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by vecter 4y ago
> there is now not only a direction that you cannot go in, you can't detect it is not there any more You can still detect that it's there. You just can't go there. > the only way through time is forward toward the singu
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by vecter 4y ago
Dimensions do not disappear after you cross the event horizon. In fact, for very very large black holes, you would most likely notice nothing as you crossed the event horizon (barring there being a huge accretion disk spinning around at a s
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by vecter 4y ago
It depends on what you mean by the "inside" of a black hole. If you mean the event horizon, then for supermassive black holes, you wouldn't even notice that you'd passed it, so at that part of the inside, it looks exactl
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by vecter 4y ago
They're not talking about the stars, but the hexagonal spikes sticking out of the stars. Those are artifacts of the hexagonal lenses that the telescope uses.
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by vecter 4y ago
That's logically impossible for many reasons, the first of which is that arithmetic is a prerequisite for quantum field theory, and that secondly quantum effects like those don't occur at scales at which intelligent organisms live
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by vecter 4y ago
They would have to have developed calculus in order to build radio telescopes. We're not talking about how they think, we're talking about their understanding of concepts. These concepts are all hard prerequisites to being a speci
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by vecter 4y ago
You're right about dogs, but dogs cannot build radio telescopes so I don't understand the point. To be capable of interstellar communication, you have to be able to build machines, and doing so requires a systematic engineering cu
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by vecter 4y ago
Counting numbers are such a basic foundational aspect of all life that it's hard to imagine any "intelligent" being not understanding the concepts of 1, 2, 3, etc.
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by vecter 4y ago
I assume that PG was talking about "intelligent" aliens, which, for the sake of argument, let's say are those capable of interstellar communication (building radio telescopes and whatnot). I cannot fathom such a civilization
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by vecter 4y ago
In what world does it make sense for a founder to pay themselves $1m/year in salary ? One situation I could imagine is if they have a money-printing machine and outright own the business, then that would make sense. It's hard to
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by vecter 4y ago
> You think founders are paying out of pocket for their fancy SF and NYC apartments at 50k per year living humbly? Think again. IDK, I always thought this part of the narrative was rather misleading. In what situation would a founder hav
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by vecter 4y ago
You sound like you have a really valuable experience and skillset. In your opinion, how would you go about technical interviewing in a way that makes sense?
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by vecter 4y ago
Ah yes. My understanding is more that we have to make gravity fit within QM as opposed to the other way around, but perhaps a unified theory would require changes to QM also?
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by vecter 4y ago
Curious, what are those hints?
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by vecter 4y ago
> This just reinforces the idea that raising VC is more about your background than it is about your ideas or ability to execute. At the seed or pre-seed stage that Matt was at, what else would it based on? If you have no product or barel
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by vecter 4y ago
A twitter employee talked about that in the thread: https://twitter.com/noradio/status/1333558513314922497
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by vecter 4y ago
It’s a joke. A “baker’s dozen” is 13, not the standard 12.
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by vecter 4y ago
> We learned that the hard way, in the notorious "batch that broke YC" in the summer of 2012. Up till that point we treated the partners as a pool. When a startup requested office hours, they got the next available slot posted
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by vecter 4y ago
I think it's pretty obvious what problems Snapchat and DoorDash are solving. Snapchat lets people stay in touch in fun ways and DoorDash lets people eat food without having to go out and get it themselves. Maybe you personally don&#x27
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by vecter 4y ago
Can you give a few salient examples?
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by vecter 4y ago
You can s/VC/right network/ and I would still strongly disagree with your assertion that even if you're in the "right networks", that problems will get fixed. Startups are fundamentally about finding product-ma
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by vecter 4y ago
More money definitely means more time to pivot and potentially make something work. However, most companies still fail, even after raising large amounts of money. My contention with OP's point is the absoluteness of the statement they
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by vecter 4y ago
> If you're in the right network, then having the wrong product, wrong market, wrong team, wrong market fit, bad traction, etc. doesn't really matter because those networks will "fix" those problems for you. No amount
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by vecter 4y ago
Their systems are so decoupled, a true sign of quality modularized engineering /s. All kidding aside, I rarely find that status pages seem to reflect reality when something is obviously broken on a main website of application. Anyone k
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by vecter 4y ago
That's entirely up to you. It's your company. Startup life in general is probably going to be busier than working a corporate job, but the answer is: whatever the company needs. Sometimes that will be 80 hour weeks, and sometimes
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by vecter 4y ago
13.8 Billion years ago, the universe was created in a magical moment that we have yet to understand. 370,000 years after that, it cooled down enough to finally let protons bind to electrons, and the first atoms formed (99% hydrogen, 1% heli
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by vecter 4y ago
> If they aren't good at their job or it is status quo, they will brush it off. In your example, you rely on them to be even better: you assume that they'll be a competent engineer and be able to understand the complexities of
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by vecter 4y ago
I've had a different experience (at least with engineering processes). Most of the time, it's been due to things in the past that have broken because we didn't check things or we got misaligned on something or people made ass
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by vecter 4y ago
Relying on VPs to do every front-line job in order to identify and fix problems would indicate that something is fundamentally broken at the company. That should never be the primary method by which a company identifies and fixes such probl
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by vecter 4y ago
That's about the time I'd expect for a new hire to ramp up on the codebase and submit a PR behind a feature flag and probably experiment that makes it to production. It takes a day to even set up the environment and be able to sta

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