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by diego 7y ago
That is a non sequitur. Not being able or willing to invest dozens of hours of effort spread over weeks (maybe months) into having relatively good odds of being offered a job by Google doesn't make you a prima donna.
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by diego 7y ago
Google wants people who are desperate to work at Google. The plus (for them) of getting someone to invest so much effort into getting in means that they will be committed for a while because of the sunk costs / defeated ultimate boss e
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by diego 7y ago
If you want a "toy" example of this type of code, look at flight control software for drones such as Betaflight. You can modify this code and test it in real life. I did this, as I contributed the GPS Rescue feature. I have a bloo
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by diego 7y ago
You may want to check out the Starbucks timeline. They did not raise an astronomical amount of money right off the bat. Blue Bottle is a closer comparison. They also grew organically for many years before raising a serious round. There mus
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by diego 7y ago
If you read the article, you will see that this is about flying between New York and London.
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by diego 7y ago
What makes you think that people aren’t moving? Population isn’t decreasing if that’s what you mean, but the Bay Area is a revolving door. I own a condo in San Francisco, and I’ve had five different tenants in eight years.
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by diego 7y ago
The 22x figure is dubious. I had seen articles citing a more believable 2.85x number. What is not clear to me is what is considered a "scientist" and why is the Nobel Prize used as a metric. For example, what happens if you compar
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by diego 7y ago
The world is full of haters accomplishing impressive things, particularly in politics. Edit: if you define "impressive" as "something a hater could not do" and "not impressive" as notorious things haters do, th
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by diego 7y ago
Well, I have a hard time thinking of a field that I believe is fully explored. History has shown time and again that it's really easy to be fooled in that respect.
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by diego 7y ago
That assumes everyone picks their job as a rational economic actor. This is clearly not the case. Even if it were, if you believe you have a decent change then you might as well give it one shot, and if it doesn't work then you can fal
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by diego 7y ago
Did you get to the part where they explain that they are strapped for resources and in need of donations? They have plenty of expertise, money is what they need.
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by diego 7y ago
If you're too big then you just don't fold them forward and it remains a regular seat. I don't see the loss.
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by diego 7y ago
Cancer doesn't play a significant role in evolution because most people get cancer long after reproducing. In a way, cancer means that you succeeded at living long enough.
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Freedom and set intersection: why Americans argue so much about freedom(diegobasch.com)
1 points by diego 7y ago|0 comments
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by diego 7y ago
After reading the article, I realized that if a site like HN or Reddit wanted to mitigate groupthink, they would want to limit how much an item can be upvoted or downvoted (e.g. max 5 like Slashdot did). Apparently people really like groupt
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by diego 7y ago
What does it matter what we think of him? He is being accused of a crime, and presumed innocent. If it goes to trial, then the jury will have access to all the evidence. You and I don't.
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by diego 7y ago
Without an official prescription, shipped to a US address?
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by diego 7y ago
They might as well drop NYT, WSJ, The Economist. Whenever I see those sites at the top of the results I don't bother clicking because they are just paywalls. This month somehow I was "out of free articles" for all of them sin
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by diego 7y ago
The same argument would make you not want to drink water from a public fountain, or eating at a restaurant as opposed to cooking your own food. It's a matter of implicit risk analysis. You need to charge your phone, you see a USB port.
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Nobody Knows Anything About Startup Ideas(diegobasch.com)
3 points by diego 7y ago|0 comments
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by diego 7y ago
The weakest part about the conclusions in this study is the assumption that regulation does not change. If the limitation of driving disappears and the roads become a tragedy of the commons, then regulation will have to step in to limit how
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by diego 7y ago
Clearly pure centralization doesn't work, and pure decentralization is chaos. The sweet spot is in between. Right now China seems to be in a better position than the US in that sense. They promote the same type of startups we have in S
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by diego 7y ago
Well, if the demand for money is increasing and the supply is stable, then the value increases. Definition of supply and demand.
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by diego 7y ago
This article lost me at "printing money does not cause inflation." How would that be possible? The only answer would be that money is increasing in value for some reason, and the government must print more to keep prices stable (o
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by diego 7y ago
No, I'm talking about companies that didn't even get to take VC funding in some cases. Building a stable business doesn't mean you get rich. The world is filled with middle class folk running stable businesses.
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by diego 7y ago
Then it becomes a tautology. If you manage to avoid not getting rich, you get rich.
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by diego 7y ago
Infinitely better is not 100%, which is what his quote literally says. Say it's 0% vs 5%. That is my point.
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by diego 7y ago
I don't think "If you can just avoid dying, you get rich" has proven true. I've invested in startups (including YC ones) that followed this to a tee. They never found product-market fit, they could have been going foreve
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by diego 7y ago
It sounds like the old-style parachute is not the best solution for this problem, but I'm sure they must have come up with other ideas and ruled them out. Why not hundreds of small parachutes? Why not wings or rotors to stabilize it? I
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by diego 7y ago
That's why people like you have a moral obligation to not try to weasel your way out of jury duty. Have you ever served on a jury? It can actually be a good experience. What matters the most is not the jury really, is that your defense

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