the expense. Theranos specifically lobbied Arizona to get the law c
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by adevine 11y ago
If it were just a business model innovation, Theranos would rightly be worth nothing, because they wouldn't bring anything to the table. CVS or Walgreen's have all the assets that would be worth anything in this situation.
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by adevine 11y ago
Their "nanotainer". Theranos claimed they could do all sorts of blood tests with just a finger prick and a few drops of blood. The original WSJ article found they were doing normal venous draws, performing the tests on other compa
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by adevine 11y ago
In the beginning, the secret sauce of Uber was still its technology - being able to order a car on your phone, seeing where the nearby drivers are, not having to pull out cash or a credit card at the end. This made the experience much bette
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by adevine 11y ago
To me, one of the sad things about the Theranos debacle is that even if they DON'T have super whiz-bang nanotainer technology, the general model of having affordable, transparently priced tests where you can just walk into a Walgreen&#
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by adevine 11y ago
Possibly because people who bought into the hype are now feeling a little pissed at getting snookered. My initial reaction after reading the title of this article was little sympathy for the author; a journalist's job is to be skeptica
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by adevine 11y ago
It's interesting that the only test cleared is one for herpes. Conceptually, a finger prick sample would very clearly work for binary, "you've got it or you don't" tests, like STD tests (e.g. you've been able t
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by adevine 11y ago
When I see a pushback against icon-only buttons, I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the mobile space is changing so rapidly that things don't have a chance to "settle down" like they did for previous technologie
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by adevine 11y ago
I strongly disagree. While I'm usually also one to rail against extraneous whitespace, I think it's important to consider the purpose of the list. For example, if I'm searching for a contact in a contact list, I want as littl
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by adevine 11y ago
I'm not sure whether I'm happy or sad that I know exactly which Yeti statue you are referring to.
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by adevine 11y ago
Yeah - imagine the energy and resources needed to pack and ship bottles of air halfway around the world, all because your current country is too polluted.
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by adevine 11y ago
My own personal hypothesis? An explosion of sexual content in media, coupled with, somewhat ironically, much more tolerance of gay people, means that for a lot of people their only exposure to nudity is in a (potentially) sexual context.
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by adevine 11y ago
It's not just age, though. There IS a significant cultural difference that is generational. As someone in their late 30s, it strikes me how extremely uncomfortable men in their 20s are with nudity. I mean, it takes significant effort t
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by adevine 11y ago
Your quote, though, is talking about L1, L2 and L3, which are the unstable Lagrangian points. Parent was talking about L4 and L5, the stable points.
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by adevine 11y ago
I wish we would stop repeating the "10,000 hours rule". It was a good soundbite in (at least what I think was) a good book, Outliers, but rigorous analysis of the data doesn't back it up. It's like the "drink 8 glas
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by adevine 11y ago
I think this should be called "What the web can do someday." I mean, push notifications? If it's not supported by mobile safari, it's a non-starter for actual widespread adoption.
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by adevine 11y ago
Java deprecated Thread.stop long before Java 6. IIRC it was Java 1.1 or 1.2.
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by adevine 11y ago
The comments on the left explain it (I didn't understand it either). Basically, it's known that an equilateral triangle of side length n needs n^2 unit triangles to perfectly tile it (e.g. you need 16 unit triangles to tile an equ
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by adevine 11y ago
All Pulis do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli

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