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by kenneth 6y ago
Having spent the last few months stuck in Singapore's awful lockdown, I'm pretty convinced it's not the place for me. Can't wait to get back home to HK. I'm starting to miss the smell of teargas. That said, wasn&#x2
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by kenneth 6y ago
I can work remotely, and I choose to live where I love living. For me, that's Hong Kong (with all its problems). If I wanted to save money, there are a lot of great options in Southeast Asia like Vietnam and Thailand.
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by kenneth 6y ago
That's a solved problem. It worked in China without forced sterilizations. Just like how we have laws against theft… doesn't mean theft won't exist, but the law and appropriate punishment does reduce it to manageable levels.
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by kenneth 6y ago
You don't need genocide to reduce population, just birth rate policies. Most developed nations already have declining native populations (sometimes the overall population grows only through immigration). China had a one-child policy fo
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by kenneth 6y ago
I feel like, in general, in most countries around the world, the police are bad people and not trustworthy. I have little respect for the police, and usually abide by a personal policy of avoiding them, and refusing to cooperate whenever po
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by kenneth 6y ago
You're exactly right. Everyone has been so quick to not only accept, but actually promote and socially shame others into accepting, a massive authoritarian shift to remove everyone's basic freedoms. It's completely unpreceden
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by kenneth 6y ago
Interesting to note that one of the reasons this did not pass is Bernie Sanders' failure to support the amendment. Keep that in mind next time someone riles about how Bernie is a champion for the average American. I, for one, am glad h
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by kenneth 6y ago
Pretty sure that Talent is over 50% of their revenue. The primary way they monetize Stack Q&A websites is through job placements. There are other websites that are surprisingly monetizing through this, like AngelList.
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by kenneth 6y ago
A good Döner in Berlin runs about €5, this restaurant is in Canada where CA$11 = €7. It's slightly more expensive than dirt-cheap Berlin, but it's hard to compete with dirt-cheap Berlin. Berlin is wonderfully cheap in every aspect
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by kenneth 6y ago
A "bro culture" article written by a female entrepreneur who isn't from Silicon Valley… right. I think you need to check your prejudices. 1) plenty of restaurants don't sell alcohol, including it seems this one. she also
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by kenneth 6y ago
I noticed this today for the first time.
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by kenneth 6y ago
Pretty hard to hide excess death. That's precisely the point of this chart. You can miscount Covid deaths, but it's pretty hard to miscount deaths overall unless there's a fraudulent cover-up. Deaths are all recorded and trac
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by kenneth 6y ago
I think Covid is causing other causes of deaths to be reduced (less car accidents, flu etc. than usual), so the -50 on the chart implies that (1) all Covid deaths are being accurately counted) and (2) non-Covid mortality is slightly down.
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by kenneth 6y ago
The number of Swedes traveling in general and especially traveling to virus hotspots like Italy is far higher than the number of Kiwis doing it. You know, maybe, just maybe, being a remote island so far away from the rest of the world it&#x
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by kenneth 6y ago
> and worth noting that Johnson and his advisor Dominic Cummings who was hugely influential in pushing for it both went on to contract the illness Not really worth noting. It's an interesting anecdote, and I'm sure those who ta
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by kenneth 6y ago
It's notable as well when evaluating Sweden's number is that they are far more trustworthy than most countries. One interesting metric is excess mortality. Some places have wild unexplained excess mortality from the statistical ex
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by kenneth 7y ago
If one wanted to get out of a term sheet, it'd be pretty easy to find something in diligence that's too problematic. I've also had founders back out of accepted term sheets, which is also a pretty shitty thing to do.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Works perfectly fine in every pair of sunglasses I own.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Geico is most important company in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio, and is wholly owned by Berkshire Hathaway. The insurance business is Berkshire's primary business, and all the cash generated from premiums (the float), which is just
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by kenneth 7y ago
Why not just call an all-hands, during the all-hands announce that there are layoffs and why, and how they're handled… announce it too the whole team. Say that during the all-hands notifications have gone out via email (scripted to go
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by kenneth 7y ago
You're pretty free in terms of expression, religion, and sexuality here. In fact, it's probably one of the most sexually liberal places in Asia. Hell, prostitution is even legal here. You do need to follow the rules though or face
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by kenneth 7y ago
If you're going to make ridiculous and nonsensical political jabs like this at least be slightly informed. 1) There is no lockdown / shelter-in-place / quarantine in Singapore. Normal residents can go about their daily lives
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by kenneth 7y ago
I'm in Singapore That girl got lucky. Most people end up in a cheap service apartment. You get assigned something and have no choice. I have a few friends who are currently in less luxurious accomodations
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by kenneth 7y ago
Covideo seems like the obvious choice here
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by kenneth 7y ago
Doubt it. Not like Sequoia has that much in management fees. 3% on 1B AUM collecting fees is only $30M for the whole firm.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Getting returns when you're investing 500M is easier than when you're investing 1B. Just ask Softbank how they big-check strategy is working for them. Note: I run a 50M AUM VC.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Not only did that happen to me, but Robinhood's outage (1) prevented me from selling in the morning when I tried to, and (2) didn't trigger the auto-sell 1h before market close on un-exercisable options. Cost me $25k or so on top
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by kenneth 7y ago
SPY puts (and some others) have been good to me. I'm up about 1000% in my public positions over the past couple weeks. I'm letting it ride until my thesis on how bad this gets pays through. It's my hedge against my world gett
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by kenneth 7y ago
The systemic risk is the global pandemic of proportions not seen since the Spanish flu or the black death. It's not about whether the DOJ is going after hedge fund managers. Viruses don't care about income inequality.
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by kenneth 7y ago
I've attended every demo day in the past 5 years. It's of course a much better experience in person — but this was the right call. Large events should not happen especially during the high-exponential-growth phase of this pandemic

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