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by jeffwass 12y ago
There's something psychological about a product being in its clean and pure undamaged state. And it goes well beyond fruit. Even for products that get wear and tear through normal usage, it's somehow better if we're the ones
902.
by jeffwass 12y ago
How would you know? Do you have a credit card, and have you read the pages of fine print?
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by jeffwass 12y ago
I went to RadioShack in Boston around the late 90's to buy some batteries, and the clerk asked for my name and address. I was not in a mood to play their personal information game, so I just said "John Doe" thinking he'd
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by jeffwass 12y ago
That's why it should be normalized per startup. Roughly $30m per, at 5 years.
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Wow, pretty bold bet SamA! Anybody know how Sam's Proposition 3 would have played out for prior years of YC? He's betting that net valuation of the entire YC W15 class will exceed $3B by 1st Jan 2020. That's roughly $30m per
906.
by jeffwass 12y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply reuven. Very interesting to see your perspectives, and clarification.
907.
by jeffwass 12y ago
Yup, I know the Kosher-for-Passover cakes don't fall under the strictly defined rules of leavening, that's why they're officially Kosher as certified by a Rabbi. But for all intents and purposes, again in just my common-perso
908.
by jeffwass 12y ago
>I don't see having such cakes as a loophole, or even contrary to the spirit of the holiday, because the spirit of the holiday is to avoid leavened and bread products. I don't follow you here. Cakes are leavened, and the spirit
909.
by jeffwass 12y ago
In my own view, as a reform Jew, many of the Kosher for Passover items that even Orthodox consume are loopholes anyway, like Kosher for Passover cakes. In the words of my friend - "OK, we eat Matzah because when we left Egypt we didn&#
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Yeah, his record pretty amazing. I mean, even his least successful startup zip2 'only' sold for $300m, earning him a 'measly' $20m, and that was his first one after college.
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by jeffwass 12y ago
why not take a poll : On a scale from 1 to 5, how much value do you derive from the use of a 1 to 5 scale? True or False - it's OK to limit subjective questions to Boolean responses.
912.
by jeffwass 12y ago
I think I heard this in a Unix fortune 15 years ago : When engineers implement base-4 logic, will they call it quits?
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by jeffwass 12y ago
How did you recover your hearing?
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Clearly y'all have not heard the fine alternative audio commentary for Fellowship of the Ring by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky : http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-b... It's really a jo
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by jeffwass 12y ago
I've sat in a few classes during my undergrad and grad years. Big classes you can just hide in the crowd, but for small classes (eg 10 students) the professors are usually pretty ok with it as long as I ask them first. (Sat in some EE
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Out of curiosity, were those free with or without taxes/fees? One of my friends about 12 years ago found round trip tickets from NYC to Egypt for $0 + taxes and fees. Fees came to about $100-$200 or so. He immediately bought 10 ticket
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Not sure how it works elsewhere in the UK, but in London the cab drivers have to take an in-depth course called 'The Knowledge' which covers street routes, alternate routes during street closures, commercial destinations, etc. See
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Interesting, thanks for that! I for one would be interested in reading a more detailed blog post if you are able to get to it. Cheers!
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Firstly - congratulations on your company's success and fundraising round. As for the AMA, I'm curious of the differences you see in YC between now and 7 years ago. There are some obvious ones, like larger class sizes, more partne
920.
by jeffwass 12y ago
The Landau Lifshitz series is absolutely amazing. It works so well with my brain, entirely concise with just enough textual clarification as needed. Eg, volume 1 is classical mechanics. By page 3 or so you e already derived the Lagrangian e
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by jeffwass 12y ago
lisper, you're obviously a pretty smart guy or gal. But your nit-picking here over 'observing' vs 'happening' is so far from your original very bold claim that the arrow of time is not thermodynamic but quantum. Y
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Your arxiv link disagrees with you. From the paragraph after equation 6.6 : >This irreversibility is completely equivalent to the irreversibility in classical mechanics. Indeed, classically, to reverse the microscopic time evolution, it
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Cheers for the article, quite interesting. I'd still maintain the original comment in the original article is correct, that the arrow of time is still driven by 'thermodynamic' processes, where I'm allowing thermodynamic
924.
by jeffwass 12y ago
Sorry, your grand statement matter-of-factly dismissing thermodynamic arrow of time needs a much better source than some computer scientist's armchair blog about QM. I know it's been recently trendy for armchair physicists to post
925.
by jeffwass 12y ago
Fair point, but 'messing it up' to such a high degree of accuracy that it could be corrected for via COSTAR does show soundness of engineering. Ie, mistakes will inevitably happen. But having the process refined enough to compensa
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by jeffwass 12y ago
I've found this helps as well. Often at the end of the day I'll do a mental stack dump of where I am in various projects, including the immediate next steps, in an email and send to myself to easily jump right in the next morning.
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by jeffwass 12y ago
> It was like this secret power, just putting on a Wardrobe of Charisma +5. That made me chuckle. Mind commenting on what kind of clothes they offered and for what sort of price range?
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Ah yes, I also learned to program by typing in these games, and reverse engineering to see how they worked. On a TRS-80. Which given RadioShack's recent bankruptcy makes this article a bit more nostalgic for me. Btw, your comment abou
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by jeffwass 12y ago
I worked as a hardware and software engineer in my post-undergraduate pre-PhD job. I had a bachelors degree in physics, but not engineering, so did that count?
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by jeffwass 12y ago
Actually this article shows many interesting examples going back to the late '40s, most of which would be considered indie. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_video_game Interestingly for me was the second in t

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