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by timoth3y 8y ago
I wrote a detailed and (to me) heartbreaking account of this two years ago. The article went viral and kind of freaked me out, but I think the advice is as good as ever. https://medium.com/startup-lesson-learned/why-i-t
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About 10 years ago I had a severe back injury and even after it "healed" I would occasionally experience stabbing pains in my lower back. Two different doctors told me I needed surgery to fuse three of my discs. I considered surge
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A quibble, but an important one. The shipping is subsidized by US citizens, more specifically those who use the postal service, not the taxpayers. On another note, it's a shame that "American taxpayers" has replaced the more
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Level 4; You don't know what your vacation cost.
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It's pretty clear that porn is the most disrespected genre. I mean, it's not even respectable enough to be considered in the discussion of the most disrespected genre of film.
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This is not really surprising since parking is designed for maximum capacity, not average capacity. Parking lots for stadiums and shopping malls are mostly empty most of the time. A city could have 10x the number of parking spaces as house
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by timoth3y 8y ago
> the legal reality is corporations are just as protected by the first amendment as any person That's not the case. There have always been restrictions on commercial speech that are not allowed towards individual speech. For example
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This isn't good. I mean, there may well be saboteurs in Tesla. That's not my issue. What worries me is that Musk sent out a general email and announced this to the world. Why is that worrying? Whether it is Trump's "Deep
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True. That's why so many of them try to "leak" the problem to journalists after they have taken their short positions. I mean it's not a perfect system, but at least in the public markets, there is some financial incenti
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It's not unique to Theranos. It's all part of the perverse incentives involved with well-funded tech companies. There is no real incentive to call out fraud. As an investor or a partner you might pass on a deal, but to go public
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These kinds of jobs often point to an unhealthy co-dependency between non-technical management and (usually) younger engineers. Everyone wants to play the hero. The manager reporting to his boss about how hard his team is working and how th
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This Japanese startup just built Japan's most powerful supercomputer(disruptingjapan.com)
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This is a very interesting team. In an interview, one of the co-founders explained that they do not intend to develop their own products, but want to cultivate deep relationships with companies in a variety of verticals and develop expertis
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by timoth3y 9y ago
I thought I was just me that had this inexplicable habit. Glad to hear I'm not the only one.
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Forbes on Why Your ICO Investment Is Going to Zero(forbes.com)
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> I really have a hard time understanding why people would intentionally do that to themselves. Most people don't understand it, and that's a real problem. I'll do my best to explain. Several decades ago I found myself liv
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There is no reason to believe this statement is true, and the article doesn’t even try to make a case for it. It “feels” like it should be true, but the discussion is really just asserting the statement. Skeptic: “I understand X. I’ve spent
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There is a clinical psychologist in Japan who is doing the same thing, but without the data-mining. Unfortunately, the medical and academic communities here have been pretty aggressive about trying to shut her down. https://www.d
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Except perhaps Carter. He canceled the B-1 bomber. returned the Panama canal. He campaigned against what he called "The Imperial Presidency". Of course, he was reviled for doing so.
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Not really. It's true that insurance companies charge more to certain people because they are statistically more likely to, for example, be in a car accident than another person or because a home in a particular location is more at ris
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The secret social network of Japanese high school girls [Podcast](disruptingjapan.com)
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What Your Startup Can Learn from Airbnb’s Japan Problem(disruptingjapan.com)
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Perhaps the explanation is much simpler. 1) The way new wealth is generated in America tends to produce income inequality - at least in the short term. 2) Wealthy people have their lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs met and ar
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How Uber’s Failure in Japan Can Help Startups Everywhere(medium.com)
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I would have been OK with it, but I don't think it would not have worked. I developed most of the code and was the only one with significant startup experience. That said, I don't know if the rest of team ever discussed it with th
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Tired certainly, but not burned out. If we could have come up with an approach to solving the problem, I would have been 100% on board. I have no problem working 70+ hour weeks for something I believe in. I've done it before, and there
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Users mean well. Basically, they want to be part of the process. They are trying to help you solve the problem. It's way too easy to fall into the "If we just had this one feature" trap. Sales staff love coming up with featur
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Thank you. I'm glad it meant something to you. TO tell the truth I was a mess the first week after deciding to shut down. No matter how many ways I could "prove" to my self I was doing the right thing, it still felt horrible.
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That's a bad place to be stuck in. I'll see if I can put something together that makes sense and is fairly comprehensive. At the moment, a lot of it is "I know it when I see it" but that's not exactly helpful.
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Hi. Tim here. I'm delighted that this article struck such a chord. I'll try to answer the most common questions here. I wish I could answer everyone directly. 1) I called it off before anyone sent money or quit their jobs. The onl

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