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I am not talking about a summary paragraph but a summary line or teaser line. (I probably used the wrong word).
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Fully understand. You work for (or at least know very well) PG. Others have been helped by PG. Invested in by PG or YC. I am someone who doesn't fall into that category.
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This essay is very long. It would benefit from at least a summary at the top of each paragraph so you could scan through and read what you found interesting if you didn't have the time to read the entire essay. Quick check over 13500 w
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> Rodi Guidero, managing director for strategic investments at Gates Ventures (who now oversees Breakthrough Energy Ventures), Guidero blurted, “That’s a terrible f—ing idea.” He argued the fund would lose money and embarrass Gates. “Why
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> (1989) It was super weird to see that written because Microsoft wasn’t on our collective academic radar and most people didn’t know who Bill Gates was In 1989 'most' people would for sure know who Bill Gates was. He made the
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It's bad form for someone like PG. No context nothing no story about why and a tweet no less. The issue is not why the HN crowd would be interested in what PG says. It's why PG says this along the lines of someone who got pissed o
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> If Apple didn't react a week later, approach a lawyer. They'll likely be willing to work purely for 50% commission, because it'll be a slam dunk in court. First of all nothing is a slam dunk in court. Second even if you
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> Yes, 'Who Is Hiring' days strain our server in general and there are a lot of other things going today, like Slack being down and the holidays being over. (Edit: and one mammoth 500-comment subthread that I've since spli
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The magic of a story on HN at the top and not having a clue why. Would be a nice feature to HN to a pinned summary field at the top (and no don't call it 'tl;dr' either that is another 'what does that mean' to many
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The dollar amount that any Robinhood customer lost pales in comparison to the money they can lose when buying stocks in general ie gambling no way around it. The entire industry as some may know is built on 'do your homework' and
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I will say maybe not bad the deadline. Why? Well my theory is that legal fees and help would be higher (that's right higher) if a longer time period was given. Seems counter intuitive but that's my way of looking at it. (I guess i
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> if they say they think it was a 13 year old from Ohio How could you read my comment and think that is what I thought they should say?? I said not to say anything. And why use hyperbole ie 'they would be out of business tomorrow&#x
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The reporter meant 'used'. I have never heard the use of 'created' and if there is a meaning to that that I don't know about it's not widely used and should not have been used by the writer. The 'many insi
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Why impersonate Fireeye even? Just start a legitimate company, gain customers and then use that as a basis to gather what you need. The employees wouldn't know this they'd think they are working for a legitimate company. The bad
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Huge target on their back no matter what. Like those movies where the tough guy is tested when he gets to prison. This is where it does not pay to be a public company. If they weren't a public company they wouldn't have to disclos
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> New Carbon monoxide alarm never went off. I use more than one CO detector and order from different manufacturers. Same as I have done with hard drives or SSD's. Will note this is trivial to do typically cost wise.
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Would take less than 10 minutes if you were in proximity of a iphone to figure out a way to social engineer the owner into handing you the phone unlocked and giving them back a duplicate phone locked that was not their phone. Or just steali
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I found what you said interesting (my other comment) and noted if you had said 'this reminds me of' probably others would not have jumped on you for the phrasing. (I thought it was fine and I learned something I hadn't known
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I thought the comment was interesting. I wouldn't assume that all readers are looking for exact tech info or already knows what was said or thought about it. Perhaps instead of saying 'This related to, but not the same as' th
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No doubt many of the merchants and businesses that are being put out of business and/or complaining about amazon are in fact buying from them for the same reasons others are.
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> It will be too expensive for local retailers to carry them. How is this any different than any other company being put out of business because someone does it better cheaper or faster? Would you have said the same about automobiles put
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What would be interesting (PG if you are reading) is a preamble that indicated what in particular inspired you to write a particular essay.
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> Over the years, I've found PG's essays much less compelling. As some sibling comments here have noted, there's a level of self-assuredness that feels increasingly disconnected from reality This most likely comes from spe
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> But at the same time, there are people who have so heavily invested into the YouTube ecosystem with certain expectations for a very long time, and pretty much have their entire business on there, so they can't very easily take the
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> decided to be held hostage by google and pay them to remove content that they would otherwise only put in front of you if you were looking. Its like paying a restaurant not to harass you and then going to it when you could just go to t
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YC W15 Batch: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/805
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Lucira Health (YC W15) Receives First FDA Authorization(lucirahealth.com)
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Has anyone calculated the ratio of simple questions that anyone can answer on a game show vs. the more difficult ones? Obviously there is a formula to keep people engaged by having low hanging fruit that everyone knows 'that's ea
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> Jerry Springer. He kind of just meandered into the lobby where we sitting and sat down, by himself, with no apparent agenda? I understand you indicated the actual reason 'film crew' but people in entertainment (or who write)
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> I can assure you I didn't have Feynman in the name of my company to score some extra upvotes on HN Ok so why do you have 'Feynman' in your company name then? And I didn't say it was for getting upvotes either. I imp

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