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Primitives, real intellectuals turn their noses at anything other than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units
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Don't do that. It's spreading the myth that these lower-tier accelerators are trying to do things the same way as the top-tier accelerators. That is extremely not the case, too often. Many times it's the equivalent of used ca
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The transparency for accelerators is terrible now. Every founder presumes that the new accelerators are at least trying to follow the template of the best accelerators. Surprisingly often that's not the case whatsoever, down to the sma
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Commonplace, but what's the amount? Often they ask you to set aside 5% to 25% for them. The one we went through got most of their fees via "highly recommended" legal and accounting service kickbacks, which charged far higher
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I've badly been wanting one of these since I used a great one at my last job in 2010. Are there more of these now that I don't know about?
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Try an incognito window, and through that go to google.com/ncr to get US-only results.
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That's not true at all. Many were pivoting from their original idea back when the funding amounts were far smaller than they are now.
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Directly giving the users predictions that are based on latent factors has a huge problem -- is there ever really a case where the latent factors have very high prediction ability, but an analyst can't simply see what's driving th
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So Google Translate is just being terrible again? Figures.
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Is anaphora-resolution really always as simple as attaching to the most recent person, in Finnish? I'd bet it's not always that simple, in any spoken language.
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Do so many languages really not use gendered pronouns? Seems I'm seeing this happen all the time. Doesn't it cause extra confusion in the native languages?
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"I give business leaders honest feedback" Just a side note, I'm ALWAYS noticing lately that there's a certain segment of people like to use the word "honest" as a justification for spreading their negative pred
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Just one thing I'm curious about: How do you later find out if you had been correct? Have you tried to estimate how often you've been correct by following up on the people later on? RE the article: awesome that you have the goal o
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I see, thank you for clarifying. Somehow, I think the word "cash flow" gave me the impression that this was based on revenues, not distributions. Can you clarify what distributions means? So if the founders pay themselves a salary
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[edit: seems they're not doing revenue based financing.] "Nowhere in anything we’ve written publicly or discussed privately about indie.vc have we said we’re only interested in modest, cashflow businesses." If they're no
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"Resentment" Good call on that. Resentment is the #1 factor in practically everything in internal people dynamics. Poor managers and founders just don't realize it yet. This tends to be less bad in major cities than in small
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Exactly what I was saying. Google here is claiming that people don't often buy the cheapest listed flight... and the reason is because they can't.
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"cheaper isn’t always better" BS. Non-business flights are the most price-sensitive type of product there could possibly be. Near 100% of people only apply a few very basic filters, e.g. no 12-hour layovers, doesn't depart at
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Just my experience, for every possible thing that you could do that could be related to accounting, you can find at least one accountant who will insist that it's illegal.
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The parent in this thread literally said "willing".
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The vast majority of men do not actually date supermodels, and therefore they must not be willing to. Just joking, but I think your logic might be slightly missing some other important factors.
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As someone living in a very low wage country now, I will never again want to grow a company / work as an employee, in a place where the workers are lowly valued. In my experience, it turns out bad for everyone. The company gets a far h
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At this point, journalists are intentionally doing this just to guarantee some attention from people calling them out.
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Only Manhattan and the SF bay area. Forget everything else.
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No one has ever said "that's incredible for a 40 year old". Only the young get benefit from this equation. I would bet that your achievements would not be considered great by someone who uses this equation, no matter how grea
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YC interviewers say yes. Some have directly told me that they use this equation when judging applications: impressiveness = achievements / age Now that YC has tried to tackle the race and gender concerns, I really hope that ageism is n
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Or remotely familiar with modern machine learning. With a company of that budget, all important systems ultimately go through a supervised learning layer. Practically nothing important uses unsupervised learning end-to-end.
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Clinical addiction to creating, with associated negative quality of life effects.
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Google search is FAR more human-driven than they'll ever admit to - for legal and PR reasons.
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Really disliking the word "pre-accelerator". Right up there with saying "mentors" instead of helpful peers. Not sure why these words are chosen where there's an implied hierarchy of one being better, one being worse

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