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by sergefaguet 9y ago
hey! yea we don't have pink hair – basically it was really hard to get the color palettes working right in all kinds of different lighting conditions, so we didn't include rare/custom hair. we'll get better at it :) than
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
whoa thank you for catching this. will look into right away.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
thanks :) we obviously think so too
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Launch HN: Mirror (YC W17) – turn a selfie into emoji that look like you
57 points by sergefaguet 9y ago|79 comments
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
Benchmark is getting deservedly fucked in public here for their atrocious behavior. Wouldn't ever walk into their office as a founder after this. And repeatedly advised other founders against it.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
also yeah it is very challenging to individualize. the problem isn't even the cost of testing, meds and doctors. it is that this stuff does not scale across different individuals. that is the ultimate driver of cost.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
actually can only think of one real disadvantage: i travel a lot, and getting all the prescriptions filled internationally is very hard. so a couple times i had to change travel plans just to get new prescriptions. also sometimes i have to
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
Hey HackerNews, I'm a tech CEO/ YC alum. For the last 4-5 years, in my spare time I have been doing a lot of biohacking. Spent ~$200k, did thousands of tests, ate tens of thousands of pills and dozens of prescription drugs, and it
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I’m 32, spent $200k on biohacking. Became calmer, thinner, extroverted, happier(medium.com)
8 points by sergefaguet 9y ago|4 comments
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
What a load of garbage. The world is awash in opportunity - biotech, genetics, AI, fledging nanotechnology, robotics/drones and other things that will transform us into posthumans in 50-100 years. The greatest fortunes in history will
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
will never, ever talk with Benchmark for any fundraising again. suing the CEO who made them ~ten billion dollars. what the actual fuck.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
the point is a US citizen who is a perpetual tourist still must pay US taxes. as a non-US citizen i can live in the US for many years and keep accruing income/assets into a trust + take loans against said income/assets to fund exp
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
See answer above. 80% tax rate is irrelevant if you structure in a way that you don't technically have income.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
I'm not :)
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
See comment above about trusts.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
The US is the only country that taxes worldwide income. So i travel between different countries without living much in any particular one and i pay zero tax. And if i ever want to live somewhere fulltime, i can defer income into trusts and
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
Makes perfect sense. The US is the most wealthy-unfriendly tax regime in the world. I have friends who have never lived or worked in the US amd yet are asked to pay high US taxes. They hate it and will leave. The people who get naturalized