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by jsun 13y ago
We certainly might be heading into a bubble, but so far the effects have been limited. WhatsApp isn't very indicative of a bubble, same with instagram, snapchat, etc. because it's the same company (FB) making single bidder offers.
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by jsun 13y ago
Yeah I gotta say, this blog post is a really terrible idea. A "reasonable person", if this came up in a court of law, would probably conclude that despite your disclaimers to the contrary, you know or should've known that thi
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by jsun 13y ago
What this really shows is an increase in the frequency of 1-time events such as IPOs or sales. There is no value, one way or the other, in using cross-sectional data (this article) to describe longitudinal shifts (the rich get richer). It&#
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by jsun 13y ago
Yeah maybe its a market issue. I live in a major metropolitan market and local DJs who almost never produce makes more money than that. Granted a specific market + genre combo can only support a handful of these "regionally famous&quot
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by jsun 13y ago
Has anyone ever studied whether momentum is a good measure for eventual success (whatever that might mean)?
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by jsun 13y ago
IANAL but I was in a similar situation (didn't end up going through with it) and did some research. The technical answer is you are probably in the clear unless some part of the app's flow or design was "non-obvious", an
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by jsun 13y ago
In my experience the data presented here shows the need to cut further or obtain additional data. There's some correlation, but the data appears to be a rough aggregate and the absolute magnitude of the movement is small. Also unclear
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by jsun 13y ago
Applying this parable to a startup -> the first solution was superior because it required no specialized knowledge and got you 80% of the way there. sure line efficiency was 15% lower and you lost a cheap empty boxes but for the most par
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by jsun 13y ago
Parody - "an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialize[citation needed] an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of satiric or ironic imitation" sounds like parody
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by jsun 13y ago
haha its a parody blog, the guy writing it is a film student or something. Read the other posts, pretty funny
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by jsun 13y ago
a doctor is just a biologist who works in hospitals
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by jsun 13y ago
KBA (knowledge based authentication) is what that question-answer type of system is called. Typically companies don't implement it as the sole form of identification for the exact reasons that you mentioned. I found it very surprising
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by jsun 13y ago
that's kinda paranoid thinking given the EV of the "best" bracket is probably like $1 instead of 10 cents. A lot of work to make a dollar. It's a pretty interesting idea haha. if only there was some way (without spending
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by jsun 13y ago
Good list - Not too sure about this one > How many people do you hire in a typical month? 1 per month? that seems low. Hiring is like everything else - subject to human cognitive biases. We all like to think that we can make the right de
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by jsun 13y ago
yeah that kid doesn't really give much of a damn whether you thought his experience was genuine:)
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by jsun 13y ago
Why is this a free expression issue? Yale is simply saying you can use the data we collected, but in order to do so you must show ALL of it, including comments. If Yelp changed their open API rules and said you can display the star ratings
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by jsun 13y ago
Not everyone acts as rational machines, professors' egos have to be stroked too. They'd like to think that they can't just be reduced to a number between 1 and 5. Besides which, I think exposing rating systems for courses cre
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by jsun 13y ago
While I technically agree with the article, OP really takes some liberties with definitions. Yes, technically logic > math, but I have yet to meet someone who was "afraid of math" but awesome at logic. The bottom line is you do
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by jsun 13y ago
Of course there is. We need to separate intent from action. There's myriads of different actions to achieve the same result. Imagine this scenario: China postures for military action, the U.S does not intent to interfere. Rather than &
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by jsun 13y ago
I mean let's put this in perspective on the whole snapchat issue - they lost a list of usernames.... which could theoretically be used to match to the person's other usernames from other sites. It's just not crazy useful... y
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by jsun 13y ago
AvantCredit :)
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by jsun 13y ago
no, failing at a startup won't prevent you from getting hired however making us feel like you're just going to collect a paycheck while waiting for your next thing to take off probably will. tread carefully on how much you want to
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by jsun 13y ago
Bunch of YC companies in the U.K. maybe reach out to one of them. I know GoCardless from S11 is there. I think there was one more from my batch at a minimum. How good are you? We might be open to doing the paperwork for you if you want to m
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by jsun 13y ago
They're basically selling the right to be a monopolistic utility vs. a consumer facing monopoly. 1. No one else is going to come in after you and lay more fiber, it's just not worth it 2. Your competitors are going to buy from you
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by jsun 13y ago
A lot of these conferences have the same underlying value prop. Finovate for instance does the same thing - it costs something like 9k or 10k to present! But Finovate is useful, because the content is better curated, they attract more influ
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by jsun 13y ago
It's long been observed that once earning reaches a certain absolute number, quality of life and other intangibles quickly overtake monetary compensation as the primary driving force. Basically its saying if my options were 60k/ye
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by jsun 13y ago
I think your friend was referring to business majors. a 3.5 at most finance programs is achievable with hard work and almost no innate intellectual gifts. Conversely a relatively smart person can get a 3.5 without attending lectures or doin
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by jsun 13y ago
Banking is a relationship business. The hours aren't so much for productivity as for bonding. Think of it as a frat initiation ritual that lasts years. Some very small portion of IB analysts remain in IB, most move off and become succe
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by jsun 13y ago
Problem potentially even more dire than article makes it "These jobs pay very well. According to the job search site Indeed.com, the average salary for an entry level software engineer in New York City is $71,000—just about the average
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by jsun 13y ago
That's not necessarily true. Divergent evolution of ideas means that there could be some truly primitive ideas that's still useful to us today simply because we never went down that particular tree in our development. It's ha

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