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by gojomo 5y ago
What you’re saying is explicitly false about the a16z START program, which says its applications are always open on a rolling basis. Also, as much help as a program like YC can be, if you ‘wait’ between sessions, rather than keep making as
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by gojomo 5y ago
But then that's "the market", isn't it? I also think the point of these sorts of seed programs is to offer early money that doesn't take 3-6 months of distraction-from-building to fundraise.
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by gojomo 5y ago
If that verbiage turns you off, it's likely that both your time, & A16Z's time, has been saved by discovering that incompatibility up front.
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by gojomo 5y ago
Not sure this "well below" knock is true in recent years – what's the best source of data? But even if it was: is a VC's multi-decade record more valuable to a founder than other in-the-now considerations? And, while ide
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by gojomo 5y ago
If they were "below market", wouldn't founders... go get the market rate from someone else?
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by gojomo 5y ago
IIUC you have a 2hr grace period to edit or delete an HN comment. So your aside here could be replaced by a correction instead.
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by gojomo 5y ago
Is this thus a `malloc()` without a matching `free()`?
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by gojomo 5y ago
Please, have landing pages & announcement pages explain up top what your thing is, or have the obvious click-targets (like the logo or project-name) take people to an introduction. If you've gone through all the trouble of designin
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by gojomo 5y ago
Ideology can make even the highly-credentialed pretty dumb. But did Mr. Wolff really say – "The basic concept of capitalism is that there are capital owners, and they hire workers who use that capital to generate value. The capital own
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by gojomo 5y ago
[on Staten Island]
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by gojomo 5y ago
That's only the 'basic concept of capitalism' at a reductionist Fischer-Price level-of-understanding by its detractors. That's just as impoverished a model of the real world, in its own way, as simple microeconomics anal
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by gojomo 5y ago
So perhaps they should sell the sprays, for their topical effectiveness, but stop the wasteful sales/promotion of pills.
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by gojomo 5y ago
My understanding, consistent with your impression, is that ephedrine has more of a full-system effect, including lungs & bronchial tubes, along with (in many people) more of a general full-system stimulation. In contrast, pseudoephedr
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by gojomo 5y ago
Which means it's not available outside of the pharmacist counter's more-limited hours. And there's often an additional line to wait in before acquiring. And, as another thread points out, extra ID requirements. So how exactly
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by gojomo 5y ago
'Capitalism' is neither theoretically, nor in practice, limited to "only reward people for their time". Some industries where the labor is low-skilled trend that way.
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by gojomo 5y ago
Agreed! But, it's important not to confuse what's possible via 'human-in-the-loop' 'active-learning' with what's possible from an algorithm on a fixed training corpus. Sometimes GPT-like models are portray
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by gojomo 5y ago
I don't recall those episodes, but I would say that in real life, yes, larger companies can 'kick the tires' for a long time, costing the target immense amounts of focus/time, then walk away. Older incumbent companies, e
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by gojomo 5y ago
There seems suggestive evidence, in the pattern of improvement after a few days on specific questions, that some of the worst answers have been human-reviewed & improved "on the fly" – on a scale of days/weeks. If such tw
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by gojomo 5y ago
Also: https://transorthogonal-linguistics.herokuapp.com/TOL/boy/ma... (Which can reproduce an old XKCD about the 'purity' of other scientific fields compared to math: https://twitter.com/
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by gojomo 5y ago
Life imitates art – specifically the Las Vegas-based surreal pseudo-mega-market "Omega Mart", which offers "Americanized Beef" in red, white, & blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROOGLYvQdDs
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by gojomo 5y ago
Definitely hard to extend the original canon/continuity! Our heroes eventually become very overpowered, with ~12y of shows resolving millions of years of space opera backstory to our protagonists' benefit, as they defeat the paras
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by gojomo 5y ago
On the one hand, the original recordings & models might not be sufficient for a true 'remaster' from original sources. But on the other, ML-driven upscaling has improved so much that a model trained specifically on the full se
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by gojomo 5y ago
Yes, if the stakes were large enough, & the adversary sufficiently skilled/resourced, it is possible an impersonator could also intercept & redirect your call to "the police" – for example by compromising phone networ
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by gojomo 5y ago
Remember the Helt! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1889)
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by gojomo 5y ago
As far as I can tell, none of Germany, France, or Italy – key countries who'd seemed a bit squishy – have 'eurosceptic' leaders. And I'm not alleging any "secret plan" requiring coordination – some "conspi
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by gojomo 5y ago
If you assign conclusive weight to recent "news", rather than historical precedents, I think you'll remain at the mercy of constructed narratives about what's really happening in high-stakes diplomacy & warmaking. Th
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by gojomo 5y ago
Note also: 'classical liberal' has been an attempt to clarify/brand a certain viewpoint for decades, as the US label of 'liberal' has drifted from what it previously meant. So I suspect your observation about the &q
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by gojomo 5y ago
Not if early disclosure accelerates the development of countermeasures! Nor if you’re worried about a wider conflict - perhaps also involving Asia – & want both maximal degradation of Russian capabilities, & “mystery” advantages for
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by gojomo 5y ago
It's also possible there are new, not-yet-publicly-disclosed anti-aircraft countermeasures/weapons. So, after seeing hints of greater-than-expected losses from unknown causes, the Russians may be wary of putting more aircraft at r
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by gojomo 5y ago
Can't be too careful!

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