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by clpm4j 5y ago
The W22 batch is only 65 companies? Am I reading/filtering the Startup Directory correctly? This would be a huge reduction from the ~300 companies per batch of late. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?batch=W22
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by clpm4j 5y ago
None of the regular people I'm familiar care about their data at all . If you use any of the popular social media apps (Twitter, TikTok, FB/Instagram, Snapchat), then you can't really claim that you care about your data, and
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I've had this realization at every company I've worked for, big or small. Not sure why I'm still surprised by it: "The most surprising thing I encountered when joining was how manual the vast majority of processes are.
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I'd be interested in that list as well. All of the major / currently most popular ones seem to be in bed with a16z: https://a16z.com/portfolio/#crypto
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by clpm4j 5y ago
From the blog post: """ I agree with Peter. I think he is well-meaning. Given the difficulties with publishing his book I can see why NFTs make sense. As an author, I can deeply emphasize with the challenges in publishing a b
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I wonder if this starts to pan out whether it might lead to something like the below comment regarding reduced consumption of digital media. I can see a scenario where the majority of businesses/apps/sites that implement this see
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by clpm4j 5y ago
This article seems to have been written by a guy who graduated from college 3 years ago and whose only work experience is at Bain consulting.
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by clpm4j 5y ago
These are the worst type of people.
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by clpm4j 5y ago
If you scroll down and look at the 'The Team', you'll see it's two guys Alex Mehr and Tai Lopez. They bought the Radio Shack brand a couple of years ago: https://www.retaildive.com/news/radioshack-br
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I grew up in Miami and left for California as soon as I could. Miami has a pretty facade, and if you visit for a week or two you might think it's great, but beneath the facade is a cesspool of stupidity, vanity, and corruption just lik
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by clpm4j 5y ago
It's definitely something I've felt more and more as I've aged out of my youth. For me it's driven mainly by an increased desire to reject the crowd. Almost anything that a majority of people find "cool" or &qu
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by clpm4j 5y ago
Even the neediest families ended up getting like $4-5k or something like that. Individuals got less. Literally enough to pay rent and feed families for a couple of months. No one got fat and happy off of stimulus money - some people just go
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by clpm4j 5y ago
This sentence summed it up for me: "Today there is still no scalable, decentralized, widely integrated protocol that moves value and data between blockchains without relying on trusted third parties." There is absolutely nothing t
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by clpm4j 5y ago
The author is Naval Ravikant who is a wealthy VC and pseudo-philosopher. He's clearly a smart guy but also seemingly disconnected from reality at this point in his career.
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by clpm4j 5y ago
Advertising won't quit.
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I find this painfully impressive. Relatedly, Mitchell seems like such a genuinely cool guy.
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I think blockchain SSO could be cool, but do you really think "the mainstream public actually does want" this? The negative public sentiment of big tech is coming from news platforms. As far as I can tell, hundreds of millions of
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by clpm4j 5y ago
Originally it was about the companies' high performing stocks. The salaries are a downstream effect, and then it just got adopted by the salary-optimizing crowd of engineers and college students.
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by clpm4j 5y ago
Top 10 most expensive cities according to this article: 1. Tel Aviv 2. Paris 3. Singapore 4. Zurich 5. Hong Kong 6. New York 7. Geneva 8. Copenhagen 9. Los Angeles 10. Osaka
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I've had this discussion with friends many times, and I do hope it becomes legal and socially acceptable (I know it is legal in some places, but not widely). I find it ridiculous that we come into this world through no choice of our ow
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by clpm4j 5y ago
This is interesting/amusing because often these people who are obsessed with crypto and tech culture (seemingly a lot of GenZ - at least the ones that pop up on Twitter) aren't the computer scientists and engineers who actually un
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I think it's all well and good to have discussions about taxation and interest rates, but as a fellow San Franciscan, I can't ignore the fact that I no longer find it unusual to learn that more than a few of my neighbors are makin
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by clpm4j 5y ago
Thanks to you and your colleagues for writing this - the best writeup I've come across so far. This puts all of a16z's crypto marketing babble to shame.
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by clpm4j 5y ago
Most neighborhoods in SF have very little crime and homeless. Look at the Sunset and Richmond districts, Seacliff, Presidio Heights, Marina and Pac Heights (some of these might/will be prohibitively expensive because they're extre
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I did it a couple of times in my past (with the intention of starting my own thing), and it never played out quite as well as I envisioned in my mind beforehand. If you do it, and then you end up needing to get another job because the runwa
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by clpm4j 5y ago
The book is a collection of several of his essays which he still writes (most recent one being published this month) @ http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
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by clpm4j 5y ago
Agreed on most of this... but I guess I fall into the techie developer category, and a decent portion of my social group as well, and anecdotally none of us loath or even ever complain about Twitter and Youtube. I like the decentralized soc
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I was a kid during the 90's internet boom, but I'm curious to hear from those who experienced that cycle firsthand in Silicon Valley what they think about the current climate we're in. I saw a couple of guys (in their early 2
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by clpm4j 5y ago
https://archive.md/Wx7mx
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by clpm4j 5y ago
I imagine it was important for the specific job you're referring to, but there are plenty of dev jobs that don't require an understanding of bitwise ops.

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