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by lowkey_ 2y ago
I’ve spoken extensively about this with people from China. If something is totally forbidden, that holds. However, the government doesn’t want people to feel oppressed beyond the explicitly forbidden. What happens instead is, if it’s unfavo
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
I'm in a similar boat right now as a founder -- likely to just hire 1 engineer at this stage, and have runway for 18-24 months at most. If the hypothesis is correct and the mission is working, you go raise the next round in another 9-1
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
I have aphantasia and similarly didn't realize it until a few years ago, at 22, when someone asked me that "Apple" test. Since then, I've noticed a few interesting things: 1) I remember things by association. I'm gr
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
> one of the major problems here is that small banks are often not staffed for adequate cybersecurity for global operations like these; they do just fine doing hometown community banking, but are very vulnerable to being cracked like thi
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
Can someone explain why in the world Evolve has my data? (I use Mercury and Wise for my company). I tried going to their website and I'm still completely clueless. Edit: Apparently Mercury was using Evolve as their banking partner. I k
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
Cracked, especially in saying "cracked engineers", refers to really good engineers these days. It's cracked as in like broken in a good way, like too over-powered that it's unfair.
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
I was skeptical of whether it was representative of 85% of the global population, or just the first-world. I've often thought (and heard that) environmental concerns are secondary to economic, and that people in less prosperous countri
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
Side note, but I see two YC-backed startups mentioning themselves in this thread: Yarn - Make Videos Like The Best (W24) https://yarn.so Kite - Product Videos Made Easy (S23) https://kite.video It's sort of craz
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
> those schools you mentioned might not have contracts with the Israeli government which is one of the things students at Colombia are protesting Do you have a source? I don't think this is true.
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
Christian Science Monitor has been my favorite news source for a long time despite not really being religious. It's so objective and fair even on the most contentious of topics, and really tries to understand the human experience. They
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
+1 to this, the article even states how there's illegal logging operations in the area that are fighting against this preservation.
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
At least according to this article in 2017 [1], it looks like that was because of SoHo's soaring rents (because there's tons of great shopping which brings a lot of people there). It was also common across the country at the time.
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
> There's a reason the big NYC area malls are in Paramus and Elizabeth. I think the reason is that malls are just out-of-fashion. If we consider the SoHo area to be the equivalent of a mall, or the North Williamsburg/Greenpoint
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
As someone who currently lives in NYC, I can think of ten brands I love to shop at here and not a single one could be found in a mall in New Jersey. My ex's family lived in NJ and we'd always commute in for a fun day in the city.
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
In what way does this not ruin the surprise? It seems like you'll know exactly what you're getting, just not who it's coming from. The surprise is which gift, not which friend is getting the gift. I'd have expected it to
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
> I'm not sure thats right Doesn't your point support the quote? Taxi driving was dangerous because of cash and being a robbery target, and Uber changed that.
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." This could be helpful in the short-term, but I'm skeptical long-term as it'll become just as gamed.
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
Board members can remove other board members with a majority vote. Sam, Greg, and Ilya were presumed guaranteed to be the same team, which meant they couldn't be removed (3/6 votes). Ilya switched sides to align with all 3 of the
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
Maybe not Japanese, but the French love Japanese culture.
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
I've started using a tool similar to "GPTs" recently, and the quality is definitely higher. I believe this has to do with generalization — you're encouraged to make your GPTs as specific as possible: only give them acces
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
> Then you didn't have an easy problem to begin with, you had a hard one ("summing too many numbers fast enough") [1]. That’s exactly what the initial comment said: > The "solve X as quickly as possible" is no
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
This is a good analogy to make, but I'd add that in this analogy, the majority of land has oil underneath it, and the majority of that oil can be reached without capital for exploration. Fintech, bio, etc. are exceptions, but generally
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
It's proportionally like the equivalent death toll of NYC on 9/11 or slightly higher. In NYC, 1 in 4000 people died on 9/11. In Chicago, 1 in 2000 birds died the other day. (Not to say it's equivalent at all, just that i
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
Just wanted to say: "help seniors have a better, safer experience on the internet" sounds like a great core mission! I imagine there's not too many startups focused on seniors, but my mother (late 60s) struggles a lot with te
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
Speech is not the same as blocking traffic. You have every right to your speech, but you don't have a right to force me to stay and listen to it.
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
How have they expressed that? How has it changed their minds? I'd be genuinely amazed at the personality of a person who goes "Wow! They must be disrupting my day for a very important reason. Let me look up and better research the
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
It's more of a loaded term than meant literally. "The YC of Pittsburgh" for instance wouldn't attract the best talent worldwide, but SF and SV is known globally as the center of tech. If someone replicated YC in the glob
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
> Apple said the agreement with Amazon was designed to limit the number of counterfeits sold online. Previously, the company was spending a lot of money and effort to send hundreds of thousands of 'take-down' notices to stop th
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
I heard from a large AI founder recently on this topic. Data is an okay moat, but in this craze we'll see the power of data shrink. Companies are getting enough VC funding ($10m-$100m+) to buy any data they need. A better model could a
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
I actually think it makes a world of difference to opine about the game world. It's so much more immersive. Have you ever gone to a living history museum? (Old Sturbridge Village is one example, my favorite I've been to). All thes

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