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by SandersAK 8d ago
love when they put stuff in like this... One note on the repo's AGENTS.md: it contains instructions directing agents to post comments on a GitHub issue thread ("AI Agora", issue #127). I ignored that — it's the repo&#x27
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by SandersAK 2y ago
I love the posts about how YC was better back in the day. It was the same, it's the same. It's just bigger and there's more timeline now to reflect. If you think the partners (the core of which have been there since day 1) h
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by SandersAK 3y ago
If you are the majority owner, or stand to profit vastly more than your team from an endeavor, then you are never a servant. Using terms like "servant" to appear humble, when the equity split is massively lopsided is patronizing a
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by SandersAK 3y ago
The reason there is not a lot of dialogue around this is because the numbers don't work for all parties at the right time. When you have a small founder team, you need capital for essentially nothing to show. You can't raise that
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by SandersAK 4y ago
I guess it's better than the 7% you gotta pay to get an Orange username on HN.
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by SandersAK 4y ago
About 2/3rds of truck owners don't use the bed much at all. https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...
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by SandersAK 5y ago
kinda buried the lede, didn't they? "However, according to the EMA, the benefits of both mRNA shots in preventing COVID-19 continue to outweigh the risks, the regulator said, echoing similar views expressed by U.S. regulators and
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by SandersAK 5y ago
it's very possible for you to have the experience you're describing from a system, and for the system to be predatory and extractive. Just as many people live in nice suburbs and work in cities where there's extreme poverty.
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by SandersAK 6y ago
Where do I sign up to LP for the AKH firehose fund?
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by SandersAK 6y ago
Talking "Why does capitalism work so well?" during a pandemic caused in large part by crony capitalism is the sort of bravado energy I need right now.
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by SandersAK 6y ago
Many of the comments in this thread do not understand the concept of free speech from a legal perspective. Free speech does not mean that you have the right to say or distribute whatever you want on whatever platform, owned by a private co
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OpenAi API and Reddit = Racism?(twitter.com)
2 points by SandersAK 6y ago|1 comments
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by SandersAK 7y ago
I agree that the vast majority of VC is just a shitty index fund and crapshoot. I do think that YC, from a Performance perspective is light years ahead of all the others that launched just after it did. For me, the skill of PG was being rel
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by SandersAK 7y ago
I agree that this article is a fluff piece but, unless you worked with him at YC or seen how he worked there, the idea that he wasn’t doing a lot to make YC successful is wrong. It’s not an exaggeration to say that PG’s work and insights ch
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by SandersAK 7y ago
Her work has had profound impact and I’m excited to read her book. It’s amazing to still see the ramifications of her work today. For example, in this very thread it shows just how latent misogyny is in the majority of the community. It’s a
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by SandersAK 7y ago
"Now, persuasion is a generic skill—it’s probably not enough to build a career on. You need to combine it in a skill stack, as Scott Adams writes." Naval quotes Scott Adams, dilbert creator who has on the record said things like t
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by SandersAK 7y ago
It's hard to edify and spend that time when you routinely flag and kill my comments. You claim that HN is "better than this" but Naval's post is totally devoid of insight. It is hackneyed and the commentary responding to
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by SandersAK 7y ago
This isn’t a shallow dismissal. I’m literally quoting a part of the piece that is absurdly bad. Would it be edifying for you and others if I explained why I think suggesting that a smart startup employee should not be doing the CEO’s laundr
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by SandersAK 7y ago
“In many cases, the person is way overqualified. Someone with multiple graduate degrees might be running the CEO’s laundry because that’s the most important thing at the moment.“ These sort of ideas telegraph that the author knows they got
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by SandersAK 7y ago
"Our goal, as Cthulhu, is to support initiatives designed to rise from the dark depths of R’lyeh (metaphorically speaking!) and end up destroying or at least disrupting, some market paradigm." Happy to maintain social paradigms th
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by SandersAK 7y ago
You should do more digging into how "doing business in China" works before you make this statement.
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by SandersAK 7y ago
Personally I was really disappointed when YC opened up shop in China - to me it really revealed a Profits over People approach and was pretty brazen at the time. Happy to see (for whatever reason) that they're recommitting to communiti
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by SandersAK 7y ago
healthcare?
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by SandersAK 7y ago
It's not the funding that is the problem. It's a cultural issue inside of OakDOT and the city gov't. Oakland has $600m ready for transport projects: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakl
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by SandersAK 7y ago
Does this mean you'll now have zero time for tennis?
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Chargehound (YC W14) Is Hiring a Head of Partnerships in Oakland(chargehound.breezy.hr)
1 points by SandersAK 7y ago
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by SandersAK 7y ago
yes
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by SandersAK 7y ago
Chargehound (YC W14) | Account Manager | Oakland, CA | Full Time https://www.chargehound.com/jobs/account-manager
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Chargehound (YC W14) Is Hiring an Account Manager in Oakland(chargehound.com)
1 points by SandersAK 7y ago
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by SandersAK 8y ago
somewhat unrelated: This is YC's mission statement: "Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you’re getting started."

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