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14101.
by api 12y ago
"Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account." But that's their entire business model.
14102.
by api 12y ago
I don't hate it, but it's not great either.
14103.
by api 12y ago
I was thinking of something more systemic, but that may be an example.
14104.
by api 12y ago
Real life experiments with drug decriminalization and other factors such as varying rates of addiction tied to life circumstance provide circumstantial support that addiction is at least not entirely chemical. "Liberal drug views"
14105.
by api 12y ago
I wondered a while back if (theoretically) taking some kind of non-harmful but pain stimulating compound might not make you feel awesome the rest of the time, and might even be good for you by recalibrating your inflammatory response and
14106.
by api 12y ago
As I understand it the big problem is the "duck curve," the spike in demand that occurs immediately as the sun sets when there's a lot of solar. If the batteries could smooth that out, that'd be pretty huge in helping so
14107.
by api 12y ago
I suspect it's not all environment, but this study argues that environment (and social realities, etc.) are a significant component -- it's not just a matter of chemical dependence only.
14108.
by api 12y ago
I knew someone once who'd used heroin for a while and gave it up and he told a similar story. He said it "makes the pain go away," and I asked what he meant and he just said "all of it" and smiled. He said I'm
14109.
by api 12y ago
There is a school of thought in anti-aging research that some of the mechanisms of aging, such as telomeres, are adaptations to prevent cancer. So evolutionarily there might have been a life span / cancer risk trade-off. This of course
14110.
by api 12y ago
Don't investors normally get preferred shares?
14111.
by api 12y ago
That sort of high level speculation has a mixed history at best. Anyone can model some numbers for a big market and make impressive Kurzweil shaped graphs.
14112.
by api 12y ago
I must have missed something. I thought convertible notes were for seed stage stuff. When did people start raising hundreds of millions with them? Also why, and how, and huh? Edit: 600m valuation, not raised. Face palm. Never mind.
14113.
by api 12y ago
Your startup's employees are far more productive per hour worked than those at 80-hour shops.
14114.
by api 12y ago
Reminds me of the old metric for code productivity from aeons ago, the K-LOC (thousand lines of code). If one programmer does in 50 lines what takes another programmer 5000, should that programmer make less?
14115.
by api 12y ago
It's not "stealing" 800k. That would be a bit too strong. But the problem is that your 800k comes via the fact that newer entrants to the market must now take out monster mortgages. It's not wealth created, but a draw on
14116.
by api 12y ago
All that is true, but most of that except maybe the infrastructure stuff is worse in China. (I have relatives who live there.)
14117.
by api 12y ago
The studies I've seen show productivity falling at 40 hours and dropping off a cliff at 50 for most activities. I don't think the blame for the workaholic culture lies primarily with VCs, though some do encourage this. I think it&
14118.
by api 12y ago
I call real estate the "evil sponge." As a region becomes more affluent, the price of real estate appreciates at least in step with this. Due to the leveraged debt financing of RE, the reality is often that price appreciation is
14119.
by api 12y ago
"Also, most startups I'm aware of, at least in the bay area, pay large salaries at this point." ... which is all soaked up by real estate hyperinflation.
14120.
by api 12y ago
It's quite interesting. There's one attribute of capitalism that I think is largely responsible for its success, and is likely the single largest factor that contributed to the USA's victory over the USSR: Capitalism allows
14121.
by api 12y ago
It would be the death of yet another piece of Calvinist moralist BS -- along the same lines as "the poor are just lazy," etc.
14122.
by api 12y ago
Seems like today we have the best of both worlds -- powerful desktop computers that can easily back themselves up to the cloud either in whole via backup services or in part via replicated version control systems like git or remote drive sy
14123.
by api 12y ago
SV reminds me very much of Hollywood, especially post-late-90s-bubble. It's more a center of commercialization than of innovation per se. It's also effectively a banking and finance center, as is Hollywood.
14124.
by api 12y ago
That would be interesting too!
14125.
by api 12y ago
The thing that irritates me is that naive users would assume CB Insights were the ones who copied, as they don't have the YC brand. Not YC's fault per se... just how people generally use brands as a shorthand for merit. At this po
14126.
by api 12y ago
"if you are tired of talking about the same old thing, go somewhere that isn't doing that." I was getting bored with music a while back, so I did an experiment: I limited the music on my phone to nothing older than five years
14127.
by api 12y ago
Backward compatibility is the root of quite a bit more evil than premature optimization.
14128.
by api 12y ago
"Show me a popular desktop app written in something other than C++." Eclipse is the only one that comes to mind.
14129.
by api 12y ago
The "desktop" market is considerably larger than you think it is. It includes a vast array of professional apps for things like CAD/CAM, SPICE, numeric simulation and analysis, graphics and "real" word processing, m
14130.
by api 12y ago
This has been around for a while, and given the vulnerabilities in USB stacks and OSes is somewhat dangerous. When it appeared over at Reddit someone called it a "USB glory hole." Same thing applies to chargers in public places. Y

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