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by mikekij 5y ago
MedCrypt (YCW19) | AWS Cloud/Devops Engineer | FT | Remote The AWS Cloud/Devops Engineer will be working with the engineering team and focusing on AWS infrastructure and automation. A key part of the role is championing and leadin
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by mikekij 6y ago
Yes. I was fortunate to be in YC W19. It was transformational for our company. Should I be fortunate enough to start another company, I would do it again, even though I now have access to the YC network of investors. I can't recommend
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by mikekij 6y ago
Well, 30% isn’t their margin. It’s their gross revenue. Calculating the margin would require knowing their hosting / development costs for the App Store ecosystem.
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by mikekij 6y ago
>I'd not suggest doing it on the fear of regret of not doing it Second this. Don't start a company because you think it's "checking a box". It has to be something you can't imagine not doing, or else you&#x2
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by mikekij 6y ago
I'm the opposite of the person you're asking for, but I'll take a stab. I have the academic pedigree to have worked in a lucrative scientific / banking / management field, but instead chose to take an entrepreneuria
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by mikekij 6y ago
Too late.
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DigiCert hit as hackers wriggle through (patched) holes in buggy config tool(theregister.co.uk)
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by mikekij 6y ago
Could be that the $10M cap means that the share of their biggest customers' PPP loans were a smaller percentage of their customers' bank deposits.
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by mikekij 6y ago
Tl;dr: It looks like ~4.2% of Los Angeles residents may have already been affected. Current stats from [ https://covid-19.direct/county/CA/Los%20Angeles ]: Confirmed cases: 12,349 Deaths: 601 Population: 4M Implied
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by mikekij 7y ago
I meant that "the graph of active hospitalizations should be a bell curve with a maximum value of ~10,000 on ~4/20" with the current mitigations in place. That is not what the government report is projecting. They're pro
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by mikekij 7y ago
My point is that there is no extrapolation of the data we’ve seen to date that yields the blue line on their graph.
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by mikekij 7y ago
Fair. But the curves on the document referenced above are not epidemic curves. They’re unbounded exponential growth curves. My criticism of the report stands.
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by mikekij 7y ago
Cumulative infections would not be a bell curve. They'd be a sigmoid curve, approaching some upper limit (e.g. 100,000). Current Hospitalizations, which is the number we should be most concerned about, and is reflected by the orange do
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by mikekij 7y ago
You're pointing out a great ambiguity in the state's graph. Is the hospitalization line a cumulative count of all hospitalizations? Or hospitalizations at any given time? Since the state's hospital capacity is related to hosp
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by mikekij 7y ago
"If you remove the black, total curve, the green new case curve is visible but it seems to be going up and down fairly inconclusively." The best fit line of new cases after 4/4 is a linear function with a definitively negativ
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by mikekij 7y ago
My former physics professors would have not approved of a graph like this. D+ on the lab at best.
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by mikekij 7y ago
I am not. I am arguing that the current trajectory data we're observing [2] does not align with the projections of our current trajectory provided by the government of California (the light blue line labeled 'With Intervention&#x2
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by mikekij 7y ago
The light blue curve, labeled "With Intervention", is an upward-facing concave curve. Even if it were linear, it does not align with the observed data referenced in the link labeled [2].
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by mikekij 7y ago
This entire plan is based on models that do not align with what we are seeing. The graph on slide two[1] of the official CA govt plan shows hospitalizations With Intervention rising exponentially, exceeding our hospital capacity in early Ju
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by mikekij 7y ago
Agreed. But you make a forecast in which you calculate an "expected outcome".
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by mikekij 7y ago
I'm not sure why I'm getting down-voted here. Is it because of an inaccuracy in my comment? Or frustration with the market?
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by mikekij 7y ago
At a 10% discount rate, years 16 on don't weigh heavily into the calculation.
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by mikekij 7y ago
A properly functioning stock market is predicting the next ~15 years of companies' profits by weighing the prior ~15 years of companies' profits combined with their current growth. Even a 12 month period of $0 profits should decre
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by mikekij 7y ago
These are all great points, and read like the syllabus from a business school ethics class. I remember having a class on "what to do if you need to lay people off", and it's exactly what you describe. Best of luck
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by mikekij 7y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. I totally agree.
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by mikekij 7y ago
I'm seeing references to Zoom "getting over these security issues". Some of the issues (e.g. not requiring passwords) can be relatively easily addressed. Others, like transmitting symmetric encryption keys over the wire and s
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by mikekij 7y ago
I wasn't aware that any non-OS service even had access to data and applications saved in Time Machine. This might be worthy of a bug bounty report to Apple.
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by mikekij 7y ago
Sincere question: If you had a voice in the decision, what would you have done differently?
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by mikekij 7y ago
I'm the founder and CEO of a software company that is remote-first. The shutdown of schools due to COVID-19 has meant that many of our engineers now have kids bouncing off the walls while they're trying to work. I have school aged
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by mikekij 7y ago
I second this. We used Wells Fargo through our angel and seed rounds. Switched to Silicon Valley Bank after our A, and wish I could go back in time and use them from the start.

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