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Unit of Value: A Framework for Scaling(medium.com)
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Zika virus could become 'explosive pandemic'(bbc.com)
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Summer Founders Program(paulgraham.com)
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3-D Scanners Race to Monuments Before Terrorists Blow Them Up(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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Sanders camp suspicious of Microsoft’s influence in Iowa Caucus(msnbc.com)
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SpaceX successfully tests parachute for bringing astronauts back [video](washingtonpost.com)
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Mark Zuckerberg Becomes World's Sixth Richest Person as Facebook Shares Soar(forbes.com)
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The ‘infuriating’ saga of the Texas teen suspended after rescuing a classmate(washingtonpost.com)
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The Rise of Global Startup Cities(citylab.com)
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Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dramatic genetic discovery(washingtonpost.com)
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by salmonet 11y ago
For some reason, even when I hear "there are plenty of good businesses that aren't startups and it's ok," those businesses still seem like second class citizens. It's easy to forget that "taking money to grow f
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by salmonet 11y ago
Definitely not the case outside SV. It's easier to make fun of the overly optimistic than the overly pessimistic, so it's safer to criticize. I'm glad there is a place like SV where over optimism could even be a problem.
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by salmonet 11y ago
>As for casual reading, there's always tons of stuff on the web. For me, ebooks make it possible to replace much of the casual reading I do on the web with books. I've been happy with the change and I read significantly more bo
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by salmonet 11y ago
>Paper books for me are a universally superior product, they require no battery, don't feature update popups, wifi conncetions, eInk artifacts on page turns, accidental touchscreen events, inflexibility preventing storage in an insi
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by salmonet 11y ago
>ebooks to me are a solution in search of a problem. Ebooks make it easy to read anywhere and anytime you have spare time without lugging physical books around
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In a Japan seemingly obsessed with sex, few seem to indulge(mcclatchydc.com)
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by salmonet 11y ago
This turned out to be a very wise $50 MM acquisition on google's part
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by salmonet 11y ago
I think this could be a really great competitive advantage if it translates into them having the best workers and customers know that. One thing I've noticed in my experience with the home care industry (startup that serves seniors) is
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by salmonet 11y ago
Interestingly high rate of OD deaths in a county on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Access is pretty restricted and the whole island has a population of less than 10,000.
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by salmonet 11y ago
previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10930397
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by salmonet 11y ago
How was the transition to an actual company as a boot camp grad? Did you feel like the other developers saw you as a second-class citizen?
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by salmonet 11y ago
>Every year, SplashData complies a list of the millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the last twelve months, then sorts them in order of popularity. The title should be most commonly stolen passwords of 2015. It isn'
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by salmonet 11y ago
I've read that most heroin ODs occur when a person gets clean and goes back to their old dose after growing a tolerance. Has that been your experience? It makes me wonder if simply making this fact more common knowledge would cut down
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by salmonet 11y ago
I've noticed that recently pg's twitter has a lot of comments that you would see on a typical stay-at-home mom's Facebook wall. It's refreshing to see someone with the financial opportunity cost of pg opt to stay home an
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by salmonet 11y ago
>But by then, the startup has already won. They already got the funding thanks to their sleazy marketing, and the social validation/connections that comes with it. Only if getting seed money and failing in 18 months is their idea of
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by salmonet 11y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why are they policing this? It seems like they would be better off continuing to look the other way. Are the on the hook for not punishing proxy users?
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by salmonet 11y ago
>There’s little to no information on the internet about it or its inventor, except for these photographs for a LIFE magazine article which may never have been published. It's crazy to me that there is no record of this beyond these
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by salmonet 11y ago
The stress, fear, euphoria, depression associated with starting a startup is not natural (or at least not normal) and I'm sure most founders experience emotions on a level that would qualify them as mentally ill at some point. I'v
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by salmonet 11y ago
I think this is good but I would add diet and exercise. I'm sure many will disagree, but my experience has been that diet and exercise are even more effective than mental tricks.
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by salmonet 11y ago
I expect that email will phase out slowly in the same way Craigslist is. Craigslist used to be a place to get tickets to sporting events, find used stuff you need, find employees, personals etc. But startups have found much better ways to s

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