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by bell-cot 3d ago
I thought the reputation that mattered to YC was for taking on could-be-very-profitable startups, and making them (statistically) much more profitable. Also, might your argument require that YC's leaders eventually gain access to a tim
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by bell-cot 3d ago
Is there some reason to believe that Y Combinator maintains "stances" on the 6,200-ish startups which have been through their program? If not - since YC is a for-profit business, what paths to positive RoI might you foresee if the
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by bell-cot 3d ago
Suggested: Add [1945] to the title. > In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. Wow - TIL. But skimming through Google&#
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by bell-cot 3d ago
This, but how do they rule out the extra stuff landing in the sun much earlier - when the solar system was still a pre-solar nebula, and which bits would end up where (sun vs. planets vs. whatever) was far from settled?
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by bell-cot 3d ago
> 100x speed improvement ... Vs. Ken's Blog says "up to 100 times", and Wikipedia gives a lower estimate. Theory: Your 100X experience compared Intel's "exact emulation" code (noted in the article) with nat
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by bell-cot 3d ago
> But for a compiler to target... To what degree did Intel assume their target market was either using hand-coded assembly, or written-for-x87 code with x87-specific compilers? Memory was not cheap in 1980, ditto 8087 chips, and oddit
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by bell-cot 4d ago
I'll guess that you clean your house regularly enough for it to be "pretty clean" all the time. Vs. going through cycles of letting it degrade into a stinking mess, then having to do an enormous clean-up, without ever learni
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by bell-cot 4d ago
Kinda interesting, but it gives me a sense of human history only beginning when the subject (Klein) came of age. That's fine for pop culture stuff. But when she's an activist against a problem that's older than the pyramids
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by bell-cot 4d ago
No mention of how far the apps went, in pursuit of their goals (everyone pays and doomscrolls forever) over their users' goals (finding good relationships).
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by bell-cot 4d ago
Better for the big picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huso_fulvescens Also, note the recent reclassification from Acipenser to Huso . From the descriptions there, the article's estimate of 99% (reduction
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by bell-cot 5d ago
They also have to work in the rain, and in the snow, and work extra hours before Christmas, and lift heavy boxes, and all sorts of other stuff goes with the turf when you're a trucker. That I've heard, with the insane pace of work
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by bell-cot 5d ago
> [One victim] says Anthropic still lacks tools that allow users to see what’s consuming their tokens. “I don’t think there’s any way that these people can protect themselves.” > When asked for information on how users can identify mi
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by bell-cot 5d ago
And the other party was (among other faults) amazingly complacent as major landlords colluded at scale - via RealPage software - to send apartment rents skyrocketing. If you look at the timeline, and the demographics of voters who lost enth
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by bell-cot 5d ago
Wouldn't it be lovely if either party actually cared about inflation? 24 years ago, I recall diesel being $1.25/gallon, and hamburger meat at a little local grocer for $1/pound any time they had a sale. Now, even going to C
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by bell-cot 5d ago
I'm no Amazon fan, but that was routine in trucking before Bezos was even born. Similar to farmers working in the fields - they didn't walk all the way back to the farmhouse if they had to pee.
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by bell-cot 6d ago
Sadly, Google's AI search can find no hint of St. Randall working on a What If? 3 book. (But What If he's sworn it to secrecy?;)
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by bell-cot 6d ago
If you want clicky headlines or simplistic denunciations, then saying that everyone ever associated with the CIA was a "spy" is quite useful. Otherwise, it's kinda like saying that everyone ever employed by Ford Motor Co. was
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by bell-cot 6d ago
Actually, all the [physics stuff] that allows sound to propagate would also be slowed down, to <5 km/h. More realistically - the atmosphere would not be gaseous (everybody dies), the sun would be a black hole larger than the earth&#
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by bell-cot 6d ago
The bar is extremely low here - > From civil projects, such as space-based data, to military applications, Europe seems to be fighting a losing battle on almost every front. All of this makes Huby refreshing because she is honest about t
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by bell-cot 6d ago
Well, unfortunately - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Reproduction - a just-hatched young octopus doesn't stick around, but drifts away in the current. Also worth a read - https://en.wikipedia.org
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by bell-cot 7d ago
OP's idea was that copyright renewal costs would skyrocket after 30-ish years - I'd presume the intended benefits to the public would come from (1) increased revenue to the Treasury, and (2) most creative works leaving copyright i
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by bell-cot 7d ago
Quite a few previous appearances on HN - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by bell-cot 7d ago
In human terms, frequency, impact, and scale matter. If my little dog puts a few ounces of pee in some random person's front yard, it's seen as a micro-infraction at best. Vs. Flock's ideal is more like a factory farm just
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by bell-cot 7d ago
Which side you're taking here? Sudden and Legal are pretty unobjectionable to folks who aren't pro-copyright for other reasons. But could sound excellent to (say) folks who "bought and owned" digital property...then ha
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by bell-cot 7d ago
> What prevents forgers from ... Cost. Same as them fooling carbon dating, electron microscopes, isotope analysis, and a host of other techniques. Forgery has always been about how cheaply you could make fakes, vs. the odds and conseque
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by bell-cot 7d ago
Because Disney paying ever-increasing fees to keep Snow White is not particularly harmful. Vs. if we allowed ever-extending patents on essential medicines and foundational technologies? How much could the heirs of the Wright Brothers add
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by bell-cot 7d ago
> You'll throw Hollywood and most of ... Compared to the economic and human disruptions of shipping most of America's manufacturing jobs overseas since WWII, that sounds very minor. Yes, I understand that Hollywood & publ
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by bell-cot 7d ago
Is there another Fact Sheet for Plutocracy? Because the Plutocrats owning 99% of the wealth and 99% of the politicians seems like the root cause for people stuck down in the 99% getting angry enough to start supporting things like Fascism
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by bell-cot 8d ago
Back in the mid-1990's, I took training as a literacy tutor. Our instructor noted that region's major newspapers (Detroit, USA) were written to a 6th-grade reading level. Except for the sports section, which was more like 3rd gr
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by bell-cot 8d ago
That comparison is depressingly applicable. The National Socialists gained power in a period when both the present and future looked very bleak to a large fraction of German voters, and a whole succession governments formed by political ma

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