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by johnloeber 10y ago
A superb case of Betteridge's Law of Headlines
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I'm not sure whether the relationship between startup success and public speaking engagements is established. Why do you think the relationship/correlation should be negative?
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Successful startup founders are not one-dimensional business machines, they're usually smart people who have some kind of different view on the world (which enables them to succeed in the first place). As such, you can assume that they
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by johnloeber 10y ago
To be clear: the bad parenting lesson is that the child learns that their actions don't matter. Rolling the dice gives the illusion of agency , but of course the child does not actually get to make any decisions. Their actions do not
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Ludo's fundamental, underlying lesson is that your actions don't matter at all. (The player has literally no agency in the game, it could be equivalently played by a RNG.) That doesn't seem like a good parenting lesson. A boa
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Downvoted because your comment is only tenuously connected to the subject: which problems in your industry could be solved by a startup ? We're talking about problems that need solutions, not the worthwhileness of the financial reward
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Is there data on what the work-life balance at WhatsApp was like, pre-acquisition?
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by johnloeber 10y ago
They were acquired for 19 billion dollars, so they were very obviously doing things right. Your condescending snark seems misplaced. Maybe the fact that WhatsApp was colossally successful, more so than nearly any other startup -- this was t
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I don't understand your comment.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
WhatsApp was operating with 650m MAUs, 24/7, and was purchased for $19 billion. How many employees did it have? 55.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Here is yet another person who doesn't understand that he is first and foremost hired to solve business problems, not to write software . It so happens that he writes software to solve these problems. If it turns out that he actually
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by johnloeber 10y ago
For all those wondering about Priceline (CEO Ownership 47%, VC Ownership 74%), where the total ownership exceeds 100%: Walker Digital Corp, one of the VCs, was founded by Jay Walker, the CEO of Priceline. Also, Zuckerberg exceptionalism str
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Listening to FW is a superb idea, especially because the text takes onomatopoeia to its limits and contains a plethora of multilingual puns. It's meant to be read aloud. I'm guessing that the stream-of-consciousness style lends it
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by johnloeber 10y ago
The first 100 pages are by far the hardest. They contain the stylistically most challenging passages, and DFW introduces nearly all characters and settings within those 100 pages, in a non-linear fashion to boot. For that reason, it takes a
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Gatsby is not about being a metaphor for anything in particular; it's a snapshot of a particular time and place, an account of what a certain society was like . It's just an intriguing (and quite beautiful) story that captures th
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I am surprised that YC would make this page so remarkably mobile-unfriendly. I don't have the time to listen to the interview, I just want to read the transcript. They could have just pasted it in a reader-friendly format, but instead
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by johnloeber 10y ago
MP resolution is not so important. What really matters is lens quality. You can get DSLRs with 12-18 MPs that take pretty nice pictures, though at a lower resolution. There were indeed 16+ MP snapshot cameras five years ago, but the picture
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Note that it's not so much the grey-on-black that's offensive, but the bright green and dark purple that produce eye strain. If you're going to use a black background, use light pastel colors for your fonts. That's usual
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by johnloeber 10y ago
> And gets credit for it. You let him get credit for 7 years?
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by johnloeber 10y ago
How is this in any way noteworthy? Lots of governments recommend a small personal stockpile. The Swiss government recommends that every resident stockpiles at least six weeks'[0] worth of food. Making an issue of such a policy in ligh
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Not sure if "millions of years" is actually truthful considering exponential growth and highly localized effects
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by johnloeber 10y ago
That's especially the case when you consider that the proposed track across CA is really a fairly short track on which the Hyperloop would not save a great deal of time in aggregate: the Hyperloop has a passenger capacity of about 10%
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by johnloeber 10y ago
> They buy them because of interior features. This seems incorrect. If it were true, then there would be no reason for the exteriors to be so god-awful. If all you care about is a lot of good interior space, then why pay for misplaced Ro
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Gotcha. Very interesting. Thanks for the information. I didn't expect that a compromise of RSA would have such a (relatively speaking) small impact.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Sorry, I am not an expert. I was under the impression that RSA is still widely in use today, so the ramifications would be quite devastating.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Most cryptographic methods rely on factoring being computationally difficult. The outcome of this would be the near-total compromise of modern cryptographic methods, i.e. the backbone of the internet would fall out.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Does anyone else think that these simplistic reductions/analogies are woefully inadequate for actually understanding the people you encounter and work with?
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Regarding the second point: sorry, I wasn't being clear. I think that the pricing probably goes like this: owning/operating a car > using a rideshare > using a personal scooter > using a personal bicycle. You have to keep
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Uber's China business was losing money before (I believe to the tune of about $1bn/year), and it looked like they weren't going to get a permanent hold in that market. Local competition was very strong. Consequently, I would
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by johnloeber 10y ago
The odd one out here is cutting your own hair, which seems like a very minor choice (you can usually find a decent haircut for $15-30), especially since you do it so rarely. Do you have an explanation for why this is significant, or why you

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