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by zaguios 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciated it. Is there anything in particular that you would suggest to add to the landing page to clarify it? I was hoping the graphics would give users a basic idea on how exactly it worked. I would lik
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Show HN: Swift Demand – A Basic Income Experiment(swiftdemand.com)
16 points by zaguios 10y ago|22 comments
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by zaguios 10y ago
Interesting, I am not familiar with the job situation in France so I was basing the sentence on this quote from the article "Second, it has often been blamed for providing an incentive to give up looking for a job". It sounds like
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by zaguios 10y ago
There may not be post scarcity as there will always people the desire more and thus commerce will exist. However that doesn't necessarily means that everyone needs to contribute to that economy. If we have developed the technology to a
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by zaguios 10y ago
Another things I noticed is how it pointed out how France's system of basic income gave people less incentive to work and thus contributed to 10% unemployment. Isn't that also another reason many people advocate for basic income s
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by zaguios 10y ago
I think it's clear why you joined YC as it can be very beneficial to any company. The comment is questioning whether YC still remains to be a company focusing on the seed stage of investment. Nowadays it appears that a lot companies th
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by zaguios 11y ago
Yep, implementation is fairly simple. I find the wikipedia article to be hard to follow so I'll give an example here to simplify it. Let's say the applications you want to compare have an elo of 1200 and 1600 respectively. Let&#x2
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by zaguios 11y ago
Yea, a point system would work decently, but as you mentioned there is the problem where certain reviewers give higher and lower ratings than one another. With a large enough sample size you should still get fairly accurate ratings. A 1 vs
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by zaguios 11y ago
To ensure each application gets the same amount of views (with the exception of the top ranked and bottom ranked applications) you can pick the next highest/lowest and it will work out fine. My concern with this implementation was that
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by zaguios 11y ago
I actually already wrote this as a reply to another comment, but I think it merits a comment of its own. The best way to do the scoring for the applications is to actually make it into somewhat of a game. Each application should be given a
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by zaguios 11y ago
Yea, expanding on this the best way to get the best results is to actually give each post an elo score. Then when a user goes to look at two applications they can vote on which application they think is better and award / subtract elo
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by zaguios 11y ago
This is a little unfair, a lot of these really aren't too unreasonable if you are unfamiliar with China. $730 for 3 Chinese Visas with rushed service actually isn't really overpriced, in fact it's about the price I would expe
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by zaguios 11y ago
I don't remember exactly where, but I do recall someone at YC saying that due to the fact they invest in such a large amount of companies there is bound to be some overlap. I believe they probably try their best to be impartial and try
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How to Get into YCF – A Review of YC Fellowship Application Videos(nanobash.com)
1 points by zaguios 11y ago|0 comments
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by zaguios 11y ago
Hello everyone, I recently created a section on my website where people interested YCF can post their applications and have them reviewed by others. I will personally respond to every serious application that gets posted as well.
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Crowdsource Your YC Fellowship Application(nanobash.com)
3 points by zaguios 11y ago|2 comments
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by zaguios 11y ago
Hey everyone, I developed a place on my website Nanobash.com where anyone applying for YC Fellowship can voluntarily post their applications and have it commented on by others. Please feel free to check it out! http://www.nanobas
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Show HN: Post your YC Fellowship Application to receive and give feedback(nanobash.com)
3 points by zaguios 11y ago|0 comments
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by zaguios 12y ago
Crush the castle wasn't even the original version of the game. It's actually inspired by another flash game called Castle Clout which almost nobody has heard of. (The developer of Crush the Castle listed the attribution in the fir
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by zaguios 12y ago
Several years ago when there were less applications and he got turned down initially...
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by zaguios 12y ago
Filling out the application probably won't hurt, but I'm more curious if there is any chance of actually getting in. I'm not a stanford grad or an ex-googler so I would assume that combined with the fact that I'm solo fo
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by zaguios 12y ago
As a solo founder, is it worth the time to apply if I don't already have a finished product and significant traction? P.S. I know many people would suggest to find a cofounder, but that hasn't worked well for me. In my area there
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by zaguios 13y ago
They do address it, they lie by asserting that every apps was viewed twice when it's clear that was not the case unless there are dozens of developers lying about something random which I'm pretty sure isn't the case.
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by zaguios 13y ago
Here's one I found that was quite amusing: "Aisle50 (YC S11) streamlines the search for aliens"
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by zaguios 13y ago
I didn't get that impression, "all of the final 5 teams met the eligibility requirements specified in the Official Rules". They did mention that they are doing a more "in-depth" review, but they should have been imm
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by zaguios 13y ago
This makes it sound like they're just straight up lying. It's been pointed out several times that upshot was developed before the announcement of the competition and multiple developers have analytics to prove their video/app
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by zaguios 13y ago
Paying $500 for a 0% chance to win; that doesn't sound like the best deal to me. You can get a lot more value from a regular hackathon that you can actually get some attention and feedback from and that isn't going to charge you a
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by zaguios 13y ago
Look at the graph the article presents for US political violence. It's actually at or near an all time low, they just added a new "category" of terrorism to inflate recent numbers. The cycle may or may not actually exist, but
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by zaguios 13y ago
Killing someone actually ends up costing more than imprisoning them for life (Just an FYI). I do however agree with your point about what the goal of prison should be.
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by zaguios 13y ago
Would you care to release any of the applications you've submitted? I would be curious to see if it's really a quality application that YC overlooked or if there are other reasons you were not accepted.

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