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by powera 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 discusses the article I remember reading. The comments there (which I haven't read) seem to also disagree with the article.
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by powera 11y ago
"The lower the exercise price for Common Stock, the more money your options will earn you, so it’s in our best interest to make this price really low." - technically, while it's in the employee's interest to have the pri
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by powera 11y ago
+1 - I'm a person living in San Francisco who would only be interested in doing Y Combinator if it was in any location other than the Bay Area.
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by powera 11y ago
The original filesystem hierarchy was designed when 1MB was a large amount of space. If you want to have a separate read-only partition for system programs (and require going into single-user mode to modify that), go for it. But the rest o
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by powera 11y ago
Yeah, if you have to drive the subsidized car and use the subsidized gas to possibly get paid the market rate, it's the equivalent of an employee. This is so obviously an employee status I wonder if they're doing it to try to draw
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by powera 11y ago
"As a result, gravity, which is a pushover on everyday scales, catches up with the other forces and becomes their equal at a sub-sub-subatomic distance known as the Planck scale (around a few trillionths of a trillionth of a trillionth
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by powera 11y ago
If you expect to actually use the "$600k of free hosting", you should probably be making your decisions based on things more important than a (large) pile of free money right at the beginning. If you aren't going to use that
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by powera 11y ago
OK, I have no idea how the proof works, but I think I read the abstracts well enough to do something that might qualify as pretending to pretend to know how the proof works: (please note: I'm not qualified to pretend to know how this w
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by powera 11y ago
Yes, it's negative. Investing two hundred and fifty million dollars in something that seems to have no business model other than giving money away is the exact opposite to the YC philosophy of starting companies. And the signs you
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by powera 11y ago
Or, nobody wants to buy anything from them, and they think that giving users a bad experience might engineer a different result.
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by powera 11y ago
Weren't they were giving away a free membership for a limited time? Now, the membership is always free. I'm not sure if they "discovered" that free is the right price for membership, or if the "giving away" pa
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by powera 11y ago
A lot of the fees actually go directly to the venue, and not to Ticketmaster.
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by powera 11y ago
My TLDR summary: all probabilities are conditional. If you have two probabilities for the same event and they aren't the same, you're just assuming different priors in the statement of the probability. (and if you can't fin
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by powera 11y ago
The security questions might be done wrong, I'm more saying that "a real person on the inside who can personally verify your identity" is in fact a key part of the security process.
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by powera 11y ago
also: "de-anonymizing refugees usually precedes murder on a grand scale" - that's an aggressively outrageous claim. "Bad things happen in the world" does not mean "if we ignore the world, nothing bad can hap
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by powera 11y ago
I'm sorry she had a bad experience (and if the situation was triggered by something she posted that's horrible), but from a security point of view, if the automatic security questions can't be answered and you can't prov
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by powera 11y ago
This article is basically an ad for a company that makes anti-tobacco and anti-sugar ads as a service. And somebody is paying them for that. Why won't they reveal the truth behind their anti-Coke propaganda? Seriously, there's
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by powera 11y ago
Picking out one random letter from one person who had a bad premonition around when the atomic bomb was dropped is pretty much the exact opposite of evidence for anything at all.
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by powera 11y ago
On the other hand, you can't gerrymander Senate seats. (it's not representative now, but it's not changing either)
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by powera 11y ago
The idea that we can Save American Jobs by preventing foreigners from coming into the country is pure insanity. I'm 100% sure that India could find some way to do accounting without sending people to the US for 4 weeks to learn. This
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by powera 11y ago
Americans and Western Europeans focus on the history of America and Western Europe. I'm not surprised at all.
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by powera 11y ago
I find it astonishing how many people's snarky responses here would actually be astonishingly useful to an interviewer. Not as a disqualifier even. The person who wants to spend all day building robots to feed the poor, and the perso
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by powera 11y ago
Is that true? Don't people who drink regularly build up alcohol tolerance? I concede that might not make you healthier, though.
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by powera 11y ago
How are you supposed to measure this IQ? I could be wrong, but I don't believe traditional IQ tests give a significant correlation to life-span once you control for environment. (though I think it's clear that wealthy people li
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by powera 11y ago
The article says, and I quote in detail, "The World Health Organization reported last year that drinking can increase your risk of depression and anxiety, liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, suicide, violence, and accidental injury. Alcohol
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by powera 11y ago
True, pure alcohol doesn't taste good because it burns your throat. Most people drink alcohol in a mix with water (and sugar, flavors, etc.) and in that context, it tastes good.
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by powera 11y ago
The answer is "Yes", alcohol is bad for you. Of course, it tastes good, so people want to believe these very specific studies. And ignore any of the confounding evidence in the second half of the article (such as the fact that pe
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by powera 11y ago
I don't like how the article makes it seem like "self-sacrifice" is the only thing necessary for a successful founder. If you have a terrible idea, or terrible execution, it doesn't matter how much of your money and y
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by powera 11y ago
My TLDR: There may be unknown unknowns in the medical system. It doesn't say how many, it doesn't say the consequences, it just says "most". And since people die, there's probably something we don't know. That
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by powera 11y ago
Huh. Never realized that was an official rule for comments as well as headlines.

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