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by cornellwright 9y ago
Any lawyer worth talking to will give you a free, confidential, initial consultation and discussion of potential costs that will be help you decide if it is worth going after. Most likely the lawyer sending a letter will cost like $500 and
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by cornellwright 9y ago
$100/hr is only that much if you bill 40 hrs per week, every week. It does not account for non-billable time, vacation, sick time, etc. You are also taxed higher and have to provide your own benefits. You are taking on higher risk due
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by cornellwright 9y ago
One of the worst things about the current tax code (and soon-to-be new tax law) is the cost of compliance. You can argue about high tax or low tax and who should pay more than whom, but cost and time to comply does not create any value and
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by cornellwright 9y ago
I've been through YC. I'm on the board of a YC company that has raised an A round. The negative signaling affects you're talking about just aren't there. YC does have a positive signal - meaning that any stamp of approva
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by cornellwright 9y ago
Not getting accepted isn't seen this way. YC itself says they can't fund all the companies they want to. I know a number of founders who were rejected from YC and while they don't plaster it on their website, they don't
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by cornellwright 9y ago
A big part of how YC got where they are is by being more founder friendly than anyone else, creating an impressive positive feedback loop. Adding exclusivity would destroy that. The partners have a much more long term focus than this.
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by cornellwright 9y ago
The counter argument to this is the YC Continuity fund [1]. It already does invest in some YC co A rounds, and them not investing does not have a negative signal. It is in YC's best interest to try to avoid negative signaling about any
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by cornellwright 9y ago
I had some trouble with burn in on an OLED TV that was being left on all the time. I did some research and found out that the effect goes away by leaving the screen off for a few hours every day. I set the TV to turn off every evening, and
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by cornellwright 10y ago
We'll get to find out soon with Westinghouse... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/03/31/westingho...
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by cornellwright 10y ago
However the pizza restaurant also doesn't have anything about helping you make good, long-term financial decisions plastered all over it's website. If Navient wrote "call us and we'll screw you" then that would be f
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by cornellwright 10y ago
That's fine and that is already an acceptable method so long as you can make the case for why it's representative and do some real world testing to validate it.
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by cornellwright 10y ago
>> Regulators test new products until they feel certain that people will not be put at risk. Inventions from elevators to aspirin were subject to fierce scrutiny before they were broadly adopted. We can’t apply the same level of scrut
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by cornellwright 10y ago
Tiff is very useful because it lets you do almost anything. A tiff image is just several arrays of numbers, you decide how many bits, signed, unsigned, float, int, etc. This is very helpful for processing which treats each pixel as a sample
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by cornellwright 10y ago
The most-produced airplane [1] seats 4 people. Only ~43,000 have been produced since the 50s. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172
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by cornellwright 10y ago
If you pay for Google Apps they do. I've had to call them a few times, and they were actually fairly helpful, even calling me back the next day to make sure the problem was resolved. Judging by the number they called me from their call
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by cornellwright 11y ago
I am not a lawyer, but YC provides a pretty good resource here: https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/
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by cornellwright 11y ago
Yes.
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by cornellwright 11y ago
Projecting black is currently an open problem in AR right now. (Though Magic Leap's videos seem to indicate they've solved it. I'm still skeptical though.)
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by cornellwright 11y ago
From other articles I've seen this is something that's already been dealt with. One of the problems they had early on was all-way stops where human drivers were so aggressive that the self driving car would never get its turn to g
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by cornellwright 11y ago
It's more than just deterministic, but deterministic and stupid enough to make do some really undesired behavior. Using the same example as before, if I run a full speed toward the street, almost every car is going to screech to a halt
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by cornellwright 11y ago
I don't know, a lot of these things seem to have analogs to human drivers. I can cause emergency braking on the road outside my house by behaving like I'm about to run into the street while never leaving the sidewalk. I could get
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Watch Google’s robot dog play with a real dog(news.yahoo.com)
3 points by cornellwright 11y ago|3 comments
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by cornellwright 11y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say cut out attorneys, but provide sane liability limits so that awards don't go much beyond costs actually incurred. The only exception I'd make to that would be cases of withholding a known defect, li
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by cornellwright 11y ago
Another way to do it would be for each manufacturer to have to price in liability coverage to their vehicle. This could be done as a yearly or monthly software license fee that the current owner/operator of the vehicle has to pay. It c
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by cornellwright 11y ago
Does Apple get a cut of Uber fares from in-app purchases? (I think the standard amount is 30%.) If that's the case, the money lost would be one more reason for Apply not to do this, or perhaps a reason to reject the Uber app if Uber re
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by cornellwright 11y ago
Oh no you have to do something new to get rich. There's still plenty of money, talent, and success out there for new, good ideas. It being hard to fund the same old thing again and again is more of a feature than a bug. And the argumen
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by cornellwright 11y ago
> On one end of the spectrum you have tools like Notepad, where the only easter egg is that pressing F5 inserts the current time. I wonder how many people reading this just opened Notepad to try this.
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by cornellwright 11y ago
the bump in valuation you get is bigger than the 7% slice of the pie YC takes. People often seem to get too hung up on what percent they own. While you should pay attention to this, it's more valuable to direct your effort toward how b
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by cornellwright 11y ago
Are you serious? Every time I've been to Europe (I've lost count of how many times...) I've paid for many things with cash. I actually find it more inconvenient not to have cash there than in the US.
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by cornellwright 11y ago
It's only a little off. Services like Spot [ http://findmespot.com/en/ ] offer satellite tracking with updates every 5 minutes while moving for $100 for equipment and $100/year for service. Spot doesn't qu

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