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by frisco 8y ago
"Early Decision" implies that if a student is accepted they are bound to attend that school. It's offered by colleges primarily because it greatly simplifies their yield planning. (Colleges admit many more than they actually
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by frisco 8y ago
This is not the case. The large amounts of liquidity available means that startups are easier to fund at a given price, but does not automatically have a big impact on that equilibrium price, which is driven by venture economics. Thus just
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by frisco 8y ago
The Starlink satellites are in a very low orbit that decays relatively quickly, and so is only feasible with a large constellation of very cheap nodes that wasn't possible before. The high latencies are to geostationary communications
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by frisco 8y ago
Their fund is way down: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/06/01/after-10... Their model probably doesn’t make sense anymore given how the case law has developed. (Thankfully)
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by frisco 8y ago
There are a bunch of hurdles to clear: the ROFR, usually a co-sale agreement, there may even just be outright restrictions on transfer. But these can usually be worked through by simply talking to the company. If they want to exercise their
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by frisco 8y ago
This is a really interesting phenomenon. There is crazy irrational illiquidity on mid/late-stage startup equity. Right now the conventional wisdom is that it's better to go to Google & co because startup equity is all flickers
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by frisco 8y ago
We didn’t. I’ve heard good things about it, but my understanding is it’s windows/mono, and we run all Linux in production, which seems like a pain to navigate. (F# is CLR right?) Maybe this isn’t that big of an issue in reality but we
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by frisco 8y ago
OCaml is a great language. We looked really seriously at using it at my startup for some critical things a while ago, when the company was very young, because some of the team knew it and we were inheriting a small code base in it. Ultimate
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by frisco 8y ago
Wickr Enterprise should be a pretty good option. It's basically a team oriented and somewhat less open source Signal competitor. It can be deployed on-prem.
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Transcriptic (YC W15) is hiring software engineers(transcriptic.com)
1 points by frisco 8y ago
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by frisco 8y ago
A "permanent injunction" just means "I promise not to do it again and will get in more trouble next time if I do," not that he can't be paid in options in the future.
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by frisco 8y ago
So, I read this paper and was pretty unconvinced. I think the premise of using a Monte Carlo analysis is flawed because of course multiplying together wide ~iid distributions that have big near-zero components asymptotes to zero; unless I
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by frisco 8y ago
> They voted to approve the controversial Article 13, which critics warn could put an end to memes, remixes and other user-generated content. This won’t put an end to memes. It might encourage innovation around decentralization, though.
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by frisco 8y ago
That's true as long as they're not talking about their work at the conference. I assume they would be?
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by frisco 8y ago
I fundamentally don’t understand how anyone can see this and think, “nah, fuck those guys.” Clearly we cannot be a single-planet species forever and survive. Beyond that, it’s such a hard challenge to push our technical skills against, and
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by frisco 8y ago
Not true, limitations on subcontracting (or at least limiting it to approved subcontractors) are allowed and common. Just because he’s a contractor doesn’t mean NDAs are meaningless.
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by frisco 8y ago
> Investors need to know. Really? That's nonsense. This sentiment is a great example of what's so toxic about the public markets now. Everyone is complaining that so much value creation is happening in private companies going p
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by frisco 8y ago
100 petaflops per what? All of google’s deployment? Per rack? 100 Pflop / chip can’t be right.
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by frisco 8y ago
This is really missing the point. Ignoring the obvious missing things (salaries, computers, cost to carry inventory, servers), the bigger issue is that the internet has become massively more competitive over the last couple years and the co
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by frisco 8y ago
> The short version is: retain a competent wealth manager to advise you. This is not good advice. "Wealth managers" are totally useless and exist just to charge you fees and create complexity. I really like mgummelt's comm
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by frisco 8y ago
It’s not all or nothing. Selling 25% probably makes sense. Selling 100% probably doesn’t. The right balance depends on what % of your total net worth that $1M represents. I also think it highly depends on your answer to “how excited are you
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by frisco 9y ago
Have you driven a high performance EV? (Specifically, a Tesla?) I can't think of something more fun to drive, and I've driven a lot of cars. It feels completely different from a combustion engine car.
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by frisco 9y ago
Neuralink | Software engineering | San Francisco, CA | Full-time, Onsite Neuralink is a new neural engineering company founded by Elon Musk. Our goal is to develop brain-machine interfaces so useful and so safe that ordinary people will cho
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by frisco 9y ago
If you couldn't get its private keys, how would you take away its money?
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A $232M Cryptocurrency Fight Comes to a Close(wsj.com)
36 points by frisco 9y ago|39 comments
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by frisco 9y ago
Nature almost certainly took their top-line costs and divided by number of articles to get those values, which is obviously a ridiculous way to look at article costs.
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by frisco 9y ago
I think the purported backstory of how the internet came into possession of these slides via 4chan is at least as suspicious as the technical points. This would definitely not be the first time sketchily photographed fake “leaks” have appea
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by frisco 9y ago
This is almost certainly fake: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7qhcxo/ai_is_... (Regardless of whether it's fake or not, it definitely brings up a lot of interesting questions as a lo
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An (Institutional) Investor's Take on Cryptoassets [pdf](s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com)
3 points by frisco 9y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 9y ago
While a lot of people on the team have PhDs, I definitely would not describe Neuralink as "PhD heavy theory stage"! The overwhelming emphasis is on building things that work and testing them against reality as quickly as possible.

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