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Anonymous Marketplaces(kk.org)
3 points by zyfo 15y ago|0 comments
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by zyfo 15y ago
That's why the spectator sport hindsight-investing is so popular. It's funny how many people are so sure of the soundness/lack of soundness of a business model, yet surprisingly few put their money where their mouth is.
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by zyfo 15y ago
pg doesn't describe YC as being worth 5BB, he says the projected value of all startups are in that ballpark. The question was How is YC doing? and the answer seems to be: pretty damn good. As in they are doing something right, not as in
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by zyfo 15y ago
I've heard it independently from people working at my economics and finance department. Are you sure it applies to all textbooks? I've never ordered or written a book myself, so I could very well be wrong.
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by zyfo 15y ago
Portfolio Theory is about keeping a set expected return but reducing risk (volitation) through diversification. Diversification is about choosing investments which aren't positively correlated. Are web startups positively correlated? As a i
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by zyfo 15y ago
The control group would consist of the hypothetical startups that you didn't fund (but were qualitively equal to the ones you did fund). EDIT: gabrielroth got it.
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by zyfo 15y ago
Impressive. What about the control group though? You know, the 50% that were deemed fit for YC after the interview but lost at the coin toss backstage. How did those compare?
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by zyfo 15y ago
Too bad authors get paid by publishers by the number of pages, and publishers push the books to education, where the attention economy takes care of the rest. Good thing that programmers are more often self-learned, which makes the problem
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by zyfo 15y ago
This image shows how things end up in Philosophy, by XKCD forumite arotenbe: http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=29727&mode=v... Looking at these stats shows how viral this meme/trivia got: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Phil
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by zyfo 15y ago
Impressive. I could almost see the bayesian filtering taking place inside pg's head when he went from saying "scrap that idea" to "maybe there's something here" on Flyify, once he realized this honestly was a real problem for the founder an
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by zyfo 15y ago
It was meant as a joke. I know there's a huge market out there for cats that look funny. (LOLcats is worth 30M).
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by zyfo 15y ago
He was a 19-year-old 4th-year neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University (Andrew Hsu) Does that mean he'd get his PhD as a 19 or 20 year old? That sounds like a record to me. That's crazy, in a good way.
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by zyfo 15y ago
Even if people love snakes that doesn't mean they a) want to spend time talking to other snake-owners b) want to do it over the internet c) can't do it already d) will pay for it
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by zyfo 15y ago
I like cats who look cute. I wonder... On-topic: I completely agree. The worst thing is that even if you tell people to be brutally honest, they rarely are (there's a good Seinfeld episode on this with George being told by Elaine that he's
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by zyfo 15y ago
The author likens it with a pack of cigarette a day. It would be more apt if she compared it with wine, where a glass a day has proven to be beneficial. She quoted it herself: "Use a dash only when a more common mark of punctuation seems i
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by zyfo 15y ago
That's such a deceiving graph. It started off at 910, then went up to 1010 and then down to 850. It's not that big of a big deal. That graph makes it look like it's the equivalent of the Great Depression. There's rarely any reason to mark y
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by zyfo 15y ago
Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, is said to still fly by coach and be cheap in general. This might just be the public image he's presenting though.
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by zyfo 15y ago
I agree with everything you said, but I don't think it contradicts what I was saying.
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by zyfo 15y ago
If this "essentialism" were to be consistent, I would assume there would be only one iPhone rather than what, five? It's a model with merit, but it's not a holy thing that it sometimes is made out to be. It's still, rather obvious perhaps,
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by zyfo 15y ago
Some very apt descriptions there, good read. Interesting and pithy lens to view the world through. One dimension that struck me as missing: What about indifference? Surely there's a difference in quality between say helplessness and indiffe
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by zyfo 15y ago
I hope this doesn't catch on. BItcoin got many merits against current currencies. This wouldn't be one of them. That said, it's a nice proof-of-concept. Is there anyway to block this type of use of CPU without blocking JS?
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by zyfo 15y ago
Obviously one should not use this frivolous upgrading scheme on a server - I don't think anyone thinks otherwise. At my own computer I don't see the problem. Python 3 replaced Python a couple of weeks ago in Arch, but it's possibly to use P
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by zyfo 15y ago
Among these "tiny changes" there are also plenty of Big Things. Kernel updates and python3 migration to name two. Not to mention the sometimes conflicting packages as a result of staying on the bleeding edge. Don't get me wrong, I've used A
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by zyfo 15y ago
If it was killed there was probably a reason for it.
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by zyfo 15y ago
There's something wrong with blatant self-promotion. Especially considering that you: - don't use a disclaimer - pretend you're not involved in the project by talking about "They" It's a cheap way of trying to game the community to get user
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by zyfo 15y ago
Do you work for Tonido? If you do, please provide a disclaimer. What you are doing is borderline spamming. See his comments for yourself [0] If I'm wrong, I apologize profusely in advance. EDIT: Parent does work for Tonido [1]. This is spam
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by zyfo 15y ago
Dupe - front page 1 day ago, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2513123
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What's with the downvotes? It's related. Just because it's satire doesn't make it cheap and useless. Upvoted.
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by zyfo 15y ago
Odd, it shows 64.0% now, down 9.2% (!). That sounds kinda high, especially going in the negative direction.
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by zyfo 15y ago
Good answer. Is there no cost whatsoever to having many buffers open? I like the simplicity of just cycling through rather than searching for whats-its-name-again - seems to be easier to remember for my fingers as well. A couple of years ag

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