prickledpear

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by prickledpear 7y ago
I'd love to see the numbers on this if you have them in a shareable format. How did your model account for value deflation and what assumptions did it make about storage tech?
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by prickledpear 7y ago
It's great that YC provides feedback on why they don't accept (some) companies. However, it's a bit disappointing to see that not having MRR is a reason to reject a company. It seems like a lot of the successful YC companies
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WeWork to buy co-founder’s property stakes with new $2.9bn fund(ft.com)
1 points by prickledpear 7y ago|1 comments
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More Than 3,500 Amazon Employees Urge Bold Action on Climate Change(nytimes.com)
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by prickledpear 8y ago
Their typescript compiler may not be targeting the correct ecmascript version so the typescript generated could be using polyfills instead of native features.
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What it means, and doesn’t mean, to get a job in physics(gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
2 points by prickledpear 8y ago|0 comments
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by prickledpear 8y ago
It's a little hard to tell if you're asking "are there laws against monopolies?" or "should there be laws against monopolies?". The answer to the first is a certain yes. There are laws against businesses formin
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Why Giant Airships Could Be a Trillion Dollar Industry(roadlessrevolution.com)
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Oregon to Become First State to Impose Statewide Rent Control(nytimes.com)
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by prickledpear 8y ago
Can anyone help me appreciate non representational art like that of Mr. Johns? One specific question I have is: do his individual works stand alone or do you have to understand his life and/or complete body of work and the context in w
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by prickledpear 8y ago
This comment explains some of the technical details: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly...
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by prickledpear 8y ago
This is only true to the extent that YC is a monopoly. If other accelerators compete with YC, entrepreneurs may choose to do business with an accelerator that selects smaller classes.
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by prickledpear 8y ago
These mutual funds and ETFs actively participate in corporate governance, and the overlapping ownership of most stocks in the market is a very underrated problem. Economists have found evidence that as ownership concentration increases, fir
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by prickledpear 8y ago
Yes, that is the problem I mentioned in the original comment that I'm not sure how to solve :)
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by prickledpear 8y ago
This scheme has the advantage of it not mattering if something is active. Instead you pay fees based on what it's worth to you. If someone is squatting on a high-value domain, they will have to pay high fees or sell the domain to someo
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by prickledpear 8y ago
The idea is that if I'm a startup that owns google-disruptor.com, I have to declare a value for that domain name (let's say $100,000), and pay a percentage of that value as a tax. I'm then obligated to sell the domain to anyo
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by prickledpear 8y ago
One intriguing proposal to limit domain name squatting is "Harberger Taxation"[1] Under this scheme, every owner of a domain would declare a value for the domains they own, and pay a percentage of that value as a tax (replacing th
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by prickledpear 8y ago
I'm trying to understand exactly what is changing. From the article are they just switching the order of the two lotteries? They aren't actually raising the number of visas offered, right? This just has the effect of allocating mo
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by prickledpear 8y ago
This is a good introduction to the terminology and symbology used to describe queues, and the KPIs that it highlights are useful. I'm left wishing that the writeup included some more applications of queuing theory. Are there any unexpe
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by prickledpear 8y ago
Another way Chrome could address the problem of extensions having too much access and power over users' browsing data would be to make it easier for extensions and users to specify a list of domains that the extension should be active
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by prickledpear 8y ago
As the article points out, very few websites and applications have keyboard shortcuts. If anyone else is interested in reducing mouse usage and has some familiarity with vim keybindings, I'd recommend the Vimium extension[1]. It's