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by kcorbitt 8y ago
It's sad because the cost of living is eliminating choice. It's great if you want to stay wherever you are and have a fulfilling life there. But it's still sad if someone else wants to move to the Bay Area and can't beca
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That's a very unfortunate story. As I mentioned, I recognize that many people in the US don't have any good healthcare options, which is something that we as a society ought to fix. However, I don't think we can learn much ab
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> Get back to us the first time you have a medical emergency putting you on the hook for 5 or 6 figures (after insurance) Is that a thing? Obviously there are lots of people in the USA who don't have any good health insurance option
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1. In everyday conversation, it doesn't come up. Not that I hide the fact that I left early, but the natural conversation usually goes "when I was working at Google ..." not "When I was working at Google, which I left af
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This all gets adjusted at tax filing time. The pay I returned to Google essentially counted as "negative pay" and decreases the amount of taxable income reported for the year I returned it.
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I had to return a prorated portion of my signing bonus and relocation expenses. The larger financial hit was that none of my RSUs had vested, so I walked away from those entirely (my understanding is that Google has since changed their poli
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I was faced with a similar choice two years ago and went with Google. I really didn't enjoy my time there; turns out big companies really aren't my cup of tea. I also learned much less than I would have somewhere else because Goog
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Hey, cool! A while ago I was looking for an API that would give me the calendar date that quarterly earnings were reported historically, ideally for all public companies (but a large subset like the S&P500 would do). Do you know if anyo
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> On a bike, you inherently have to make a physical connection with people. In a car, you're separated by glass and steel. But when you're out on a bike, you can actually see everybody, you can say hello to the people that you
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> YIMBYs want [...] American infinite appreciation. I'd appreciate a source on this. Most self-identified YIMBYs I've met in San Francisco would be ecstatic if housing prices stabilized or fell – in fact that's one of thei
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To put some real numbers to this: $500k a month is $6M a year, or maybe $3M post-tax (assuming there's no way to shelter that income). At a very conservative 3.33% annual withdrawal rate, which all but guarantees that your capital will
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
That form works fine! We're keeping track of all the form responses from both the old and new emails we sent out, so your application made it in.
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> If they're letting literally anyone in, it's no more useful than every other founders mastermind group on FB. We made a major mistake with the admissions emails – which I still feel terribly about. However, while that mistake
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Hi, I was involved in the decision to open Startup School to all applicants and am the developer primarily responsible for writing the software we’ll need to make this scale. We're all planning on working overtime for the next 12 weeks
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Yep – having a community of peers available to hold you accountable for your progress at regular intervals is huge. And we're going to be working overtime to provide a great Startup School experience for all the participants!
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We're definitely experimenting with different ways of opening YC's benefits up to a larger group of companies. Startup School is one initiative of many that we're trying.
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Mainly we just didn't build the course's functionality or navigation with that volume of users in mind. We also want to make sure we provide a great experience to everyone, whether their group has an advisor or not. We're goi
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Yes! All the videos and content from the course will eventually become public for everyone – we're trying to optimize for maximum impact.
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There will be an application process open to all SS participants for the in-person class (unfortunately our room has limited seating). We hope that everyone who wants to will be able to attend at least one lecture in person!
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Yep. We do a little bit of that already with our normal batch applicants, but with the wide net of Startup School there may be more more data available that would be interesting to correlate with long-term success. I think it would be so va
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Actually, we just literally reversed the SQL queries for the emails we sent out for accepted/rejected companies – and then didn't immediately realize our mistake. It's been a pretty tough day here at YC but we're all rea
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It took us a little while to realize what we had done. Once we did, we sent out the correction email as soon as we could. That's not an excuse, but I don't want it to feel like we were intentionally leaving people in the dark. Sen
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I'm having trouble finding US-wide data for average commute distance, but Appendix B here https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Srvy_Jo... breaks it down by metro area. It seems like
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I'm extremely excited by this type of electric scooter. If you're interested in the options currently on the market in the USA, Electrek did a recent roundup here: https://electrek.co/2018/06/07/elec
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> "I see in practice that a lot of us are putting retirement down the goal priority list, in favor of paying off student debt or buying homes," If that's the actual reason why retirement savings are low, then this sounds m
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> The abbreviation "BP", with the same meaning, has also been interpreted[1] as "Before Physics"; that is, before nuclear weapons testing artificially altered the proportion of the carbon isotopes in the atmosphere, m
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Yes, for this round of Startup School we'll be adding an all-new forum that founders can use to communicate and share learnings!
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In 1850, the year California became a state, its population made up 0.4% of the country. Today, Californians are 12% of the US population. It's just an accident of history that all those people happen to count as one "state"
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Also a common pattern in biological ecosystems. Great weather one year leads to lots of fresh grass around, so more rabbits than usual survive to adulthood. An abundance of rabbits leads to more foxes than usual surviving. But the next year
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How would your friend feel about property taxes that scale with market value, but can be deferred until the moment the home is sold, at which point the deferred taxes are paid from the home's appreciation? We could even add a provision

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