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Economic history: What can we learn from the Depression?(economist.com)
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Stars of Tech World Lend Their Force to George Lucas(mashable.com)
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by pg 13y ago
This is the first I've heard of it.
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by pg 13y ago
It's no trouble to me to reinforce someone's mistaken feeling of superiority to someone else. The problem is for the someone else. So the threshold you propose is insufficient. And I nowhere compared the two cases you mention.
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by pg 13y ago
I don't think you'd actually want to do that. There have been throughout history lots of people who on account of their birth or religion have wanted to be treated as superior to some other group. Would you just want to go along
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by pg 13y ago
Using the term "political correctness" doesn't imply that one is automatically dismissing all talk about racial discrimination, for example. Political correctness is a distinct phenomenon-- at least, as distinct as any socia
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by pg 13y ago
The best metaphor for this might be aerodynamic drag. A bad name can slow you down. You'll prevail eventually if you're good enough, but slower than you would have done with a good name. Whereas a good name won't get you a
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by pg 13y ago
Conveying respect is not a fashion. The fashions are in who you're supposed to respect and how you're supposed to show it. You can read more about this here: http://paulgraham.com/say.html
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by pg 13y ago
The funny thing is, your own comment could make you look like an "asshole" in a few decades when moral fashions change again. That's part of the problem with political correctness. The other and much worse part is that in s
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by pg 13y ago
I thought this would be about Shana Fisher. I met her at an event and she asked me to give her a list of YC cos that were good but that VCs didn't get. I realized this was the first time anyone had asked me that, in 8 years of doing
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by pg 13y ago
The troubles the company had with him don't reflect on his credibility as a witness of the things he did see. My point is that there was also a lot he didn't see.
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by pg 13y ago
The most striking inaccuracy is the superficial description of YC, both in breadth and depth. You can't accurately describe the interview, or the many interactions we've had with the company since Demo Day, since you weren't
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by pg 13y ago
I believe the canonical answer to questions of that type is Mu ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative) ). This article purports to be a YC founder's recollection of YC. Pointing out that it's not is not s
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by pg 13y ago
I was curious about who this guy was, since this is full of inaccuracies and yet shows some inside knowledge. It turns out the author is not a YC founder, but a programmer who worked for one of the companies we funded, and who didn't
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by pg 13y ago
While you're waiting, will you guys please remind yourselves that it's not the end of the world if you don't get invited to interviews? Drew Houston didn't get invited the first time he applied. And a good thing too, b
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by pg 13y ago
The way we managed to fund fewer startups was to train ourselves to pick better. So essentially we said no to startups we would have mistakenly said yes to before. Unless we can improve our ability to pick winners at the same rate the numb
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by pg 13y ago
Yes, all the emails go out at about the same time.
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We're going to send out invitations to YC interviews close to midnight
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by pg 13y ago
I do make unconditional donations to Bing as well, and larger amounts than this auction is likely to generate. Yes, frankly, I feel like the concerns expressed here are a kind of moral bikeshedding. What harm does it do if one rich kid get
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by pg 13y ago
Since the money's going to scholarships, the situation actually is something like that, except the latter parents get something better.
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by pg 13y ago
Since there will no doubt be a lot of the predictable complaint that this gives an advantage to the kids of people rich enough to buy it, I want to make it clear that this auction is to fund scholarships to the Bing nursery school. Since g
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by pg 13y ago
Yes, it's for the scholarship fund.
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We're auctioning off a chance for your kid to come to a YC dinner(biddingforgood.com)
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by pg 13y ago
Not yet, but 42Floors is on track to so far.
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by pg 13y ago
Keith's comment surprised me. I found at least one counterexample among companies we've funded: Jason Freedman of 42Floors. But there are certainly not many.
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by pg 13y ago
And that is in turn the eternal claim of bubble believers, usually delivered as reflexively as above. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=%22this+t... Is d4vlx mistaken? If so tell us how.
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by pg 13y ago
vi
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by pg 13y ago
It's not just how good they are. They have a different attitude from students from elite US universities. More practical, less arrogant. I'm not sure whether it's a Canadian thing or a Waterloo thing though.
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by pg 13y ago
There is something special about Waterloo. We noticed it a couple years ago.
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by pg 13y ago
It's not related so far as we can tell.

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