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by donaldc 16y ago
The VCs are not unbiased, objective observers of YC. It may be that some VCs have that particular issue with YC, or it may be that they don't like YC for other reasons, and their stated reason is just the professionally acceptable rationali
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by donaldc 16y ago
Newark spends about $22,000 a year on each of its 40,000 pupils, but only about half of its students graduate. That's over $260,000 per student over 12 years! It's great that Zuckerberg is donating about $100 million to the worthy cause o
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by donaldc 16y ago
so if you finally gave up work at 73 that's only an average of 5 years you need to live without an income Not necessarily. A couple of reasons: * Life expectancy in developed countries has been increasing by well over a year every decade.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Whether or not the author of this article is able to cut out Comcast, he's going to be at the mercy of one or another video content intermediary until either football stops making exclusive deals with said intermediaries, or until he decide
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by donaldc 16y ago
This is especially interesting in light of the recent stories about Google offering huge raises and incentives to keep key employees from jumping to Facebook. Good thing that Google and Facebook don't have a no-poaching agreement. But not s
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by donaldc 16y ago
A new bubble would result from investors putting more money into tech companies that had no chance of success. Google raising pay for some of its engineers is not a bubble.
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by donaldc 16y ago
50 million bits is enough to specify a human-level intelligence, but only if one has the appropriate machine. In terms of constructing an AI, the human genome is doing little more than taking clever advantage of ways to cause things in the
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by donaldc 16y ago
In a real-world setting, it's hard for 100 prisoners to consistently assign the same ordering to a jumble of 100 boxes.
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by donaldc 16y ago
I stand by this comment.
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by donaldc 16y ago
If the boxes are in a random jumble when the prisoner enters, there may be no practical way of having 100 prisoners consistently assign an ordering from 1 to 100 for the boxes. The approach outlined will then fail. Were I a particularly evi
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by donaldc 16y ago
This is not the worst way to spend money, but really, if Google doesn't need the money for its business, it should just pay it back to its shareholders in the form of either stock buybacks or dividends.
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by donaldc 16y ago
This need not be legislated. If commercial renters were sufficiently biased in favor of places with an objectively determined square footage rating, landlords would provide it regardless of the lack of a legal requirement. The key is gettin
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by donaldc 16y ago
One of the points of the article was that, no, even in situations where a party objectively knows that the number given should not have any effect, it does anyway. Human psychology often doesn't make rational sense.
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by donaldc 16y ago
I think that this is a better and more constructive article than the various other age-related articles drifting around. It may very well be that the level of fluid intelligence is the real issue, and that this level is partially inversely
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by donaldc 16y ago
I think the real problem here is that the owners and leasers of an office space are the ones who are responsible for reporting the "square feet". The system would work just fine if an unbiased third party did the measurements.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Since UCB gets state funding, this may make the professor and his pension a part of the very problem he (the professor) is complaining about.
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by donaldc 16y ago
If people actually want Internet-only TV subscriptions, the market will force Comcast to lower their prices. Perhaps yes, eventually, but it could be years. The market for high-speed internet connections in most locations is, at best, a d
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by donaldc 16y ago
I wish the article would be a little more specific about what kind of fat they're talking about. Saturated? Polyunsaturated? Raw? Processed? For example, if they're talking about processed polyunsaturated fat, it's probably a leap to appl
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by donaldc 16y ago
Fortunately, there's an almost infinite number of domains, even within the .com tld. It just requires a little more creativity than it used to to think of a catchy one that hasn't been taken. Now, if we were actually running out of domain
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Less than 7 hours of sleep impacts ability to form strong memories(upi.com)
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by donaldc 16y ago
It seems like the most fundamental difference between VCs and Super Angels is that VCs have more checks and balances (and overhead) surrounding where they invest their money. With Super Angels, one person makes the final decision. For makin
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by donaldc 16y ago
Were I a limited partner, I can't imagine giving such terms to any VCs lacking a stellar track record. I understand why the rest of the VCs would want to position themselves thusly, I just don't understand how they can actually find LPs w
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by donaldc 16y ago
What a mess of perverse incentives. I can understand how the best VCs can get away with insisting on such terms from their LPs, but how are the rest of the VCs able to get away with it?
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by donaldc 16y ago
Agreed. Things are probably not as ideal as that post makes them sound. What facebook is essentially saying with this post is: "We're an engineer/programmer-driven company. If you're a good engineer, you'd like working here." The hoped-for
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by donaldc 16y ago
My point is that, whatever it is he's looking for, he's been looking for a year and a half, and hasn't yet found it. By the laws of supply-and-demand (the basis of the free-market economy) he's not offering a high enough wage. Of course, it
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by donaldc 16y ago
I'm not sure how much of that info-page to believe. Right at the top it cites bottled water as costing $10/gallon, which is way more than I've ever paid.
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by donaldc 16y ago
It sounds like you have yet to release a usable version. You mention that you worked on it a lot, and wanted the thing to be perfect, but a newly released product is never perfect. Get to a point where you can release what you have, and the
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by donaldc 16y ago
part owner Mark Sperry says he has been looking for $13-an-hour machinists since early last year Apparently, either they aren't needed all that badly, or else they're finding some. Otherwise, he surely would have raised the wage offered.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Avoid dairy products is not something everyone agrees on.
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by donaldc 16y ago
As the amounts invested in early stages get smaller, and some of the Series A rounds are replaced by angel rounds, there will be an economic incentive to move toward more standardized terms for these early rounds. The less money being inv

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