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by jforman 11y ago
The headline is "Homosexuality may be caused by chemical modifications to DNA" and yet there is zero evidence of causation, merely preliminary data showing a correlation. Science should be above this.
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by jforman 11y ago
In American law, there are civil offenses (torts) and criminal offenses (crimes). Criminal cases are prosecuted exclusively by the government. In both categories of law, there is a subset of offenses that fall under "strict liability&
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Are “Better” Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Analysis of Startup Evaluation [pdf](hbs.edu)
81 points by jforman 11y ago|30 comments
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by jforman 11y ago
When it's clear at the top that core strategy needs to change (as in this case), this usually doesn't impact the company in bits and pieces — it all comes at once. That's because making a major change at a large company requ
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by jforman 11y ago
15 interesting slides is a few standard deviations higher than what I normally find interesting in a talk
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by jforman 11y ago
Moving to SoMa won't do it, but if you have a successful exit and a personal relationship with ballsy VCs you have a shot: http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/02/an-ex-googler-is-launching-...
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by jforman 11y ago
Sounds like this is roughly based on the Microsoft/Facebook deal. MSFT invested $240M at $15B valuation but won the right to be the ad platform for FB globally for some period of time. Not the same as forcing the investee into ad spen
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by jforman 11y ago
You sure about that? They're doing better than Rackspace and Google: http://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RightScal...
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by jforman 11y ago
The major law firms all benchmark law school graduate salaries against each other. When one firm deviates it's a huge to-do.
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by jforman 12y ago
When I moved from SF to Boston (after co-founding Inkling six years ago), the top two things I was worried about are a) a less pro-startup culture, and b) less available early-stage money. This really doesn't help either point. We nee
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by jforman 12y ago
Either way the university owns the IP regardless of who the "inventor" on the patent is, so why is this relevant?
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by jforman 12y ago
It is not a folder. Once I realized this I uninstalled. I don't want to redownload files every time I need to work on them.
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by jforman 12y ago
"Zhang--who maintains he did the work independently" So he has a wet lab at home? color me skeptical. But I suppose you might as well do what you can to get a slice of a multi-billion dollar pie.
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by jforman 12y ago
- What's your approach on how to eventually apply the process to cells that don't normally grow in suspension? - How do you guard against harmful drug interactions in vivo, given that most of these drug combinations probably haven
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by jforman 12y ago
Anybody can file any kind of lawsuit. If you can't demonstrate harm to the person filing (with a few exceptions) that lawsuit will be tossed right out, though.
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by jforman 12y ago
This can be addressed by managers making more reasonably attainable goals. Every other industry in the world has an endless list of things to do as well and yet most don't suffer from the same lack of work/life balance.
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by jforman 12y ago
All of the DNA replication machinery that operates in mitochondria is encoded in the nucleus, translated in the cytoplasm, and then transported into the mitochondrion: "The remaining ~1500 mitochondrial proteins are encoded in the nucl
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by jforman 12y ago
They had prime real estate that a more robust business will pick up. The jobs will be replaced. Whether this is good social policy is a much more complicated question.
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by jforman 12y ago
Being a VC is a very attractive role to many people if you can make it work. You get to work with top-tier companies in a meaningful way and have the chance to make an incredible amount of money in the process (you participate both in fund
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by jforman 12y ago
Uh, so false. Malnatis is such a beautiful thing.
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by jforman 12y ago
$500/hr is the price of 1.5 IP lawyers, based on the median hourly rate in Oregon: https://www.osbar.org/_docs/resources/HourlyRatesSurvey/Inte... On the other hand, it only affords 1/2 a lawyer if
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by jforman 12y ago
"No matter where you live" ? The 80th percentile for household income in 2012 was $160,000. This does really crazy things to a relatively static housing supply: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/In-g
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by jforman 12y ago
How did he get into a position where he has his choice of founders? He built the empire by offering mentorship, money, and community (which is peer-to-peer mentorship). In the beginning, the draw wasn't money because they didn&#x27
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by jforman 12y ago
"So starting a startup is intrinsically something you can only really learn by doing it" This makes absolutely no sense coming from somebody who built an empire giving advice to budding entrepreneurs.
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Ask ten PMs what they do, and you’ll get ten different answers. Let's fix that.(medium.com)
1 points by jforman 12y ago|0 comments
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by jforman 12y ago
An excellent book on this topic is "A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England." It examines what "truth" means in a scientific context by going back to its roots as a discipline. The
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by jforman 12y ago
My one year old moves constantly and injures herself unless we hover non-stop. I hear I was the same as an infant/toddler, and I'm sure I could get an ADHD diagnosis now as an adult. I would never consider medicating her even
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by jforman 12y ago
Switches have reasonably sophisticated hardware to prevent packet collisions which would probably be hard to do away with.
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by jforman 13y ago
That's the one thing you decide to make a comment about?
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by jforman 13y ago
http://www.icq.com/people/159272/en Thought about selling it on ebay, since six-digit accounts used to fetch a non-trivial amount of money. But decided it wasn't worth the $100.

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