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by kcorbitt 5y ago
I realize the article mentions that sometimes happens, with their example being a 0.8oz deodorant. But as a frequent shopper it isn't my general experience. I often compare prices and on a unit cost basis (so controlling for the someti
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I absolutely love dollar stores. I recently needed to buy a set of crayons for my son and the options were $5 on Amazon, $4 at Target or $1 at the local Dollar Tree (and the pack had 36 crayons, vs 24 from the other sources!). They're
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A funded startup will generally provide health insurance of some kind, although at the very earliest stages it's probably not great. As startups get larger and less cash-poor overall comp (including health insurance) increases signific
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I was working on a startup at the time wasn't making any money. And to be fair, if you have no money the NHS is pretty awesome!
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Fair, software engineers in tech hubs universally meet the $107k minimum salary threshold which means employers aren't required to pay overtime. That said, overtime is only expected in a few corners of the industry anyway, game develop
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No, the extra 50-200% is in addition to the employer-provided healthcare benefits and retirement match. If you get seriously sick, you're much more likely to get effective and timely treatment with the gold-plated health insurance plan
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Those are all standard benefits for tech workers in America (at least if you're willing to move to a tech hub, which is where the interesting work is anyway). Plus 50-200% more pay. I do agree that Europe does a good job of guaranteein
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I have high hopes for Ethereum. Bitcoin has no plans to ever move away from the "burn arbitrarily increasing quantities of electricity" approach to security. Ethereum is willing to experiment, and is willing to be pragmatic in the
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My little brother was working on a dental tourism startup a couple years ago, and we stayed in Los Algodones for a few weeks scoping the place out. More than half of all storefronts in the town are dental offices. Some of them seem pretty s
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Seems like the biggest news here is Intel committing strongly to its fab business. Walling that division off from Intel's own chip design business is critical to giving it a chance to succeed. Having a third fab with competitive tech (
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Hey HN! We've decided to make Startup School available to folks who aren't currently working on a startup but are thinking about starting one in the future. We ran a similar course last fall which went well, so going forward it&#x
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
As another datapoint, my family of 4 has lived in the Bay Area for the last 4 years on an average budget of $62k. Rent is extremely expensive (60% of our total spend), but everything else can be had quite cheaply. It's true that we&#x2
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
The article states that Vienna's population in 1914 (at the beginning of WW1) was 2 million, vs 1.9 million today. I'm no housing policy expert, but isn't it possible that Vienna's rents are stable and low in part becaus
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Hey HN, looks like I was beat to the punch on posting this. :) I work on Startup School at YC. We're excited to launch our second-ever build sprint. You can think of a build sprint as sort of like a 4-week hackathon, with regularly sch
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Yeah, this makes sense as a feature -- we didn't build it out originally because we were worried about founders gaming it to back-date updates and earn their "streak"/certification without sending in 8 weeks of updates.
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(I work at YC on Startup School.) Yes, if you're at the point where you know everything we teach in the Future Founders program, you'll definitely learn more by actually building something than continuing to watch our videos. If y
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Hey HN, For the last couple of months we've actually been working on a co-founder matching tool through Startup School. It's still an early alpha, but some members of our community have already found it very helpful. We've ta
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Ah yes, you're not the only one but your comment here helped me diagnose the issue! I've fixed this issue now and you should be able to select a track and complete registration.
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Hey, please email us a screenshot of the page right before you get that error to startupschool@ycombinator.com and I'll take a look ASAP.
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We've talked about this, and may build a track that officially targets this in the future. That said, with the exception of two pieces of content that talk about applying to YC, one piece about understanding SAFE financing, and perhaps
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Good catch -- this should be fixed for you now. I'll push a general fix that'll avoid this problem for everyone in the next 20 minutes.
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After submitting your basic user information, it should ask whether you're joining as an active founder or a future founder. If you select "Future Founder", you won't be asked to complete a company profile. If you accide
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Totally agreed -- starting a company probably isn't the right choice for the majority of people. Our Future Founder curriculum actually includes a couple of Paul Graham's old essays that explore that topic ( http://www.p
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Hey HN! We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017, but it was only for founders who were already actively working on building their companies. Since then we've heard from many folks considering in starting a company in th
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YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet(blog.ycombinator.com)
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> For me personally, this meant that for years, literally, there was always this nagging feeling that I could be doing more. I could be doing more or doing better for Outseta, and I could be doing more in terms of the other projects I wa
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Hey HN! Really excited to launch the YC Build Sprint. We've been working on this for the last month. The main goal here is to help founders get as much done as possible in a 4-week period. We've found that time pressure can be rea
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Check out https://www.npmjs.com/package/date-fns-tz . The API is much less intuitive than the `date-fns` one because javascript Date objects don't store their timezone, but I've used it in a real project and i
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https://date-fns.org/ is the most popular alternative to moment-js, has an intuitive functional API and treats dates as immutable. I migrate every project I touch over to it since it has so many fewer footguns.
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You'll need to start again, because the way we're tracking things changed. That said, if you've been submitting updates consistently those will count towards certification, and if you go through and mark all the content you a

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