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Forget Battery Swapping: Tesla Aims to Charge Electric Cars in Five Minutes(technologyreview.com)
2 points by dbul 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbul 14y ago
A shocking data point about how things are going is that the median real net worth for households headed by someone under 25 dropped 68% from 1984 to 2009, to $3,662. I remember hearing this on NPR a couple days ago. It's actually 35.[1]
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by dbul 14y ago
This is unbelievable: it looks like they are faking child births, too! The rate is up a whopping 15%. http://web.archive.org/web/20120203092942/https://www.cia.go... https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... Also,
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by dbul 14y ago
Both of you seem to think he said "instead." Consider the clauses rephrased: "Maybe we should start by examining our own community, before ..." Why? I'd guess because the blog post refers to celebrity hackers bullying another hacker. The co
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by dbul 14y ago
From https://balancedpayments.com "no redirects. no iframes. no external accounts." That's the unqiue, killer feature right there. If some M&A were to happen between those companies, the existence of this feature is imperative. Specif
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by dbul 14y ago
Excellent. Not too long ago I asked a partner at a very well known VC firm if they would consider investing a small amount ($x00) in many "startups" to see if the founders would use the money effectively and follow up with a more serious in
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by dbul 14y ago
The "working with people" comment makes me wonder if they are working with Rethink Robotics.[1] That would be an even more interesting take on this shift. [1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/rethink-...
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by dbul 14y ago
Translation is as much of an art as it is a science, so I wonder where this project is headed. Le Ton beau de Marot is a great book for illustrating this point. In college I had studied Japanese and a friend introduced me to the anime car
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by dbul 14y ago
In theory, I absolutely agree; however, in reality I disagree unless you can show some data that indicates money being spent this way is more ethical than inhibition. Considering the competition for apparel, ample supply of workers, and wha
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by dbul 14y ago
The focus seems to be on pricing, and understandably so considering the nature of people. The implied ethics behind the manufacturing is something I appreciate: I've bought clothing from only countries with better than not labor laws for th
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by dbul 14y ago
Create a new email account. Sign up on every form you come across on websites selling various products and services. Get ready to be spammed. When the sales guys get in touch, get them on the phone using a blocked number or a temp. While th
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by dbul 14y ago
Set up a stripe account today. Ask people to donate an amount that they would pay assuming a monthly rate. Analyze their usage data and payment data to assist you in coming up with payment plans.
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by dbul 14y ago
So it happened that in my junior year of college, I came across the web site of one of the many finals clubs on campus, the Fly Club. It's "FINE-UHL clubs" not "FINE-UHLZ clubs." And he shockingly did not understand why information priva
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by dbul 14y ago
Why is your team bad ass? This is my kind of application. This is similar to TechStars's application question "Why should we accept you?" which is great since you can candidly answer why you are a good investment.
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by dbul 14y ago
First, your comment is vacuous. Second, your account is over 1900 days old and it seems you are making personal attacks? Is this true, or have I mistaken "you" for a you general. Third, my original comment was rhetorical. If someone thinks
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by dbul 14y ago
but our MISSION is to groom ugly ducklings. Then why do you make it so hard to touch base?[1] [1] http://500.co
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by dbul 14y ago
One of the reasons Jason Fried needs to yell so loudly... Another reason: marketing. People don't get that.
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by dbul 14y ago
For that reason one of my most valuable memories is how lame Facebook sounded to me when I first heard about it. This is partially why I think the YC application process is flawed. If you think about the idea for 20 seconds or so, what go
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by dbul 14y ago
what do YC see in Everyday.me to make it worthy of being funded? That they are "ex-Googlers." It may be disingenuous to say that other applications do the same thing ; it's as if you were saying ConnectU and Thefacebook do the same thing
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by dbul 14y ago
The only disadvantage is that few engineers know it, and few are willing to pick it up because they're afraid of it. That's the advantage.
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by dbul 14y ago
"Secure Boot is designed to address the potential for malware to insert itself between the firmware and the operating system on your computer. It accomplishes this by enforcing that only “approved” software is able to boot in your computer
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by dbul 14y ago
It would be difficult to overstate the impact Elon Musk has had, is having and will have on humanity I can't count how many times I've seen this debate. I think last week there was a thread debating the triviality of web apps and similarl
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by dbul 14y ago
Since maximizing return is in the interest of the LPs, as a VC wouldn't you at least have a conversation with PicPlz about investing in an additional round with a competitor? Especially: Dalton later pivoted out of PicPlz and is now buildi
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by dbul 14y ago
It's funny because most of these are problems I don't have yet affect me because others do have them. You forget your dreams Never. I live for my dreams. ignore your family Out of college the first startup concept I attempted was a fami
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by dbul 14y ago
This is why I probably won't go to another YC Demo Day--on the off chance I get invited back. Why say this? This post is fine explaining the preference to get to know entrepreneurs well and the apparent mistake entrepreneurs are making by
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by dbul 15y ago
It would be great if YC did more of these kinds of experiments that could be to their benefit. For example, there are people who would pay to be part of YC and also fall in the gray area where it seems they aren't bad investments but it isn
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by dbul 15y ago
You, diego, et al. seem to have difficulty coming to terms with the author. It is clear from the article that by "frighteningly ambitious" the author means problems people currently have which seem insane to take on. They are problems peopl
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Aristotle’s Ideal, Killed by Web(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dbul 15y ago|0 comments
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by dbul 15y ago
I don't think Mark was discounting it; I'm sure he appreciated Sean's role. He was just saying if he had the kind of knowledge he now has (maybe top HN articles, avc.com would suffice?), he would have stuck around Boston or New York. Paul's
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by dbul 15y ago
http://paulgraham.com/equity.html

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