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by dzink 10y ago
Tried it - they are unbundling social. It's group sharing as simple as starting a Google doc. You open a new one and add them by email or FB invite. A lot of people have gotten disgruntled with FB due to unclear privacy and people who
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by dzink 10y ago
When measured by engagement, they all devolved to distracting ads and media. Facebook now looks like Alta Vista and Lycos used to look like before Google wiped them off the map. Google has one thing right - they continue to solve the core n
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by dzink 11y ago
Mentioned this to a doctor in the family and their instant reply back was "Lead poisoning medically results in lower IQ". Then found some info about it here: http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscien
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by dzink 11y ago
Wedwell sounds like a reverse waitlist - a try me too tool for vendors. They might do it to get first customers but it sounds like too much work for good vendors who already have a waitlist for their booking time.
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by dzink 11y ago
Voting based on what can go right with these ideas + feedback. We can’t evaluate the team with this much information, but that’s what YC interviews are for - they can get grilled by the partners. YES Eat my Dust - there us a huge gap in the
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by dzink 11y ago
When we moved into a new house we noticed the air ducts were spewing out strange particles. I called around to see if there is an agency that could test if it's dangerous and the short answer was "we'd only test if we know wh
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by dzink 11y ago
If we read the answers to this thread as a meta lesson of what a founder would expect, I think the answers would benefit from a scorecard. A poll at the top could summarise scores. Here is my iteration for the idea of "Apply YC":
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by dzink 11y ago
The basic income experiment may end up encouraging more lifestyle business pursuits if successful.
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by dzink 11y ago
Sources: 1. On Intelligence: http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507... 2. https://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-have-a-150-IQ-Is-life... 3. Some article shared in the MENSA
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by dzink 11y ago
Here are a few patterns I've seen in studies or surfaced: 1. Intelligence is an ability to observe, gather feedback based on past observations, and see patterns at a speed much faster than others at a lower general level. The growth in
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by dzink 11y ago
Hoarding slows down the economy and creates dynasties who continue to excercise power well past the time their judgement on the stewardship of money and social good has been incapacitated. That is what death taxes are for. Luxury however is
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STEM confidence gap(blog.piazza.com)
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by dzink 12y ago
Ditto.
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Ranking Cute Animals: A Stock Market Experiment(npr.org)
1 points by dzink 12y ago|0 comments
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by dzink 12y ago
UChicago's rating system was quite useful, actually. The survey is given before the final, so exam difficulty doesn't matter. Professors who deliver insights you really learn from get the high ratings and those who don't (aka
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by dzink 12y ago
During YCHacks he and Jessica came by the YC office with little kids. I was too busy finishing up our app to pay attention, but the two times I looked up, he was carrying a little one around the office on his shoulders.
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by dzink 12y ago
There was a collector in the Palo Alto area who had stashed up three large warehouses full of tanks. The warehouses were open as a museum until recently. He had acquired some of the tanks for just $5000 (time of purchase unknown) from liqui
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The moral storytelling system(theguardian.com)
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by dzink 12y ago
A good way to increase your chances of finding one is to do a lot of small projects with different people who complement your skills. You have to work with someone first to know if you are a good fit for something bigger (think of it as dat
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by dzink 12y ago
To add on to the "Tell me about a project you are most proud of?" question, having gone through different stages from burnout to re-kindling of the hacker within, I can see it measures attitude well, which is crucial. For aptitude
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by dzink 12y ago
I'm seeing the same issue on both GitHub and Heroku today as well. "Cannot connect to the real www.heroku.com Something is currently interfering with your secure connection to www.heroku.com. Try to reload this page in a few minut
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by dzink 12y ago
It may be a tough problem for the current state of AI, but one day I want to see to life a consequence engine for real-life decisions. For example, when a new law is proposed, the engine interprets every stipulation, relates it to economic
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by dzink 12y ago
I've owned Genieous.com for a number of years and it's been an empty page. Now I know why the number of visits spiked recently :)
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by dzink 12y ago
I've seen one senior engineer at a large firm start using Atlassian in 08. He then recruited his team to use it, then the division (at 4k or so per year), then he made it his primary "chief developer" role to customize Atlass
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by dzink 12y ago
I sat on both sides of the table for two years (coding my tech startup at night, while attending MBA and CS and Law classes during the day to fill skill gaps). The doer within me couldn't wait to go to hack sessions every weekend, just
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by dzink 12y ago
Looking forward to it.
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by dzink 12y ago
There are a whole bunch of projects on http://DoerHub.com looking for contributors from code to medicine (and you can soon have private and public project sections over there to manage open contributions and core team stuff). A
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by dzink 12y ago
Negotiations or market research? When Staples started, the founder proved the concept of an office-oriented superstore meticulously with a single store in the northeast. He picked a neighborhood, mapped every business around it, knew exactl
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The chemist who created Kevlar dies at 90(npr.org)
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by dzink 12y ago
Yep, the Federal Circuit court has a way of interpreting around SCOTUS decisions if they don't like them. The Circuit court sees a lot of Patent cases and they do whatever they can to avoid reversing past decisions. There are a lot of

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