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by jacobr1 5y ago
There has been a big push to diversify supply with Nurse Practitioners and PAs. They aren't able to perform all the actions an MD can perform, but have a lower entry bar but still can treat and prescribe in a large array of cases.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
JPL employees are actually private employees of CalTech not federal employees.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
There is always the route of "fiction inspired by real-life." Use your stories, but change them. Maybe add a more coherent narrative that doesn't exist in the vignettes of a lived-life.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I'm not sure how it works in VC, but with real-estate investing, the Cash-On-Cash return, which is basically the same as TVPI is extremely helpful when comparing investments that potentially have very different ways to structure the le
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Ideally you want to know what boxes you need to tick to get the check. Do they already like the product, and just want to vet the founders. Do they not understand the problem? Do they get the product, but question its ability to scale? Basi
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I often find the confusions comes from not clearly understanding what is being communicated, and what you think the other side expects. The slide deck format, is often build from top-down hierarchy. Slides for areas A, B, C. When really you
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by jacobr1 5y ago
You don't need the breach, the DB is already public (in encrypted form). So yeah, all you need is either a currently unknown mathematic weakness in the encryption scheme, or bug in implementation, or as you suggest some future quantum
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I'm more interested in replacing _other_ drivers, more than myself. Really if we could replace the bottom 10% of drivers with AI, even at the level we have today, I imagine that would be a net improvement. But that isn't really a
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Even in the benign case it usually intent laundering. Consultants are often brought in to deal with organizational inability to do something that a substantial chunk of the employees already knows they need to do. It is one of the reasons t
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The fines aren't big enough to change their business, but they are quite possibly big enough to change their _proceedures_. I can easily imagine there becomes more stringent internal rules and processes on disclosures, even if they kee
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Consider that we didn't spend 100 years using electricity at current rates. There was was an s-curve growth that only recently flattened in developed countries.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The $50M isn't their internal R&D budget. It is the budget to spend on external groups, mostly university grants, to focus on things like how to make whatever "metaverse" gets built is somehow more inclusive and less-cybe
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Substack is winning because of business model innovation, and also because of market timing. Their technology isn't really an advantage compared to legacy CMS platforms - how they are employing that technology is the difference. Medium
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Employee options pools tend to be maintained at 10-15% of the company. Unless you are a cofounder, very-early employee, or recruited-big-exec in a growth phase, your equity, AND importantly, ALL the equity from your employee peers sums to l
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Frustratingly so. Getting an offer of a number of shares, without any context on the total number outstanding or recent valuations, doesn't provide you with the ability to calculate future upsides. Though even if you get those numbers,
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Also there are plenty of gray legal areas. Often the questions are, "Is this really breaking the law? What is the risk?" And even in cases where the managed 100% wants fully comply with existing law, there are still tradeoffs. How
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by jacobr1 5y ago
It is, but it also a liability you can afford to pay others to manage in detail.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
> What does 10B buy me that 10M wouldn't? Influence on the global stage The ability to finance meaningful changes to the world - be they things like disease eradication, political movements, space endeavors. Rather than needing to b
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by jacobr1 5y ago
During the deal, self-rationalization starts to kick-in. The founders probably start believing some of the big-company synergy stories: complementary customer base, already scaled resources, complementary product in the portfolio. "Cro
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by jacobr1 5y ago
How does this differ from traditional brick and mortar retail? The retailers posed a barrier to selling to consumers at scale and wholesale prices, I think, were closer to 50% of retail markup. Sure, manufactures could find small retailers
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by jacobr1 5y ago
You might want to consider comparing generated sound files, rather than abstract notion. If you have the ground truth notion, render that using the same mechanism as your transcription. Then you can use various spectral comparison technique
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Sure, but the recent turn to Populism, is that strange beast of elites pointing out the evils of some other class of elites to garner support. Bolsonaro, Babis, Borisov, Trump and others didn't come to power because they coopted the ex
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I think it always was a "my team" thing. It is just that the "conservative team" of the past had "anti-authoritarianism" as one of the team virtues, even if it was hypocritical at times. There is a still a vagu
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Sure, it's "limited" liability, not "no" liability. And criminal actions remove even the limited part. But it isn't clear to me that the owners having criminal liability was the basis the bankruptcy court was o
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Given this is HN, I honestly can't tell if you are being genuine or snarky.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Are you motivated to "find love?" Or just mechanistically following your genetic drive for reproduction?
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by jacobr1 5y ago
All middlemen provide "some" value, or else they get eliminated by the market. Sure, some might stick around vestigially for momentum sake, but that gets worked out over the long run. The question is more one of a value judgement.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
They family both owned and controlled (in the sense that the board was stacked with family members) the company that manufactured OxyContin. The _company_ has been found in prior cases to be liability for criminal marketing practices leadin
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by jacobr1 5y ago
It is a harder question than that. I think we do want limited liability as legal notion. For any company, not just this example, culpability should stop at the Board, and then any employee of company that willfully commits wrongdoing. The o
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I'm not the OP, but I've noticed something similar myself. I still have certain things I'm passionate about. But I no longer feel the need (or rather I don't just automatically become invested in every topic that comes u

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