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961.
by beambot 8y ago
Which university? Sounds like the course offerings were weak or you selected poorly. (Though early-90s CS programs were different than today -- truly a different era).
962.
by beambot 8y ago
> It really does pay to keep capital requirements low, profits high, and get on the hyper-growth curve before taking lots of capital rather than taking lots of capital so you can get on the hyper-growth curve How much of the capital rais
963.
by beambot 8y ago
The NIF has a military mission too. Straight from Wikipedia: > NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain, and to support nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the cond
964.
by beambot 8y ago
You paid yourself $150k in your first year as startup founder? Huh.
965.
by beambot 8y ago
Any idea how much revenue & profit all those NYC cab companies we're bringing in?
966.
by beambot 8y ago
Easy: they only realize taxable gains when the startups have a liquidity event -- ie go public or get acquired. (Or die, for the losses.)
967.
by beambot 8y ago
Their earlier stage companies certainly aren't doing 100%-compliant GAAP accounting -- it would be cost prohibitive. Thus, YCs GAAP ownership numbers would be nebulous. They probably use funding round valuations as the proxy, and that&
968.
by beambot 8y ago
> even though the barrier to entry for new services is so low. Except for the entire social network that remains on the old service & not the new one -- which comprises most of the value one obtains from a social network.
969.
by beambot 8y ago
What sort of incidents?
970.
by beambot 8y ago
If you are the only surviving node with the data, then it's called extortion or holding the data hostage.
971.
by beambot 8y ago
It's not just culture, it comes down to unclear vision. Under Google, it was "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible." Under Alphabet? It's super unclear. "Do cool stuff and make mo
972.
by beambot 8y ago
How many of your classmates made it into the Vault 100 firm... 10%, 20% max?
973.
by beambot 8y ago
To play devil's advocate: Perhaps Apple adopted this public stance as a strategy to hurt their competitors after failing to achieve parity.
974.
by beambot 8y ago
To be "best of all time", it definitely needs all three: ideas, plot, & characters.
975.
by beambot 8y ago
VCs occupy a completely different part of the risk-reward spectrum.... so I'm not sure that's an apples-to-apples comparison regardless.
976.
by beambot 8y ago
Parent correctly referred to "total charge", not its distribution.
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by beambot 8y ago
I assume they care about it massively, lest cities drop the hammer a la SF. Also: it's a fun exercise to go back in time and look at all the laws sponsored by automotive & oil companies to create today's car culture (case in p
978.
by beambot 8y ago
Fine the offending user on their next ride? Offer discounts that promote good behavior (to avoid unnecessary regulatory over reach)? Experiment in various locations to figure out what method works best? It's an entirely new mode of tra
979.
by beambot 8y ago
As cars gained mainstream adoption, governments passed legislation regulating their use in the way you described. I'm sure scooters will follow a similar trajectory; we're just waiting for legislation to catch up.
980.
by beambot 8y ago
Curious thought: Disincentivize bad behavior. Scooter companies know who the last user was, so they could develop techniques to apply "parking violations." Whether that means GPS-enabled (sufficient resolution?) or crowdsourced (
981.
by beambot 8y ago
> The result was high plasma densities of up to 2 x 1020 particles per cubic meter – values that are sufficient for a future power station. At the same time, the ions and electrons of the hydrogen plasma reached an impressive temperature
982.
by beambot 8y ago
Zenefits raised $583M to build their platform... So to first order: seems reasonable.
983.
by beambot 8y ago
Or... We could shift the model to one of purchasing miles, wherein we pay for actual transportation rather than vehicles. Think of it like paying for thrust on jet engines rather than the engine itself. Then manufacturers are incentivized t
984.
by beambot 8y ago
Both of the listed examples involve governments. To first order, governments are created by groups of people to address issues that are larger than any one individual. (I.e. closer to "humanity" as a collective than you as an indi
985.
by beambot 8y ago
> With email you just get it the way you want it, on your terms mostly. Sounds pretty perfect.
986.
by beambot 8y ago
"My company" referring to Intellectual Ventures, which has such an illustrious reputation with patents?
987.
by beambot 8y ago
Seems like an easy system to game for the ultra-rich: you can make income be zero for a couple years. "Wealth" is probably more compelling.
988.
by beambot 8y ago
s/spaghetti & meatballs/illicit drugs/ and that argument falls apart. You will quickly lose other rights, even though drugs aren't explicitly guaranteed or prohibited by the constitution either. (Not addressing GPs
989.
by beambot 8y ago
> Moulay Ismaïl is alleged to have fathered a total of 867 children, including 525 sons and 342 daughters by 1703, with his 700th child being born in 1721. It is estimated that he had 2,000 concubines. https://en.wikipedia.org
990.
by beambot 8y ago
Hrm. None of these really seem like whiteboarding though.

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