mchusma

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by mchusma 7y ago
Thanks for chiming in. As I said in another thread I think at least this is the kind of framework for a discussion. Want to add more columns? Great. Want to double a number or halve a number, great. I personally think there is zero downside
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by mchusma 7y ago
Governor Newsom, the governor of California, is a man (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom ). This slide deck was released as a part of his press conference today. If a female staff member created the slid
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by mchusma 7y ago
I'm all about more data, more columns. It's the framework for thinking about things. Counterproposing with a more detailed plan would be great. It's the type of dialog we should be having (e.g. what are the thresholds for man
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by mchusma 7y ago
It's also not like politicians are busy working on a cure. Almost their sole job right now is to communicate an exit strategy. And they can't even properly align text on slides (I don't actually care about that except as a sy
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by mchusma 7y ago
A real plan would look like this https://imgur.com/spemOeG specifying the levels of restrictions and the metrics we will use to track the metrics. This allows people to understand what to expect the best possible. We alrea
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by mchusma 7y ago
Note: this is different than Braintree and Amazon payments, which either refund in full or simply charge only the $0.30 fee. Stripe is now at or near the most expensive here relative to the competition. The idea that they have been doing cu
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by mchusma 7y ago
In my experience what the most helpful thing to investors and you will be bottoms up understanding of how the business looks with a somewhat reasonable set of assumptions. So make a tab full of your assumptions, number of customers, cost pe
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by mchusma 7y ago
Please introduce core missing features to billing and payments first before print magazine subscriptions. The most obvious one to me: allow people to test their applications in production. Allow them to generate a temporary fake card number
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by mchusma 11y ago
I 100% agree and have some money with Wealthfront for the exact same reason. I did the math, ran the models, and come out ahead. Thanks for taking the time to write what I wanted to say :)
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by mchusma 12y ago
I've long wanted some way to donate all of my health data to support things like this. Anyone know any way to do this?
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by mchusma 12y ago
Yes but executing at a high pace for 2, 3, or 4 more years dramatically changes one's opinion of the company and its opportunity to reach scale. If you've grown MRR from $10k to $100k, that still doesn't answer the "wil
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by mchusma 12y ago
This reminds me of PG's essay - http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html Basically, I believe Author would be better off making the claim that many people (himself included) confuse the definition of productivity.
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by mchusma 12y ago
I agree with your points in general, but I think your point on AIDS is off. In the developed world, AIDS can be treated and managed effectively at this point to where it is essentially a long term chronic illness like diabetes. This is a
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by mchusma 12y ago
Driverless cars is exactly the play. Once driverless cars arrive, their margins will jump from 20% to something like 50-80% overnight.
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by mchusma 12y ago
You paint the most damning portrait of America I've ever heard, can you help flesh this out? Can you source your 40% figure? The only child poverty number I found is 21.8% for 2012. [1] For those in poverty, can you provide more insig
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by mchusma 12y ago
I get your point and agree to some extent, however I still think the externalities of the patent system are so bad/terrible that it should be abolished. This company does not make me think otherwise (in a meaningful way). If it took
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by mchusma 12y ago
Thanks for this. I was looking for someone to come in with basically this point. Sam's point seems to be that if you are trying to hire/fund within a ballpark range of candidates/companies, then exploding offers aren't
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by mchusma 12y ago
The evidence here is pretty scant, and some of that is for good reason. Different jobs/tasks are more prone to benefit from reduced workweeks, others are not. Different individuals work at different paces.
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Basic Income is Practical Today, Necessary Soon(hawkins.ventures)
99 points by mchusma 12y ago|129 comments
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by mchusma 12y ago
For people who are interested in this type of thing, I recommend listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast. I've listened for a few years now, and it is a fun/funny way to learn about science, critical thinking, and
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by mchusma 12y ago
Agreed. My wife had to upgrade her dropbox plan recently to the $41.60/mo 500GB plan. I had to really weigh the pros and cons of switching. In the end, I decided the costs of me having to provide "technical support" to my
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by mchusma 12y ago
I think maybe your response was more to the term "compensate". "Compensate" sort of implied to me that YC would be somehow liable for mental damages. I think what he/she meant to say was "provide therapy/
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by mchusma 12y ago
I liked your point, which is similar to my reaction to the book. Part 1: "Relative inequality is rising" Step 2: "?" Step 3: "Policy proposals" Most notably, Piketty never made a case why his policy proposals
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by mchusma 12y ago
The article made it seem Nissan's engineers couldn't fathom not using car-to-car communication to enable autonomous driving. I found it hard to believe anyone act that way. Relying on car-to-car communication would create an enorm
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What is an appropriate level of Basic Income?(hawkins.ventures)
54 points by mchusma 12y ago|96 comments
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by mchusma 13y ago
In general, you are seeing the premium customers board first, who have seats in front.
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by mchusma 13y ago
Atlassian is an anomaly amongst anomalies, but the timing is pretty normal. I find it strange that there is some kind of apparent value judgement being made on one company vs another. The average time to an enterprise exit is 9.5 years acc
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by mchusma 13y ago
I do get tired of terms like "living wage". Clearly the workers are not "dead" or "unliving". It is like the "pro-life" or "pro-choice" terms, deliberately politicizing.
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by mchusma 13y ago
It is still expensive to build big companies, and $1.5B is tiny by financial markets standards. Bond firms like Pimco and Blackrock measure things by $100Bs and trillions. Let's say you invest in 50 startups per year for 5 years. That
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by mchusma 13y ago
Here is a good overview of the evidence. At a high level, Acupunture is just as BS as Homeopathy. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/acupuncture/ reply

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