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by dataisfun 5y ago
Umm…ketamine IV at these doses is most certainly a unique and insane experience, speaking as someone who’s done it about a dozen times for anxiety.
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by dataisfun 6y ago
I find it hard to read anything by Paul Graham these days without an allergic reaction to its hubris.
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by dataisfun 6y ago
Couldn’t this be simplified to 3-4 sentences? Why so much ink spilled?
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by dataisfun 6y ago
I can speak from direct experience that a lot of highly successful people in tech are miserable. This is not a path to try and copy.
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by dataisfun 6y ago
I love how Wells Fargo, which was nabbed for a massive wide ranging scam / fraud, gets to be all sanctimonious about ethics or standards.
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by dataisfun 6y ago
The categorization is interesting albeit deeply ungrounded in any real rigor and seems of a piece with one of his other recent essays, in which he developed a psychoanalytic theory of the various kinds of "haters" and "lose
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by dataisfun 6y ago
Yikes. You make some pretty strong claims that are not credible on their face. 1. "Not adaptive in any situation..." Putting aside the many problems with evolutionary psychological explanations (just-so theory, underdetermination,
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by dataisfun 7y ago
They do in theory but there are countless excel spreadsheets in circulation with a full list of companies way in advance of demo day. If you're not plugged in and arrive at demo day, many VCs have reached out to companies way before yo
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by dataisfun 7y ago
I suppose I'm a combination of relieved, offended and proud to not be on the list.
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by dataisfun 7y ago
The notion of control over one's life is elusive. Our futures can be wrought by trauma, poverty and the lottery that is our DNA, and by extension, our brain. Given the randomness/contingency Graham acknowledges explains his and ot
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by dataisfun 7y ago
I think there's a bit of cruelty in so casually reducing people to "losers." Taking what must be a complex set of personal histories and circumstances that lead people to that behavior and framing it as a matter of winner vs
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by dataisfun 8y ago
Yes, I know. But if you want to tell YC they don't get their pro rata (or practically speaking, convince the founder to tussle with them over that), have fun. I've seen them not budge even when it makes the founder's life muc
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by dataisfun 8y ago
Well, I think YC is pretty clear about the sorts of companies they aspire to invest in, e.g., Dropbox, AirBnB, etc. I also imagine quite a lot of the founders who apply to YC aren't aiming for "lifestyle" businesses, in parti
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by dataisfun 8y ago
Well, mea culpa. The piece does address the issue of bad investors. My main beef is with the line, "in the end, while some investors are better than others, none of them translate directly to success," which I don't think is
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by dataisfun 8y ago
Point #2 is so patently absurd its hard to take seriously. One, YC are themselves investors, and as far as I know they don't position themselves as causally inert in relation to a company's success / one of many indistinguish
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by dataisfun 8y ago
This might work to maximize price but it won't necessarily land you with the best partners. The smartest, best money knows it and they make you pay for their investment. Moreover, approaching fundraising as a transactional auction in a
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by dataisfun 8y ago
If I'm not mistaken, YC gets pro-rata as preferred shareholders, so their dilution is not any different from everyone else in that class.
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by dataisfun 8y ago
This article seems to be in some conflict to how YC operates, which is designed around the demo day auction frenzy, where you might see valuation caps rise overnight on a rolling basis (I've seen some almost comical leaps in valuation
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by dataisfun 8y ago
Will do. Best number?
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by dataisfun 8y ago
This is particularly hard for people with ADD. That said, I think it’s potentially dangerous to give advice that’s in any way titled the “Psychology of...” without actually basing it on evidence and the literature because people might confu
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3Blue1Brown animates and explains neural networks(youtube.com)
9 points by dataisfun 9y ago|0 comments
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by dataisfun 9y ago
Completely agree. Survival past that point would probably be a worse outcome. Just imagine the long tail of life when fully aware of humanity's self immolation. Combine that with the fact that most of the people likely to survive are t
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by dataisfun 9y ago
Turning this company into a focal point about SV culture is such a ridiculous exercise in voluntary dyspepsia.
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by dataisfun 9y ago
You mean except in the winter.
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by dataisfun 9y ago
I don't buy the "raising awareness" argument, ethically speaking. To do that, you could release demo files that show the capability without weaponizing it through easy access. It'd be great to increase awareness around o
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by dataisfun 9y ago
More commonly from dissections of the internal or external carotid or vertebral arteries, which for some bizarre reasons happens less as you age.
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by dataisfun 10y ago
I didn't see any comments mentioning self driving cars, which to me suggest a cleaving of uber's marketplace. If all cars were to suddenly become autonomous, uber could be easily bested because their liquidity has become beside th
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by dataisfun 10y ago
What a lovely mini thread! Thanks for the quick laugh :)
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by dataisfun 10y ago
As an investor, I can say you nailed it with this explanation.
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The Future of Machine Intelligence: An Interview Series(tomtunguz.com)
4 points by dataisfun 10y ago|0 comments

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