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by thesausageking 3y ago
Sequoia, NEA, Lux, Insight, Lightspeed, ... these are brand name funds and they were completely duped. Sequoia wrote a glowing, 15,000 word piece about Sam: https://web.archive.org/web/20220922164619/https:/&#
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by thesausageking 3y ago
You can't paint it with such a broad brush. Employment laws are very fact specific and differ state to state. California was pretty sure Uber drivers were contractors, they brought an action, and the courts found against them. You real
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by thesausageking 3y ago
"open core" != open source. I've been burned by too many YC startups that go away and leave customers stranded to use one for something as important as auth.
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by thesausageking 3y ago
Not fully open source and run by a tiny startup that last raised funding 3 years ago means it's way too risky to use in a real product. Firebase and Cognito have issues, but for something as mission critical to a product as auth and id
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by thesausageking 3y ago
"When you look back on every decade in tech, there's one thing that really dominated. I think the Internet Computer will be the one this next decade." - Chris Dixon This was the a16z-backed "Internet Computer" which
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by thesausageking 3y ago
Craig Wright, the guy who brought this lawsuit, has been suing people left and right for years. He lost a high profile case last year against a podcaster who called him a fraud. The judge ruled against Wright and found that he had "adv
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by thesausageking 3y ago
I run an email domain for myself and three friends. I set it up 10+ years ago and originally it was for ~15 people. It's only personal email and no one uses it for marketing or anything even remotely shady. We setup DKIM and all of the
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by thesausageking 4y ago
That was a reasonable argument to make in 2013 or 2017. But Gensler's administration alone has issued more than 1,500 actions. At this point, the SEC should be able to codify their interpretations and publish guidance. One example: a d
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by thesausageking 4y ago
It's "regulation-by-enforcement". Instead of defining clear rules, the SEC just waits and brings actions against the activities it doesn't want to happen. Sen Toomey and others have called out Gensler for doing this: ht
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by thesausageking 4y ago
It is done in some places, often with "shade balls"[0]. If doing it with solar panels brings to cost down to ~$0, then why not do it many more places? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_balls
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by thesausageking 4y ago
> it means that bitcoin is ultimately not, as is often claimed, protected by mathematics or physics or even economics, but rather by the social cohesion, cooperation, and (dare I say it?) trustworthiness of the mining community This isn&
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by thesausageking 4y ago
They exist and are called "airless tires". Tannus is one of the most popular brands: https://tannusamerica.com/pages/tannus-airless-tires They're solid foam and can't go flat. They're not very
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by thesausageking 4y ago
My 8 yo loves Scratch. She's made over 30 apps with it and has had a great time. However, now that she's reached the limits of what it can do, I have been frustrated that there isn't a natural place for her to graduate to. An
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by thesausageking 4y ago
That doesn't fit the data though. Dobbs v Jackson was in 2022. The increase starts in around 2012. That's before Trump and the current wave of politicians who are behind Dobbs, etc. In 2012, Obama was President, the Paycheck Fair
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by thesausageking 4y ago
I'm sure this helped with their growth, but I really, really hate what Duolingo has become. It used to be a great app for learning a language. I went back to it recently to remember my Spanish for a trip and it's the worst, over-g
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by thesausageking 4y ago
They not only invested in FTX, they promoted SBF with a glowing 10,000 word article[0], allowed him to take a huge amount of secondaries, and even made him an LP in Sequoia. https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005&#x
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If Sequoia, Paradigm and Thoma Bravo settle a new lawsuit, it could upend VC(techcrunch.com)
3 points by thesausageking 4y ago|2 comments
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by thesausageking 4y ago
It would be a lot worse. Harvard could fill its classes 4x over with students with perfect SATs and GPAs. They would miss out on the ones who published ground breaking biology papers, wrote code for important open source projects, etc. It w
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by thesausageking 4y ago
This article is from 2019 and is out of date. It's saying that Walmart only sells human insulin which isn't true any more. ReliOn NovoLog is a modern, analog insulin and is exactly the same as "regular" NovoLog: https:&
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by thesausageking 4y ago
That's incorrect. For a long time, Walmart has sold an older, human insulin. This is a relatively new product which is an analog insulin. It's the same NovoLog that's widely prescribed just with the ReliOn brand stuck on it.
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by thesausageking 4y ago
Walmart now sells Novo Nordisk produced insulin for $17 per pen[0]. I have a hard time believing California will do it cheaper than that. [0] https://www.walmart.com/cp/relion-diabetic-care/3769564
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by thesausageking 4y ago
I use Thunderbird as my main mail client and love it. I've tried a number of clients and always come back to it. The two big things for me are the search and the ecosystem of add-ons. I do hope the redesign considers add-on developers.
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by thesausageking 4y ago
That would explain a ton of VC blog posts.
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by thesausageking 4y ago
Why do VCs write these kinds of generic, life advice columns?
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by thesausageking 4y ago
There's a great 99% Invisible on the Real Book: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-real-book/ Link has a lot of photos of a "real" Real Book.
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by thesausageking 4y ago
One interesting bit on page 35: they claim that Mixmax took a worse offer from Resolute Ventures because they were willing to "forgo diligence from the Company and help Mathe find other equally non-diligent investors to pitch."
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Harrison Metal vs. Mixmax, Olof Mathe, and Brad Vogel(dropbox.com)
1 points by thesausageking 4y ago|1 comments
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by thesausageking 4y ago
Seeing Collab prompted me to re-read the "Email to a former board member" the founder of CircleUp wrote to partner: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XToJhxt8srHHsRhe35bAa18w... Context here: https:&#
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by thesausageking 4y ago
Even if you don't lose people money, lying about how you're using it is a crime and you can go to jail for it. Ask Martin Shkreli. He never lost any investors money, but still got 7 years in prison because he lied about what he wa
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by thesausageking 4y ago
This is really misleading as it ignores the main fraud FTX committed: commingling user funds. Exchanges should never put their users' assets at risk and FTX's T&C said they didn't. If you deposited 1 BTC on their exchange

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