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by api 12y ago
In retrospect the second comparison is more like >>>>>>!!!!!!! Founder conflicts are death.
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by api 12y ago
Cofounders with good relationship > sole founder >> cofounders with poor relationship or other issues.
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by api 12y ago
This is totally subjective, but the millennials do seem to me to be artistically on the sidelines. There are exceptions, but as a whole the generation seems both uninterested in making art and uninterested in art/music in general compa
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by api 12y ago
Nothing will suddenly disappear, but it will suddenly become impossible to increase production. Since it's the rate limiting reagent, that limits the economy to flat or shrinking.
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Foc.Us v2 tDCS developer edition(foc.us)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
I'm not aware of any other political course of action that's ever been able to cope with a tragedy of the commons where property rights within the commons are difficult to assign.
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by api 12y ago
Another way of thinking about it: You're in a startup, and you see that your "burn" gives you approximately six months of runway. Your revenue is increasing, but too slow. The lines do not intersect. Doing nothing proactive a
14288.
by api 12y ago
You're assuming individual or social utility-maximizing rational behavior if we do hit limits and begin deflating. I don't share that faith. Look at what happens domestically when we have a year or two of recession and take the ex
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by api 12y ago
I'm just going to say that you should research this a bit. How much sunk cost do we have out there in fossil-fuel-based infrastructure and technology? How much would it cost in energy to replace all that sunk cost? Where's the i
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by api 12y ago
At this point it's obvious: CO2, which traps heat by a clearly understandable and straightforward physical mechanism, is altering the Earth's climate with unknown but likely mostly negative consequences. That means we can add this
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by api 12y ago
Yeah, it's a classic case of a company not believing in itself. Had Radio Shack owned its identity as a maker shop, it would be thriving today. I'm sure somewhere in all this there's a group of MBA consultants. I can smell
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by api 12y ago
This is very sad. Radio Shack was my toy store as a kid, and bears some of the blame for making me who/what I am today.
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by api 12y ago
I personally would love to just work on a laptop and have "docks." I'd like my "home" to be in a public area so that I could come in and socialize, but I'd like private rooms where I could retreat for quiet tim
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by api 12y ago
What will the federal policy be on encrypted traffic? Only two possibilities: ban it -- untenable -- or allow it.
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by api 12y ago
Any sample size this small is open to sampling bias.
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by api 12y ago
That's great. Really accurate. Also explains why we're all here. :P
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by api 12y ago
It seems like a special case of the paradox of thrift: it's rational to save, but if everyone saves nobody can save because for one to save another must spend. (Even if you don't like some of Keynes other ideas, this was one of hi
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by api 12y ago
What I keep saying about SF's housing crisis is that it's this: "Economic growth, affordable housing, NIMBYism, pick two." The Bay has picked the first and the last. I also get the sense -- though I don't live there
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by api 12y ago
"Survival of some set of the fit" is my favorite.
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by api 12y ago
My favorite is "survival of the fittest" -- a catch phrase so prone to misinterpretation and so oversimplified that it's basically wrong.
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Plot.ly – online graph/chart application(plot.ly)
2 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
I've been following this as node-webkit for a while. It's like Qt Quick except it leverages all that's been built for the web and you don't need to waste mental bandwidth learning another new thing. (Not that I'm ag
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by api 12y ago
The idea isn't to solve that problem, but to limit the damage significantly. I should be able to give a Russian mob hacker on crack access to my machine without worrying too much about them doing anything I don't give them permiss
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by api 12y ago
??? YC, like most other accelerators, gives a stipend that's only really enough for just out of college bachelor/ettes capable of metabolizing a full spectrum of nutrients from ramen noodles. This whole field is structurally biase
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by api 12y ago
You could live in a small town decently well for $40k/year, and 5% equity could be worth millions if it was equity of the non-toilet-paper variety (some dilution protection) and the company did very well. If I were to even consider suc
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by api 12y ago
"I don't understand how only allowing signed execution would help avoid this problem. Like you said, anyone could pay to get their company listed as a 'trusted' entity." The purpose of signing isn't to guarante
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by api 12y ago
I get the impression there's an epidemic of big companies trying to "poach startup founders from themselves." I posted this to the other thread, and I now see that my experience is perhaps tame compared to others. https:&#x2
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by api 12y ago
I don't have a fully baked design in mind, but I could probably come up with one if I had a long time to focus on it. I do have a general framework in mind for how one might approach the question. First and foremost, security should be
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by api 12y ago
One thing we're seeing here is a clash of business cultures. Most developers and businesspeople that would hang around Hacker News are the sort of people who think business is about delivering the most value you can and getting paid fo
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by api 12y ago
Good question. One reason is that I am not independently wealthy and haven't raised yet, so I just don't have a lot of disposable income for this. It's still too early to self-fund a large marketing push on its own, though if

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