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by pg 13y ago
Still investigating, but Nick just turned off the site for non logged-in users to take the load off the system while we try to figure out what's going on.
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by pg 13y ago
It was, but things seem to be getting better. Our hacker Nick is on the case.
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by pg 13y ago
It's certainly true that the patent system is broken. But the fact you can get away with doing something due to broken laws doesn't make it ok to do it.
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by pg 13y ago
While I have no idea what information investors are basing their decisions on, it's probably some evidence that Snapchat is starting to replace Facebook among some bellwether set of users. That could be a reasonable bet, depending on
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by pg 13y ago
I'm sure Google didn't try to buy the patents to do this with them.
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by pg 13y ago
I'm sure both had plenty of difficulties. There must have been lots of really good people who'd never have considered working for either of them.
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by pg 13y ago
It's a little early to say for sure, but I predict this will do more to hurt Apple's reputation in the tech community than anything they've done before. And that is not a good community to alienate. I would not be surprised
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Startups Like Berlin Because Visa Rules Are Nothing Like the U.S.(bloomberg.com)
210 points by pg 13y ago|201 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Unlikely given the power law distribution of startup outcomes. But if you set a threshold defining a big hit and we funded 33 of them we'd end up being one ourselves. It's conceivable we could fund 33 big hits in 30 years. Dep
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by pg 13y ago
Actually it was no exaggeration.
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by pg 13y ago
Me too!
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by pg 13y ago
It's a sign of strength in a company when the CEO can talk candidly about problems like this. Every company has problems, most worse than this, but they rarely talk about them except in the blandest, most evasive way. Conspicuous cand
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by pg 13y ago
Only for my kids.
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by pg 13y ago
How to Win Friends and Influence People (but buy an edition printed before Carnegie died; more recent versions have been rewritten by other people)
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by pg 13y ago
Yipes, nothing like that. That's the total value of all the companies we've funded. We assume we end up with 3% on average after dilution.
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by pg 13y ago
No, what I do between batches is work on YC. In the very beginning we considered time between batches as time off, but YC is so big now that there's always something that needs to be done.
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Commuting's Hidden Cost(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by pg 13y ago
One interesting thing I learned from this is how highly correlated mortality from heart disease and cancer are. They're quite different types of disease, but perhaps what they have in common is that they're diseases of civilizatio
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by pg 13y ago
Except that's not what they did. They looked at what's probably the most meaningful ratio, and they found that it's not merely lower but around 5x lower. (This sort of comment is a good illustration of a problem with forums,
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by pg 13y ago
"This year, shares of newly public technology companies are being valued at 5.6 times sales, estimates University of Florida professor Jay Ritter, who tracks IPOs. That is well short of the median of 26.5 times sales in 1999." At
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by pg 13y ago
Science Exchange is on it: https://www.scienceexchange.com/reproducibility
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by pg 13y ago
If someone could post a link to a Google Maps view of the area, that would be interesting to see.
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by pg 13y ago
I've never heard of it happening. Insisting on such a thing would be a great way for investors to filter out good startups.
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by pg 13y ago
We get diluted. There is no personal guarantee.
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by pg 13y ago
They can't be official because we don't have any official projections. We never know in advance how many applications we're going to get, or how many of them will be good enough to fund. We do interviews in 3 parallel track
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by pg 13y ago
It's only decline if the US is doing worse than it did in the past. But this data seems to be a single snapshot. It would be good if someone could find past results and see if there has actually been a decline.
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by pg 13y ago
What you call a "forceful reproach" is nothing more than name-calling. If your argument is convincing, you need add nothing more.
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by pg 13y ago
This may seem like mere gossip but actually it's an interesting data point, not just about JFK but about how things were in the US in the 1960s.
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by pg 13y ago
What a curious example of symbiosis. Guy trolls journalists with a deliberately controversial app, knowing he can count on their indignation to make them write about how awful it is and thus send him lots of traffic. And then an "edg
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by pg 13y ago
It would be a risky strategy because those commenters could get banned.

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