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by bookaway 2y ago
They were in the same YC batch standing next to each in a photo, so someone looked at the photo and chose to juxtapose their work and fates on the day Aaron Swartz died. If this is what you mean by "singling out", I don't see
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by bookaway 2y ago
Yeah, if I were to describe it more generally, I would say they self-select for techno-optimists. As investors, YC often espouses judging startup’s potential by considering how successful the startup could be if everything goes right, and t
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by bookaway 2y ago
Yes, definitely. But becoming the head of YC was also due to his own merit. His merit was persuading the right people. After all, the essay where pg is giving his highest praise is an essay about fundraising. Will you not agree that him bec
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by bookaway 2y ago
PG liked him, because Altman decided to go to great lengths to get PG to like him. While Drew, Chesky and the Collison brothers were busy building billion dollar companies, Altman took the “shortcut” and made a concerted effort to cozy up t
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by bookaway 2y ago
The OpenAI drama isn't the only reality distortions that Altman has been accused of engaging in. PG himself has said Altman "is extremely good at becoming powerful" [0]. A former Reddit CEO in the past detailed the lengths he
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by bookaway 2y ago
Amnesia set circa 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ULe_PoACvc&pp=ygUXZGogYWxmc...
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DJ Alfredo, a pioneer of "Balearic Beats", has died(theguardian.com)
17 points by bookaway 2y ago|2 comments
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by bookaway 2y ago
Yes, I think they had to push this reveal forward because their investors were getting antsy with the lack of visible progress to justify continuing rising valuations. There is no other reason a confident company making continuous rapid pro
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by bookaway 2y ago
With adblockers disabled, I was seeing ads midstream ages ago. Ads that I don't see with an adblocker. Anecdotally, my subjective experience when adblockers are disabled seems to get exponentially worse whereas my adblocker experience
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by bookaway 2y ago
Yeah, this sort of stuff seems incredibly short-sighted. It gives me queasy "methinks the lady doth protest too much" ExpressVPN vibes.
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by bookaway 2y ago
I'm sure someone will try to frame it as a Catch 22: "If we knew for sure they would choose suicide if they didn't get the help they requested, we would prioritize them over non-suicidal applicants. But the only way we would
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by bookaway 2y ago
This is hilarious. The Devil's been urging me to buy one of high-end ones for the past year -- I specifically clicked on this post hoping to see someone regretting buying one of these things so I could use it as fuel against my utopian
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by bookaway 2y ago
I asked in response to another comment[0] above somewhere but do you have any recommendations for more recent producers/djs on the ragga jungle sound? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136943
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by bookaway 2y ago
I'm looking for the more Ragga heavy melodic dirty sounding jungle a la Krinjah's Return or Hold Yuh remix. Any new people on that sound?
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by bookaway 2y ago
Unless my memory is completely off, I don't recall Polymarket giving "Trump will win" vibes in the general lead up to the election. When they did, it was probably in the last few days. If that's the case, I would've
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by bookaway 2y ago
You should write a book about how a society composed entirely of pure-bred mercenaries outlasted all other competing civilizations on the planet. I'd be very interested in reading it.
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by bookaway 2y ago
It's official. There are some perks that are better in relatively "shithole" countries than in Elysium. In that universe, they put allowance money on your food card that is mostly accepted by certain restaurants. But there ar
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by bookaway 2y ago
> governments are still vastly less competent than multinational corporations. Speaking of competence devoid of context misses the point. They are resembling each other greatly in the sense of misaligned incentives with their "users
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by bookaway 2y ago
>Sept 26: WP Engine is banned from Wordpress.org [6] breaking plugin updates from WP Engine Also someone who is late to the party, but the "breaking plugin updates from WP Engine" wording confuses me. From the wording in [6] it
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by bookaway 2y ago
Where's the citation for the Crypto PACs winning 86% of 42 primaries they funded coming from? Can't seem to find it.
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Poll: Is Google Your Default Search?
3 points by bookaway 2y ago|7 comments
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by bookaway 2y ago
yes
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by bookaway 2y ago
no
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by bookaway 2y ago
Well, if one party or another thinks the way the current pieces are lying on the board are advantageous to them, I would think it's a reason for them not to fix Congress.
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by bookaway 2y ago
Could the answer be that on average Canadian VCs are simply not rich enough compared to their American counterparts and the few that are succumb to the peer pressure of trying not to be the one schmuck who lost a lot of money? I've s
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by bookaway 2y ago
>It's a self fulfilling prophecy Funny, when I was trying to formulate a theory in my mind I was thinking of the phrase "vicious cycle". I was close enough, I think:) I'm wondering if it's because Canadians and o
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by bookaway 2y ago
>I've noticed it's both a very real thing and a very wide spread thing. Sorry, just to be clear -- is the very real thing the fact that Canadian Funds believe Canadians aren't ambitious enough or is the real thing (in yo
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by bookaway 2y ago
To add to that, they seem to have anticipated the OP's reaction since it was mirrored by the Calorie Control Council (industry cartel?) and are literally saying: if the study is sound and if you are worried about clotting or heart dise
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by bookaway 2y ago
>Human excrement is now so toxic it cannot be used as fertilizer. This sounds fascinating, where can I read more.
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by bookaway 2y ago
>10 of the 17 cancer types which are rising in the young cohorts are obesity-related. This would mean that 40% is non-obesity related which seems...kinda high? The article has this line: >Bafflingly, many of the new clinic’s young pat

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