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by bfe 13y ago
Ben has a good idea here. More about the American Jewish World Service campaign that he's supporting: http://webelieve.ajws.org ...and the related International Violence Against Women Act, currently introduced in the U.S. H
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Why I Will Give 100% of My Book Earnings to Women in the Struggle(bhorowitz.com)
22 points by bfe 13y ago|8 comments
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by bfe 13y ago
Essentially, researchers found numerous sloping terrain sites with ferrous and ferric spectrographic signatures that have been rising and falling with temperature. The best explanation seems to be melting briny water. The effect varies a lo
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by bfe 13y ago
See also Kakapo, an effort at a lisp interpreter in Go. https://github.com/bytbox/kakapo
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by bfe 13y ago
"So you’re not going to take a cow or a sheep or a probably not a silk worm or a tree to Mars." Even though we'll have 3D printers that generate wood, I still want to plant trees on Mars.
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by bfe 13y ago
Elon Musk said accounting rules are the easy part of being a tech CEO. [1] Anyone smart enough to be a technical CEO is smart enough to get on top of the non-technological core functions of a company; and having the CEO on top of them will
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by bfe 13y ago
If someone doesn't have time to make sure the company has a legally compliant options policy, they don't have time to be the CEO.
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by bfe 13y ago
Just as it's hard to tell if someone's a good coder without yourself being a good coder, it's hard to tell if an attorney or financial expert is giving you good advice without seeking for yourself a basic understanding of the
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Why I Did Not Go To Jail(bhorowitz.com)
580 points by bfe 13y ago|182 comments
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by bfe 13y ago
U.S. trademark law uses what are called the Abercrombie classes of whether a purported brand name is 1. generic, 2. descriptive, 3. suggestive, or 4. arbitrary or fanciful, as applied in the context of the product or service for which it&#x
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by bfe 13y ago
How about, can we agree that when you spend years achieving great successes, you tend to form relationships of trust with high-performing colleagues who learn to value your drive and intelligence and to look forward to helping you or workin
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by bfe 13y ago
Musk first arrived in Canada alone at 17 with very little money and worked manual labor jobs to make ends meet. When he first got to Silicon Valley he basically spent his first six months there locked away in his room coding the initial ver
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by bfe 13y ago
Look back 4 or 5 years prior to the founding of X.com/Confinity/PayPal: Elon Musk was a South African-born undergrad at Pennsylvania, Peter Thiel was a German-born lawyer trading derivatives at Credit Suisse, and Max Levchin was a
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by bfe 13y ago
Has YC considered any sort of broader access to the non-profits' portion of demo day for potential donors?
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by bfe 13y ago
I think Tom and Chris are doing a fantastic job running and growing github. I'm just curious how this idea of trading CEO roles without making it public for a while works in practice. I think it could potentially matter to their employ
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by bfe 13y ago
I don't understand how a company could operate for a few months without publicly acknowledging who is really the CEO. I hope they use a "fork the CEO role" button.
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by bfe 13y ago
This is a great and wise overview of some of the most important aspects of the state and trajectory of humanity today. I wish there were more widespread exposure to analysis like this.
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by bfe 13y ago
You're not crazy, they've discovered a Schrödinger's rock. With a ridiculously high Planck's constant, and conscious observation working backward in time through an imager and interplanetary transmitter to collapse the w
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by bfe 13y ago
Every comment expressing a preference between lisps should be made with nested parens. Well played.
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by bfe 13y ago
So if we come to discover that time is fundamental instead of emergent, it could disprove his hypothesis of how consciousness is emergent. That's at least one way in which he makes his hypothesis testable. Just, please, no one forward
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by bfe 13y ago
And next thing you know, the Melding Plague: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_Revelation_Space#...
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by bfe 13y ago
The lead contact point for this proposal, Chris McKay of NASA Ames, had a similar proposal around 14 years ago for growing a rose plant on a Mars lander. It'll be fun to see this idea finally (hopefully) take root.
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by bfe 13y ago
The "Welcome to Netscape" page ( http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html ) also still has working links to "What's New" on the Internet from June 1993 through October 1994: http://home.
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JPL Small-Body Database Search Engine(ssd.jpl.nasa.gov)
1 points by bfe 13y ago|0 comments
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by bfe 13y ago
Now imagine how much undistracted work you could get done on a six-month trip to Mars.
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by bfe 13y ago
I'd say, try to identify people in your network who are sophisticated legal clients, who have engaged substantively with a number of attorneys over time, especially if they themselves are also attorneys. They should be able to distingu
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by bfe 13y ago
The traditional and probably best way to find a good attorney is through your network of people you trust.
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by bfe 13y ago
It was actually a carefully planned tie-in with Uber's cat delivery promo.
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by bfe 13y ago
This article states that YC is now valued at $13.7 billion. Actually, the cited source credits pg recently saying that is the current valuation of all of the YC startups, not of YC itself. [edited for clarity]
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by bfe 13y ago
BTW I presume Uber implemented this in LOLCODE? HAI CAN HAZ UBERDEPLOY? VISIBLE "O HAI! WILL U HAZ UBERKITTY?" LOL VAR R USERSEZ IM IN YR LOOP GIMMEH USERSEZ IZ USERSEZ LIEK "KITTENS!"? YARLY

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