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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to receive Serbian passport(apnews.com)
4 points by hari_seldon_ 3y ago|2 comments
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by hari_seldon_ 3y ago
Article explains the what but not a why…
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by hari_seldon_ 4y ago
Hmmm
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by hari_seldon_ 5y ago
Tangentially related, but this made me think of Aristotle's teachings on technology effectively as a "prosthesis" or non-biological way to evolve. Even back then, being able to record trade deals, journal, and so on enabled f
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by hari_seldon_ 6y ago
+1, the issue here is not that errors can occur but instead how a company responds. It’s tough to be sympathetic to leaders in a company that were aware of the errors and then took no action for years to remedy it, particularly as the error
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by hari_seldon_ 6y ago
I agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
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by hari_seldon_ 6y ago
Is it Anglicized, or is it just using that Latin alphabet that some parts of former Yugoslavia employ (including Serbia and Croatia)?
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by hari_seldon_ 7y ago
Can you explain why you think they are not going to be forced to remain in “wartime?”
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by hari_seldon_ 7y ago
Which market cap? The one that was set by investors during the last round and has already been more than halved?
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by hari_seldon_ 8y ago
Great analogy.
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by hari_seldon_ 8y ago
But stackoverflow asked users to provide an email address for the gift card as part of the survey. Speaking from my past experience when running surveys like this at a startup, you are given the option to get a claim code to send to your cu
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by hari_seldon_ 8y ago
I genuinely say this because I want to be helpful and not because I am trying to be snarky: Search past HN posts and even Google the topic. People have written a lot about this, and nothing that will be said here will be any more useful wit
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by hari_seldon_ 8y ago
With IPO rumors existing for at least 4 years and a price under $2B, is this a good exit for the company’s leadership and employees? (Understanding that an exit is better than nothing at all!)
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by hari_seldon_ 8y ago
This is the standard HN effect. I also love when I think some startups are killing it based on what I read here; but then they end up shutting down soon after due to a lack of any real revenue model.
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by hari_seldon_ 8y ago
While it is easy to say that it is hard to spot “genius,” it is also important to note that people grow and change over time. Maybe being called flaky influenced his growth down the road. Feedback like this is based on limited interaction w
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by hari_seldon_ 8y ago
Maybe we can think of it as everyone having a lottery ticket, but certain things can increase your odds. When it comes to startups, for example, VCs are often arguing that just being closer to them in SV can help your chances. The neighborh
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by hari_seldon_ 8y ago
When talking about wealth in our society (especially when it is tied up in real estate and other non-cash assets), things get a lot more complicated, especially when wealth can help move markets and set policy. I was purely talking from the
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by hari_seldon_ 8y ago
That's a fair point for some games, but even in games where the gambler has a positive expected value would have him/her go bust eventually when playing against someone with much, much more wealth (ignoring the fact that you can w
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by hari_seldon_ 8y ago
Not from the article, but this makes me think of something that we learned back in my college probability course: "wealth gravitates towards the wealthy." Even in fair games and situations, it is much harder to come out ahead when
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
Would the package include both equity and pay? Do you have a link to your deck?
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
Agreed. The dominant strategy seems to be to undercut competitors until they are driven out of business, and then you can raise prices. However, raising prices then gives opportunity for a new ride-sharing service to come in and say that th
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
Nikola* Sorry for being picky about it, but I always think that we should respect people enough to spell their names correctly!
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
Great to see this pivot and new feature set -- it is definitely a tool that will be useful to a lot of early stage startups! Do you plan on adding any Excel support down the road?
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
I think your last statement only holds true if the _only_ people coming out of Harvard that have any chance in society are those with straight A's. I'd argue that anyone at the school is already "winning this game."
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
That's a very fair point, that is probably just as "real" as it is "cynical."
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
This is why grade inflation should be curbed at an institutional level. When you compare schools like Harvard and Stanford, where As are very common, to schools like Princeton and MIT, that have some sort of deflation in place, it becomes c
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
So basically their cost of revenue is going up? They need to spend more to earn every dollar this year compared to last year, which makes reporting their overall revenue feel very misleading!
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
What's your definition? I think you are getting caught up in definitions for the concept in a vacuum. I was just trying to help explore "tech" when it comes to hacker news and the VC landscape, whether or not I agree with the
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
Made me chuckle -- agreed.
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by hari_seldon_ 9y ago
I think that addresses it then lol. They aren't even delivering on their core promise, and competition has outperformed on a key product metric like effort and prep time!

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