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by fnid2 17y ago
The more of these kinds of comments I read, the more I feel sick. The first time I met one of the founders of Bootup Labs, this was when I was fairly new to Vancouver, I got a deep upsetting feeling in my stomach. I felt the same kind of e
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by fnid2 17y ago
So essentially what you are doing then is taking money from investors who give you money to put into startups, giving two thirds to the startup and taking one third for yourself. At this rate, what do you care if the startup succeeds or fai
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by fnid2 17y ago
Vancouver is not sorry. There are plenty in Vancouver who predicted something like this would happen as a result of doing business with Bootup Labs. If anything, Vancouver has benefited from this because it is now more likely that Bootup La
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by fnid2 17y ago
I don't think it is your responsibility to apologize for bootup labs or on behalf of all vancouverites or canadians for that matter. I've interacted with the bootup labs team on more than one occasion and have never gotten a good impressio
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An apology to pg and the latest YC class
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by fnid2 17y ago
You can get social experience with students older than yourself. Keeping the child among age peers, but not conversational peers, or intellectual peers may be precisely the reason they are not more social. Like I said, I was always more
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by fnid2 17y ago
This is typical of a stabilized industry. It has happened countless times. Railroads, petroleum exploration, airlines and now information technology. VC will move to another industry: green tech, biotech, and nanotech. Web businesses shou
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by fnid2 17y ago
You write a business plan for the precise reason that you can determine what you should and shouldn't commit to. If something is in the business plan and you knew it would kill the business, then you take it out of the business plan! Busi
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by fnid2 17y ago
Several times during my education, my teachers petitioned the school to promote me to more advanced grades. They felt my potential was being stunted. My mother, and sometimes other teachers, thought it would be better to stay with kids my
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by fnid2 17y ago
Maybe this is why some people who are content with their lives, happy to not constantly need more, feel like we should collaborate more than compete. Those who are greedy and need more, more, more are more typically hard capitalists. Th
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by fnid2 17y ago
This doesn't hurt startups, it hurts investors by making some people who are currently investors unable to invest in certain types of investments. It could help startups. We don't really know what the effect on startups will be. There's
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by fnid2 17y ago
Doctors can't really check up on patients in 5 or 10 minutes, that's part of the problem with requiring the checkups and it fosters resentment in the patient who has to pay $200 for the visit and wait 2 hours past the appointment time in th
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by fnid2 17y ago
It's called "Medical Student Syndrome." I learned about it in psychology class because it happens there too.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Spain and Mexico don't require prescriptions either. I'm sure there are lots of other countries in the list as well.
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by fnid2 17y ago
There are many cases where individuals are totally capable of caring for themselves. For example, diabetes patients test their own blood. If they need more insulin, why does a doctor have to prescribe it? They know they need it and will al
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by fnid2 17y ago
The problem the startup will face is finding programmers who would put up with all the irrationality in the medical field. The reason the software is so bad is because the field is dominated by business types who can push papers through unt
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by fnid2 17y ago
I think it is increasingly true over time. The amount of software use is increasing and the quality of programmers required to solve problems with software is declining. There's a lot of open source out there, so you can see the code and
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by fnid2 17y ago
How many of the startups from YC make it to a liquidity event? What happens to the 30% who don't get funding or make it to profitability?
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by fnid2 17y ago
Free education for doctors and more of them besides the arbitrarily limited 11,000 or so a year medical school seats mandated by the AMA would do a lot for increasing the supply of doctors and reducing costs. If more doctors could open pr
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by fnid2 17y ago
Isn't that the way it is now? Consider open source. One or two programmers build the open source package, then potentially millions of people install it and build a site. They don't even have to be programmers.
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by fnid2 17y ago
You pay good money for a car. You pay good money for restaurant food. A better analogy would be going to a food shelter, getting a free meal, then complaining that they didn't put enough salt on it, when the salt is right there on the tabl
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by fnid2 17y ago
When I click on the play button, a new window opens, but it's blank... Put up some photos maybe? I'm on FF 3.5.8
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by fnid2 17y ago
You don't need fuck you money to do that. I do that and I don't have fu money. I volunteer lots of time and create websites that don't make money or aren't intended to make money. If you are really productive, live a frugal life, and creat
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by fnid2 17y ago
Any privacy policy that includes "we can change it anytime" is essentially no privacy policy. They could just change it to "we reserve the right to sell your data" and people who signed up under the old policy have no recourse. All privac
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by fnid2 17y ago
If chrome uses webkit, I would expect vulnerabilities there to affect chrome as well.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I always find it interesting in hosting forums when people complain about the operation of an open source product they are using not doing something they want it to do and getting really mad at it. The performance sucks, or it has a bug, o
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by fnid2 17y ago
Yeah, it's totally different. I didn't choose to be in those situations and I can't imagine ever choosing to be in something immeasurably greater in risk. The experiences soldiers have and the things they see. I wish they didn't. I haven'
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by fnid2 17y ago
The first time I was swerving to miss a dog in the middle of a dirt road and the car spun out of control and nearly ended up in the water. The next day all my tires were flat from the sand and gravel that got lodged between the rubber tire
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by fnid2 17y ago
Let's hope it can withstand the onslaught of popularity.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Panama and Hong Kong have several ISPs that are outside U.S. influence. You never know really. Use Tor to upload it to Youtube. See if Google helps out.

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