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College Affordability: Regulated Purchase, Unregulated Price(alehul.svbtle.com)
4 points by alehul 10y ago|0 comments
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by alehul 10y ago
1) You're somewhat right; 'displayed capability' would likely be better. 2) It doesn't have to be perfectly or flawlessly measurable to be worth measuring and net a positive result. 3) There's definitely more measur
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by alehul 10y ago
From their website, http://startup52.com/ >Because we are founder-centric, we place huge emphasis on the capabilities of the founding team and then the diversity profile. For accepted non-diverse teams, we work with you
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Startup52, a “diversity-focused accelerator”(bizjournals.com)
1 points by alehul 10y ago|4 comments
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by alehul 10y ago
Haul will be a city marketplace of local retailers' stock with on-demand delivery, offering an alternative to shipping. The goal is to offer products more reliably and quickly than Amazon or individual companies' online stores whi
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by alehul 10y ago
Project: A city marketplace of local retailers of all kinds, listing their in-store products for 1 hr delivery facilitated by our couriers, which offers more quality assurance and quicker delivery times, and it'll be cheaper than shipp
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by alehul 10y ago
I think the argument he was posing was that those statistics are carried by immigrants who won't be affected by the policies in discussion. When you say it includes all immigrants, do you mean it includes the groups that would be affec
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by alehul 10y ago
That makes sense. I was just thinking of the look and feel of the workplace and people you're surrounded by more so than the company's purpose or risk of employment. Having come from a very non-tech background, I saw a lot of stri
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by alehul 10y ago
I don't mean this rudely -- is what I said offensive to people on HN? You're the first person to comment vs downvote as a reply and you seem to dislike FB quite a bit (and the idea of working for them). Although Facebook as an ind
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by alehul 10y ago
Then we'd have to group in rather standard, traditional Samsung-like companies though, which seem to be just as different work experiences from FB or Google as FB or Google is different from newer, smaller startups.
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by alehul 10y ago
Working for a company like Google, FB or even Airbnb or a questionable 'startup' is still much different than working for any other type of company. It's even markedly different than working for tech companies that would neve
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by alehul 10y ago
Completely, and a small part of why employees are cautioned on here to take salary over equity. The market telling them would be a loss of billions for the investors/founders, both on the value of their own equity and the increased equ
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by alehul 10y ago
If investors are enthusiastically in disagreement about the potential of a company (both the buy + sell sides), it's probably better for the company's valuation to stay private. It blocks out any negative opinions' effect tha
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by alehul 10y ago
Off-topic, but you seem to have a really educated perspective in this sector. I'm interested and working on something in it with a lot of potential (hopefully) but lack experience. You don't have your email listed, but I'd lo
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by alehul 10y ago
Completely agree with this, and I don't think there's anything wrong with the notion of companies wanting success, and they should be allowed to pursue that. The increased female applicants seems to show that many still don't
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by alehul 10y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted -- this seems perfectly relevant, either against Andela's claims or as further representation of the fact that, even if women have an advantage getting in the door of companies, they have a much
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by alehul 10y ago
However ideal it would be to have more female representation in the tech field, I don't see this specific story as a 'success.' All-female recruitment cycles just seem more drastic and worse than quotas, although the increase
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by alehul 10y ago
Interesting! I didn't know that actually. It seems like those bans on future legislation can be traced back to fundamental parts of the Constitution, though, right? Parts that aim to protect the citizenry. The constitution is also supp
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by alehul 10y ago
The purpose of that is to ensure that certain fundamental rights of citizens are protected, though, whereas this is the banning of future similar legislation in a way that I only see as being favorable to companies, not citizens.
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by alehul 10y ago
> Worse yet, it forbids the agency from passing any “substantially similar” regulations in the future, so the FCC would be forbidden from ever trying to regulate ISP privacy practices. This part really stood out to me and I don't fu
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by alehul 10y ago
It's known that WL will often save some of the worst leaks as an 'insurance' against retaliation from the entity the leaks pertain to. It's likely there's aspects they're holding back from this leak as well, if
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by alehul 10y ago
Assange outlined his goals [1] a while ago in regards to exposing secrets, and I think Wikileaks is staying in line with those rather well. It essentially states that they'll leak whatever they receive, and try to enforce a kind of &#x
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by alehul 10y ago
The amount of U.S. leaks is likely due to the relatively free environment compared to those other countries such as Russia and especially China, who have similar levels of espionage activity. The most leaks will come from environments with:
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by alehul 10y ago
I believe OP was referring to the refugee crisis we've had in Sweden lately. It's put a huge strain on the country, and our prisons often have better amenities than refugee camps which is a recipe for disaster.
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Ask HN: Is there a way to measure government funding's effectiveness on disease?
3 points by alehul 10y ago|1 comments
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by alehul 10y ago
Is Instacart paying significantly lower via this new system (aside from the UX advantage like Uber)? Assuming they have a reasonable proportion of couriers:orders and the pay change here is substantial, this seems like it could backfire if
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by alehul 10y ago
With the native iOS app being released in 2012, the timeline would be perfect for that, yeah. Does the mobile app take away that much usage from the web? I can see how it'll increase overall usage as people will use FB when they otherw
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by alehul 10y ago
This is likely more indicative of society: A. Becoming more computer-literate and going straight to sites as opposed to always Googling it before clicking, even once familiar with the URL, which won't correlate to usage B. Visiting the
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Ask HN: Applying to YC during a pivot?
5 points by alehul 10y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: I'm in NYC and Boston soon. Who should I meet?
8 points by alehul 10y ago|1 comments

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