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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think you mean this one? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00503-x The effect is basically non-existent in people under age 55. And I'd love to see them do a follow-up study since the scans were done f
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by mdorazio 4y ago
That's kind of the point. ME/CFS is poorly understood and likely has many causes not directly stemming from viral illnesses. If it existed prior to Covid in seemingly large numbers, it seems pretty likely that people with pre-ex
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by mdorazio 4y ago
This article is interesting not just because the particular businesses it explores via stories, but because of its broader message to entrepreneurs about the importance of understanding your customers' business models if you want to su
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by mdorazio 4y ago
The article presents zero real evidence to show that Long Covid is more than what would be expected from all the confounding factors as a result of the pandemic more broadly (anxiety, lack of social contact, losing a job, being stuck inside
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by mdorazio 4y ago
One thing I don't think gets enough discussion is how bad apps like Tinder are for men's sense of self-worth. The larger percentage of men on these apps combined with the fast swipe setup turns it into a complete meat market wher
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by mdorazio 4y ago
The young men I know who prefer stable relationships are not using Tinder for that, as the podcast in this article says. There are non-Tinder and non-app options that are more geared toward that.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I'm genuinely surprised you need data for this, but here you go: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/close-encounters/201...
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think you're naively assuming that the goal of the users is to find a long-term partner. Among younger users, especially younger men, the goal is to find dates for short-term relationships / sex. It's one of the reasons T
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Exactly my thought on this as well. This line was particularly telling: > But for the past three years, we've struggled to find the right problem to solve and gain even a small traction. So why was this time (another CRM) the rig
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I don't think they post that stat every year. In 2015 it was about 12%: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-demographics But that doesn't really help answer my bigger question, which is why is that number
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by mdorazio 4y ago
> 15% of the companies have a woman founder and 9% of the founders are women The trend continues. I still want to see an objective analysis for why so few female founders make it through the funnel. I haven't found any good stats
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Exposure + validation. It's a desirable credential + guaranteed press and intros to VCs if you want funding. YC is basically like going to an Ivy League school for startups at this point.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
You need to get your information from places other than Wikipedia. The vacuum tube was invented in 1904 and entered mass production by RCA in 1920 after several rounds of improvements. D-Wave started demonstrating its QC product in 2009 a
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by mdorazio 4y ago
As someone who invested in Amyris (heavily mentioned in these articles) last year with much the same thinking as the author… be very careful about betting against incumbent tech.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Thanks! I thought it was only "heavy" because of the name.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I'm confused by your comment for a couple reasons. 1) SpaceX doesn't have a complete super heavy lift rocket because they're still iterating the design, they started later than SLS (roughly 2013 vs. 2011), they have to buil
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by mdorazio 4y ago
>that it can be sold at a fraction of the price of something which took human time to make. Isn't this the whole point of technological progress? I could buy everything handmade by artisans, but usually I buy mass-produced things
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think the author was referring to this in the context of improv, not normal conversation. It's bad to do in improv because it contributes nothing to the sketch - it's lazy and puts the entire effort onto the other person. It&#
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by mdorazio 4y ago
If you're planning to immediately market to your target customer segment you're doing it pretty wrong since you almost certainly don't have product market fit yet. You should be talking with them, asking questions, learning,
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Just because you're a tech company does not mean you're a startup. Especially if you've been running for 10+ years...
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I must be missing something. I see zero in-results ads and page after page of what appears to be actual conference listings.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Fun fact: the average age of US representatives is about 58 and Senators about 63. Information I’m seeing puts Japan’s Kokkai at only about 56 in comparison. I don’t think you can explain this with age.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
If nothing else, this interview shows that massive venture funding and hiring bonanzas are not the only way to build a successful company. I feel like that message gets lost too often in the startup sphere.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think this is a good time to ask if anyone is working on parallelizing machine learning compute anymore? For at-home computation like this it seems like it would be a lot better to allow people to stack a few cheaper GPUs rather than havi
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Let me see if I got this right. Instead of a16z using its resources to actively push for YIMBY changes in society and politics that would actually have positive outcomes on the problems stated, it's investing in the next idea from t
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by mdorazio 4y ago
This is a fantastic end result. Thanks for sharing your process to get there.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I agree except for the journalism part. The last decade has shown that even when faced with proof of corruption, a large percentage of people will happily rationalize away bad things to maintain support of their favored party/represen
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think you're strongly misrepresenting motives here. The House + Senate system was setup so that less-populous states would still get a say in federal policies that impacted them. The alternative was (and is) that farmers in Kansas
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by mdorazio 4y ago
> My oldest kid got a very noisy police toy and rather than just removing the batteries I decided to lower the volume instead. I know it’s not the point of the post but this kind of thing gets posted by engineers entirely too often. A no
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think you’re misinformed. https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/10/05/how-much-cheaper-a...

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