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The Sound of Silence – Jessica Livingston on the impact of online hostility (2017)(foundersatwork.posthaven.com)
15 points by fairity 3y ago|13 comments
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by fairity 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, below is a quote from the same post. > Thirteen years later, that's my default plan. There’s just too much downside for me to get distracted with others’ opinions of my opinions. [1] It's not that I'm a
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by fairity 3y ago
Advice for the Kagi team: create a way for new visitors to try your product before signing up. I understand that it’s a paid service but you’re destroying conversion rate, and there’s no way there are enough countervailing benefits to gatin
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by fairity 3y ago
> No one understands female founders better than Jessica. But it's unlikely anyone will ever hear her speak candidly about the topic. She ventured a toe in that water a while ago, and the reaction was so violent that she decided &qu
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by fairity 3y ago
> I’m not against hustle, but when the hustle becomes an end in-and-of-itself, rather than a means to an end, that is alarming. Is it possible to hustle all the time & not burn out? Yes, but it takes a special type of person who val
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by fairity 3y ago
> You think that Houston or St. Louis or wherever don't "adopt behavioral patterns" to make themselves feel safer too? No, not nearly to the same extent. Whether that's the case or not is actually besides my point. My
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by fairity 3y ago
You're just arguing semantics at this point. Sure, the author admits that violent crime rate is under control. But, implicit in his post, is the fact that this is only the case because residents adopt behavioral patterns that remove th
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by fairity 3y ago
I'd love to see the winrate data for Stockfish against Stockfish, for each data set. To get a sense of what the objective winrate is.
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by fairity 3y ago
> I'm decently sure that you could pick any two players of the same Elo on lichess and one will win the majority of games. Interesting hypothesis, but my intuition is that this effect is small. It should be easy to measure. Just t
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by fairity 3y ago
Whether it's appropriate to "force someone to take it" depends on the degree of pain being caused. There's some threshold of pain over which it's reasonable to consider major restructuring of society, and it could b
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by fairity 3y ago
IMO, the alternatives are all based on a reframing of mindset versus a change in external environment. My understanding is that most of Kacynski’s disillusionment was born out of: - a recognition of how artificial most people’s values and g
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by fairity 3y ago
My takeaway from Kacynski’s manifesto is that he makes an astute observation about the root causes of unhappiness, but then proposes an absurd solution. The astute observation is that a lot of unhappiness is driven by over-socialization and
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by fairity 3y ago
I have a strong suspicion a new Amazon Fire phone is coming. Last Prime day Amazon gave away $10 to any member who downloaded the Amazon Photos app. One has to ask what reason there is for that other than creating a smooth transition to a
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by fairity 3y ago
> Logically, the domino effect would mean that step two involves companies closing up shop and going belly up, right? Right, but there's a time lag effect between when capital dries up and companies go belly up. Many cash-guzzling c
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by fairity 3y ago
> I am pretty confident google could spin up an org to replicate the uber app Google has already done this. Waymo One is the name of Google's app, and it's live and serving customers already in Phoenix, AZ. Completely dri
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by fairity 3y ago
People here arguing about whether "Google could / could not bang out an Uber app in a weekend" are apparently completely unaware that Google has already done this. Waymo One is the name of Google's app, and it's liv
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by fairity 3y ago
By public accounts, the total hardware costs for one SDC is around $300k. If you amortize that over a 5 year lifespan & 50 rides a day, you get $3.28 of variable costs per ride. $3.28 variable cost per ride is less than what Uber is pa
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by fairity 3y ago
Yes, and YC is aware of this trend also. Michael and Dalton (YC partners) talk about it here: https://youtu.be/ia7IKW0yuG0 Since they’re aware, if the trend continues, they might actually believe this conformist archetype
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by fairity 3y ago
I’ve often wondered how the Reddit cofounders feel about selling so early. At the time they cashed out, they made single digit millions. If they had held out, they would have made 100-1000x. Edit: After googling, the short answer is they
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by fairity 4y ago
Sure thing, shoot me an email at fairity@fastmail.com.
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by fairity 4y ago
Haha, I don't have time to read OP's epic essay, but I love the mood. I think founders who have been through this, myself included, just want you to know you're not alone. Go kick some ass.
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by fairity 4y ago
I've been in a very similar position. Spent 5 years founding a startup that the vast majority of people here probably know. We raised healthy eight figures and failed to pivot to profitability before markets & investor sentiment t
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by fairity 4y ago
> Children should take care of their parents as a general rule. Your long drawn out comment doesn’t actually support your core argument, which can be shortened to one sentence, copied above. In fact, it’s ironic that you’re calling out t
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by fairity 4y ago
I’m confused too. Seems like link bait. The article fails to connect the dots between SVB and venture valuations, which were already well into a downswing before SVB’s collapse.
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by fairity 4y ago
Credit Suisse needs to get another party to the negotiating table. Time is working against them and UBS has all the leverage. Low-balling makes sense if you’re CS’s only option.
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by fairity 4y ago
> "We, JPMorgan, are willing to bet $5bn that First Direct does not fail, with no upside to us if they do not" is a rather powerful statement. Is it though? Although there's no upside, there's also little downside si
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by fairity 4y ago
If these big banks are so confident in First Republic not failing, why not just purchase First Republic stock (or acquire it outright for its current market cap of $5b)? My hypothesis is that they don't actually believe in First Republ
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by fairity 4y ago
I understand in your case it worked out well, but I have to believe transactions like this, in aggregate, are highly negative EV for the seller. The buyer just has so much more information than you do on how market valuations are being set
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by fairity 4y ago
> They didn't make money on startup exits anymore You do realize YC's equity returns from Airbnb & Doordash probably cover their entire history of funding startups?
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by fairity 4y ago
I can think of a few reasons why YC would make this decision without admitting so publicly: 1) Too much negative signaling risk when they don't make follow-on investments 2) Negative returns given the recent downturn 3) The increasing

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