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by okhobb 5y ago
Not sure I'm following the "more like 14%" ... can you explain that calculation?
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by okhobb 5y ago
Starting a company is not fun for most engineers. Way more fun to get paid (a smaller amount, but way above "average") to hack at a company that has already found product-market fit. Replit doesn't have a Facebook-size audien
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by okhobb 5y ago
IPO "pop" is a bit of pejorative usually referring to the deliberate underpricing of an IPO so that the investment bankers' big clients can get a quick profit, the difference between the IPO price and the first available exch
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by okhobb 5y ago
Are you testing yourself constantly to make sure you're not exposing others? The pernicious feature of COVID is the asymptomatic nature of many infections.
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by okhobb 5y ago
Sounds much like the old saw: "we only hire the best!" Do any VCs strive to invest in, say, the second quartile of YC batches?
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by okhobb 5y ago
It's hard as a new grad to know how to always be on the same page as your manager, much less your skip-level. But, you've now learned the lesson. While fresh it would be a good time to be a bit humble and even a little contrite. A
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by okhobb 5y ago
I really liked the Powers of Ten article / film / book originated within SA which certainly doesn't justify any current editorial choices, but is I hope a fun video for anyone who hasn't seen it: https://www.y
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by okhobb 5y ago
You can even hold more than one concurrently I hear!
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by okhobb 5y ago
I've never been in the situation of a significantly down price over more than a year. Is it normal that the firm will give 'refreshers' to get back to the target comp in that case?
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by okhobb 5y ago
No this is actually true. Most stocks do go down (or at least only match much less risky investments like short-term bonds), but the stock market goes up because some stocks go up a lot. This is why all investors diversify. For example, the
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by okhobb 5y ago
The market assumes that Tesla will be much more than selling cars. The scope is more "anything electricity or climate change related" (i.e. very broad) combined with a focus on vertical integration in each business unit.
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by okhobb 5y ago
The entirety of the four-year undergraduate curriculum is centered around great books, and there are no specific majors. https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-bo...
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by okhobb 5y ago
Re: % transit riders, seems like not a lot except in NYC: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/07/who-relies-...
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by okhobb 5y ago
There is a YC W22 company hoping to do just that: https://ozone.tech/
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by okhobb 5y ago
Got it. Yea I agree that's useful and easy mitigation, and I'm sure enterprise users would certainly pay for other safety labeling/filtering/signing of packages.
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by okhobb 5y ago
A large part of npm's staggering success is the very low friction to publish packages. I worry that any mitigation that slows down the publishing side of things would kill innovation in the ecosystem.
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by okhobb 5y ago
Is the hiring manager invariably under 35 in these instances also?
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by okhobb 5y ago
She's great but also bailed 5 years ago. Perhaps there is signal in that fact.
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by okhobb 5y ago
The FDA's biggest (only?) obvious enormous win was with blocking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
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by okhobb 5y ago
The innovation is creating an internet-scale audience for the best / most charismatic fitness instructors.