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by gizmo 3y ago
The risk a woman takes on by going on coffee date in a public space is minimal. Instead, women should be (and usually are) on the alert for indicators that guys don't respect boundaries or get pushy/aggressive when they are told n
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by gizmo 3y ago
You need every edge you can get. Great pictures, great bio, funny/interesting/engaging chat. Be in shape. Plan cool dates. Most guys who don't get anywhere with the apps have to 10x their effort. Maybe that feels unfair to yo
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by gizmo 3y ago
It's not hopeless. In fact, online dating is the most common path to finding a partner. That said, you have to set yourself apart somehow. Different for every individual, and it takes a serious amount of effort. But it's not impos
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by gizmo 3y ago
Dating is not particularly dangerous for women. When women get murdered it is most often by their long term partner, by an ex, or stalker. Guys can be real jerks when online dating, but it's not true that women are likely to end up in
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by gizmo 3y ago
Facebook notoriously allowed advertisers to check boxes to not show ads to certain demographics. This would result in all sorts of discriminatory practices, like not showing real estate advertisements to Black people. No AI involved. Just a
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by gizmo 3y ago
I recently came across a somewhat provocative defense of legacy admissions. The argument is that the iveys are great because they bring together the children of the rich and powerful (legacy admissions with connections) with really smart an
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by gizmo 3y ago
Lockdowns were sold to the people as something that would stop the spread. If you can get every infected person to infect less than one other person on average, you can stop the spread of an infectious disease completely. At least in theory
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by gizmo 3y ago
> Criminals that attempt to launder money on a transparent and traceable blockchain Remember the NFT craze? Use dirty money to pump the price of some flavor of NFT. Then use clean money to speculate on a sure thing and take out the profi
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by gizmo 3y ago
People sure get agitated when I point out -- correctly I might add -- that crypto is uniquely suited for crime. The SEC is busting crypto exchanges left and right, if you haven't noticed.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Enterprise customers are a double-edged sword. They have money and they're very professional. That's the good part. The bad part is that they can pull your product in a direction that will kill your startup. SaaS software -- with
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by gizmo 3y ago
CBDC don’t have to be crypto. They can be just any kind of virtual currency. You don’t need to waste all the compute to ensure the chain doesn’t get forked. CBDCs aren’t going to be distributed and anarchistic like bitcoin and Eth. Facilita
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by gizmo 3y ago
> Yet a common management / product strategy is to buy random companies as though they are ingredients of a dish and think it'll just work. Acquisitions are an easy way to juice top line growth. Acquisitions also offer ample op
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by gizmo 3y ago
35m is what Paperspace raised according to crunchbase. 12 of which was raised in 2021, before the AI hype. So unless their valuation was absurd I think all investors did OK here.
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by gizmo 3y ago
> A lot of patented products have a positive impact on the world, should all of these be shared? Yes. It’s bad to criminalize innovation. Most patentable innovations are not so unique but only a logical next step given prior inventions.
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by gizmo 3y ago
The flip side is that R&D is a lot easier and cheaper when you don’t have to worry about accidental infringement. But your last paragraph suggests we’re already in agreement. In any case, I’m fine with companies making the pragmatic cho
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by gizmo 3y ago
“We don’t give years of R&D away for free” is a pretty flippant response. You make money selling car seats, and if another company can produce better seats at a lower price then consumers win and lives are saved. Which is ostensibly exa
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by gizmo 3y ago
They had to design the software, the UX including the touch wheel, the mac integration and syncing, and everything relating to the design, materials, and sourcing of the components. It’s astonishing that they got it done in less than a year
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by gizmo 3y ago
It's easy to imagine those marketplaces having huge TAMs /today/. With the benefit of hindsight, it's easy. And it's easy to extrapolate to similar businesses. It wasn't obvious then, not even to the founders.
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by gizmo 3y ago
It's not obvious, except in hindsight, which startups are venture-scale. How big is the audience going to be for a new product? How much can you charge? Who knows? Some products start out in a small niche, get fanatical users, and then
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by gizmo 3y ago
Many intelligent people like having intelligent conversations. The kind of conversations where they learn new perspectives and where ideas can be challenged. If those conversations are not possible you get stuck making small talk, which is
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by gizmo 3y ago
But... this way you end up dating somebody that only likes you when you're hung over. That doesn't sound like a winning strategy to me.
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by gizmo 3y ago
> I have a coach, I work with an executive coaching mastermind as I deepen my own executive coaching practice, I have a men’s group that meets weekly (it’s like crossfit for my emotions), a therapist and a slack channel filled with innov
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by gizmo 3y ago
Okay it doesn’t make money if you believe ads don’t make money. Because this place is a giant ad for YC.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Platform companies can't scale by just getting more of the type of customers they already have. They scale by getting bigger and more demanding customers. Those customers will expect the things AWS and the other big cloud platforms alr
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by gizmo 3y ago
Even on an M2 Mac Spotlight takes a second or two to appear after you hit the shortcut. Apple notes takes an absurd 8 seconds to start. Apple music and Spotify are also take seconds to start. Skype takes 10 seconds. I'm very happy with
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by gizmo 3y ago
Okay so they raised 100m which means they need to work towards a 1bn exit. And if they want to keep their momentum going their r&d cost will go through the roof. Because they have to build the whole stack and it all has to be rock solid
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by gizmo 3y ago
This site makes an unbelievable amount of money because it helps YC startups attract talent, it promotes YC companies, and most of all, it encourages founders to apply to YC.
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by gizmo 3y ago
The success of this website which has rejected all "best practices" for more than a decade should tell you something. No profiles. No awards. No visible karma (anymore). No post footers. No popups. No ajax. No images. No colors. O
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by gizmo 3y ago
VCs don't invest their own money. VCs are paid a percentage of the money they invest in startups. As a result VCs only care about the quality of the investment they make insofar it helps them raise more money in the future. Because mor
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by gizmo 3y ago
Aggressively deleting all records the moment it’s legally allowed is the name of the game. Records are a real liability for banks so the moment they can go they’re gone. Unless the fines become existential or the c-suite goes straight to ja

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