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by deepinsand 1y ago
If you're in NYC, we'll be hosting folks at the Betaworks offices for the 6/14-6/15 hackathon: https://lu.ma/z3z9ipke
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by deepinsand 4y ago
Here's my experience: - When you hire, you implicitly put people in a level which dictates what you're willing to pay them. - People will always feel underpaid, and demand more $$. Without a system, you give them out arbitrarily.
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by deepinsand 4y ago
I believe startups should implement levels once you hire 2 engineers. It's hard to retrofit a system, especially if you're trying to be thoughtful about any pay imbalances.
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by deepinsand 5y ago
I've spent a good amount of time on oil wells, and this was always obvious. Methane passively leaks from the ground of most wells, and is usually related to the quality of the cement reinforcements. There is no real incentive for oil
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by deepinsand 5y ago
Bitcoin is an amazing wedge to install distributed solar and storage throughout the nation. Right now, utilities and governments make it hard to monetize these assets, and bitcoin provide an easy alternative. This builds the supply chain a
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by deepinsand 6y ago
This idea has been tried a few times. There's a fairly liquid market for the resale of oil and gas wells already. There is also advanced software packages for analyzing the data. If the angle is exposing retail investors to these as
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by deepinsand 8y ago
Founded rigup.com to try address this issue. Improving the quality of the cement casing is a huge factor, along with hiring competent workers and scheduling inspections. It all comes down to creating financial incentives. IIRC, Obama&#x27
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by deepinsand 10y ago
Air is a better insulator
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by deepinsand 10y ago
I believe it was going to start manufacturing its own panels (IRIC in NY State)
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by deepinsand 11y ago
Most VCs will mandate founder equity to vest over 4 years. They must be actively employed for it to vest, so since he's stepping down and resigning from the board, I guess he'll lose what he hasn't vested.
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by deepinsand 11y ago
I think Yelp is missing proof of identity and proof of patronage. It was created before social media took off, and before you could reliably know if someone had been somewhere. I don't know if you need both, but proof of patronage alo
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by deepinsand 11y ago
But shouldn't that have been priced into expectations or previous outlooks?
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by deepinsand 11y ago
Twitter, LinkedIn, GrubHub, and Yelp all had decent quarters, and yet they all reported tepid outlooks. When they're in such disparate industries, how did they reach this consensus? Shouldn't this be reflected in the broader eco
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by deepinsand 11y ago
The article assumes that car batteries will feed into the grid. Tesla seems to think that won't be the case, car batteries need to be secured against harsh outdoor conditions and have tougher charge cycle limits.
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by deepinsand 12y ago
I've heard that one of the major hurdles to smaller scale deployments is security (easier to secure a larger facility than many small ones).
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by deepinsand 12y ago
And still no 2 factor authorization ...
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by deepinsand 12y ago
My interpretation was that the marketers are very savvy at measuring the efficacy of advertising, but they're benchmarking it against an unknown LTV. As you mention, Snapchat has no way of measuring their own LTV. If they were to do a
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by deepinsand 12y ago
Can't a counterparty anticipate your orders and make a risk-free return?
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by deepinsand 12y ago
Sorry, I should have said "pseudo-anonymous". At least in Secret, I can see how many degrees of separation I am to someone via our phone address book. I've since edited the original post. It's anonymous enough that you
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by deepinsand 12y ago
I've never used WUT, but was intrigued by the anecdote at the end: "Sun’s out; in Washington square park. Who’s around?” I've seen tons of apps that try to solve the "I want to hang out" problem. They all fail beca
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by deepinsand 13y ago
I would imagine that these types of startups don't work with YC's traditional valuation and round sizes. I hope they start changing the terms, especially as they now have enough data to find a better "break even" number
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by deepinsand 13y ago
I think a lot of it is cultural. If you look at any portal or popular site in Asia, it's crammed with information and call-outs. OTOH, US sites and apps have been moving in the opposite direction. Facebook itself acknowledged this by
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by deepinsand 13y ago
Thinking about this more, it's definitely not a breakthrough to use a consensus algorithm to maintain a set of transactions over a distributed system (such as a P2P network). This has been done many, many times. The only difference is
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by deepinsand 13y ago
Good point. I think we're actually on the same page, but with different thoughts on how to classify the "breakthrough". I consider the technological breakthrough to be hash cash. It couldn't have been possible in a P2P
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by deepinsand 13y ago
Note that I didn't assign any political views to my comment, I merely discuss the technicalities of the protocol. The protocol is the same algorithm that has existed for years. Bitcoin adds an economic incentive on top of it, hence my
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by deepinsand 13y ago
I similarly hate Bitcoin's "technological breakthrough" status. It's an economic innovation, much in the same way Uber and AirBnB aren't "technological breakthroughs". This has incorrectly led VCs to inve
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VCs are wrong about “Bitcoin as a Protocol”: Would you rather trust BTC or Guns?(deepinsand.com)
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by deepinsand 13y ago
Great sources, in the middle of the YouTube video now. Though I've always had this question about "Bitcoin as a protocol": Isn't the viability of the distributed ledger predicated on the value of Bitcoin? Workers verif
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by deepinsand 13y ago
Perhaps, but I don't think the US has worries about wealth flight. I assume the countries that dominate this "economy" are Argentina, Cyprus, etc.
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by deepinsand 13y ago
I assume you'll see other countries' follow China's lead. There's no reason for a government not to. I fear this might be dire to the Bitcoin economy. Skirting wealth flight laws WAS Bitcoin's killer feature. All

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