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by gip 4y ago
I'm not sure I want to do that, it's not my style. I just called the City and they sent a team to clean up the mess. But even if I reported them, I suspect YC leaders would be rather proud of these guys.
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by gip 4y ago
That is an anecdotinal data point.. I live in a building with 6 units in the Mission district of SF. Until a few years ago my neighbours were people: families, (gay) couples,.. We now have 3 startups in our building. One of the startup (YC-
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by gip 4y ago
I was working at a recruiting startup years ago and we got a cease & desist letter from LI asking us to stop crawling their public data. Initially crawling them was very easy (we had ~100m profiles). With time crawling became harder a
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by gip 4y ago
Interestingly Belgium and the Netherlands are missing in year say 1900.
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by gip 5y ago
Article 5 only applies if a country is attacked. So if the US or UK are attacking, it doesn't apply. However if China attacks the UK in Asia, then article 5 applies and NATO countries will coordinate to respond to that, militarily of n
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by gip 5y ago
I think the best path forward for Europe should be to have both. Keep NATO as a strong alliance and build an EU Defense component as a non-alliance. That will make things much more complicated for whoever wants to endanger European security
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by gip 5y ago
> Russians are bi-modaly distributed Sure. I applaud the people who protest. However I also want people reading this to understand that most people support Putin. At least I have strong data points that support this and denying that fact
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by gip 5y ago
I have family in Ukraine and Russia. From the data points that I have, I'd say that most people in Russia support Putin (including in my family). While the average citizen will be impacted first by the current situation, it will have a
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by gip 5y ago
I have family / friends in Russia and outside Russia and I’m seeing the same thing: Putin is popular. I suspect it had to do with how the Russian identity is build. I keep telling these people that a country is defined by what it does
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by gip 5y ago
That is true, bombing targets in a NATO country wouldn't work. On the other hand Russia could probably try to completely seal that border. It's not easy to do and will take years, but can be done.
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by gip 5y ago
And the only solution India has here is to support a dictator who has committed war crimes in Syria and attacked Ukraine? As I said in another thread: I believe that the government and policies of a country is a (very lagging) reflexion of
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by gip 5y ago
I think that China will pay the price of its burgeoning relationship with Russia at some point. No country wants to be seen as Russia's enabler by the American public. The optics for China is bad: Xi / Putin "no limit" m
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by gip 5y ago
You are using an analogy to a totally different domain (parent / child) where the rules of the game is totally different (in parent / child relationship, everything is controlled and non-escalatory: it's about education and t
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by gip 5y ago
I have no problem making life harder for Russians, having them cancel their holiday in Turkey, wait in line a bit, move to a new VPN. Maybe that will make some realize that something is wrong with their entire government and they need to re
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by gip 5y ago
China has willingly accepted to support Russia confront NATO directly and said Putin they will help in case of unilateral sanctions from the West. China may not try to backtrack a bit, but that support directly enabled Putin to invade (even
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by gip 5y ago
China is in a very uncomfortable situation imo. More than staying neutral, they are probably trying to find a way out. They have: (0) enabled an unprovoked attack from Russia on Ukraine, undermining peace in Europe, (1) said that their ties
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by gip 5y ago
Highly preferable to a total ban from SWIFT. Because giving the perception to the dictator of a nuclear state that all his money reserves have been totally “stolen” may not be the wisest move. I’d personally not take that risk and work on o
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by gip 5y ago
I'm curious - when what true? In the 2000s? Before? I joined my first startup on 2010 and we had a managed PG database that was good enough for us I reckon.
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by gip 5y ago
As a former hardware engineer I support the move by the FTC! I have an honest question though: does the lawsuit have any realistic change to block that merger?
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by gip 5y ago
Another data point: earlier this year I interviewed at Stripe for a manager position. After the interview loop, I was told by email and on the phone that I got the job and that they would follow up within days. Never heard back after that a
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by gip 5y ago
Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/02/faceboo... https://archive.md/JMwS2
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by gip 5y ago
I know nothing about finance but I'd love to understand how such a scheme can fool inverstors. At the end of the day cashInBank==investment+sales-costs. How can close to $80 millions be missing on the balance sheet without anyone notic
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by gip 5y ago
The Magna Carta not only singled out Jews, but also benefited a very very small part of the population of that time - according to some scholars as little as 10 people in England! Other scholars disagree on the figure but it is clear that m
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by gip 5y ago
I agree, but I would also not compare investing in stocks and starting a company. Starting a company is not for everyone. It's a calling. Being able to invest and get competitive returns should be democratized. It is a known fact that
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by gip 5y ago
While that's true, it may only be part of the story. There is a clear tension between "democratize X" (for Robinhood X is "finance for all") and offering a white glove service, including stellar support for everyone
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by gip 5y ago
While I love the idea of JaaS (Justice As A Service) I suspect that in most cases the cost will make it unworkable. In the situation OP faced, figuring out whether the contract has been correctly executed and whether the payment should have
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by gip 5y ago
We've built and launched our community platform on Hasura + PG RDS. Row-level permission has been a time-saver to launch a product quickly. Stability has been great - our Hasura container hasn't crashed / restarted in the las
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by gip 5y ago
Did you use platforms like Handshake or Jumpstart to apply?
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by gip 5y ago
My experience is similar but at a differet level of seniorty. I've applied to ~15 jobs for engineering manager and got 1 answer. On the other end a recruiter reached out to me and I'll be doing the final interview with their VP ne
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by gip 5y ago
Very similar experience for a lot of math programs in France. For about a year we did a lot of repetitive and uninteresting stuff (integration by parts, compute Taylor series on the whiteboard, ...). The only concept from that time I used i

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