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by gizmo 2y ago
I have read a couple of books on that subject and they all disappointed. I will gladly buy your book if it's original work.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Also consider that out of those 4000 startups many are not unicorns yet . The long term percentage might be closer to 2.5%. And the latest batches have many AI startups which I suspect will have an ever greater unicorn success rate.
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by gizmo 2y ago
The cybertruck doesn't just have drive-by-wire it has steer-by-wire. That's really unusual for cars.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Every once in a while a highly funded startup launches a hilariously bad product. Five or so years ago everybody (rightfully) made fun of the juicero. Before that we had Google Glass (glasshole). Today the Humane Pin has to suffer slings an
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by gizmo 3y ago
Patents also block people from coming up with the same design independently. In addition you've got patent trolls who will gladly shake you down but who have no desire to use their patents productively themselves. Patent law turns the
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by gizmo 3y ago
I couldn't disagree more. If you try to build a commercial product and fail that doesn't entitle you to the profits made by others who made a successful product.
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by gizmo 3y ago
When smart people work on hard problems this usually comes with positive externalities. Even when the tech ends up worthless the the engineers will have learned a ton. I don't think that having people work on technology that is ahead o
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by gizmo 3y ago
One the one hand this is a cool story about real technology pioneers. On the other hand, this is a story about people building technology that was so ahead of its time that it had no chance of turning into a good product. Too expensive, too
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by gizmo 3y ago
A single piece of investigative journalism can cost the NYT 500,000 easily. A reporter can work for a year on a single article where every piece of evidence has to to be verified, lawyers are involved to check liability, the journalist(s) a
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by gizmo 3y ago
Most news organizations have figured out that partisan coverage helps grow your audience while criticizing your own team results in cancellations. That's a problem for Glenn Greenwald who has always focused his energy on criticizing th
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by gizmo 3y ago
You can be dragged into lawsuits that never end. You have to mediate employee drama. You are responsible for paychecks which is stressful when the business is deteriorating. Owning a $100 million business is not at all like having $100 mill
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by gizmo 3y ago
Most startups can’t hang on to their explosive revenue/user growth without also growing headcount. There are plenty of bad VCs out there but there are also plenty of founders who postpone recruitment because it’s a drag.
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by gizmo 3y ago
To all those who dismiss the Seagull because it's small and cheap, remember one thing: making inexpensive cars is much, much, harder than making luxury cars. The lower your gross margins the fewer mistakes you can make. It's a mir
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by gizmo 3y ago
The experience for users is just much much better if everybody is on the same platform. And the platform operator has to deal with spam, abuse, and compliance issues. Federated platforms haven't even attempted to seriously deal with th
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by gizmo 3y ago
Not quite, because one big input is the ratio of your investments to your annual savings. Large drawdowns are bad late in life, early in life they're not such a big deal. Kelly prohibits very profitable bets when they come with conside
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by gizmo 3y ago
Cars, computers and everything else is imported. There is no manufacturing to speak of. > Small-scale industries in Gaza City include the production of plastics, construction materials, textiles, furniture, pottery, tiles, copperware, an
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by gizmo 3y ago
You finally admit that you see the Palestinian people as the enemy.
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by gizmo 3y ago
You know perfectly well that they are not allowed to build factories because, guess what, factories can also be used to make weapons. Gaza is not even allowed to import basic medical equipment like X-Ray machines. So much for "full sov
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by gizmo 3y ago
Most people find genocide upsetting. This isn't a video game. Tens of thousands of lives are being destroyed here.
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by gizmo 3y ago
It was never theirs to begin with and they turned it into a prison. They destroyed the Gaza airport and harbor. Build a fence around it so nobody could enter or leave. Refused to negotiate with the elected officials of Gaza. Israel still ha
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by gizmo 3y ago
Hamas leadership can be killed, but Israel is effectively waging a was on terror by another name. And terror is a concept you can’t blow up. By inflicting horrific damage on a civilian population Israel creates more people willing to give u
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by gizmo 3y ago
The last time Israel “attempted” peace was before the majority of Palestinians were even born. The only peace talks that had any chance of working were held by Rabin who got promptly murdered. Israel also never stopped killing Palestinians
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by gizmo 3y ago
Israel doesn't want peace because they're winning. Every year Palestinians lose territory, and the land that remains becomes more and more uninhabitable.
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by gizmo 3y ago
You're right that the violence and devastation Israel has laid upon Gaza has historic precedence. Genghis Khan completely destroyed cities that he considered cultural enemies, to give one example. You'll find many instances of gen
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by gizmo 3y ago
In Poker it isn't so much about how many hands you win or lose, it's about creating big pots when you have good hands and small pots otherwise. That's how good poker players can profitably play bad cards (that are statistical
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by gizmo 3y ago
Your local pizzeria will probably do well by just not blundering. If the pizzas, location, decor, menu, and staff are good enough then the place will do reasonably well. If you do everything right as a pizza place you survive, if you blunde
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by gizmo 3y ago
You're right. Fixed.
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by gizmo 3y ago
The author seems to be at Elo 1100. At this level players don't think even a single move ahead and blunder their queen every other game. Slightly better amateur players realize that they should trade pieces once they're ahead to g
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by gizmo 3y ago
I think that interpretation conflates civility politics and banality of evil . One axis about decorum and appearance. Those who look and act like "good and decent upper middle class people" always get the benefit of the doubt w
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by gizmo 3y ago
Yes, and "banality of evil" is famously misunderstood: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2016-10-12/ty-article/th... (Eichmann was a Nazi through and through, fiercely antisemitic, knew exactly wh

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